Show r Financial andL and L Commercial j BY THOMAS C C. SHOTWELL New York Aug 12 Stocks Stocks acted today as thou though h th they y wanted to ad advance advance nd- nd vance but IUt tho the big people hold them after ater permitting a score or so to make mako new now high record record- Tho The whole session seemed scented to be a bit bi of at play acting to tantalize ho bears London got frightened at the thE very opening and und began to cover or madly The foreigners foreign foreign- ers era took about shares on balance hal bal ll ance anco and they are still short ninny many thousand shares of or the tho very stocks that Wa Wall all street have selected for tor leaders of or tho the bull buH campaign that is about real ready realto to begin Tho The predicament of or a n plunging op operator operator op- op orator on whose whoso stock pyramid governors governors gov gov- of ot the exchange turned tho the limelight ht made It easier for tor tho the big ble people to check tho the advance This operator 01 op era orator tor threw throw thousands of or shares overboard as the result resul of ot suggestions that he restrain his enthusiasm for Cor tho the good of ot tho the market market His lead was so 80 heavy that ho lie distributed It I among four COUr Important houses and anti tho the selling sOIng was made to look bettor better beter than it really was The Tho ho operator in question was not a man mon of ot groat Importance but buthis buthis buthis his line lne of ot stock was growing so 80 large barge and his hi profit was so great that It I threatened to make him a n menace menaco to tho the peace of the street What hat gave observers the greatest confidence In tho the market today W was the knowledge of ot tho the seln selling They Thoy realize that persons persona aro are seln selling who ho aro are able able to turn anti and Immediately support tho the market tho the minute It shows some somo semblance of ot humility A recovery reco from tram any ony temporary depression that may follow from today's depression that ma may follow from today's market exceeded expectations Although railroads were most active tad today 09 industrials ere n-ere not neglected There was the best quality of or action acHon in shares of ot Industrial companies that have not participated fully tuly In tho the market markot Steel is being purchased In Inthe inthe the tho highest quarters even yet yot tho the best buying coming from members of ot tho the board of ot directors This is a n fact tact that can cnn also be bo said of ot Union Pacific In II the Street Tomorrow Friday the tho many traders expect Union Pacific to sell sel at ot Number of at shares sold soll today 1 a year ear ago nGo Par value alua of ot bonds sold sol to today ay 7 a n year car ago ngo Records were smashed upon the curb market today with wih Nevada Novada Consolidated Consolidated Con Can selling at 26 25 Ray Consolidated Consolidated Consol Consol- Consoli Consoli- dated at 22 anti and GIla GUa at 10 Standard Oil on also alo made mado a record at With the exception of last December when It I went to 70 tho the stock has not sold gold soll so high since January Januar 1903 Business Business Busi Dusl- ness In coppers was active with wih Ohio Copper leading tho the list The street heard rumors that tho the Windsor Trust company was buying back tho the collateral collateral collateral col col- lateral of the tho Heinze loan Lackawanna earned more than 50 60 per por cent on its Is stock for Cor tho the year ended Juno 30 according to figures made public In Wall Wal street to today ay laule pi of t Prices Price Quotations received over private wire of ot James Jamos A A. A A Pollock Co bankers and asid No 6 West Vest Second South street I H. H I L. L L I Sales Sale Atchison I O lf l 33 Am C. C Fd y 69 68 Am 68 67 67 2600 Ana Copper 51 01 Am 10 1035 n. n R. R R Trans 81 SO 80 SO Cop 89 88 Can Pacific 1871 N. N Y V. Cent 1311 Ua 1 C. C F. F and J. J 46 aa C. C and Ohio 41 83 83 D D. and II R G. G 61 51 Erie 38 Con Gas 1461 Gt Nor pM 1565 Ill I. I Central 1625 1571 1000 M. M K anti nud T. T 4 Preferred 75 42 id 71 75 2 76 7 L and N. N 1601 Nat Lead Lead 9 91 t Mo 10 Pacific ii 75 76 N. N anti and Western Wester 96 SA 95 1900 Newhouse 3 31 35 31 3 35 20 Nor Pac 1585 N. N Y V. O. O and W. W 9 52 51 Pennsylvania 1421 61 13 Peoples People's Gas 1 H 15 1151 16 Rock Island 11 U preferred 80 Rep I. I I and S. S 39 Reading 1631 H 1645 H Sugar 13 1 0 So Pacific 1331 So Railway 33 33 St St. Paul 1595 Tenn Copper Copper 4 U UnIon Pac Pae 2101 2085 U. U S. S Steel 78 77 Hi 2081 i preferred 1261 1265 Utah Copper 53 53 lon Money closed Hlf per c cent nt Total 1 |