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Show ilMENff Stock Market js. Calm After a Day of Exciment New York, Sepl.' 23. Comparative calm prevailed at tho opening of tho stock market today", after the wild scenes of yestcrdayj Trading was on a much smaller scale and advances . were general. United States Steel, tle storm center of yesterday's slump, opened 1 1-1 hlghor;r3,500 shares selling sell-ing at 57 1-4. Tne..next transaction was 4,500 Ehares attthe same price. The preferred stock, wh!ch closed yesterday yes-terday at 105 3-4, opened at 10G 1-2 On tho next sale ltaj..fiain -woiS- increased in-creased to a full, point. Trading JJirooghouJ: tiro brief Sat-nrdyJsessJonwrtsSftefmaliltcCsifw Sat-nrdyJsessJonwrtsSftefmaliltcCsifw and fluctuations wereTiot large. United Uni-ted States Steel fell from 57 3-8, its high price of the day, to 55 1-4, but later recovered In part, closing at 50 1-2, a net advance of 1-2. The preferred pre-ferred closed at 105 3-4, unchanged on the day. Speculation In tne copper stocks for a time attracted more attention than the movement of the Steel share3. Amalgamated Copper and American Smelting fell to tho lowest point since' j 190S under the Influence of a soverc bear attack. |