Show JAPANESE WAR SCARE PREVAILED ON WALL STREET bears have an active session on the market rate of call money advances new york june 12 the constant changes in the course of prices today seemed to represent nothing more than the shit ting sentiment ot the room ti aders who had the days transactions to themselves there were some individual points of strength and some of weakness and these had varying sympathetic effect on the list as a whole the general drift however was very narrow and operations outside a half dozen stocks were very scanty there were lengthy periods in fact when the market was practically stagnant aith the subsidence odthe japanese war the bears were inclined to fall back on inferential deductions from the difficulties of a great firm of building contractors announced yesterday A minor failure announced this morning affecting building operations gave extension which might bring similar embarrassments embarrass ments from difficulty 0 obtaining working capital other fields the supposition that there might bo a resumption of gold exports wag not fulfilled today although conditions in the foreign exchange market wore slightly more favorable to tho operation than they were on monday discounts were rather easier at paris however as they were also at berlin and the money market here was appreciably preci ably firmer the rate for call money advanced slightly and funds were scarce in tho time loan division of the money mar ket newa from the wheat crop was considered encouraging and helped to sustain tho brangers grangers Gr angers A decline in the london price of copper wag a factor in tho market tho indecisive tone was unchanged throughout as shown by tho small mixed net changes bonds were irregular japanese as and s declined a fraction further total sales 0 bonds par value U S bonds unchanged on call |