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Show I H r?.W Y?RR' Dec- 24-Virtually ev-H ev-H ,Lbranch of tbe ?tock warie't was f I PasUro day, molars and' utlf-Kh utlf-Kh beang the hrunt of further Haul-H Haul-H sbwes approximated 375.500 1 .?5&p!' o'and tobaccos repre-Bented repre-Bented the. constructive side' at. ie dull ppening of today's stock market, scoring gains of large fractions, to almost al-most 3 points. The rovorso side was provided by motors, tractions and a few specialties, includinf Jfide and Leather preferred, the latter yielding three points. Kails were again sqsi ceptiblo to pressure but United States Steel" was fairly steady. The balance of the list was devoid of special foa-tuxe. foa-tuxe. Any disposition toward improvement improve-ment during the morning was checked by the weakness of local utilities. Brooklyn Rapid Transit ell 1&, Consolidated Con-solidated Gas 2, Interborough Consolidated Consoli-dated preferred 3 and Manhattan Railway eight points, tho latter on a single offering of 500 shares. Invest ment rails together with obs.cu.re transportations sagged 1 to 6 points and reactions of 1 to 3 points marked the course of metals, motors, oils, dls tilling and .jfood shares. Irregular gains were restricted to a fow speculative specula-tive issues dominated by pools. |