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Show An Excited Stock Market. -New York, December 9. 11 a. m. Wall street brokers and direotors arrived at their offices at a unusually early hour this morning. morn-ing. There was anxiety everywhere to know what the stock market would do at the opening, open-ing, but confidence was observable in nearly every instance where opinions were expressed, express-ed, and London quotations, which were here a half hour before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, were reassuring. re-assuring. A dense crowd of brokers stood in the Lake Shore corner, awaiting the fall of the chairman's gavel; when it came it was followed by wild excitement for a few minutes min-utes and struggles between those who had orders to close out their account at the opening, or others who were there to support the market or buy upon the assumption as-sumption that the opening figures would be the lowest. In other parts of the room the crowd was less, and the pushing and excitement excite-ment no greater than often witnessed at the opening of the board. Opening quotations for Lake Shore were 85, but the next sale reported re-ported was at 85, and the next at 85. Dealings were iD large lots of SCO to 10C0 shares, and for a time different prices were ruling. At the 8ame timft thnrpnin7ficrnr reported for Lake Shore marked a decline of 3 from last evening's closing figures. New York Central was off 2' New York Central was off 2j and Jersey Central 2: The rest of the list showed declines ranging from 13 to 1. Excitement in the Lake Shore crowd subsided, and the market rose from to The gains were mostly lost later in the hour, and at 11 o'clock the market mar-ket was active and rather heavy at figures generally a little above the opening. The market was very active, with heaviest trading trad-ing in Lake Shore, St. Paul and Western Union. |