The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1903, Page 16

onl et the Dullest In- Months, * and Brokers Confine Their Operations to a Limited Num- her of lesues. : R. T. SHOWS SOME LIFE. jgnere Buy Steel. Gommon on Supposition that It Will Hold Ito ioe i Vaise—Copper Shares the Favor In the Dealings. trading was at a low ebb’ to- the volume of transactions being ‘Delow the normal and only equal ‘@ quiet Saturday's business. The day the dullest for months, the market g almost featureless. and whose purchasing wrecked bought Steel common and sold “preterrpd, which attracted’ some and caused some speovlation. buying was for houses that usu- Ve good ‘wdlirdes ‘of information “the inference Is that thesé have ‘Asmurances that thé tommton divi- will be paid some time. Th: by the Gteér Corporation’ for Tracts of stéel products Yor ex- rt to Russia is’ but an indication of enormous growth of the export ‘that {s being revived by the k ited out that the common at present prices is Ing about 20 cont, while the pref is paying, y than 14 so if these foreign house: a assurances that the dividend on common ts still to be paid their ac- C. G. Gunther's Sons, ° 84th Winter Season. RARE FURS. Mote. Seal. Squirrel. Fox. Chinchilla. Leopara. Fur garments of every description appropriate for every occasion from automobiling to opera. Wraps, Coats, Muffs and Small garments. The neck Furs so favored by the mode of the present season are very varied in design, and ex- tremely moderate in price. A department is devoted to the exclusive sale of Rugs, Mounted Heads, and Men’s Fur Garments. Royal Ermine. Sable. Lion. Tiger. Bear. - 184 FIFTH AVENUE, At Twenty-third Street. OPIE READ SEES ‘BULLS AND BEARS eas, Famous) Humorist Discusses the Peculiarities of Wall Street and the Varied Customs of the Notable Figures Who Are Found Vhere. BY OPIE READ. Author of “A Kentucky Colonel,” “A Tennessee Judge,'' “The Jucklins,” “The Starbucks,” Ete. ARTICLE II. NUMBER of shrewd nerve specialists hang about the Stock Ex- change to treat worn-out speculators after an exciting session. Stern Brothers To-morrow x Reduction Sale Continued Misses’ & Girls’ Suits, Costumes, ' Cloaks and Jackets... at gf Y to VA Less Than Stavieds Prices 3 fi Special Inducements in Women’s Japanese Quilted Gowns Suitable for Holiday Presents Plain Colors Reduced from $12.50 $10.00 Handsomely Embr'd “ $18.50 $15.50 “ Women’s & Men’s Hosiery at Exceptionally Low Prices Women's Extra Quality Ingrain Lisle and Cotton Hose, with double soles, Women's Fast Black Lisle Thread Hose, embroidered fronts or open-work lace ankles, Women's Very Fine Lisle Thread Hose, lace effects with embroidery and fancy designs, Value 95c Men's Extra Quality Fancy Half Hose, embroidered and in vertical effects, Giove Departments SOLE AGENTS FOR THE ALEXANDRE, AVONDALE, NAPOLEON, PENRYTH, LUPIN AND BRISTOL GLOVES, WINTER GLOVES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 25¢ 39° 59¢ “25° Value 40c Value 60c Value 45c (Rothenbers <. AS AN EXTRA INLUCEMEN1] TO SHOPPEKS WE WiLL GIVE Double Blue Trading Stamps Two Stamps ALL DAY TO-MORROW, - Instead of One with Every 10c. Purchase. THIS WILL : BE THE LAST DOUBLE STAMP DAY UNTIL,AFTER CHRISTMAS. Bvery Item Below Is a Great Money Saver. STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. ‘ Toys, Dolls and Games Astoundingly Low. to toy buyers. ron Chemical En- 9 Platfor to.. n Patrol Wi 3 horses} 7 men Large Iron Hook and Ladder » Splanin; Top, in colors with Slides boys 3 Printing Presses, plete Outfits, Dime Registering Saving Banks. Kicking Bank: cl well made, Velccipede! Wide assortments and great money savings are the most attractive inducements that can be offered You'll find both here—TO A GREATER DEGREE THAN IN ANY OTHER STORE WE KNOW OF. A shopping trip without a visit to our fourth floor toy land is not half complete, Skin Horse. 4 Dolls. S Dolteriong tate. 29C Com- Fi af Largo Jointed Ic Dolis sleeping eyes. 59 79¢ ‘Figur 98 B ms . mar hele 4.00 Planos, walnut and white finishes. sese 4 9G Large Size Patrol Wagon: eee 8.98 1.49 1.29 Coasting Sled. for rane eA Daisy Expre: Wagon & Seat, Tricycles :. Large Size Tool Chest, complete, 2.75 “Can You Catch ?’”, ye. anew game.... 25c Trinity Chime NEw toy ....66.5- for to 6 years.. 98c at Wonderfully Low Prices. Gift Furniture Special’ Offerings To-morrow {DO Highly Polished Musie Cablnets} ‘With many of the men of millions it is a continuous case of pateh- ig easily understood. chances ] Golden Oak or Mahogany Finished an advance in the price ofthe com- ‘{ng up, to last from one day to another. under such conditions 4s also better than the same chance for the pre- ferred. Fane only notable fluctiiationa were in lyn Racid st and Sugar. lyn was active and the price ad. to Sl 3-8, but It was noticeaple three traders did the greatest part the business in the stock. These were J. Manning, EB. F, Slayback and Wohn ‘hi. * : egg was strong on the bellef’ that Cuban Reciprocity | bill would be passed.” It made a sharp advance, mak- gain of 12-4 points, part of which afterward lost, “Copper has been active and the buy- ing has been of the same character that has been noticeable for some days. The Boston parties that have been Operating in the stock are still taking: i and expect to see it sell” at much prices. P ‘The standard railroad shares were \@ail and inactive for the moat part of 10 day with the fluctuations fractional apd around yesterday's closing prices. Phe tractions, as usual, were strong arty with Brooklyn, although Benerally recognized that Brook- strength is due to manipulation. market closed Jrregulur, some ce8 above last night's close, some and the net changes oeing very “The totgl’ sales of stocks “were 311,900 “Shares and of bonds $1,810,000. (The Closing Quotations, ind closing prices R cnanees “trom testerdatg vesioasns ‘Or from last’ recorded’ ele ata'au fol: . Ne itis iN : ee Mat se Ma ney Feeeceet™ Ul V)+h Feel 11934 gs = Settee Bsaustius Bee etey Nef ~ ceiere 1 i441 +isl eres se see seerer ¥ eseERssies ery 5 Se sotatcee! 13233 _,2IRBSINEY Ht re! FPREPER FEE RSAE 3: SSSPES FP FSPEPR FER ar 3 EEE Pe $338 0” SALE QUESTIONED: anadians in the Compauy pay off the caims tes, > syndicate pepresanted Wi (terse claim, it le pr 10,059.09) Don t bees ahaa bone i teave sie | tentional It {8 like doctoring the roosters in the cockpit, giving a spurting strength for a final effort. And in other respects it !s not unlike a cockpit. In one a finger up means the buy- ing or selling of thousands of shares, and in the other it means a bet. In neither case is: money visible. And not until after the performance are settlements made. Fs Life ariid fluctuating quotations makes memories poor, and some of the younger members of the Exchange can scarcely recall @ force which once was dominating—Jay Gould. Nor would that great conqueror of cir- |} WOULD BE STRANGE cumstances know Wall street to-day. TO JAY GOULD NOW. When he died it was mainly brick, and now it is mostly martie. Here and there are carved portals, almost lost among towering heights, but which, if in Europe, surrounded by grounds, would be visite? and rapturously commented upon by Americans. Every day to the Exchange the operators come with fresh and lusty | bellows, as if the financial fight were becoming fiercer and flercer as the days | go. by. And here, as elsewhere, the old and weak give place to the young | and strong. ‘ y oe, 0 -@ Noticeable was Phil Miles, Beau Nash, with trousers newly creased. They say that he is as neat in transaction as in attire, and, if this be true, he must be smooth. Should misfortune force him out into the unimportant | world he might aptly serve as a tallor’s advertisement. He picked an offending thread off his coat sleeve, looked up at the great blackboard where telephone numbers were rising and | S QUIETLY falling like the play of lightning in a AS A CHURCH USHER.} dark sky. As he moves about. his manner js as quiet as the air of an usher ip @ fashionable church, and once, when compelled to sneeze, he turned to some one and apologized for his unwonted violencea”™ eo 8 « ¢8 : Nearly every man is approached with a rush, but with a sort of venera- tion all appear to regard the immediate presence of Rudolplt’ Keppler, who | twice has been President of the Exchange. They say that he still has confi- dence in man. This is more remarkatle, from his necessary viewpoint of | life, than if he should make five millions with one flip-flap of the market. | And the strange part of it is that he is rarely caught. Perhaps his quiet eye is shrewd enough to see through a “toucher.” “About how much is the matriculating fee in this institution?” the old planter inquired, and the guide answered: ‘Well, about sixty-five thousand at present.” _The old man, scratched his head. “Why, sir, that {s enough to buy a railroad bill through the Legislature, Sixty-five thousand! I don't see why a man should want any more money than that. With that much a man! don’t;say that he could eat at some of your snack houses during the time— that {sj and give the waiters what they would regard as @ fair compensation for saying ‘thank you.’ But teil me, are all those men. down there leaders In society’ : pets, dancing when some great man pulls the string. Not many of them cut much ice from the financial pond. But some of them are ‘characters.’ ; See that fellow with yellowish flowers on his buff vest? That is Ned Paster.” k NOT ALE OF 7 ‘KINGS on FINANCE. ’ They say that Ned was wafted in somewhere from the Indjan Territory years ago, and although handy-with a gun out theyy,’he walked with/ten- der feet over the stones of Wall street. He had only a few hundre dol- lars, the reward paid by the Government for the cagture of a horse’ thief, but hesaw things after he got his bearings and began to dabble in the outer wavelets of the troubled waters. Now he is dudish,.with a sort of sinewy grace, and does not look as if he had handcuffed e desperado, ~ They tell a story on him that may not-be trie. In fect, pe tells it himeelf. Out at Talequah he started a weekly newspaper, one halt printed in Cherokee, w, the Indians couldn't read, and the other half printed Women’s Real French Kid Gloves, in contrasting and like illustrations shaped Frenchy plate mir- ror on top and sliding shelves; never sold Morris Chair, highiy polish flexible web seat, < —— could live for two months in an apartment-house facing Central Park. I a “Well, not all of them. The fact is that many of them are mere pup- seabsen $1.00 harmonizing shades of the season’s most popular colors, Men’s and Women’s 1-Clasp or Button P. X, M. Cape Gloves, specially adapted for street wear, 95< 75 Dozen English Saddle-stitched Hand-sewn, Cape Gloves, for Men and Women, $1.50 West Twenty-third Street. JAMES McGREERY & CO. fies Sale of “Men's Cravats , Made of heavy Imported Silks. Colors and solid black or white, Chiefly English weaves, English Squares. Made up Puffs, Tecks. French Four-in-hands. ~~ : 1.90 ‘each value 2,00, . Twenty-third Street. ue! STOCKS STEADY ON CURB. The curb * JAMES MoGREERY & CO. lowered to 688, a loss of 2.points. ‘the a+ ked prices of the principal Perfumery, ities were: : . | Houbigant’s, Roger.and Gal- let's, Piver's, Violet’s, “Le American Can. Ft Extracts attractively ar- ranged-in fancy boxes. On Thursday, December 17 Hudaut’s “Violet Sec” Toilet Water—in boxes. ; 175 Colgate’s, Lundborg’s, Oak- ley's, and ‘Babcock’s ‘ex- tracts, : 25¢ and’ soc, per box. ‘i ‘eferal OMictal with je Entry. VILLE, H., Dec, 16.—Al- vert H. stman, President of the Ber- lin National Bank of Berlin and Vice- President of the Gorham Nationa! Bank ‘off Gorham, was arrested here to-day by States ih Nute on a ein entry tn. val- auts for Maw at the frst-named fon.» n Was held in $10,000 bonds, in English, which nobody could read. But gpce ‘bis hand press made a ‘mistake and printed a paragraph which the County Clerk managed to.make ont, and it was uncomplimentary to an old Indian who was § candidate’ for the Legislature. Some of the Indian's friends carefully considered the matter and advised him to kill Ned, but the shrewd old buck deojded upon @ severer punishment. So he took his wife around to the printing office and presented her tp Ned, Etiquette demanded that she should be ac- cepted; she was ancient and ali GOT AWAY FROM toothless, but that made no diter: THE AGED SQUAW.} °%nce with society. Ned's offence had’! won her and she’ belonged to him. When lie fainted they picked him up and mapped his face with whiskey. They took-him to the hotel and at the door the squaw stood guard, waiting for him to recover. But the board roof was loose and Ned got And He is not the first man whose life has beeh completely chi i iD) ly anged by a s ee The guide pointed out Frank Saven, pstreet, 1902" the old man inquired, \ “He, may haye chased some of them out, in bis manner, but he wasn’t chased into it.” _ “But what's peculiar about him?” ‘ “Nothing xcept that he haa been charged with being an Honorable. m't say. Well, sir, that 1s remarkable enough to spot him.” fstlow declared that not as Roadie Sere pg hta densa . “And was he chased Into Wall gentlemanly and unin- now hé says that whatever success he may have achieved is aio her. ES Sy —— Twenty-thitd Street, ety JHE.COTTON MARKET. ? y The Joe} Gotton, Market opened steady j Gey aeahelis alert letra septate oe yesterday's. final figure. A inert 1, , \° THE WHEAT MARKET. ‘Wheat opened. firm ‘but, quiet to-day On retative steadiness of cables and cov. ering by*short» séliere. © The’ migrite . Benecaily wera about 1-8 of @ cent f ‘thie er; daly eventually: lost . their’ gain, as bo. arena TN FS St] there nothing ‘particular in - the iegdied A little on. room| hews.to Mepire mwew bull’ su; ‘while remainad inactive, | the trade was susptclous of er sell ‘were? ing by Armour: in Chicago. ee . Corn started’ steady, but also reacted New York's opening prices were: Whont—Ma: ; July, ¥ ser") Maya et July, 1 bid. Corn— cago’ ni a 1248 to ft ruary, pr, rune, 3247 Aug The 12.16 to 12.18; ruary, he ee 1251 to! 13. Iie its, The, ¢ . P 2to May, 12-49° to 12.50: July, 1247 to 1248; jams Grand’s and Atchison’s| Sideboard, top and base; value $18.50, at... choice of colors; has heavv oak frame $11.50; price..;..++ee0+ Greatest R Greatest Values, a 98 Reversible, 12 feet ° and m groun ] 9 for Oriental H. 90 double extra’ All-Wool “ @feet long by 9 feet wide; Granite Art Squar value B25; 1.44 sale price, sale pi QO pair Scotch Lace 1: Curtains, overlock cord- , ed edges, full length, value $1.75 paw. , ' pair English Lace J 30 Brains 3% yards or wide, value up to'$2.75 pair. 40.6° feet tong, 56 inches 598 pair Imported Lace Curtains, 60 patterns, +, . exquisite’ styles, value up. to $3.00: pair. 98 for Arabian Lace °°" Curtains, Heavy Corded pattern, 3% yards long and 54 Inches wide, beautiful workmanship, valde $4.50 pair. Granite Carpets. yard wide, pertectly re- 1 9 per yard for ‘Heavy ea versible, strong and dur- Granite Carpets, one "able; value 35¢. ‘Linoleum A big assortment of the genuine Cork Linoleum, “ayards wide, sold regularly by us and leading ‘carpet stores at not . Tess.than 60c. per sq. yd; to- - morraw,as long as quantity i : In Of Teust'e Branch Com baron WIL Share Reduction. +) aL : Ds for, less than $10.50; sale * 6.98 highly finished; not more than 6 to a customer; eee LO j ighly Finished Solld ‘ ak Rug offerings were never snapped up faster y were throngs of careful buyers in this busy third floor section. bring results like that. Here are some of them: for $27.50 All-Wool Smyrna Rugs. beautiful patterns; Oriental, Persian " nifon designs; dark and light value $27.50. feet long and 2 feet wide, strictly hand made, Pics Puterel and Persian patterns; value $3.75. ‘ 98 for $15 Sandford Brussels Rugs. ‘excellent pattern; value $15.00. value $500; 3 50 including a set of reversible denim Faeheny usually 7.59, at,, iN compiets46 50) High Back Reed Rocker, full roll fee and arms; u i 3 tration; value $4.50, at, ena with Develigd French mirror, handsome carved 12 98 : ° Indestructible Couch, covered in Belgian velour or English corduroy, in your 4 law feet; val ; “panama amiveees LC) us Sale in Our History. To, That Accounts for the Tremendous Success. than they are going during this sale, All day yesterday and Monday there Especially adapted for holiday gifts. Only great values 98c €0 inches long, 30 inches wide,xeversible knotted woo! fringe, beautiful pattern;, value, $1.50, 9 9 8 for $15 Roxbury Brussels ‘Rugs. oJ Exquisite patterns in every color, to. match furnishings; 9 ft. long and 7 ft. whde;_ valué.$15. Bromley’s Smyrna Rugs. The famous Joha Bromley Re- : ‘ versible Rugs; ‘ten different 6x9, 7.6x10.6, 9x12, designs in Oriental, Persian and floral patterns. We can- not fill mail orders. 3.00 7.50 I 0.00 i D5 tot Japanese «* Tamic”” Rugs. for Smyrna Rugs worth $1.50. long and 9 feet wide; Brussels Rugs, 10.6 strong, serviceable; ES, Reversible. 5 fect long and 2 feet 6 inches wide, 12 patterns in most exquisite Turkish and Oriental designs, rice, beautiful color effects, actual value $3.00. Lace Gurtains, Portieres and Upholstery.- Table Covers. Reversible Armure Tapestry, 3x2 yards, value $3.00, at $1.9: 24x2 yards,value $2.25,at $1.49; 2 yards square; value $2. ateL.25 4 yards 20756 * value $1.49, at. erie Window Shades, 56578 Uiseig ea banc ceented fringe, self-acting spring rollers, di Screws, brackets, cords and bie everything complete,ready 3 , to hang; values th wey DAc ‘special at., , 9 Sofa Pillows, A Thousand Silk Floss Sola Pile lows, 24x24; usually sold 39 at 65c. each; limit three to per yard tor W. & J. Sloane’s for Rope Portieres, Cc ‘all colors to match any fur- nishings, crimson, myrtle, green, rose, blue, terra cotta and nile; value $1.93, . 1-75 Japanese Silk. Lam- brequins, beautiful em- broidery, deep letters, fringe every color imaginable, full length and width; value $3.00. 3: 75 pair for Empire and Rococo all the ates Steel ‘Corporation, whick will no Re effect Jan. 1, sont wakes oof Sy Sk clk tet: HAR ULAR. Effects, . im- mense assortment in two- toned and figured effects; value $5.98. for Oriental Tapes- iC try Couch Covers, Moorish 4nd Persian pat- terns, knotted fringe all around, three yards tong; value $2.00. ite. mn: Brussels Carpets. 4 9 per yard for 65c, and 75c. AlleWool Tap- C estry Brussels, in T9c vests parlor, sitting room and brary, Sittin oes, stair patterns. regularly everywhere at $1.10, Floor Oiicioth. Alden Sampson’s Well-Known Floor Oil- Cloth, in best fall patterns,2 yards wide, sold generally at 45c. per square ss : yard; not morethan tweaty- five yards to each customer, 7 none to dealers} special to- morrow al , yance In N. 4 brio of gold eagies. Busingay off tha» Ya and ne Honor wpeacians sceanding te, oii Janes