New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
MIR. ODONNELL WE'LL PLEASED
GOOD RESULTS OF HIS MEDIATION.

! TROUBLES OF THE SIREET-CAR MEN NEARLY OVER
| THE NINTH AVENUE LINE.
Railroad Commissioner ODOnnell was well
pleased yesterday morning at the Murray Hill Hotel
when he read in the newspapers that every thing had
been arranged satisfactorily between the Richardson
roads of Brooklyn and the Empire Protective Assoca-
oD. Everything looked so promising for the settlement
OF all the drivers and conductors troubles that he
| thought he could get away on the $3.50 p. III.
train for Albany. But appearances arc
| sometimes decefu, he started out Immediately
after his breakfast for himself He first went to
the office OF the Eighth ana Ninth Avenue roads to see
William II. Hays. the president There is some fric
tUn between the men on these lines aud the company.
owing the fact tnat the settlement or their differ
Empire Association made the company agree
to pay drivers and conductors 81 % day, which is
twenty-five cents more than IS paid by any Of the
other roads except the Broadway line. Mr..
Hays was not in so the Commissioner left ord for
him to call and him at the Murray Hill Hotel at 230
D. III. From there he went to Brooklyn and called upon
Mr. Richardson who told him that everything satis
actorly arranged with his roads in Brooklyn and
sured hin that the same result would follow with the
Dry Dock lines in this city of which Mr. Richardson is
chairman Of the executive board, and that the Sharp
roads would follow as matter of course.
Back to the hotel went the Commissioner. President
Hays was already there, waiting for him. Mr. HAYS
when the strikers settled with his road they
said they wanted than they expected Of other
roads but they had settled with the other
roads on a much faircr basis; that under
the present arrangement the Ninth Avenue
line was being run at a dead loss and that
what being made the Eighth Avenue Line would
he swallowed up by the others loss The Commissioner
told Mr. Hays and have fair and open discussion
of the matter with his and said that no doubt fair
settlement could be agreed by
him that the only wanted what was reasonable
As he went away Mr. Hays said to TRIBUNE reporter:
There is no use talking; We cannot compete
with parallel lines like the Sixth-ave., and pay
more wages than they do. The changes we have made
the last month in regard to will cost us $4,000
a year. Why could our buildings into tenement
houses and make profit on them than we now can
from the railroads"
To the reporter Commissioner O'Donnell said
:" Well, l exceedingly well satisfied with my
work hore 1t is a sort OF missionary work.
and has been quite successful Corporations begin
ming learn that their employees men, and that it is
best to treat them such and not engines to be
stopped up burned out and cast aside IN few years as
useless The have substantially been accorded all
they asked and what more have been acknowledged
to he Labor first learned from the
capitalist the worth of combination by the
iniqnitous in food products. Now they
have combined In self-defence. They have
great power but do not believe they will abuse it, The
combination will not lead TO Communism or a dis
play of brute force The men have had to deal with
representative wOrkingmen keen and intelligent,
and know too much 10 abuse the power vested in
them"
The Commissioner started for Albany at p m.
Charles Peck Chief Of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics
came from Albany Tuesday night. Yesterday he
had a Interview at the Hoffman House with Joseph
O'DOnnell, j. p. Granam aud Andrew Best OF the En-
PIE Protective Association in regard the recent street
railway strikes They explained the whole matter to
HIM lie surprised at the state Of affairs that
existed prior the troubles lie will make special
port the Legislature about the matter lie started
for Albany $3.50 p. Strange say,
though bOth he a d Commissioner ODOnnell take
interest in the railroad strikes because their
duties demand that they should and both men have
their headquarters at Albany they have never met.
The agreement entered into between the Dry Dock,
East Broadway ana Battery Road and the Empire Pro-
tective Association has beGn regularly signed by the
or the Executive Board and the officers of the
road The trouble tne Beeckcr Street and the
Twentythrd street roads has been amcably adjusted
and the Executive Board will wait on the officers OF
those companies ard have written agreement signed
Charles Darragh, OF the Brooklyn city Railroad Com
pany, who discharged last week for OYerdrivng his
horses. has applied for reinstatement with aleter from
the Empire Association stating that II requested but did
not demand that his case be decided with Justice.
President Hazard told Darragh that he justly DIS
charged and could moi 10 taken back. kindly feeling
prevails IN regard 10 the company however and
auces were made yesterday that 10 further trouble
wOnd