The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-05
STILL UNSETTLED.

New Propositions Advanced by the
Wheeling s. Elm Grove men-Thc
Company Will Give its Answer
To-day Trouble With tho Elm
Groves Wires. RI.
The strike Of the Wheeling & Elm
Grove operators and conductors re-
mains unsettled. but 1t is said there
vii be either settlement or the break
Ing Off OF the negotiations between the
two sides to-day.
There was but one conference be.
tween the trades asembly's arbitration
committee and the management OF the
road yesterday. 1t occurred last night
at o'clock, at the company's office, on
Sixteenth street, and was without re-
suit. The committee declined to SUBJ
init the dispute to disinterested arbi-
traitors, and held out new proposition
Which was In effect that the company
grant the mems request for twenty
cents ems q, an hour, the agreement to re-
main In force until April I, 1900, after
which u new agreement for the follow
Ing year would be entered into between
the men and the company. General
Manager Wright promised to reply to
this proposition ut midnight, but at
1880 o'clock this morning he Informed
the arbitration committee that he
would be unable to give the committee
a reply until to-day.
1t Is said that the company last
night made IN attempt to have the
men break away from the trades as
sembly supervision Of their fight for
higher wages, and treat directly with
the management Of the road. This, the
men declined to do.
Yesterday afternoon, at o'clock, 1t
was discovered that there was some
thing wrong with the power on the Elm
Grove road, and 1t was soon learned
that there was n grounded wire at
some point on the road. Efforts were
made to find the break in the circuit
and make the necessary repairs, but
up to o'clock this morning the break
had not been located. An official of
the company said that an expert cleo
trician had doubtless done the Job. The
company has not entered any COM
plants yet with either the city or
county authorities. The strikers as
sert that they had absolutely nothing to
do with the break in the wires, and
call attention to the fact that at the
hour when the break occurred, yester-
day, at l p. m, every member OF their
union. with but one exception, was in
trades assembly hall, ana the one not
there Is sick at Trladelphia. The stri-
ters who spoke Of the matter were Sc
we're In their denunciation of the per-
son or persons guilty of this act of over
zealousness in their behalf. They said
they wanted to win their strike, but
preferred to lose IL a single act of
lawlessness were necessary in order to
win.
Shortly after the break stopped traf-
fic on the line, the company got out its
old steam motors and maintained a SER
vice during the afternoon and early
evening. The steam cars, of course,
did not so around the city loop; they
arrived and departed from the Six
tenth street station. 1t Is said the
steam motor service will be maintained
to-day If the break In the wires Is not
located and repaired.
There were no developments yester-
day regarding the demand for increased
wages made by the operators and con-
ductors OF the Wheeling Railway Com
pany's lines. 1t was expected that
Chairman Dilworth, of the general ex-
ccutvc board Of the Amalgamation of
Street Car Workers, would arrive In the
city last night from Detroit. but at
late hour he had not arrived. He Is
expected to take up the conduct of the
negotiations with the Wheeling COM
pany at the termination of the ultima
tum" Friday night