The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-03
ALI NEGOTIATIONS OFF
Railways Company Will Em-
 plOy N0n-Union Men.
Mayor Capdevielle is Unsuccessful in His Attempts to Have the Nat
 ters at Issue Settled by
 Arbitration.

New Orleans, Oct. 2-Aftcr four dayv wasted in useless parleying between tho street car men and Railways Company through the Mayor as intermediary. all negotiations came to a positive end to- night and tomorrow will witness a de- termined effort to run cars and the usual consequences are feared.
 At half past o'clock tonight the CT mems executive committee adjourned un- til tomorrow morning, after announcing that 1t would make no reply to the last communication of the Railways Company. The Railways Company announces that 1t is ready to run cars and has rsfrained from making the attempt pending the out come of the negotiations.
 When negotiations closed at o'clock this morning. the car men had submitted new proposition to go to work on the basis of 25 cents an hour and eight hours. and in the meantime the alleged violation of the old agreement would be arbitrafed If 1t was found that it had been violated. then the men were to be paid according to the proposed new agreement. If not. then they would work out the old contract until March 3.
 Will Run the Cars.
 The Railways Company forwarded fts reply to this proposition at 2 o'clock thia afternoon. This embodied the proposition agreed to by both sides yesterday, (but which the car men backed down from), and concluded with the statement that unless an agreement was reached on these lines before 6 ?. m., the company would consider the matter finally closed and immediately proceed to engage new men and operate the cars
 The Mayor sent this letter to the car mems committee and the only result was an announcement that 1t would not re- ply.
 The Mayor has gone to his home, the car mems committee has adjourned for the night. and the Railways Company is preparing to start number of cars to- morrow morning.
 It is not believed that they have secur- ed any outside labor, because pickets of car men have been at every railroad de- pot since the strike began, and say they have not seen any arrivals. They say they are expecting some over the South ern Pacific from Houston, but this is doubted.
 Nine cars with United States mail signs were run over the several routes today for the accommodation of the letter car riers and were not molested Conductor Quit Work. It was announced that passengers Would be taken on these cars, but when several passengers started to get on one on Ca- nal Street the conductor abandoned the car and was received with cheers by the crowd of strikers gathered at tho corner of Exchange Alley. A clerk of the com pany discovered the abandoned car few minutes after and took it to the poat- office and thence to the barn, where a new crew was obtained.
 A crowd of strikers amused themselves by moving all the switches on Canal Street and at one place a switch was found damned with a large iron nut. A car ran over it. but did not leave the track.
 The big feed wires of the Carrollton Line were cut during the night on Car rollton Avenue near CambPonne Street. There was no other violence during the day.
 Henry A. Reid. striking motorman. was arrested today by Captain Cooper. charged with assauiting Policeman D'Ayala, who was on a Colsieum car Monday near the Arabella barn. when it was attacked by strikers. UAyala was dangerously wounded in the face by . brick. Thomas White, another striker, wanted for cutting a trolley rope in tho same assault, surrendered. The police man is recovering.
 The preliminary hearing of the sixteen men arrested on Federal warrants Mon day for interfering with mall cars was postponed until next Tuesday by United States Commissioner Craig, to enable tho officials of the union to. participate in conferences.