The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-10
No Trouble During the Day, hut There
Is General Feeling That the
Crisis Is Fairly at Hand.
MILITIA Is DoDGING SERVICE
DIFFICULT WORK IN GETTING THE
MEMBERS TO REPORT.
Some Are In Hiding-TwO Sightseeing
Strangers Beaten by Strikers
Other Current Labor News.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. e.-The street
car strike situation, In this city Is becoming
more grave with every hour. There was
no violence of any note to-day, but there
was a feeling of impending trouble which
kept the whole city on the qui vive all day.
Governor Heard arrived tonight and i'm
mediately consulted a number OF gentle
men on the situation. He met the mayor.
Adjutant General Jumel, General Glynn,
Attorney General Gion. Speaker of the
House Sanders. Secretary Hester. of the
Cotton Exchange, and several members OF
his staff. After reviewing the situation he
went at o'clock to a meeting of the public
safety committee in the Cotton Exchange,
where he was closeted for several hours.
The Governor is being urged by the bust
ness men to endeavor to settle the trouble
without a resort to the armed force OF the
State. He will decide on his after
the conference with the safety committee.
Out of 1900 n>ilitiamen in the city at s
o'clock tonight 200 had reported at the
armories or been brought in by corporals
guards. 1t was hard work gathering the
militiamen. Some of the commands hired
wagons in which the squads went In search
OF delinauents, while others marched on
deal of patience to refrain from resenting
the attacks and jeers of the crowds on
the streets at every point. They were
greeted with derisive epithets by the
crowds of men and boys. One militiaman
rode around the city on a horse and was
attacked several times by boys with stones.
Aside from the difficulty of getting the
men together, many of them do not want
to go on this service and are hiding. They
claim they have friends and relatives
among the strikers and they. do not want
to be called on to shoot them down. No
action has yet been taken in the matter
of the Ewing Rifles. Of the First Regi-
ment, which asked last night to be mus
tered out In body. In the meantime about
fifteen members of the company have been
gathered at the armory and are on duty.
The New Orleans Railways Company
made no attempt to run cars to-day. The
Canal and Galvez streets to the number
of $500 and waited patiently all day for
the first car to come out Towards evening
they grew weary of the waiting and set
upon two strangers who were sightseeing.
William Connors and John Lynch, walking
out Canal street, asked someone TO direct
them to the car barn. The strikers took
them for nonunion men and beat them bad
ly. A patrol wagon came along and the
men were rescued after the police used
their clubs.
Everything now hinges on the course
adopted by the Governor. There is a de-
mand from some quarters that he proceed
and quell the strikers, while, on the other
hand. the business element as rule wants
to see an effort made to settle the trouble
without bloodshed.
There are now fifty nonunion men. most
of them from Chicago, at the Canal-street
All the men wounded in yesterdays riot
are doing well