The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-03
Street Gar Company VIII At-
 tempt to Run CaTs Today
ALL NEGOTIATIONS ARE OFF
Car Men Refuse to Answer Proposition Submitted By the Company and It Looks as If a Hard
 Struggle Is On.

1 New Orleans. October 2--After four days wasted in useless parleying between
 the street car men and the railway com pany, through the mayor as intermediary,
 all negotiations came to poslslve end tonight and tomorrow will witness a de. l termined effort to run cars and the usual | consequences. At half-past seven o'clock l the car mems executive committee ad-
 journed until tomorrow morning after an-
 nouncing that 1t would make no reply to 1 the last communication of the railway 1 company.
 The railway company announces that it is ready to run cars. and has refrained from making the attempt pending the
 outcome 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 viola tions of the old agreement would be ar. bitrated. If it was found that it had been violated then the men were to be paid ac. cording to the proposed new agreement If not, then they would work out the old contract until March S1.
 CoHlpdny OeCHneSs
 The Railways company forwarded iti
 reply to this proposition at o'clock thl afternoon. This embodied the propost
 ton 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 or l these lines before p. m. the company would consider the matter finally closed | inn Ia talu ff ono 1 men and operate the cars.
 1 The mayor sent this letter to the car 1 mems committee and the only result was 1 an announcement that they would moi | reply The mayor has gone to his home, the car mems committee has adjourned l for the night and the railways company l is preparing. to start a number of cars 1 tomorrow morning. It is not believet l that they have secured any outside labor l because pickets of car men have beer | at every railroad depot ever since tho 1 strike has been on and they have moi | seen any arrivals. They say that they 1 are expecting some over the Southern Pacific from Houston. but this is doubted l Nine cars with United States mail signi were run over the several routes today | for the accommodation of the letter car riers and were not molested. It was an. nounced that passengers would be taken | on these cars, but when several passen, l gers started to get on one at Canal street | the conductor abandoned the car and waa received with cheers by the crowd ot | strikers gathered at the corner of Ex- l change alley A clerk of the company l discovered the abandoned car few
 minutes after and took 1t to the postof- l flee and thence to the barn, where new | crew was obtained.
 Moved All the Switches. A crowd of strikers amused themselves by moving all the switches on Canal street, and at one place switch was found damned with large iron nut A car run over it but did not leave the track The big feed wires of the Car rollton avenue were cut during the night at Carrollton avenue and Cambronne street There was no other violence dur ing the day.
 Henry A. Reid, a striking motorman, was arrested today by Captain Cooper charged with assaulting Policeman D'Ayala, who was on a Coliseum car Monday near the Arabella barn when 1t was attacked by strikers and he was dangerously wounded in the face. Thos. White, another striker, wanted for cut ting a trolley rope in the same assault, surrendered. The policeman Is recover ing.
 The preliminary hearing of the sixteen men arrested on federal warrants on Monday for interfering with mail cars was postponed until next Tuesday by United States Commissioner Craig to en- able the officials of the union to partici-
 pate in conferences.