The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
NO ATTEMPT IS MADE
 ID OPERATE THE CARS
Soldiers Kissed ande Hooted Wherever They Appear and Many of Them
 Refuse to Serve Against
 Strlkers-Looks Grave.

New OrleanS, OctODer J.-Ine stflke situation in this city has become more grave every hour. There was no violence of any note today, but there was feel ing of impending trouble which kept the whole city on the qui vive all day Governor Heard arrived tonight and im- mediately consulted a number of gentle men on the situation. He met the mayor, Adjutant General Jumel General Glynn, Attorney General Guion, Speaker of the House Sanders, Secretary Hester of the cotton exchange and several members of his staff. After reviewing the situa- tion 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 business men to endeavor to settle the trouble without a resort to the armed force of the state. He will decide on his course after the conference with the safe- ty committee.
 Out of sixteen hundred troops in the city at o'colck tonight, TOO had reported at the armories or had been brought in by corporal guards
 MiIitiamen Hard to Find.
 It was hard work gathering the militia men. Some of the commands hired wagons in which the squads went in search of delinuuents while others march, ed on foot The squads had to exercise A great 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 bv the crowds of men and boys. One mil itiaman 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 that they have friends and relatives among the strikers and they do not want to be called upon to shoot them down. No action has yet been taken on the Ewing rifles of the First regiment which asked last night to be mustered out in A body In the meantime about fifteen members of the company nave been gathered at the armory and are on duty.
 No Attempt to Run Cars.
 The New Orleans Railways company made no attempt to run any cars today. rhe strikers and their sympathizers ynassed on Canal and Galvez streets to +he number of 2500 and waited patiently all day for the first car to come out To- wards evening they grew weary Of the wait and set upon two strangers who ,',a-a sioht-seeing. William Corners and his friend Lynch from Lake Charles walked along Canal street to see the ex- citenent They asked some one to direct them to the barn. It was a fatal ques- lion because the strikers took them Tor non-union men and beat them badly.
 al Inf1O were rescued after the police used their clubs for the first time since the strike began, twelve days ago.
 The labor mass meeting of last night has proven a source of much encourage ment to the strikers, but the calling out of the militia has convinced them that the mayor means to stop lawlessness if it is possible, and has made them surly.
 Everything now hinges on the course adonted by the governor. There is der uand from some quarters that he proceed immediately to put the troops on the street and quell the strikers, while on inc other hand the business element as rule want to see an effort made to settle the trouble without bloodshed.
 Fifty Non-Unlon Men.
 There gre now fifty non-union men. most of them from Chicago, at the Canal street barn, and more are coming by every train. They have succeeded in reaching their destination without trouble. There has been fear that the strikers would attempt to rush the Canal barn during the night, and it has been guafd ed by an extra force of police. Many threats have been made to rush it. but far they have not been put into execution.
 The Canal street merchants have been making another effort to bring about a settlement, a committee having secured an individual expression from few of the car mems executive committee that 2l cents with nine hours with no less than seven hours work day would be acceptable to them. They are trying to get the car men and the railway people to agree on that. It is not probable thst either will do so.
 The mail cars were run as usual with out molestaton. The trial of the strikers for interfering with the mails before the United States commissioner was post poned today owing to the illness of the car mems attorney.
 Governor Heard is determined to re- store order in the city before any ad- yances are made looking to settlement of the strike. He says the law must be upheld if every military company in the state is brought here to do 1t.
 After the conference with the safety committee Governor Heard gave out a brief interview in which he said he had come here to assist the mayor in pre- serving the peace, but had reached no conclusions as to what steps would be taken.
 Tomorrow the governor will see com mittee from the union and get their side of the case.
 The merchants threw up the sponge to- night. The carmen officially refusued to consider anything but a twenty-three cents an hour proposition. No cars will be run tomorrow and everything Is in abeyance pendi ~atinn by the governor.