Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
PEACE NOT IN SIGHT
Street Car Strike at Chicago
Still Drags On.
MORE CARS RUN TODAY
STRIKERS FAIL TO WAIT ON THE
GENERAL MANAGER.
Railway Company Expects a Long
Siege and is Preparing for
the Worst.
MORE CARS RUN TODAY

CHICAGO. November 14-Sternly warm
ed that every person on a sidewalk or I'm
the street who shouted abuse at police or
car men would be treated as an enemy Of
public order, the crowds in the strike dis
trict today were for the most part orderly
and easily handled. They were kept mov-
ing constantly by the police.
With the aid of just. half of the entire
force of patrolmen in Chicago cars were
even more successfully taken to and fro
on a single street than was the case yes
terday. Few passengers availed them
selves of the privileges of riding
Failed to Materialize.
Meantime peace negotiations talked Of
earlier in the day failed to materialize
General Manager McCulloch waited at his
office until after the specified time for the
giving of the company's answer TO the de-
mand for arbitration. but no representa-
tives of the men appeared.
Instead, the completeness of the strike
was accentuated by the engineers and fire.
men at the power houses failing TO report
for work. Their places were announced by
the railway officials to have been fiied oy
non-u union help, but the immediate shut
ting down of the State street ana Cottage
Grove avenue cables was regarded by the
strikers as significant.
Rushing Preparations.
In anticipation of long siege the rail-
way company is rushing preparations ior
the feeding and housing of its men. lts
coal bunkers are also receiving particular
attention, owing to the possibility of a 81 m
pathetic strike of teamsters. Both sides
appeared this afternoon to have settled
down to determined struggle FOR su-
premacy.
President w. d. Mahon sad defint ely
this morning that the street car men wouid
not wait upon Manager McCuiloch for an
answer to their demands today. lie said:
Mr.. McCulloch Talks.
The proposition of Mr.. McCulloch to an
swer us at IL o'clock today WIS answered
fully and completely by the executive
board of the union at its meeting Monday
night, when the board gave Mr.. McCulloch
forty eight hours TO consider its ultimatum.
1.-The action of the board has since been
indorsed by the union, and in so far as We
are concerned the incident is closed. Any
thing in the way of Cancellation must come
in the way of new negotiations, to which
we are open If Mr.. McCulloch wishes to
meet us we are willing to arbitrate, we
have been and will continue to be.
To Prevent Blockades.
A new method of preventing street block
AIDES was pu. into effect today by the po-
lice. Whenever cars were passing from the
strike district the thoroughfare used was
temporarily closed to all wagon traffic The
result was to practically eliminate attempts
at interference by teamsters friendly to the
strikers.
The first procession of four cars on
Wentworth avenue was soon followed by
second one of six. Besides eighteen news
paper men on the first car making a trip
today there were four other passengers.
making a total of twenty-five fares rung
up on the trip down town. The other cars
carried from five to six passengers, some
of whom were women.