The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
 Company's Officials and EmploYes Are Arrested.
 s---- MAYOR TEAGIE
 DIRECTS BLUE COATS After Two Hours Company Secures Restraining Order from
 Court. Bri Filed with Judge sayre shows That It Is Physical Impos.ibll- ity for Corporation to Comply Wish Law--May Revoke
 FranehIee.

For nearly two hours yesterday morning, not single street car crossed Court Square, as the result of Mayor Teague's vigorous enforcement of the ordinance requiring separate street cars for tho races. which was passed by the City Council over his veto on October IS. and which became effective after being suspended under resoIu- ton of the City Council for thirty days. yesterday morning,
 So thorough was the work of the Mayor and of the ofElcers of the Mont gomery police department, working under the direct guidance of Chief of PoaiceW. H. Taylor. that every car of the Montgomery Traction Company was tied up and could not be run a feQt. Fifty-four cases against officials and employees of the Traction Company were docketed at police headquarters.
 It was, in fact. only an order from Judge A. D. Sayre of the City Court, in the shape of temporary injunction. restraining the city and all It's officials and agents from enforcing, CT attempt ing to enforce, the separate car ordi- nance, which finally started the cars going. The pen of Judge Sayre easily proved itself superior to the police batons of the corps of officers.
 The stopping of the cars was wit messed by a crowd of thousands of Montgomerians, all of whom took the utmost interest in the procedure. Nov ing in and out among the throng. in- deed, were most of the members of the Montgomery City Council, but they took no part in the controversy.
 A special session of the City Coun- ell was called for o'clock last eyen- ing. but when that hour arrived, it was found that nothing could be done, be- been given of the session. as Is re- quired by the rules of the Council Adjournment was therefore taken un- til this afternoon at o'clock
 At the special session of the city fathers, it was proposed, If one may rely upon the call issued for the meet ing, to introduce and take immediate action upon an ordinance revolking and declaring forfeited the franchise or charter of the Traction Company.
 A Friendly Battle.
 The battle, if the simile is permissi- ble of an affair where one side offered absolutely no opposition to the other. waxed fast and furious while 1t was on. Cars poured in toward Court Square, which was the scene of the nne-sided conflict, faster than police
 
 the motormen and conductors, and es- .ort them to police headquarters, where charges were, 1doclSeted against themG and they were released upon bonds signed by James s. Dowdell.
 At the end of short three-quarters of an hour, every street car in the city . was tied up, and every employe of the Traction Company. who was on duty at the time as motorman or conduc- tor, was under arrest. Their cases, when brought up before Recorder Ba- Der at the afternoon session of the po- lice court, were set for trial this after noon at o'clock, but 1t is very. prob able that they will be continued until some day next week.
 None of the street car employees made any attempt to run their cars af- ter they were released from arrest un- der bond. Mayor Teague had informed General Manager W. H. Ragland of the Traction Company, that he would consider any attempt whatever to run a street car which did not have label designating which race 1t was for, and | and did not have posted within a copy of the separate car ordinance, accord ing to it's provisions, no matter for how 1 short a distance, as a violation of the l law, and would cause the re-arrest of l any who attempted it.
 General Manager Ragland. in the
 
 arrival of the officers of the city at | Court Square, before the arrival of q l street car, permitted of any arrest un- der the ordinance, endeavored to dis | suade Chief of Police Taylor from ar- | resting the motornien and conductors,
 "They don't want to be arrested. or disgraced in any way" he said Why l can't you just arrest me, and let 1t go at thatT
 But the Chief would not aceedA to the suggestion. Under the instructions received from the Mayor. he desired to do everything possible to carry the or- dinanee into effect, and not simply to make one lone arrest, through which the question at issue might be adjudicated in the courts.
 Patrol Wagon sent Back.
 The police patrol wagon had been sent to the scene in advance, to facils itate the carrying of the employees of the Traction Company between Court Square and police headquarters. but ct the suggestion of Mayor Teague, this was returned, the motormen and con- ductors being permitted 10 take the slower but more satNsfactory method of getting to headquarters by walking, 1 with the escort of a policeman. z
 The Aars were not filled as fall as 10 ordinarily the case at the hour of the | "assauit" by the police, large numbers of peopIe having taken warning from the statement in The Advertiser yes4 terday morning that all cars were to 1 be stopped at 9;s0 o'clock. But there | were stilI many people In the cars, and | large numbers of others who were not on the cars, but would have liked to | have been. rather than walking long | distances to keep engagements.
 But it was not only these people who | were disconnected by the affair who , voiced their indignation. A large ma iority of the citizens constituting the | large crowd that witnessed the stop | ping of the cars. were plainly very much exasperated at the results of the | Councils enactment, and were not slow | in expressing their opinions.
 More than one member of the Coun- | cil. while ming1ing with the crowd, or | while passing through it on business, | was stopped for a moment while some | indignant citizen expressed ih no un- certain terms his opinion of the Coun- ell. and of its judgment In passing | such an ordinance as that whose effect was so apparent. Of course, occasion ally there was a man who approved of the Councils action or eppiap,dsed the have been fighting the Traction Com pany. but the sentiment of the. crowd. as awhole. like that of the citizens of Montgomery. of which the crowd l