Trouble on The Street-Cars

Members of the community thought “the [street] cars are being run for white people only” due to increase of colored people walking.

No colored who reside is this city has yet been caught in the “Jim Crow” street-car trap. It would seem to an observer that the cars were being run for white people only, so few are the number of colored people seen on them.
The morning travel is also very light. Colored laborers are walking and the drays, produce and delivery wagons haul quite a number down town free of charge. It is a source of great inconvenience to many, but they heroically walk despite the drawbacks. Many white people are also declining to patronize the street cars. They do not like the idea of being ordered around by many “green” conductors now in the company's employ.
It is a noticeable fact that the law is being disregarded in many instances and white people may be sitting anywhere they please. The conductors are only reporting the most arbitrary and provoking violation of the rules.
The only colored person arrested thus far was a visitor and the following item shows the scandalous way in which she was treated buy the Richmond, Va., News-Leader of the 31st ult.,

“Trouble on The Street-Cars,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 12, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/579.