Black Eye For Street- Car Company
December 3, 1904
Summary
“The Virginia Passenger and Power Co., better known as the “Jim Crow” Street Car Company” continues to face problems including the possibility of being shut down and sold to auction.
Transcription
Will probably be Sold at Auction
The Virginia Passenger and Power Co., better known as the “Jim Crow” Street Car Company continues to have no end of trouble and it now seems that the entire system will be sold at auction with the liability to a change in management.
On Saturday Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr. granted the application of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York, praying far permission to sue the receivers of the streetcar company.
On Monday last the Metropolitan Trust Company, through its attorneys entered suit looking to the foreclosure of the mortgage held by that concern. The case will no doubt be heard in January and the sale of the road will be the logical result.
The Virginia Passenger and Power Co., better known as the “Jim Crow” Street Car Company continues to have no end of trouble and it now seems that the entire system will be sold at auction with the liability to a change in management.
On Saturday Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr. granted the application of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York, praying far permission to sue the receivers of the streetcar company.
On Monday last the Metropolitan Trust Company, through its attorneys entered suit looking to the foreclosure of the mortgage held by that concern. The case will no doubt be heard in January and the sale of the road will be the logical result.
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Megan Brooks
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“Black Eye For Street- Car Company,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/778.