Richmond planet., 1904-05-07
COLORED F0LKSYET WALKING
More Tfouble---The Rule Very
Annoying.
SoAoKED CHILDREN ASTONISH THE COMMUN
ITY-FEW PERSONS RIDE ON THE
STREET-CARS

The street-car situation remains un-
changed. Few colored people are riding
In the Jim Grow" departments. The
travel last Sunday was very light The
Olay st. line, which has been noted for
its heavy colored travel is deserted
Now and then tired colored brother. or
one who has risen late be ards the car
but the assignment of him to a "Jim
Crow seat arouses his ire, and the
next time he is more careful and walks
PECULIAR DISAGREEMENT.
A white gentleman of the f. F. v.
type created quite a sensation recently
on the Seven Pines line. He boarded
the car with his wife, baby and colored
nurse. BE went to the forward end of
20 car with his wife. as he tboupbt
following him. Upon reaching the seat
and turning around he found his Mad
anne arguing with the conductor, who
had refused to let his nurse go to the
'front.' with the badly, where the white
passen gers are seated.
lt required but moment for him To
go TO the rear of the car and bring his
wife, baby and nurse to the place where
he had selected seats. The look in his
eye indicated that it would n't do to
si,fle with ht!p. W
THE MOToRMAN EXPLAINED.
But the white conductor did and
INSISTED that the nurse could not sit
with white people. He only desisted
When the motorman assured him that
he was in error and that colored people
could be permitted to sit with the white
people for whom they are nursing.
VI course, the separation of the baby
from the nurse would have deyolyeG
the cares of the servant upon the Mad
anne while the nurse would have been
relieved Of the care and trouble during
tnat trip at least. Numerous other an
noyances have happened from time TO
time and the rule is now becoming the
Laughing stock" for the whole city
being characterized by some of the IRE.
hglous church members as nuis.
ance.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
The Richmond, Va, NKws-LEApER
OF May 2nd contained the following:
''The colored people of Richmond EN-.
phasized their ability to walk Yesterday
afternoon, when young and old, little
and big, marched from every section of
the city-from Sidney, Church Hill
Fulton and Sheep Hill-to tn . old Afri,
can Baptist church to attend the month.
ly meeting of the Baptist Sunday School
Union. The twenty-five or more schools
comprising the union went to the
church in body, and at the hour of
meeting had packed the large building
almost to suffocation. The walking"
exercise whether or not gotten up pur.
posely to register the colored PEOPLES
disapproval of the existing street car
rules, was certainly an object lesson in
what the Negroes intend to do toward
patronizing the car lines.
The exercises at the church consisted
mainly of singing and recitations by
the children. The principal addresses
were made by the Rev DR.. w. T. John
SON, pastor OF First church, and r T.
Hlll, pr sident of the Virginia Baptist
Sunday School conven, ion. Neither one
OF the speakers made any r. ference 70
the street-car situation in their speeches.
put nevertheless. as If by concert of
aclon, when the big meeting adjourned
not single man, woman or chil6 board
ed car for either Church Hill or up.
town.