Here's an interesting story about Yuille's Bakery on the left side of the street, just after the YMCA Building.

https://mobilebaymag.com/a-government-street-story/

Note the electric streetcar. Its trailer is almost certainly a former horse-drawn (or mule-drawn) streetcar, rendered obsolete by the coming of the electric cars, but still serviceable as a trailer car. This was fairly common practice in the 1890s but was somewhat rare by the time this photo was made.

Mobile's first transit system used mules to haul the cars, and evidently when they converted to electric streetcars they kept some of them handy. It appears one is attached to an electric streetcar as a trailer for extra capacity. Both of them are open "toastrack" cars with full width seats and open sides.

Those old galvanized trash cans were ideal for thumping, kicking, dropping, slinging, denting, and mysterious disappearance of lids.

Looks like they did a great job, the streets look really clean, well except for that one garbage can laying lying on the left.

My last post mentioned Admiral Semmes: that be his likeness obstructing traffic yonder at the intersection of Royal Street. It's since been moved to a spot where people are less likely to run into it (accidentally or otherwise).

Also of note are the two buildings in the foreground: they constitute something of a religious face off - YMCA on the left, Fidelia Club (Jewish) on the right; and while the latter may appear to have staying power, within a decade it would be sold for redevelopment. The plans fell through, but the building fell anyway. (OTOH the diminutive antebellum structure beside it surviveth still ...curiously fronting a County edifice).