Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-29
M}istellaueuns &eadiug.
A GRAND GOUGE.
Some Interesting Facts about the Atlanta
Show.

ture about the refusal of that body to appro.
pirate any money to the great International
Cotton Exposition. One prominent member
said:
"You don't suppose that Georgia will con-
tribute money to an enterprise which was sug.
gested by q New England hypocrite, and is
engineered by Yankee who has robbed the
State"
"Why, what do you mean ?" exclaimed your
correspondent.
II mean" said he "that Edward Atkinson,
who suggested the idea Of Cotton Exposi.
ton, came down South, and while accepting
the hospitality of the Southern people and
pretending to be their friend, was really their
enemy, for ere long he returned to the North
and began abusing the South with both pen
and tongue"
but what about robbing the State?"
Georgia has not forgotten the conduct Of
II. l. Kimball, if the people of Atlanta have.
He may have large following in this city,
but in the State outside, he is as unpopular as
when, several years ago, he caused the loss of
$4,000 worth of bonds"
"How was that?'
cat that time Kimball was building the
capital building in which we are now sitting.
He wanted some money OH the work, 80 he
went to Governor Bullock, then in the execu-
tive chair, and asked for it. Bullock told
him that the steel engraved bonds with which
the building was to be paid for we're not
ready. Kimball said he must have some
money in order to 60 en- with the work. So
Bullock told him that he would allow him
the use of $4,000 in lithograph bonds.
Kimball took the lithograph bonds and
hypothecated them with ]. Boorman John.
son e. Co., in New York, for $4,000 in mon
ey This was done with the understanding
that when the steel-cngraved bonds were
ready, Kimhall was to replace the lithograph
bonds with them and return the lithograph
bonds to the State When the steel engraved
bonds were ready, Bullock sent $4,000
worth of them to Kimball in New York, and
kimball wrote Bullock letter, now on re-
cord in the executive office, stating that the
lithograph bonds had been taken up by him
and replaced with the steel engraved bonds
But such was not the case Kimball sold
the steel,engraved bonds in New York and
pocketed the money and the lithograph bonds
are in the hands of the representatives of j.
Boorman johnson Il Co. to this day, and
they have been begging the State to redeem
them for years. 1t is just debt, and the
Legislature will probably pay it during the
present session. Notwithstanding this, the
Cotton Exposition Company, with H. l.
Kimball as Director General, have the sub
lime cheek to ask the Georgia Legislature
for $4,000, and the Atlanta Constitution,
which fought him for Mayor because he got
these bonds, backs up the petition. Well,
we didn't give them dollar and the people
throughout the State are glad Of it,"
One of the Directors Of the Cotton Expo
sition said to me: The biggest mistake the
Executive Committee have yet made was the
putting of Kimball up as the Director Gen.
eral. We have to watch him like hawk.
Why, what do you think he did the other
day? He actually put man-an entire
stranger to the committee-at the head Of the
admission department, and when the commit.
tee refused to endorse the appointment, Kim
ball surreptitously changed the minute of the
meeting to make it appear that the man had
really been appointed, and had his name
printed on thousands of handblls with the
names of the other officers. With an un.
scrupulous man at the head of the admission
Departmental man who would play into his
hands-kimball might pocket thousands Of
dollars each day of the exposition.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed all over
the city at the manner in which the depart
ment of public comfort is being conducted.
H. I. Kimbal has placed his brother, j. c.,
at the head of this department. j. c. Kim.
ball is very obnoxious to the people CT Atlanta,
because as a member of coal ring here last
Winter, he extorted from them SO ton for
domestic coal This made him very unpopu-
lar AS head Of the department of public
comfort, he has announced his intention of
charging boarding house keepers 25 cents per
head for every boarder or lodger which he
sends to their houses during the exposition.
The consequence is that many people who
had signi6ed their intention Of accommoda-
ting visitors to the exposition have taken
their names off the registry in the depart
ment of public comfort, and Kimball, j. c.,
is being denounced as an extortioner and
speculator from one end of town to the other.
There are unmstakable indications of
general gouge during the exposition. A lit
tie inquiry develops the fact that private
families who take boarders, propose to charge
from 50 to 81 a day First class boarding
houses, like the Leyden, will charge S. per
day second and third, etc., will charge So
per day. Rents have gone up nearly 80 per
cent within the past week, and it is now
almost impossible to procure a desirable
house or pleasant room in the city. Pro-
visions have gone up, and the hotel men are
preparing to raise their rates. One of them
said to me: "My walters, who have been
charging Sl4 per month wages, are going to
demand $40 during the exposition | will
have to give it and raise my rates accord.
ingly."
Hotel men are renting halls in different
parts of the city, and furnishing them with
cots, and many private individuals are fitting
up their rooms in the same way. Sepecula'
tors in many instances are renting the houses
of people who are leaving the city on purpose,
and will re.rent them at heavy figures to peo-
pie who visit the exposition.
a certain gentleman laughed, and remark.
ed to me yesterday "Well, did you ever see
the like? This is the first chance the South
ern people have had at the Yankees since the
war. 1t looks as if they were making prepa-
rations to make back out of the visitors to this
cotton exposition the money that was lost by
the freeing of the slaves. Everybody seems
to take cheerful hand in the skinning"
could write page Of comment upon the
grand gouge which is surely coming, but |
forbear, with one word Of good advice to
the people of the West. 1t is still nearly
month to the opening of the exposition. Sit