Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
A CINCINNATI LIE
About Miss kellogg and Her COIOred
Maid in Memphis.
The following falsehood is clipped from

The following falsehood is clipped from
| the Cincinnati Commercial:
/ Major Pond, the large manager in every sense of
| the word, large-minded and lsrge-hearted man,
who at once becomes the devoted champion of ali
| he takes in charse-and he has led to success a
goodly number-wss rightly indignant at some
phis papers about Miss Kellogg and her coiored
| maid Although the statements of the Memphis
press may not travel very widely yet it is well to
correct wrong impressions, no matter where given.
is noted, has already brought the papers further
down in the Sunny South to for some of their
accounts. The facts are these: Miss kellogg has
a eoiored maid, and OF course the maid travels
with her, and looks after the comfort OF
the Prtn e denna. who says that by sing
railroad train. Major Pond telegraphed 10 Mem
Phis for dinner for fourteen people. Miss KEEL
which, II is not TO be wondered at, Miss kellogg
arrived at Memphis and the party entered tbs
public dining-room, the maid started in with the
little basket containing the utensils for making
the tea, when some clerk or other stopped her and
told her she could not enter the dining-room.
Miss Kellogg, who not only wanted her tea, but
her dinner. asked what the reason Eliza did
not come with her tea. The man replied that
there was another place for servants to eat and
that she could not come into the dining room
Miss Kellogg then glanced a-ound the large
the troupe quietly eating his dinner at another
table. asked Major Pond for how many he had
|, not paid for like the rest on the
Major replying that she was, Miss Kellogg Insisted
at the hotel The clerk then called the proprietor
and told him, in rather saucy way, that Miss
Kellogg wanted her colored girl TO sit at the table
. with her. Major Pond then said there was no
question of that but that Miss kellogg wanted
her maid to serve her her tea, and to dine; and as
there seemed plenty OF room in the public dining
hall, and as the girls dinner was paid for at the
a seat and get her dinner. The proprietor said:
"Well, If they want l., let her come in!'' Miss
was rather too much said in the Memphis papers
TO create good idea of their fairness in dealing
with any subject where color becomes an impor-
tant part OF it."
An APPEAL reporter yesterday showed the
above statement to Colonel Galloway, pro-
prietor of the Peabody Hotel, where Miss
kellogg stopped, who said that there had
been no complaint made by Miss Kellogg or
any member OF the troupe who stopped there,
and that so far as anything of the kind hap
pening at his hotel, it was lie. Something
of the kind above happened at Milan, and
not Memphis at all. Furthermore, only one
Memphis paper published anything about it.
As for the Commercials calling the Courier
Journal fair, as contrasted with other South
ern papers, that is simply amusing. The
Curious Jingle" published two exactly OPP
posite reports about it, neither of which was
probably correct; it being we'll known that
that paper never knows that its soul is its
own for more than two consecutive minutes
The only incident exciting any attention in
Memphis was the boisterous, bad behavior Of
the troupe, Kellogg included, at wine-
dinner at Gaston's. If Major Pond, "the
large manager, large-minded and large
hearted, located the inciden in Memphis, it
shows that among the majors other large
qualities is an enormously large imagination.