The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-22
CLEVELAND USED AS A CARD.
NE IS TO BE KEPT UNDER COVER
Except AT THE EXPOSITION.

The Proposed Military Parade
Through the Streets of the City
and out 10 the Exposition Aban-
doned-Instead a Parade and Re-
view Will BE Held on the EXPOSE
zion GrOunds-An Who See the
President and the Military Pa
eeant viii Have to Pay the ReEu-
lar Admission to the Exposition.
Atlanta. Ga, Oct 21.-From the present
rrogramme, President Cleveland and his
cabinet. together with the many visiting
military organizations that Will 'be here
10 do honor to the occasion. will be han
died by the exposition company with
very large sized eye to the gate receipts
When the President visited the Piedmont
exposition everybody had an opportunity
TO see him without paying the price of ad-
mission to the grounds. But this time it
will be very different. All but favored
few 1t will cost at least a half dollar and
car fare to get glimpse of the presiden-
tiaI party. 1t will also cost the price Of
admission to see the parade, or rather
the review on the grounds, for there will
be no parade. While so far the military
is making no especial kick at the arrange
ment, those who accepted the invitation
10 come to Atlanta on Presidents day to
participate in the parade in his honor.
nevertheless regard it as a little queer
that instead of parade the military is
simply to be mobolized at the exposition
grounds and used as one of the cards to
draw the crowds through the
turnstiles, while, according to present ar
rangements, President Cleveland will be
hurried out to the grounds, as sometime
when the crowd can be avoided to re-
view the military at the exposition and
shake hands with the multitude, who
have paid to get in. in front of the gov
ernment building. When President Cieve-
land was here before il was estimated
that at least 100000 people visited the
city. and of that number about $4,000 en-
tered the gates of the exposition, show
ing that great many came to see him
more than the exposition. 1t will doubt
less be that way this time Thousands
Will come expecting to see the President
and the great street parade that has been
so widely advertised without going into
The exposition, but in both these eXpec-
tEEons there Will be disappointment.
So far as the President is concerned
the arrangement that relieves him Of
participating in the parade was made for
his convenience, il was stated at the time
that the announcement was made though
II looks very much as if the exposition
company wants to have cover on him.
The abandonment of the military parade,
the one great InlllS more imam another
that gives eClat to the Presidents recep-
ton anywhere, appears to have been an
after thought with the directory.
With all the military that will be here
TO honor the occasion the parade would
have been a great feature and many thou
sands would have gathered to witness it,
but the exposition company has conclud-
ed that Presidents day can get along
without the parade because the march to
the grounds, which are two miles from
the center of town over wide asphalt
street, is too long, though scores of pro-
cessions have made the trip before sew
eral during the present exposition, in fact,
the Connecticut military marched out to-
day and tomorrow the Virginia. compan-
les will march to celebrate their day at the
exposition.
The military is to be sent to the grounds
by the Southern railway and the parade
formed inside the gates, where 1t will cost
50 cents besides car fare to see it, Some of
the military men do not like the idea of
being used in this way, preferring to pa
rade in public rather than be made strict
" a drawing card for the exposition COM
pany. They say it makes no difference
whether the President actually appears
in the line or not, the public parade is the
proper way to honor the occasion. Some
80 so far as to say Mr.. Cleveland would
gladly ride in the procession If the expo
sitiOn company had seen fit to make that
arrangement instead of hurrying him off
to the grounds so nobody can see him
without paying to get in.