The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-01
KING NOW ON HIS EAR.
HE ALLEGES Rad TREATMENT By
THE EXPOSITION PEOPLE.

Police and Fire Protection Refused
the Exposition Property During
the Removal of the Exhibits-A
Claim That the Exposition Com
pany Has Failed to Pay the City
$500 for the Protection Already
Afforded.
Atlanta. Ga. Dec. S1.-The closing of the
exposition, which occurred tonight. has
developed a hitch between Mayor King
and the exposition management, in which
the mayor has already shown some bad
blood, and gives indication of turning
loose more hot shot at the exposition
people as things progress.
Mayor King says that neither he nor the
city has been treated with proper cour-
tesy by the exposition company and Pres
ident Collier. and while this failure to
give the proper recognition to the mu-
nicipality he declares has nothing to do
with his action in the present case, yet
it served as an opportunity to relieve
his mind on the subject.
In discussing his alleged i'll treatment
by the exposition people with the news
paper men to-day, Mayor King grew very
warm. He did not give a bill of partic-
ulars, but as an instance of the
character of dscourtesy that dis
pleased him he said that on one occasion
when he called at the exposition office
to see President Collier on business that
gentleman kept him waiting in an ante
room for twenty-five minutes, although
exposition directors came and went in
stream while he was kept waiting.
President Collier, however, says that he
has no recollection of ever having been
in the least discourteous to the mayor
or any of the city officials. and under
these explanations it would seem that
the mayor is unduly sore.
During the exposition nearly everybody
in a public position had more or less i'm
aginary cause to feel Sighted or rutfied.
An instance that may have been dis
agreeably in his mind when he thought
President Collier was keeping him wait
ing in the lobby occurred to Mayor King
during the visit of the Chicago6ns. The
mayor had at considerable private ex-
served to the Chicago city Of
ficials at his office at the city
hall, 1t was all ready with great bowls
of punches and accessories when the
Chicagoans arrived, but by some mis-
chance the mayor being called out to the
exposition grounds nobody thought to
invite the visitors upstairs to partake
of the repast. They were allowed to
spend their time in speech making on the
moor below. Mhen the mayor learned OF
this he arranged for a duplicate COLA
ton at the same place on the following
day, but odd as 1t may seem, the same
misunderstanding that had deprived the
Chicagoans of their punch on the previous
day occurred again and they never got
a morse of either of the two spreads set
out by the mayor
The hitch which developed to-day is
over the fire and police protection of the
grounds while the exhibits are being re-
moved. Mayor King refuses to
continue this protection unless
the exposition company puts up
S., 500 SPOT cash to pay for 1t. The expo
sition people do not think that the city
has any right to require this, as the
grounds are Incorporated for fire and po-
lice purposes, and they say that If the
city fails to give it it will be liable for
the loss that may occur.
Mayor King in refusing to allow the
police and firemen to remain on the
grounds, intimates very pointedly that
the exposition company has not kept
faith with the city in the matter of pay
ing a certain $500 which he claims the
exposition company agreed to pay before
the show was opened for the police and
firemen who have been doing duty since
Sept. IS.
An exposition committee waited on the
mayor this morning to try to straighten
matters out, but the mayor was obdurate
and it is likely that the matter will have
to go before the city council.