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the 10x14 sleeping rooms of the nostelry, since known as the Washington hotel and proceeded to business.

"The Scouts of the Prairie."
"Buntline, who had written 'The Scouts of the Plains,' a story setting forth Cody and Omohondro's military prowess and Navarrelike achievements, for Street & Smith's New York Weekly, together with Major Burke, mapped out a plan of operations while 'Long John' Allen arranged the R. U. E. and L. U. E. and other stage entrances and exits from The Tormentor to the Finale, being specifically familiar with stage topography, methods and history. By this time it was about 11 o'clock and the litterateurs adjourned for lunch. Upon resuming deliberations, an outsider, who had smuggled himself into the conference, became very 'lippy' and advised that something classic ought to be 'wrapped up in the business.' The suggestion was the first intimation the party had of his presence and he was ejected form the room by Buntline accompanied by the benediction 'The classics be durned!' These preliminaries, including the naming of the piece, having been disposed of, the literary grind was inaugurated, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day the first act of 'The Scouts of the Prairie' was brought into the world.

"On the morning following the company, which had been engaged, assembled in the greenroom of Nixon's amphitheater on Clinton street, near Randolph, and while the rehearsal of the first act proceeded the remaining two acts were dashed off and sent to the theater, page by page. It is said that the entire play was completed in six hours. However, this is, of course, I am not specially informed. The cast in The 'Scouts of the Praire' was substantially as follows:

Buffalo Bill (by the original hero), Hon. W. F. Cody
Texas Jack (by the original hero), J. B. Omohondro
Cale Durg ................................. Ned Buntline
Dove Eye (her first appearance in speaking
part..................................... Mlle. Morlacchi
Hazel Eye.......................... Senorita Eloe Carfano

Big Eagle, Wolf Slayer and Little Bear, three bloodthirsty and uncompromising Injuns were assigned, respectively, to Joseph J. Winter, once heavy man at the old Bowery theater, Sid France and George Beach. Harry Wentworth enacted that of Carl Pretzel, and George Davenport the character of Phelim O'Flaherty. Twenty-five Pawnee Indians in paint and feathers were introduced to execute the realistic business. There were fifteen scenes in the three acts, all vividly lifelike, as the playbills have it, supplemented by war whoops, prairie fires, temperance addresses, blazing faggots, timely arrivals, invocations to the great spirit, scalp dances, and all the ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay incidents characteristic of frontier dramas, ending with the triumph of the American scout.

Big Drawing Card.

"The initial performance was witnessed by an audience that was only limited by the capacity of the house and each succeeding representation of the play was greeted by crowded auditorium and galleries. The success of the piece was instantaneous and pronounced. Buffalo Bill, therfore, enjoying a national reputation in his special field of endeavor, became at once famous, the talk of the day and an object of very special and considerable interest to managers and the universal public here and across the continent.

"After a month's engagement in Chicago the company opened in the Olypmic theater at St. Louis, then managed by Dr. Spalding. The success of Chicago was repeated and, barring the arrest of Ned Buntline for participation in political riots in that city years previous, nothing happened to impede the financial and histrionic progress making.

W. F. Cody, Wednesay in his tent at the Wild West camp to a distinguished party, including H. H. Prince Isenburg-Birstein, Prince Roland Bonaparte, Baronde Hesse Wartegg, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Charfield-Taylor, Miss Pullman, Mrs. and Miss Barnes, Miss Peck, Mrs. Holmes, and others. After witnessing the performance the party was driven to Midway plaisance, where the German village was inspected and tea taken at the old German castle.

Globe May 21,

Guests of the Wild West.

The world of society has been kept very busy of late giving and attending functions, according receptions to distinguished visitors, participating in social conferences and congresses and the like. Novelty has been the great aim in providing amusement or seeking pleasure, and where the picturesque could be attained at the same time, the object seemed to have been accomplished. There is one great attraction, singularly appropriate to the World's Fair, that by its very nature and in accord with its instructive and educational purposes combines the unique, novel and picturesque in most remarkable degree and society has given generous recognition to its merits. This is Buffalo Bill's "Wild West". No distinguished visitor or representative delegation has attended the World's Fair tha thas not had the "wild west" on the list as an exhibition specially to be seen and enjoyed. It is now a daily occurence for Col. W. F. Cody to have among his audiences representative society people from this and other cities and from Europe. As a change from the glitter, glare, gauze and tinsel of spectacle, function and reception and at the same time affording equal enjoyment, while illustrating practically many most interesting pages of contemporaneous history, the "Wild West" is now recognized as one of the strongest features of the World's Fair year.

Among the notable society people who visited the Wild West during the past week the following were specially observed: Prince Leopold Von Isenburg, Barron Von Hesse-Wartegg, Prince Roland Bonaparte, Mr. and Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mackay, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thurston. Mrs. Charles J. Barnes and Miss Barnes, Mrs. Holmes, of New York and Judge Henry Wood. All of these were highly pleased with the exhibition and extended to Col. Cody personally their thanks and congratulations.

Tribune May 9th.

Sucess of the Wild West.

Buffalo Bill appears to be undergoing again the experience he met with in London. The big arena at Sixty-fourth street and Stony Island avenue, where his hordes of Indians and Tartars and bands of soldiers are giving what is undoubtedly the best and most exciting exhibitions or rough riding, marksmanship and other feats of wild life, is overflowed with spectators twice daily, notwithstanding the fact that there is seating capacity under the ample roofs for 18,000 people. There is a spirit of recklessness that pervades the entire performance which affords on absorbing interest for all kinds of people. The arena is situated at a point where all means of transportation of the World's Fair come to a common center, so there is but little more difficulty in reaching the place than if it was located down-town. Not the least interesting part of the Wild West is the camp of the indian and Asiatic riders, and the lines of tents and tepees are visited daily by hundreds of sightseers.

exhibition given by Buffalo Bill's Wild West are so artistically arranged that the audience is kept constantly entertained and interested. The sports, pastimes and mode of warfare of the native American Indians, the athletic exercise and dashing skill in horsemanship of the native American Indians, the athletic exercises and dashing skill in horsemanship of the Cossacks and Arabs and the daring riding of the cowboys are all intensely exciting, while the picturesque groupings and drills of the detachments from the English, French, German and American cavalry, aided by the varied brilliancy of their uniforms, always evoke rounds of hearty appaluse, and the climax is reached when the graceful and commanding figure of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), mounted on his beautiful Arabian steed, is seen dashing up toward the grand stand. After having witnessed the exhibition the auditor is privileged to stoll through the camp and view its many items and objects of peculiar interest. Twice each day, including Sunday, rain or shine, exhibitions are given at 3 and 8:30 o'clock.

Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.

No one can form any adequate conception of the magnitude of the undertaking of the immensity of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show without having seen it. The hundreds of riders and performers who take part in the novel entertainment are each and every one an integral part of the complete, easily moving mechanism of the show; gathered from many climes and distant parts of the world, garbed in the costumes of their own country, speaking but the language of their own country, yet forming an harmonious whole, moving quitly in their respective places, without a hitch and without friction.

All this is under the direction of the firm, guiding hand of Buffalo Bill himself. The man seems made of iron, for six or seven hours a day, in rain or shine, he never leaves the saddle, darting here, there and everywhere, intent upon seeing that his patrons get what they expected to. The congress of rough riders of the world is a revelation in itself to those who have never seen the possibilities of action in the saddle by natives of different countries. The stirring scenes of Indian fights, wild west exploits and border experiences are faithfully portrayed and hugely enjoyed.

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JOHN J. LADEN, a formed bill poster for the Wild West show, was before Justice Foster this morning charged with burglary. Tuesday the agent of the show found his desk broken open and 1,050 tickets of admission gone. Laden purchased two screwdrivers the night before and as one of them was found near the desk. circumstances point to him as the guilty person. He says, however, that he can prove an alibi. Justice Foster held him in $500 bonds.

May 22

Among the foremost advocates of a closed Sunday at the fair are Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of Worcester, Mass.; Buffalo Bill, of the Wild West show; Rev. Herrick Johnson, of the McCormick Theological Semirary and President Jim Hart, of the CHicago base ball club.

war department prove was never violated. Though in the service of his county many years and the hero of a thousand desperate rides, and though he could justly claim the credit of a dozen battles, Colonel Cody has asked nothing from the government beyond the ordinary pay of a scout when on actual duty, and, while holding a colonels' commission, he has always preferred to assume the more dangerous duties of a scout.

It is as it should be, that the honor or conveying to the residents of foreign lands at least a faint idea of the hardships and privations that marked the onward march of the pioneers in bygone days, should devolve upon the man whose very name was held in reverence by those of the weaker sex who, by chance or fortune, had found their way into the far west; whose name has in war times brought something aking to fear to the stoic red man.

Buffalo Bill is proud of his title; he thinks more of the uncouth appellation than of the military handle "Colonel," which his army connection entitles him to use. Nor is this altogether to be wondered at. It was under this cognomen that he learned the cunning of the copper skinned aboriginals and became an adept in fighting them with their own weapon - devilish stealth. Under this title W. F. Cody earned the reputation of being the "greatest scout on earth."

In all the broken country known as the far west there is not a footpath, perhaps