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Hearld May 22.

TROUBLE AT THE GATE.

ATTEMPT TO INCITE A BIG CROWD.

Suggestion to Storm the World's Fair and Force the Gates Applauded by Disappointed Thousands - Effect of Temporary Supremacy of Sunday Closers.

Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition were near to being disgraced yesterday through the rashness of a mob. But for the prompt actin of the police the FIfty-ninth street entrance to Jackson park might have been torn down and the great enterprise besmirched by the cry of anarchy.

About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon a well dressed young man climbed on a barrel near the entrance and began to address the crowd gathered at the gates. When he called upon his hearers to enter the park by force the sentiment met with a responsive cheer from the five thousand people who had surrounded him. The speaker had no more than uttered the words when a police officer in plain clothes pushed his way to the young man's side and ordered him to cease at once. At the same time several bluscoats, re-enforced by a dozen detectives, ordered the crow to disperse. There was a moment of sullen hesitation and then the throng slowly broke in pieces and moved on, up and down the thoroughfare. Another scene similar to the foregoing took place at Fifty-sevent street entrance. The crowdd was small as compared with that at the Fifty-ninth street entrance and the police were easily able to prevent any riotous action.

It was a perfect spring day. The sun hung in a dome of purest blue and from the east came a tempering wind. From the budding trees came the songs of the birds and from the smiling earth arose the fragrance of flowers. Inside the high fence that held back hundreds of thousands of people the magnificent columns, spires and roods of the white city glistened in the mellow sunshine, but from the mighty interiors came no sound. It was indeed a deserted city.

Not for the Eyes of the People.

The beauty of the peerless landscape, with its bright green tapestry dotted with a million fair blossoms, was not for the eyes of the people. The lagoons and canals, unfretted by the wind, lay shinning in the light, but no trim craft cut the water or glistening blade cast shimmering ropes of pearls above the placid waters. Within the vast structures, the storehouses of the wealth nations, wherein are shown the products of man's genius, a few workmen hammered away. The splendid exhibits were covered with canvas and no mortal eye gazed upon them. Two thousand guards patrolled the park under orders to use force if necessary to keep safely hid the treasures from many lands. And so throughout the livelong day all these beauties lay, as much bured and money made them possible, as though the earth had opened and swallowed them up.

Outside the guarded barricade there was another picture in strange contrast to the peaceful one within the forbidden grounds. From early morning until the sun went down the great thoroughfare leading by the western limits of the park and spanning the Midway plaisance was thronged with well-dressed and law-respecting men and women. Hundreds of thousands of people gazed during the day from the dusty roadway and ugly viaducts into the glittering city over against the blue of the rolling lake. On one side of them was an enchanted city given over to solitude. On the other was a horde of noisy and vulgar mountebanks shouting their worthless wares or urging the people to patronize their worse than bad entertainments. From the west came the shouts of drunken men and the clink of glasses. The saloons that line Lake avenue as as well as those near to Stony Island avenue did a thriving trade all day long. The people had money to spend and they gave it to the fakir and the groggery keeper because they could not spend it within the gates of fair. Every fakir repeaed a harvest, while the only entertainment worth all that is paid to see it was unable to accommodate one-half the peopel who desired to witness it. That one exception was Buffalo Bill's splendid exhibition. At both the afternoon and evening performance the great grand stands were packed to their utmost limit. When the shows began standing room could not be secured at any price.

Record May 22.

Saw the Wild West Show.

Buffalo Bill's amphitheater was packed the eaves. Among some of the distinguished people in the boxes were Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Senator Don Cameron, ex-Senator John Creighton of Omaha, Gov. Cosio and Signor Don Francisco Gallastegui of the state of Queretari, Mexico, and Miss Pauncefote, daughter of Sir Julian Pauncefote. When it came time for the ponies to buck they bucked so earnestly that the cowboys themselves became interested. Lee Martin was riding Blue Dog when the crazy broncho reared straight up on his hind legs and fell backward. The wiry cowboy managed to squirm out of the way unhurt, although half the people thought he was killed. A little later George Johnson mounted Badger. The latter stood on his head a few times and then dashed wildly into the little platform raised in the center of the arena, smashing in one side of it. Johnson leaped just before the horse struck, the boards and landed safely on top the platform, a feat not down in the bills. Then the crowd cheered for a full minute. Mr. Johnson was asked if it scared him. "Not on your life," he replied. "But if you give Badger six weeks of bunch grass this palce wouldn't him."

Post May 22.

ROBBED BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW

John J. Laden Arrested for Stealing Tickets from the Manager's Office.

John J. Laden, until a week ago employed as bill poster for the Wild West Show, was in the Harrison Street Police Court to-day charged with burglary. Laden lost his position last Monday. Tuesday morning the manager of the show, on entering his office, found his desk broken open and 1,050 tickets of admission gone. The desk had been broken into by means of a screwdrivers, which was found on the floor. Laden was suspected and arrested. It was found he had purchased two screw drivers Monday evening. A number of the stolen tickets had been given another man as security for $2 loaned the alleged burglar. These were also produced in court. The prisoner claimed to be able to prove his whereabouts the night of the robbery.

Tribune May 22.

FORTY THOUSAND OUTSIDE THE GATE.

They Peep Through Knot-Holes in the Fence-Side-Shows Flourish.

Those who think that the closing of the World's Fair Sunday inflicts no hardship upon the wage-workers should have been on Stony Island avenue yesterday. Forty thousand people were barred out. Men with their wives and children, young men with the maids of their choice trooped hopelessly up and down before the implacable fence.l

On one side of the fence was the "Dream City" - a fairyland of restful beauty of green grass and blue water. On the other was a gang of howling fakers whose wares are the cheapest attactions that ever surrounded a circus tent. The crowd which thronged Stony Island avenue all day was the largest ever debarred from the grounds. Before every gate or possible coign of vantage people clustered in groups, eager to obtain even a glimpse of that which is to them a forbidden land. They were no mere pleasure seekers, these men who rested toil-worn hands upon each other's shoulders in their endeavors to see. They had

no time to take a day from the week of work. Sunday only was theirs, and the White City was closed against them.

There were few threats, for an American crowd can suffer long in silence, but there was ominous discontent, and with it that to them unanswerable question, "Why?" The people seemed to feel their power, and that their numbers were a vast protest, but they waited and hope. One man said the Fair would be open next week.

"Next week!" he was answered. "You bet it will be open next week. Look at that crowd. What the people want the people will get."

Excursionists Greatly Disappointed.

The crowd was composed of excursionists from the country. They came on excursion trains from rural districts tributary to Chicago, lured in, it is said, by flaming railway advertisements. They expected the gates to be opened. They had their half dollars to pay admissions. Their jaws fell away down on their chests when they learned that they could only spend the day by patronizing the side shows and "lemo'" stands that were on exhibition out among the greens and early dog-fennel in blosson outside the fence. They put in the day trying to beat the games and buy out the stands.

The lumber of which the fences are built about the grounds of the World's Fiar proper, as well as around the exhibit of Midway

Dispatch My 22,

STILL IN THE LEAD.

Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show Atracts Nearly as Much Attention as the Big Fair.

Buffalo Bill's wild west show is becoming recognized just as important as the world fair itself to the thousands of visitors now in the city, and few people will consider the visit complete until at least one trip has been made to the big ampitheater at Sixty-third street and Stony Island avenue. Though the performance is called a wild west show there is no more cosmopolitan aggregation in the country, with the possible exception of Midway plaisaince, than Buffalo Bill's troupe of rough riders. Indians, Assyrians, Cossacks, Mexicans and Arabians, as well as soldiers from France, Germany, Russia an

Plaisance, is of a poor quality and full of knots. Almost all those knots have been knocked out and many persons glued their eyes to these holes, getting what glimpse of the White City the limited range afforded. It is said that, if the gates are kept closed next Sunday, many petitions will be filed on the part of Sunday closers to have corn cobs driven into all these knot holes and broken off.

The streets about the grounds were thronged with vehicles of all sorts, from the most fashionable turnouts from South Side boulevards to the carts of the humble toiler, all filled with wide-eyed people. Boats were crowded to their capacity and the "L," steam, cble, and electric cars had passengers walking around over each other's corns and hanging on by one hand, a tow, or an eye-winker.

Enjoying Outside Shows.

The people turned to see outside attractions. The most prominence was attached to Buffalo Bill's show and the sharp crack of the revolver, the low bawl of the long horned Texas steer, and the hoarse yow yow of the Buffalo from inside the inclosure drew in many thousands. Then there was the gipsy woman at her tent door luring in the deacon from the country village to squeeze his hand and tell his fortune. A Salvation Army squad was singing an exhortative hymn in a half completed tent, while a stiff game of stud poker was flying high with broadly stretched wings in a tent in the rear of a popcorn and red pop stand with-in easy hearing distance of the salvationists. A good many grins were led out and many cheeks cracked with laughter by a fat man, a mountain of adipose, falling from the clothesline chariot. The chariot is a huge clothesbasket, a regular Fallstaff incloser, suspended so as to slide on an elevated cable a half block in length. The fat aeronaut rolled from a lofty height and broke the machine, much to the delight of the wide-mouthed youngsters standing by.

A young married couple from Paxton took their first-born child to one of those open-air photo galleries to be "took." The cherub persisted in yanking its cute little lace bonnet to one side of its head and twisting its features to correspond. A hundred gazers gathered 'round. Many suffestions were made. It was proposed to hold photos before its pretty blue eyes so as to induce a smile. A picture of World's Fair managers was presented. Away went the childish features into a wild disorder. Bob Ingersoll was tried on it, and the little one burst into tears. Carter H. Harrison was held up. The child reached out its tiny hands as if to clutch it. A picture of Baby Ruth Cleveland was held out, and a sweet smile, one of those cherubic cheek-swellers, threw a glow over the face and the photo was a good one.

It was difficult to find beer for sale in the prohibition district, but industry was rewarded by thsoe who felt they must have it.

Mingling with the crowds with the hands in

pockets were many of Chicago's ablest detectives, as well as a large number of the veteran pickpockets of the city. Good, strong-armed men who make a living by siting people at the mouths of alleys, long-fingered persons who relieve the pockets of others of coin, porch-climbers, burglars, "fighters," biters, etc., were ther too.

Mail May 95'

A queer incident took place yesterday in the rotunda of the administration building. Col. Cody's Sioux chieftains, headed by Col. Burke, had halted for a few minutes to admire the beauties of its great inner dome. They were gaudily dressed up, their faces besmeared with ochre and red paint; eagle feathers stuck out from their head dress, and beads covered up half of their naked shoulders. Although themselves observing the beauties of that place, they were without doubt the observed of all observers.

Two middle-aged men who stood off in a corner of one of the pavilions, and whose general appearance confessed the Briton in them, had been observing the redskins intently for some minutes. Indeed one of them had made a move as if to go to the group of dusky bravos. Suddenly, as if impelled by some unknown force which he could not resist, he rushed forward and, touching one of the painted Indians on the shoulder, remarked in a voice loud enough for any one to hear.

" 'Pon me word, but this is me hold friend, Rain-in-the-Face."

The Indian thus addressed turned half-way round and gave ejaculation to a robust, if somewhat gutteral, "Ugh."

"I soy, hold fellow, you surely must remember me. Hi'm Musgrove - hold Mussie, 'im as took you fox 'unting in hold Cheshire, don't you know."

The Indian's eyes dilated, a flash of recognition shot through them, he showed his white teeth, and with many satisfactory grunts threw his arms around the Briton's waist and actually danced him a measure there on the mosaic floor. Then he took him to Col. Burke, introduced him, and when the little band started to go out the Englishman and American Indian went away arm in arm.

Peoples Press May 27 / 93. DULUTH

THE WILD WEST.

Rarely in the history of entertaiments, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, has so distinguished an audience been gathered as that which attended the Wild West show yesterday afternoon. There was the American public - prevented by a caprice of Congress from entering the gates of the adjoining World's Fair - and as the guests of Colonel Cody there were present the Duke and Duchess of Veragua, with the members of their party of naval offivers who are now Chicago's guests.

It was at their own volition that these ladies and gentlemen were present. They had expressed a desire to see the perfromance, and when it was intimated to Colonel Cody and his associates that the ducal party and the officers of the navy would like to see the show arrangements were a once made to entertain them in a fitting manner. Seven vehicles fored the procession to the grounds. Three of these were carriages, in which the Duke and Duchess of Veragua, with their party, made the tour of the boulevards leading to the show grounds adjoining Jackson park. Behind these came four tally-ho coaches, by means of which the naval officers were navigated to the grounds. All of the boxes had been reserved for the party, not because they needed all of the space contained in this section, but because Colonel Cody desired to shielf his guests as much as possible from any intrusion that might be made on them by occupants of adjoining boxes. The opening act of the performance was delayed for a few minutes, awaiting the arrival of the guests, but Colonel Cody ordered it to proceed after waiting a few minutes. It was not until after the grand entree that the foreigners arrived.

While little Annie Oakley was doing her marvelous work with pistols, rifle and shotgun, there was a murmur of recognition as the ducal party entered. Major John M. Burke acted as master of ceremonies, and handed the duchess into her box quite as gracefully as if he had descended from the Castilians instead of the Corkonians.

An attache of the show ran out into the arena and told Miss Oakley that the guests had arrived. They pretty little Ohio girl at once ceased her wonderful destruction of glass balls and, facing the grand stand, held her rifle at a "present arms" until the guests were seated, when she resumed her part of the programme.

The duke was greeted with a genuine American welcome when he entered the grand stand, and after taking his seat he arose in response to the applause of the people and bowed to the enthusiastic audience. While he was making his acknowledgements a remarkable scene took place. Bearing an enormous bunch of roses, little Johnney Burke No-Heck, accompanied by Chief No-Neck's squaw, came to the box and presented the flowers to the duke and duchess. Here was a tribute from the original inhabitant of America to the lineal descendents of the man who discovered the country.

Through the entire performance there were evidences of the greatest of good feeling on the part of the crowd. Whenever some particular feat of daring horsemanship was accomplished, the local crowd paused in its applause to see how the foriegn guests appreciated the act. Never did the cowboys show more skill and daring in their equestrianism, each as he concluded his part of the program gave a chivalrous, if not in all cases graceful, salute while galloping by the box occupied by the duke.

When the display of cavalry came on the crowd went wild. Naval officers in the boxes led the applause as the particular colors under which they sail were borne past at the head of a galloping troop of cavalry. When the troop from the Sixth cavalry came by, riding their gray horses as if they were proud of being soldiers of the United States army, the crowd gave them a hearty reception, which developed into a roar of applause when the colorbearer dipped "Old Glory" in deference to the presence of the duke.

When the scene in which the overland coach is robbed was brought on the two nephews of the Duke were escorted from their box by Major Burke and given seats in the coach.

The guests of the day expressed a desire to meet Colonel Cody, and when he had finished his act of breaking glass balls with a rifle while riding at a full gallop he sprang from his horse in front of the grand stand, and a moment later, clad in his beaded suit of buckskin, sombero in hand stood in the box occupied by the duke and duchess and was presented to the party.

More than 2,000 people were turned away from the gates. The entire attendance was 18,137 not the full capacity of the grounds, but the management sacrificed financial considerations rather than to allow the stand to be uncomfortably crowded.

Nearly all of the well-known actors and actresses now playing engagements in the city were present, including Rose and Charles Coghlan. Some one had been explaining the situation to the visitors during the performance, and when Colonel Cody called on the duke the latter expressed his surprise that so remarkable a change could be offected in a band of Indians which two years ago were painted devils on the war-