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burden. The arrival of this vessel, outside the company's receptions, was an event of future commercial importance to the port of New York, from the fact of her being the first passenger ship of her size, draught and class to effect a landing (at Bechtel's Wharf) directly on the shores of Staten Island, thus demonstrating the marine value of some ten miles of seashore of what in a few short years must be a part of the Greater New York.

After a successful summer season at Erastina, S.I., and New York (originatin there, at Madison Square Garden, a now much-copied style of Leviathan spectacle) twice crossing the Atlantic, visiting respectively Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washinton--an uninteruupted season of 2 years and 7 months, starting at St. Louis, Mo., on the Mississippi River, was finished in conjunction with the successful Richmond Exposition on the James River (Virginia).

The members of the organization returned over the vast continent to their respective localities (ranging from Texas Cow-boy and Vaquero and his southern valley of the Rio Grande, to the Sioux warrior and his weather-beaten foothills of Dakota), to be reunited in the following spring on board S.S. Persian Monarch, bound once more across the Atlantic to Havre, and consigned to the Great Universal Exhibition at Paris.

JUBILEE YEAR, 1887, EARL'S COURT, LONDON--FAREWELL, 1892.
(From a Photo by Elliot & Fry.)

Sufficiently large grounds were secured form thirty-two small different tenants, at a great expense--two streets being officially authorized to be closed by the municipality so as to condense the whole--in Neuilly (close by the Porte des Ternes, the Bois de Boulogne, and within sight of the exposition). Expensive improvements were made, grand stand, scenery, a $25,000 electric plant erected, and a beautiful camping-ground built.

The opening occurred before an audience said to have equalled any known in the record of the Premieres of that brilliant Capital des Deux Mondes. President Carnot and his wife, the Members of the Cabinet and families, two American Ministers, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Hon. Louis MacLean, the Diplomatic Corps, Officers of the United States Marines, etc., etc.--a representative audience, in fact, of ladies and gentlemen of distinction, known the world over, in society, literature, art, professions and commerce--honored the Inaguaration by their presence, and launched amidst great enthusiasm, a seven months engagement of such pronounced success as to place the Wild WEst second only in public interest apparently to the great Exposition itself.

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After a short tour in the South of France in the fall, a vessel was chartered at Marseilles, the Mediterranean crossed to Barcelona--landing the first band of American Indians, with accompanying associates, scouts, cow-boys, Mexican horses of Spanish descent, and wild buffaloes, etc., on the very spot where on his return to Spain landed the world's greatest explorer, Christopher Columbus. Here the patrons were demonstratively eulogistic, the exhibition seeming to delight them greatly, savoring as it did of an addenda to their national history, recalling, after a lapse of 400 years, the resplendent glories of Spanish conquests under Ferdinand and Isabella, of the sainted hero, Cristobal Colon--1492, Columbus in America-- 1890, "BUFFALO BILL," and the native American Indian in Spain.

Recrossing the Mediterranean, via Corsiea and Sardinia (encountering a tremendous storm) Naples (the placid waters of whose noble bay gave a welcome refuge) was reached, and in the shadow of "Old Vesuvius," which in fact formed a superbly grand scenic background, another peg in history was pinned by the visit of the cow-boy and Indian to the various noted lecalitites that here abound; the ruins of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and the great crater of "the burning mountain," striking wonder and awe as well as giving geological and geographical knowledge to the stoical "Red man."

Then the "famed of the famous cities" of the world, Rome, was next visited, to be conquered through the gentle power of intellectual interest in, and the reciprocal pleasure

COLOSSEUM, ROME.
exchanged by, its unusual visitors, the honor being given to "the outfit," as an organization, of attending a dazzling fete given in the Vatican by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, and of receiving the exalted Pontiff's blessing. The grandeur of the spectacle, the heavenly music, the entrancing singing, and impressive adjuncts produced a most profound impression on the astonished children of the Prairie. The Wild West in the Vatican!

The company were photographed in the Colosseum, which stately ruin seemed to silently and solemnly regret that its famed ancient arena was too small for this modern exhibition of the mimic struggle between that civilization born and emanating from 'neath its very walls and a primitive people who were ne'er dreamed of in a Rome's world-conquering creators' wildest flights of vivid imaginings.

Strolling through its area, gazing at its lions' dens, or lolling lazily on its convenient ruins, hearing its interpreted history--of Romulus, of Caesar, of Nero--roamed this band of Wild West Sioux (a people whose history in barbaric deeds equals, if not excels, the ancient Romans), now hand in hand in peace and firmly-cemented friendhip with the American frontierman--once gladiatorial antagonists on the Western Plains. They, listening to the tale on the spot of those whose "morituri te Salutant" was the short prelude to a savage death, formed a novel picture in historic frame! The Wild West in the Colosseum!

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burden. The arrival of this vessel, outside the company's receptions, was an event of future commercial importance to the port of New York, from the fact of her being the first passenger ship of her size, draught and class to effect a landing (at Bechtel's Wharf) directly on the shores of Staten Island, thus demonstrating the marine value of some ten miles of seashore of what in a few short years must be a part of the Greater New York.

After a successful summer season at Erastina, S.I., and New York (originatin there, at Madison Square Garden, a now much-copied style of Leviathan spectacle) twice crossing the Atlantic, visiting respectively Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washinton--an uninteruupted season of 2 years and 7 months, starting at St. Louis, Mo., on the Mississippi River, was finished in conjunction with the successful Richmond Exposition on the James River (Virginia).

The members of the organization returned over the vast continent to their respective localities (ranging from Texas Cow-boy and Vaquero and his southern valley of the Rio Grande, to the Sioux warrior and his weather-beaten foothills of Dakota), to be reunited in the following spring on board S.S. Persian Monarch, bound once more across the Atlantic to Havre, and consigned to the Great Universal Exhibition at Paris.

JUBILEE YEAR, 1887, EARL'S COURT, LONDON--FAREWELL, 1892.
(From a Photo by Elliot & Fry.)

Sufficiently large grounds were secured form thirty-two small different tenants, at a great expense--two streets being officially authorized to be closed by the municipality so as to condense the whole--in Neuilly (close by the Porte des Ternes, the Bois de Boulogne, and within sight of the exposition). Expensive improvements were made, grand stand, scenery, a $25,000 electric plant erected, and a beautiful camping-ground built.

The opening occurred before an audience said to have equalled any known in the record of the Premieres of that brilliant Capital des Deux Mondes. President Carnot and his wife, the Members of the Cabinet and families, two American Ministers, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Hon. Louis MacLean, the Diplomatic Corps, Officers of the United States Marines, etc., etc.--a representative audience, in fact, of ladies and gentlemen of distinction, known the world over, in society, literature, art, professions and commerce--honored the Inaguaration by their presence, and launched amidst great enthusiasm, a seven months engagement of such pronounced success as to place the Wild WEst second only in public interest apparently to the great Exposition itself.

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After a short tour in the South of France in the fall, a vessel was chartered at Marseilles, the Mediterranean crossed to Barcelona--landing the first band of American Indians, with accompanying associates, scouts, cow-boys, Mexican horses of Spanish descent, and wild buffaloes, etc., on the very spot where on his return to Spain landed the world's greatest explorer, Christopher Columbus. Here the patrons were demonstratively eulogistic, the exhibition seeming to delight them greatly, savoring as it did of an addenda to their national history, recalling, after a lapse of 400 years, the resplendent glories of Spanish conquests under Ferdinand and Isabella, of the sainted hero, Cristobal Colon--1492, Columbus in America-- 1890, "BUFFALO BILL," and the native American Indian in Spain.

Recrossing the Mediterranean, via Corsiea and Sardinia (encountering a tremendous storm) Naples (the placid waters of whose noble bay gave a welcome refuge) was reached, and in the shadow of "Old Vesuvius," which in fact formed a superbly grand scenic background, another peg in history was pinned by the visit of the cow-boy and Indian to the various noted lecalitites that here abound; the ruins of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and the great crater of "the burning mountain," striking wonder and awe as well as giving geological and geographical knowledge to the stoical "Red man."

Then the "famed of the famous cities" of the world, Rome, was next visited, to be conquered through the gentle power of intellectual interest in, and the reciprocal pleasure

COLOSSEUM, ROME.
exchanged by, its unusual visitors, the honor being given to "the outfit," as an organization, of attending a dazzling fete given in the Vatican by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, and of receiving the exalted Pontiff's blessing. The grandeur of the spectacle, the heavenly music, the entrancing singing, and impressive adjuncts produced a most profound impression on the astonished children of the Prairie. The Wild West in the Vatican!

The company were photographed in the Colosseum, which stately ruin seemed to silently and solemnly regret that its famed ancient arena was too small for this modern exhibition of the mimic struggle between that civilization born and emanating from 'neath its very walls and a primitive people who were ne'er dreamed of in a Rome's world-conquering creators' wildest flights of vivid imaginings.

Strolling through its area, gazing at its lions' dens, or lolling lazily on its convenient ruins, hearing its interpreted history--of Romulus, of Caesar, of Nero--roamed this band of Wild West Sioux (a people whose history in barbaric deeds equals, if not excels, the ancient Romans), now hand in hand in peace and firmly-cemented friendhip with the American frontierman--once gladiatorial antagonists on the Western Plains. They, listening to the tale on the spot of those whose "morituri te Salutant" was the short prelude to a savage death, formed a novel picture in historic frame! The Wild West in the Colosseum!

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