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Chicago Globe
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WAR DANCE AT THE FAIR.
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Eighty-Five Indian Occupy the Administration
Building.

One of the most pleasing features that
transpired in the Administration building
at the World's Fair grounds yesterday,
immediately after the scenes following
President Cleverland's act of
pressing the key which set the
machinery in motion, was the war dance,
given by eight five of Buffalo Bill's Indians.
The dance was given in honor of President
Cleveland and the members of his cabinet.
Some members of the presidential party
were unfortunate in not being afforded an
opportunity of witnessing the whole performance,
as they were, at the beginning,
in another part of the building.

There was a happy reception accorded
the eighty-five stalwart Indian braves in
war paint and feathers as they filed in
singly through the south door of the main
floor of the Administration building.
Among the chiefs easily recognized was
"Rain-in-the-Face," the noted Sioux
warrior and counselor of Sitting Bull in the
many bloody battles fought during the
'70s, and which finally resulted in the
massacre of Gen. Custer and his band of
brave soldiers on the Little Big Horn.

Strange as it may seem to visitors to the
World's Fair, no American Indians are
quartered in Midway plaisance, where
nearly every race on the face of the globe
is represented. The importance of the
Indian in the affairs of American history
seems never ot have been fully appreciated
by the management; at any rate he has
been entirely ignored in a most important
department of the Fair.

Every seat in the great amphitheater of
the Wild West show and almost every
available foot of standing room was occupied
at yesterday's performance. There
were 18,000 paid admissions. Exactly
ninety-three eastern newspaper men and
foreign journalists and corresspondents attended
the performance.