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Buffalo Bill's wild west show is becoming recognized
as just as important as the World's Fair itself
to the thousands of visitors now in the city, and few
people will consider their visit complete until at least
one trip has been made to the big amphitheater 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 plaisance,
the Buffalo Bill's troupe of rough riders. Indians,
Assyrians, Cossacks, Mexicans and Arabians, as well
as soldiers from France, Germany, Russia and England,
combine in the entertainment of thousands of
visitors daily. Everything has been done on a most
elaborate scale, many new features introduced, and
at the same time all the old features which captured
the old world and have become household pictures
in this country, have been retained. All this has
cost a marvelous outlay of money, but the vast
crowds that attend the daily performance show that
the money has been well invested.