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Rand & McNally (Chicago) "A week at the Fair."
June 1893.

OUTSIDE ATTRACTIONS.

Naturally many kinds of entertainments
have been attracted to Chicago to remain
during the term of the Exposition. In addition
to those mentioned in the earlier part of
this book, among others, the following are
selected as especially likely to afford instruction
or amusement to visitors.

Buffalo Bill's world-renowned Wild West

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W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill

Show occupies fifty acres between Sixty-
second and Sixty-third streets, close to the
Exposition entrances on those streets. It is
an easily accessible location, being reached
by cable, electric, elevated, and steam cars.
Colonel Cody has outdone himself in his
efforts to make the exhibition outshine all its
previous brilliant successes. England, Italy,
France, Spain, Austria, and many other
countries have been visited by him and conquered,
but he feels that success is not complete
until Chicago is subdued. The covered
grandstand has a seating capacity of 18,000,
and the open arena covers seven acres, which
is not too large an area when it is remembered
that 450 persons take part in the performance.
Gauchos from South America,
Indians from the Far West, Cossacks from
darkest Asia, and Cowboys from Texas combine
in friendly rivalry to make a show of
unique interest and unending variety. Feats
of horsemanship, miraculous skill in the use
of firearms, battle, murder, and sudden
death, civilization and barbarism in kaleidoscopic
intermixture, viewed from a comfortable
seat, will prove to World's Fair visitors,
as they have to princes and peasants in
far-off lands, sources of unbounded diversion.
Not far off, between Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-ninth streets, stands a building erected
for a very different purpose, and known as
the Moody and Sankey Home. Here Mr.
Moody, aided by other eminent divines, will
hold constant services, and strive to win the
erring from their ways, and spur on the
virtuous to further works of righteousness.
Near by, on Stony Island Boulevard,
stands the Model Sunday-school, the plans
for which were accepted, after much severe
competition, as being the best possible for
Sunday-school purposes. Here will be held
Sunday-school conferences, and other gatherings
of a like character. The building
contains a complete exhibit of Sunday-
school appliances, and will prove a place of
deep interest to all those interested in the
religious instruction of the young.

It may be news to many visitors to hear
that Chicago has been invaded by a foreign
army. Nevertheless, Tommy Atkins is here
three hundred strong; cavalry, artillery, and
infantry have come, and captured, by their
skill and pluck, the hearts of their American
cousins. Located at Tattersall's, Sixteenth
and Dearborn streets, is the Military Tournament,
where maybe nightly seen, and on
Saturday during the daytime, in that mammoth
and luxurious hall, an unsurpassed display
of skill in the use of arms, feats of daring
horsemanship such as have made English
cavalry famous the world over, charges and
counter-charges, attacks and repulses, sanguinary
battles that are almost too terribly
realistic, keen combats between bayonet and
sword, sword and lance, wrestling on horseback,
tent-pegging, and charming musical
rides, where the perfectly trained horses rival
their riders in knowledge of the intricate
movements, and in the pride they take in
performing the complicated evolutions with
unerring accuracy.

The brigade consists of detachments from
the First Life Guards, Grenadier Guards,
Royal Horse Artillery, Fifth Royal Irish
Lancers, Eleventh Hussars, the Black
Watch, and Connaught Rangers-all regiments
with records which have made them
the theme of poets' songs. They do not
forget their glorious past, and under the
able command of Gen. Digby Willoughby,
an officer of long and gallant service, are

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The Model Sunday-School

daily adding fresh, albeit peaceful, numbers
to their long list of warlike conquests.
Other attractions of nearly or as great
interest as these exist in great numbers.
For instance, between Sixty and Sixty-
first streets, the Serpentine & Cavern
Railway and Paine's Fireworks will afford
abundant amusement; and near by, at
Washington Park, the lover of sport can
have the satisfaction of seeing the great
American Derby run for a prize of $60,000,
on June 24th, and on the following thirty
days be entertained by daily races, for sums
that will attract the best horses.