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Mainliba Free Press
July 28

BRAVO! BUFFALO BILL

He Entertained Chieago's Poverty-
Stricken Children When the
Haughty Fair Directors
Refused Them Admission.

CHICAGO, July 27.-This was the day
set apart by Mayor Harrison's proclamation
for a free summer outing for all the
poor children in the city, and over his
official signature as mayor he asked that
Chicago's poverty-stricken little ones be
allowed to see the White City, in which
corporate Chicago has invested $5,000,000.
There was no room for them there, and it
was feared that they might prove an
annoyance. Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a
private investment and under no obligations
to the city of Chicago or its poor.
Buffalo Bill was not asked by Mayor
Harrison or anybody else over an official
signature to throw open his gates to
Chicago's poor children. But it did not
take him five seconds to make up his mind
what he would do the minute he heard
that the World's Fair knew no "open
sesame" for the newsboys and the shoe-
blacks, and to-day 15,000 boys and girls
from the slums and alleys marched in procession
through the streets, became the
guests of the Illinois Central to Sixty-third
street, and were royally entertained
by Buffalo Bill, who gave them the most
glorious day in all the history of Chicago
waifdom.