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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.

Chicago Daily Globe, June 8/93

RECTOR DE LA MARINE.

The World's Fair No Longer Without a First Class Cafe at Fair Rates.

The Cafe de la Marine, at the World's Fair, was opened yesterday by Boniface Charles E. Rector and his friends to the number of fifty. The new building is the [beporticoed], seven-turreted edifice just north of the Fisheries building, facing on the most beautiful portion of the lagoon. It is the only exclusive cafe building on the grounds. It is surrounded, up stairs and down, with wide balconies which are completely filled with tables. The second floor has also an inside balcony and many private rooms. The building is substantial, is beautifully decorated, and handsome porticoes are on guard everywhere. The building cost $25,000, all of which was paid for out of concessions for advertising on salt cellars, cups and saucers, etc.

Mr. Rector took a large party of his friends out on Columbian couches while his able assistant, Bob, had a splendid luncheon prepared. There was everything to eat and plenty to drink. A splendid band played suitably to the occasion, and when the party adjourned it was at the invitation of Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Hon. William F. Cody to come over to their show, which was never better. There were prominent newspaper men, such as John C. Eckel and Biff Hall. The heavyweight wine men, Walt Williams and Dick Stockton, from C. Jevne and his fidus Achates, L. Erickson, down, helped to do the honors. The Elks were represented by CHarlie Clayton, and a man who didn't wear diamonds was looked upon with suspicion by the Columbian guards. When you want a Rector lunch at Rector prices at the World's Fair you now know where to get it.

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

(IMAGE) 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

(DRAWING) 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.

BELFORD'S GUIDE European. The one saving exhibit on the side of the daring and picturesque in our life as a nation, is Buffalo Bill and his army of peerless horsemen. Now, as in the phenomenal this great scout throughout Europe, his person and the performance of his comrades must bring the strange and thrilling career of the American pioneer before the world in striking fashion. There are phases and epochs of history we should not willingly let die or slip from memory, among them the struggle and warfare waged against savagery by the Boones, Carsons and Buffalo Bills of the American continent. These men formed the opening wedge, clearing the way for the conquest of peace and civilization, and their history is our chief chronicle of romance and bravery.

There can be no question of the historical value of this gathering of remarkable types at the doors of the international celebration, comprising as it does the Red Man of North America, the Cossack, Tartar, Arab; representative bodies from the armies of England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the United States; the South American Gaucho, Mexican Ruralie, the Caballero of the Rio Grande, and that roughest of all riders, the cowboy of the western plains. No display of gilded Dianas, huge Ajaxes, winged houris and exultant dragons, can in any wise compare with these in pertinent and living interest.

When the unique and masterly performance opens on the mighty stage of natural earth, and the groups of horsemen from all quarters of the globe are marshaled in glittering and picturesque phalanx, and Buffalo Bill, one of the most superb figures upon this or any other field, dashes to the front and salutes the cheering spectators, one cannot restrain a thrill of admiration for the free and open life of the plainsman, and a sigh and grain of contempt for the starched and cuffed and convention bedeviled existence of the "refined " individual. It illustrates what man was and is outside the cramped cog- wheel life of the slavish commercial world, and makes one

Chicago Mail 6/3.

Through the active enterprise and business courage of Col. W. F. Cody and Nate Saulsbury it is now made possible for all visitors to the world's fair to see the actual living descendants of the people who, timorous and hesitating, greeted the discoverer when he first set his feet upon American soil. The Indians who take part in Buffalo Bill's exhibition of the wild west are not actors in any sense of the word; they present Indian life, customs, mode of warfare, and manners of social amusement as they actually live them at home.