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[Tribune?] Aug 25

Buffalo Bill Not in Line.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West show failed to take part in the festivities of Illinois day. For hours the people stood in masses waiting for the "Rough Riders of the World" to make their appearance, but somebody feared an accident, and for that reason this feature of the parade was called off. Under the arrangements a collision would have occurred between the Wild West and State militia in the vicinity of the Illinois Building, and in order to prevent trouble it was deemed advisable to have Col. Cody keep out and make it a special parade today. Col. Cody sent word to the Illinois Commissioners that if his soldiers and Indians and Cossacks were to ride into the midst of the throngs of people on the grounds their wild horses would get frightened, become unmanageable, and probably injure a number of people. The program provided a parade by the Wild West from the Sixty-second street entrance to the Illinois Building. At the same time the militia was moving in the opposite direction over at least a portion of the same route. To make a change in the program at such late hour was found to be out of the question. Therefore a committee of the State board, composed of President Lafayette Funk, J. Irving Pearce, and Col. J. W. Judy, went over to Col. Cody's camp and explained the situation to him and Mr. Salsbury. They readily agreed to give up the parade and make one at 11 o'clock today. In the meantime permission was secured from the Council of Administration. Mr. Salsbury mapped out the line of march. It will be:

From the Service Building north along the west side of the lagoon, past the Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan Buildings to State row, thence east to the lake shore, south past the French, German, Canadian, and British Buildings and the cadet camp to the north end of Manufactures Building, west to the lagoon , south to the bridge at the west entrance of Manufactures Building, west along the north end of Electricity Building, south between Electricity and Mines Buildings, to the plaza, make a circle of Administration Building, and leave the grounds at the Sixty-fourth street gate.

In the afternoon the soldiers of the past, present, and future will attend the Wild West show. Gen. Miles and staff, the officers from Fort Sheridan, two companies of the Seventh Cavalry Veterans, Capron's battery, and the West Point cadets will be in the company.

Harald

August 25

The failure of Buffalo Bill's fighters of all nations to parade past Governor Altgeld as he stood on the portico of the Illinois Building caused some comment yesterday morning. The outfit had been advertised to ride by the big building after the state troops had filed by, but before the guardsmen trooped through the gate down back of the Forestry Building and started on their tramp on the north end of the grounds, word was sent over to Colonel Cody not to bring his parade in the park. The crowd was already so big that no more paraders could be safely handled. There was a disposition on the part of some at first to censure President Higinbotham's action, but when the reasons became generally known his course was commended. President Higinbotham said last evening that members of the Illinois world's fair board had called at his office during the afternoon and thanked him for his action. "The fact of the matter was that we could not handle the two parades satisfactorily," said President Higinbotham. "The national guard alone attracted an enormous crowd to the north end of the park, and if we had added any to this by Introducing Colonel Cody's show, serious results might have followed. I do not know how the statement came to be made that that Indians would take part in the procession. They were not invited to on Wednesday evening, to my certain knowledge. I do know, however, that Colonel Cody's entire show will give a parade Friday morning.

"The members of the state board deserve great credit for their successful efforts in bringing people to the exposition from all parts of the state. They have every reason for being proud of Illinois day, and I congratulate them most heartily on the success of their plans."

Post

aug 26.

Yes, as Major Burke would put it, the Wild West Show is a "world-beater." Only a true child of Barnum - a Barnumite minus the element of humbug - would ever have conceived that combination of cowboys and Indians and fearless rough riders of the earth, from the Cossack of the Don to thethe wild galloper of Tartary, and from the English fox-hunter to the fierce Arab of the desert. But come what may -- Custer massacres or anything else -- the chief attraction at the Wild West arena is always that remarkable citizen of the world, Colonel W. F. Cody. When this writer first saw with boyish eyes "Bison William" twenty years ago, knocking about New England with a wretched border play in the company of Texas Jack and Wild Bill, Cody was even then as handsome a man as could be found in the states. But he was a frontiersman despite his chivalric bearing, and it some respects a rough one. Fourteen years later Colonel Cody turned up in London a polished traveler and gentleman, with a social bearing that would grace any court in Europe and a bank account of $500,000. In this annus mirabilis of the world's fair, erect, long-haired and graceful, his splendid outdoor life stamped on every limb and lineament, young in spite of the fifty-seven years which ought to handicap him but do not, Colonel Cody serves not only as an amusement caterer on a colossal scale, combining education and recreation in his novel and ingenuis programme, but also serves to illustrate in his own person vividly a species of simon-pure western manhood to which Chicago owes more than to eastern culture or eastern capital. The visitor to the Columbian Exposition who fails to see Colonel Cody on the bloodless sands of his own peculiar arena will neglect a very important adjunct of the fair.

Daily Columbian

Aug 26

THE WILD WEST PARADE.

The Congress of Rough Ridesrs Will Make a Tour of the Fair Grounds at 11 O'clock.

At a special request of the World's Fair Board of the State of Illinois and for the purpose of entertaining a large number of World's Fair visitors from the interior of the State, whose presence here at this time is due to celebration of the Illinois Day (yesterday), Col. Wm. Cody (otherwise known as Buffalo Bill) has consented to make an interesting and characteristic parade display upon the Exposition grounds this morning. The entire Wild West troop of national and international fame will make a splendid equestrian procession, includingwhat is popularly known as the "Congress of Rough Riders of the World." In the line of this Wild West parade there will be Arabs, Indians, Cowboys, Mexicans, Cossacks, French, English and German cavalrymen. The entire procession will be headed by the celebrated Cowboy Band.

The Council of Administration, appreciating the desire of Col. Cody to please and entertain the many thousand visitors now upon the Exposition grounds, has acknowledged the same by passing the Wild West parade to the following route upon the grounds. The Wild West troop will enter the Exposition grounds at the 62d street gate at 11 o'clock this morning. It will be preceded by a platoon of the Columbian Guards, and the Commandant of the Guards is ordered to take such steps as are necessary to guard the line of the procession, which will be as follows:

From 62nd street gate, east to the avenue leading north along the lagoon, thence north to the east of the Woman's Building, between the Illinois and Public Comfort Buildings, and along the avenue between the states of California and Indiana to 57th street extended; thence east, on 57th street, to the plaza on the lake front; thence south along the plaza to a point therein near the northeast corner of the Manufactures Building; thence westerly to the lagoon; thence south to the avenue leading west from the central door of the Manufactures Building; thence westerly along the said last-mentioned avenue, southerly to the grand court; thence passing to the east, south and west of the Administration Building by the most direct route to the 64th street gate, whence the exit will be made.

Record Aug 28''

WHY BUFFALO BILL STAID AWAY.

Illinois Fair Commissioners In a Row Over Somebody's Blunder.

THE CHICAGO RECORD WORLD'S FAIR BUREAU.

Buffalo Bill did not take part in yesterday's parade in honor of Illinois day and a big row is on in the state board of Fair commissioners. It seems that Mr. Cody was authorized to parade inside the grounds by Director-General Davis and a permit was issued, which was revoked at 11 o'clock Thursday night. President Funk, Col. Judy and Mr. Pearce, the committee on arrangements, were informed yesterday by the council of administration that the Wild West parade would make too much of a crowd, besides the permit was issued without the council's knowledge. Then the committee made arrangements for a Wild West parade to-day, but the rest of the state commissioners repudiated the arrangement.

President Higinbotham said las evening that Mr. Cody's show is not dignified enough for such an occasion; that it was not an Illinois affair, and that the crowds were too great for such a procession.