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Chgo Record sept 2

CHICAGO AMUSEMENTS.

BOTH from a financial and popular point of view the determination of Messrs. Cody and Salsburry to add to the attractiveness of the exhibitions given daily by Buffalo Bill's Wild West has resulted in a most emphatic success. For weeks the different types of character illustrative of life on the plains—in peace and war, in the home circle, on the hunt, and in social enjoyment—have been shown most faithfully in the arena of the "Wild West," and to further illustrate in a forcibly realistic manner the struggle of the earlier days in the frontier these energetic managers have concluded to give an actual scene from the great drama of the Custer massacre, which occurred June 25, 1876. Col. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), as chief of scouts of the United States army, was a conspicuous figure in those days and times and under the immediate command of Gen. Merritt was inclose proximity to the scene of the battle. This great feature is simply an addition to the programme and in nowise cutrails or detracts from the general excellence or fullness of the other features.

Inter Ocean Sep 2

Buffalo Bill Objected To.

The posters first issued for the parade of Labor day announced as "Honorary Marshal, W. F. Cody," but those issued later contained no mention of that picturesque individual and thereby hangs a tale. When the first posters were distributed a great big protest was sent up by union men in different organizations on the ground that Buffalo Bill was not a laboring man but a shrewd show manager, and that they did not want Labor day and the union parade made an advertising medium for the Wild West or any other kind of a West. When the marshals got together they found that the scheme would not work and they voted to take him off. All kinds of charges and insinuations were made, as is usual in all such cases made and provided, but there is no evidence that it was not done with the idea that it would be a drawing card and was done thoughtlessly.

News Sep 2

Buffalo Bill has arranged with the Illinois Central railroad to run World's-Fair fast trains on Sunday very fifteen minutes from Van Buren street until after the performance at night. Fare as usual 10 cents and time occupied in the trip sixteen minutes. The enterprise of Cody & Salsbury in securing this service will be taken advantage of by many thousands who do not like slow travel.

Dispatch Sep 2

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

The weather has been almost perfect this summer for outdoor entertainments and the world's fair and Buffalo Bill, the only two of that class that have furnished any amusement to visitors and residents of Chicago, have consequently prospered. The Wild West depends not only on the fact that it stands alone among amusement enterprises, having no rivals or peers; its instructive and interesting character appeals to all classes alike, and from the staid old bookworm to the street arab everybody is interested in the character of the performance. All of the old features that have made and continued the extreme popularity of the Wild West are retained in the program and additions are made from time to time, such as Custer's Last Charge, that add materially to the attractiveness of the entertainment. Every day until November 1, at 3 o'clock and 8:30 p.m., performances will be given.

Inter Ocean Sep 3

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

There is plenty of entertainment and much instruction to be found at Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders. The popularity of the show is attested by the great crowds that assemble afternoon and evening to witness the exhibitions that are alternately amusing and exciting. All of the stirring features that have gone to make the Wild West the principal attraction in Chicago outside of the World's Fair itself have been retained in the programme, and to it has been added a graphic representation of the last rally of Custer, which has received the emphatic indorsement of the officers and soldiers now located in and about Chicago. Every effort possible is put forth by the management of the Wild West to make it the cleanest, neatest, and most comfortable resort in Chicago, and this, with the merit of the entertainment, makes it a pleasure for amusement seekers to visit it.