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News Sep 9

At Buffalo Bill's Wild West the last week has been a repetition of others that have gone before in the matter of large attendance by the general public--the grand-stand frequently being crowded almost to its utmost capacity and the boxes at every performance being occupied by parties of more or less distinguished persons. The last week they have held Gov. Flower of New York, Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania, Gov. Brown of Maryland and Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, with their several staffs; the bishops of the mormon church, with the famous mormon choir; Mrs. Mary Davies, the famous Welsh singer, and a number of participants in the eisteddfod; Dr. Carl Peters, the famous savant and African explorer, as well as many others equally well known.

Record Sep 9

The beautiful scene presented twice daily in the vast auditorium of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, with the delightful music of the programme given by the great Cowboy band, is of itself of rare enjoyment. Tier after tier of happy and enthusiastic visitors with eager and joyous faces their attention now riveted to the exciting performances being given in the arena, and now giving delighted expressions of approval to the stirring music, afford to an observer a source of ever changing, of constant pleasure. Reminiscent age, observant manhood buoyant youth all are found there, each in his own way witnessing and enjoying an n exhibition which as affording equal pleasure to all has never been equaled in the history of amusements. The combination of the historical, the realistical dramatic, the educational and the spectacular to be found in the programme offered is s novel as it is interesting and delightful. During the last week every performance has en witnessed by a coterie of prominent personages visiting the Columbian Exposition to all of whom it has proved a source of great pleasure. The fame of the exhibition has reached sections of the country, and almost every due to the Wold's Fair puts a trip fo the West among the most important matters to be attended to during his stay in Chicago. This evening the White- chapel club of this city will attend the performance in a body.

Society News 9 Sep

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

Although the Wild West show continues to enjoy a very large patronage at the arena, corner of Stony Island avenue and Sixty-third street, the management has introduced a novelty in the program in the form of an exact reproduction of Custer's last fight, participated in by three chiefs who were in the conflict. Meantime the regular entertainment will be presented twice daily, "rain or shine." On Sundays the attendance has been steadily increasing. The entertainment is an extraordinary one, full of stirring action and interest, and all that is offered on the bills is presented in the show. The grounds are a very satisfying resort.

Dispatch Sept 9

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

Always alive to the needs and comforts of the patrons, Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, managers and proprietors of that great international historical, educational and spectacular exhibition, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, have made arrangements for the regular running of the world's fair fast special trains of the Illinois Central railroad direct to their grounds on every Sunday during the remainder of their season. Commencing at 11 o'clock p.m., special trains will leave Van Buren street viaduct every fifteen minutes, returning after each of the two performances given at 3 and 8:30 o'clock p.m. The ride is a pleasant one, lasting only fifteen minutes, and there will be plenty of cars, thus assuring each passenger a comfortable seat both going and coming. These specials added to their means of transportation, including the alley "L," the suburban, the grip and the electric cars, will enable all who desire to witness the remarkable entertainment ample means of doing so in comfort. All these roads land passengers within a few feet of the entrances to the Wild West.

[?] Sep 11 ______________ MANY WANTD TO CATCH FAST TRAINS. _____________ Illinois Central Was Not Running and People Went Otherwise to the Fair.

It is a pity that the Illinois Central people do not understand that if 200,000 people visit the fair one day they will come again the next day, whether it is Sunday or not. Standing at the food of the viaduct at Van Buren street yesterday morning it was sad to watch the crowds ascend the platform toward the fast express trains only to be sent back by the able policeman whose duty it is to tell the Sunday pleasure seekers that "Detraius don't run on Sunday." In an hour's time yesterday morning as many people came to the viaduct for world's fair trains as on any day in May or the early part of June, except special days when the attendance was increased by visiting press associations and state ceremonies. The attendance at the grounds yesterday was good, when it is considered that the fair is practically closed. Sight-seers who do not care if it is Sunday or Wednesday, who came long distances to see the fair, and who, having only a short stay in town, make use of every moment at the grounds.

Buffalo Bill asked for trains in the afternoon and evening, as the attendance at his show was falling off, and he got them. The elevated was crowded, people standing on the platforms all the way, the cable cars did a good business, and all because fast trains were running. The fair itself looked lively, the electric launches running with good boat loads, and the gondolas started for the first time Sundays, in the afternoon carrying lots of people. The fair will be open from now on Sunday, and every accommodation should be made for the visitors. At the Fifty-seventh street gate crowds were standing in line. Twenty-three thousand people paid admissions at the grounds up to 2 o'clock, making a very respectable showing for Sunday and no trains.

[?] Sep 11

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST. Buffalo Bill's great amphitheater continues crowded at every afternoon and night performances. The show is the largest ever undertaken in the number of people and horses employed and is as interesting as diversified. One feature of the programme is the trap shooting of Miss Anne Oakley whose clean scores in the difficult and rapid marksmanship is truly wonderful.

Herald Sep 11 Distinguished Guests of Buffalo Bill.

Buffalo Bill entertained as guests at his Saturday's performance and afterward at luncheon Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, Miss Rose Coghlan, Bishops Woodruff, Cannon and Smith fo the Mormon church, the Duke of Seramoneta and the Prince of Tiana, of the families Cantania of Italy, and Chevalier Grant, royal Italian commissioner to the fair. The Duke of Seramoneta, when Colonel Cody played his Wild West in Rome, furnished some obstreperous horses, believing they could not be ridden by American cowboys, but the cowboy proved himself a master of the beast. The prince and the duke are unobstrusive young men, anxious to hear and see without being made too much of. The kindness with which Colonel Cody and Mr. Salsbury were treated with their company in Rome by the parents of these gentlemen made them welcome visitors to the Wild West. A number of United States army sharpshooters watched Miss Oakley yesterday.

Herald Sep [12?]

JACKSON PARK SKETCHES. __________ There has been a shift of lecturers at Buffalo Bill's show in Sixty-third street. The big fellow who used to howl out the features of the programme and then wave a red flag for their performers to appear is now in Boston. His voice wasn't strong enough to be any service to the spectators, but nobody can truthfully say that he didn't do the best he could. The proprieters were anxious to make a change, but men with fog horn voices were scarce and so the howler from Boston was permitted to hold his job for a much longer period than anybody had a right to expect. One day, however, Colonel Saulsbury was startled by a roar of a man who was selling peanuts in the grand stand. It tore round the big ampitheater, rolled out of the entrances, and drowned the voice of the lecturer who was supposed to be something of a yelper himself. On the following day the peanut man was summoned to appear before a jury on howling. This owlish body was composed of Colonel Cody, Major Burke and Colonel Saulsbury. The peanut vender was asked to give "some specimens of his ability." Opening his face half way to his forehead the long legged candidate let loose a deafening bellow.

"Now cry ont 'ladies and genglemen,'" said Major Burke.

The face opened again and the roar that came from between the heavy jaws shook the ridge pole of Colonel cody's tent. It did not take the jury long to reach a verdict. The lowly peanut vender was there and then promoted to the exalted position of lecturer, with instructions to let his hair grow and buy himself a white sombrero. The Bosten crier went home the next day.

Herald Sep 11

COL. CODY'S DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. With a special view to giving ample, comfortable and rapid transportation to the great things of people who attend the Sunday performances given by Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and of giving them additional facilities for reaching their homes in the city at a very reasonable hour, no matter in what part of the city they reside, Messrs. Cody and Salsbury have concluded arrangements iwth the management of the Illinois Central Railroad to run its special world's fair trains direct to the Wild West grounds every Sunday during the remainder of the season. Beginning at 1 o'clock p.m. trains will leave the Van Buren street viaduct every fifteen minutes, returning to the city after the performance given at 3 and 8:30 o'clock. The ride is a very agreeable one and is made in fifteen minutes. The suburban, alley L and electric cars will run also as usual, conveying passengers to the entrance of the "Wild West," and so there will not be the slightest trouble in getting to and from the grounds. This special effort on the part of the management will assuredly be met by marked evidence of appreciation.

The attendance at the "Wild West" has been remarkably large during the past week, probably surpassing the record of any previous week during its season, and it will surely grow with the increase of the number of visitors to the world's fair. Its exhibition is built upon the solid foundation of historical fact and artistic arrangement,

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and is educational in [?] character, while being in every respect interesting and instructive. The arrangement of the auditorium has been made with a special purpose of affording all possible comfort to audiences, while enabling the occupant of every seat a full perfect view of every act of the commencement of the performance the audience is treated to a musical entertainment by the celebrated cowboy band, whose music always elicits hearty applause.

During the past week the Wild West has been visited by many notables, who came to see the world's fair, and to assist in the celebration of special occasions in honor of their respective states. Governor Flower, of New York, and staff; Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, and staff; Governor Brown, of Maryland, and a distinguished party, and Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, have all been interested spectators of the great Wild West exhibition, and all were lavish in their hearty expressions of delight at its many varied features.

Times Sep 11

During the last week the wonderful exhibitions given by Buffalo Bill's Wild West have been witnessed by a succession of very large and enthusiastic audiences, making it probably the most successful week of the season from a financial standpoint. Many distinguished visitors to the world's fair city were prominent in the audience at the Wild West. Among others may be specially noted Gov. Flower of New York, Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania, Gov. Brown of Maryland' and Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, each accompanied by his staff and party or friends, all high in the political and social sphere of their representative states. To this list may be added Bishops Woodruff, Cannon, and Smith of the Mormon church, and members of the great choir of the Mormon temple of Salt Lake City, Utah. Most of the prominent Welshman and Welsh singers that ahve been attending the Eisteddfod held at the world's fair during the last week were also visitors to the Wild West. Today the Illinois central will run express trains from Van Bureu street to the Wild West from 1 p.m. on.

Times Sep 11 Colonel Cody as Host.

Buffalo Bill had had his usual croweded attendance yesterday, in the audience being several distinguuished parties, including Miss Alice Shaw, the celebrated whistler, Miss Rose Coghlan, Mormon bishops, and others attending the performance, and afterward joining Colonel Cody and Mr. Salsbury at camp luncheon was the Duke of Seramoneta and the Prince of Tiana, of the families Cantania, of Italy, one of the largest families of that country, the family having furnished four popes, one of them as far back as a thousand years ago. Others at the lunch was Chevalier Grant, the [?] Italian commissioner to the World's Fair. [?] and Mrs. Smith, of California, and Mrs. Nate Salsbury. To-day (Sunday) a number of the United States army sharpshooters will bisit the Wild West in a body and take points from Colonel Cody, Mr. Baker, and Miss Oakley in the handling of the gun.

[?] Ocean Sep 11

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

This entertainment is enormously successful. The weekly receipts are hardly credible, but its popularity seems to be on the increase as the season wears away. It is a remarkable show, and more than fulfills the expectations of visitors. The realistic reproduction of the battle of the Little Big Horn, or Custer's last charge has attracted widespread attention and won enthusiastic applause at every performance. The more familiar features seem to be, and indeed are, just as attractive to-day as when first presented to the public.

globe Sep 11

Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

It was a stroke of enterprise that deserved and received immediate recognition at the hands of the public when the management of Buffalo Bill's Wild West completed arrangements with the Illinois Central rialroad by which the World's Fair fast trains from Van Buren street were to run every Sunday after 1 o'clock in the afternoon until the close of their night performance, thus affording quick and easy transportation from the center of the city to the thousands who desire to visit the Wild West on Sunday, but were deterred from doing so because of the late hour at which they reached home by the slow and frequent stopping methods of other lines. Residents of the North and West side, as well as guests at the hotels, can now visit Wild West on Sunday and be at Van Buren street within less than twenty minutes after the performance is concluded, either afternoon or evening. The elevated, electric, grip and horse cars, as well as suburban trains of the Illinois Central, continue their usual schedule, and South side residents have all the benefis they previously enjoyed in the matter of transportation. Superintendent of Admissions Tucker, of the World's Fair, stated last Sunday evening that the enterprise of the Buffalo Bill people in putting on the yellow cars had resulted in a very appreciable increase in the attendance at the Fair on that day.

During the past week the attendance at the Wild West has been phenomenally large, and every item of the absorbingly interesting program has received hearty approval and applause of the audiences. Now that the crops are put away and the country cousins are visiting the city a very material increase in the patronage is noticeable, and every one who attends goes away prepared and determined to advertise the great enterprise and to advise his friends that a visit to the World's Fair without one to Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a very poor proceeding on the part of anyone visiting Chicago. The week just closed has seen the presence in the grand stand and the boxes of several distinguished parties, among them Gov. Flower, of New York, and his staff; Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, and his staff; Gov. Peck, of Wisconsin, and his staff; Gov. Brown, of Maryland, and his staff; Mayor Gilrov, of New York, and Hon. Martin B. Brown, public printer of New york, with their party; Dr. Carl Peters and the eminent savant of Germany with a party; Mrs. Mary Davies, the eminent Welsh singer, and a number of friends; Bishops Cannon, Woodruff and Smith, of the Mormon Church, and a number of famous Morman squires from Salt Lake City, together with a large party of Welsh and American singers now in attendance on the Elsteddfod, and towind up the week in a blaze of glory the famous Whitechapel club will to-night occupy boxes and will no doubt prove themselves Indians more noisy than those engaged in the arena. The Wild West is truly the Mecca to which the faces of all World's Fair visitors are turned, and twice every day at 3 and 8:30 P.M, large crowds of citizens and strangerscan be found there. The performances have now reached nearly 300, and only about fifty days more of the season remains, and with the large number of strangers coming into the city it will be well for our resident population, who have thus far denied themselves the pleasure of the visit, to take early advantages of the opportunities offered them before the weather changes, if such a misfortune should befall our city this season.

Herald Sep 1

Distinguished Visitors at the Wild West. Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Among the spectators were Cardinal Gibbons, M. Bartholdi, the French Sculpter; Mrs. [Mil?] and a party of friends, together with a large number of army officers and ladies from Fort Sheridan, As M. Bartholdi entered the band played the "Marsellaise," and the audience applauded vigorously.

Times Sep 15

GO TO SEE THE ROUGH RIDERS. ______________ Assistant Secretary McAdoo, Sculptor Bartholdi, and Cardinal Gibbons There.

Among the spectators at Buffalo Bill's Wild West yesterday afternoon there was a large party of distinguished persons, among them Assistant Secretary of State McAdoo, the famous sculptor Bartholdi, whose box was draped in the tri-color and star-spangled banner, and who was received by the band playing the "Marseillaise;" Cardinal Gibbons and fifteen bishops and church dignitaries, Mrs. Gen. Miles and a party of twenty-five officers and ladies from Fort Sheridan. ________

[?] Sep 15

Notables at Buffalo Bill's Assistant Secretary McAdoo of the War Department, M. Bartholdi, the French sculptor, Cardinal Gibbons with a party of fifteen Bishops and other church dignities, Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, and a party of twenty-five officers and ladies from Fort Sheridan were included in the audience at Buffalo Bill's Wild West yesterday. M. Bartholdi's box was draped with the tri-color and with the United States flag, and as he entered the military band played the "Marseillaise."

Inter Ocean Sep 15

Notable Visitors at Buffalo Bill's.

In the immense audience at Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" yesterday afternoon there was a large party of distinguished persons, among them Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo, the famous sculptor, Bartholdi, whose box was draped in the tricolor and star spangled banner, and who was received by the band playing the "Marseillaise;" Cardinal Gibbons and fifteen bishops and church dignitaries, Mrs. General Miles and a party of twenty-five officers and ladies from Fort Sheridan.

Tribune Sep 10 Notable People at Buffalo Bill's.

During the last two months the World's Fair special trains from the Van Buren street viaduct have been inoperative Sundays. A stroke of good management on the part of the Wild West people, however, has again placed in motion the yellow cars of the Illinois Central on the first day of the week and the crowds which wish to visit Col. Cody's interesting arena at Sixty-fourth street are thus given quick and convenient transportation from down-town. During the last week the attendance at Buffalo Bill's has been large enough to exceed that of any previous week during the season. In addition to the tens of thousands of ordinary visitors there have been several distinguished parties, notably Gob. Flower and staff of New York, gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania, Gov. Peck and staff of Wisconsin, Mrs. Mary Davies, the noted Welsh singer, and a party of frineds; Dr. Carl Peters, the eminent German savant, and a number of friends; a large party of distingusihed prelates of the Catholic Church who are in attendance at the Catholic Congress, Bishops Woodruff, Smith, and Cannon of the Mormon Church, together with a large party of the Mormon choir, and the American and Welsh singers in attendance at the Eisteddfod. Buffalo Bill's entertainment is so varied in its character and so novel in its features that it attracts and pleases all classes of people. Over 300 performances have been given during the season, and only a short time now remains before it will be withdrawn altogether.

Interocean Sep 14 Here's a World's Fair story that happened away from the grounds. It is an old story that Dr. Gunsaulus' church is always crowded and overflowing. Everybody expects that. But last Sunday night the crowd was greater than ever.

People were turned away by the hundreds. As a gentlemen was turning back from the door he made the remark to whoever might hear; "It's no use. You cannot get in?"

A man in the crowd said to his friend: "I don't care what he says; I must get in, I'm going in any way. There are three things I said that I was to see when I came to the World's Fair-Buffalo Bill, 'America,' and Dr. Gunsaulus, and I'm going to do it."

Sunday night or not, the crowd laughed at the sifted combination of Chicago's wonders.

The man persevered until he was successful in getting into the church.

Tribune Sep 15 CARDINAL GIBBONS SEES THE FAIR. ___________ He Considers Its Grandeur "Simply Overpowering"- Those Accompanying Him.

Cardinal Gibbons and a large party of friends visited Jackson Park yesterday. They left Archbishop Feehan's residence at an early hour and drove in carriages to the Sixtieth street gate. In front of the Woman's Building they took Director-General Davis' electric launch and paid hurried visits to the Administration, Agricultural, Manufactures, Electrical, and Mines and Mining Buildings, taking in La Rabida on their way. They then went to the Ohio Building, where the Cardinal paid his respects to Gov. McKinley. From the Ohio Buidling the party went to Lady Aberdeen's Irish Village, where lunch had been prepared for them in the room over the office. Archbishop Ireland was expected to join them here, but for some reason unknown did not do so. While eating lunch the party enjoyed a concert on the platform in the court got up expressly for their entertainment.

The party left the village at 3 p.m. to attend the Wild West, then take dinner at the Washington club at 5 p.m., and return to the Fair in the evening to enjoy the illumination. The Cardinal leaves today for Dubuque. To a reporter of THE TRIBUNE he said: "I saw little but the tout ensemble, but that was bewildering in its grandeur. It seemed to me like fairyland. I had read alt about and seen all the pictures, but they conlvey no idea whatever of the sight. The sight-from the Grand Basin in front of the Administration Building was simply overpowering. The entire party shared my impressions."

The Cardinal's party, besides himself, consisted of: Archbishops Riordan of San Fransisco, Elder of Cincinnati, Gros of Portland, and Chapelle of Santa Fe, and his private secretary, the Rev. J.B. Bruce; Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake City, Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Sexton, Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Kerns, and the Misses Catherine Kerns and Madeline Kerns of St. Louis, Mrs. Thomas Stanton, Miss Elizabeth Stanton, and Miss Catherine Gibbon, the Cardinal's three nieces from New Orleans.

News Sep 16 The popularity of Buffalo Bill's Wild West as a place of resort and entertainment seems ever on the increase, to judge by the enormous crowds that have been attending it during the past few weeks. Two hundred and eighty-eight performances have now been given in Chicago this summer, and several times during the past week the sale of tickets was stopped because of the lack of room to accomodate the crowds. To-morrow (Sunday) afternoon 200 picked marksmen of the regular army from Fort Sheridan will visit the show in a body in uniform, and by a new process photographs of the entire grand stand will be made just before 3 o'clock, and the pictures will be large enough to show distinctly every occupant of a seat in the vast place.

Mail Sep 16 An event will take place at Buffalo Bill's Wild West on Sixty-third street, adjoining the world's fair, Sunday afternoon, about 2:30 o'clock, which will interest the thousands who will naturally be present to witness the interesting performance. By a new process extra large photographs will be taken of the grand stand distinctly show every occupant of a seat, and no doubt many of the photographs will be sold as souveniers of the occasion. Buffalo Bill and his cohorts are pursuing the even tenor of their phenomenally successful entertainment. It was at one time thought that the great attendance of the Wild West in London during the year in which the queen's jubilee was celebrated would not be equaled, but the present engagement in Chicago has been the largest ever known.

Herald Sep 12

JACKSON PARK SKETCHES.

There has been a shift of lecturers at Buffalo Bill's show in Sixty-third street. The big fellow who used to howl out the features of the programme and then wave a red flag for the performers to appear is now in Boston. His voice wasn't strong enough to be of any service to the spectators, but nobody can truthfully say that he didn't do the best he could. The proprietors were anxious to make a change, but men with fog horn voices were scarce and so the howler from Boston was permitted to hold his job for a much longer period than anybody had a right to expect. One day, however, Colonel Saulsbury was startled by a roar of a man who was selling peanuts in the grand stand. It tore round the big amphitheater, rolled out of the entrances, and drowned the voice of the lecturer who was supposed to be something of a yelper himself. On the following day the peanut man was summoned to appear before a jury on howling. This owlish body was composed of Colonel Cody, Major Burke and Colonel Saulsbury. The peanut vender was asked to give "some specimens of his ability." Opening his face half way to his forehead the long legged candidate let loose a deafening bellow.

"Now cry out 'ladies and gentlemen,'" said Major Burke.

The face opened again and the roar that came from between the heavy jaws shook the ridge pole of Colonel Cody's tent. It did not take the jury long to reach a verdict. The lowly peanut vender was there and then promoted to the exalted position of lecturer, with instructions to let his hair grow and buy himself a white sombrero. The Boston crier went home the next day.