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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 wilt naturally be present to witness the interesting performance. By a new process extra large photographs will be taken of the grand-stand distinctly showing every occupant of a seat, and no doubt many of the photographs will be sold as souvenirs 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 16

But prosperity is riot confined to the regular theaters, Many of the subsidiary attractions are relatively quite as successful. The managers of the observatory on the Masonic Temple claim to be in receipt of not less than $500 daily from visitors to their high outlook, and the Auditorium observatory is also enjoying a large patronage, while the Libby Prison is running beyond the $500 mark every day, with three times that sum for Sunday. No doubt $35,000 per week would be a conservative estimate of the Wild West receipts, and the panoramas are all enjoying a boom. From these casual statistics anyone with a mathematical turn of mind may gain some idea of the enormous sums expended during the world's fair period for amusements.

The record made during the world's fair season by Buffalo Bill's Wild West up to the present, numbering 288 performances, has been a most remarkable one. Not only have all previous records made by the great exhibition been broken, but the receipts have been larger than ever before known for the same length of time in the history of amusements. The fact is that the impression made upon all visitors has been so favorable and lasting that the Wild West has been thoroughly advertised and commended throughout the country, and everybody who comes to Chicago comes determined to see Buffalo Bill and his great exhibition while visiting the world's fair. During the past week M. Bartholdi, the great sculptor and designer of the statue of Liberty, now standing in New York harbor, accompanied by his wife and M. Salmon and also Mr. Curtis, assistant secretary of state; Mr. McAdoo, assistant secretary of the navy, and many other distinguished personages, have been among the most delighted guests of the Wild West. This afternoon fully 200 of the contestants in the great military shooting contest, just closed at Fort Sheridan, will attend the Wild West in a body and in full uniform. All of them are desirous of seeing the expert shooting done by Buffalo Bill and others of the Wild West.

Just before commencing the afternoon performance, at 3 p. m., photographs of the grand stand and occupants will be taken by a new process and be of sufficient size to make the picture of each visitor clear and distinct.

Inter Ocean sep 17

BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST.

Two hundred and eighty-eight consecutive performances of the same entertainment, and still moving on to full houses, is a record to be proud of, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West is its possessor. The attendance during the past month has far exceeded the record of any amusement enterprise. At both performances every day the grand stand is filled. To-day over two hundred marksmen of the regular army from Fort Sheridan will attend in a body and in full uniform, as all of them are interested in seeing the shooting of Colonel Cody and his company. All the ordinary methods of transportation will be running, and the special World's Fair trains of the Illinois Central will leave Van Buren street every fifteen minutes for Buffalo Bill's after 1 o'clock. Arrangements have been made by which photographs of the entire grand stand will be made from the arena before the opening of the performance at 3 o'clock to-day.

Tribune Sep 17

Last Weeks of the Wild West Show.

Buffalo Bill's "Wild West " performance at the arena at Sixty-third street and Stony Island avenue was given for the 288th time last evening, and today the last six weeks of the exhibitions will be begun It was a stroke of good business policy which led Col. Cody to run special World's Fair trains Sunday afternoons and evenings out as far as Sixty-third street, and the crush at the Sunday performances is increasing with the increasing influx of World's Fair visitors. The great grand stands bounding the arena are crowded almost to their fullest capacity. The show remains the most worthy of the outside attractions in the neighborhood of the Fair.

Dispatch Sep 18

Buffalo Bill gave passes to a half hundred of south side schoolboys on Saturday night to see his Wild West show. To say the youngsters were delighted is to put it mildly. One of the most amiable characteristics of Colonel Cody is his love for the young people.