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After returing from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody---who, upon comin
from London, had gone direct to his home in North Platte----in company with Major Mildmay and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand Cafion of the Colorado through upper Arizona and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the rugged camp life, and it gave rest as it gave refershmen to mind and body, as this was a last taste of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visit-ors, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his childhood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regard its civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.
Finishing this slight recreation after a six years' trip in Europe and a campaign with General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe---to be in conjunction with the " Wild West" features--and now known as the " Congress of Rough Riders of the World. " for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Salsbury, the bale and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought and judgment that has characterized his career, has succeeded in securing (at an anormous rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in immediate proximity to Jackson Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become quickly identified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in subjects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions-----the American Indian, and primitive and military horsemen ; and so great was the instantaneous and phenomenal success that the Widl West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as " the World's Fair's most popular annex."
The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of worth of exhibits and architectural frame-work, eclipsing in effect and artistic delicacy the dream of the wildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and artistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education, represented the development of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree as to leave forever on the gages of civilization's gandest achievement the fame of the " White City " of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive conferes---representing the nomadic past----were an educative, thoughtful, sentimental and pathetic key to the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multides with the starting point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the little less famous and always to be remembered annex,
" Buffalo Bill's Tented City. "
Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its proper placing). Messrs. Cody and Salsbury determined to find a situation accessible and convenient to the most favorably located of cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nine-teenth century's progress and the no doubt future Metroplis of the Globe,
" GREATER NEW YORK."
The point selected includes what is now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 39th Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the present colossal improvements have been erected on a spot of interest---in fact, his toric ground. On what is now 35 th Street and Third Avenue commenced the decisive game of strategy between the Father of our Country (General George Washington) and the English general, Lord Cornwallis, and known in the annals of that heroic struggle for liberty of the American pepole as the "Battle of Long Island. " The engaement concluded, General Washington took advantage of the recessibility of this point to evade the superior re-enforcements of the enemy

Picture inculded in the left side

OFF ANTWARP.

63
After returing from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody---who, upon comin
from London, had gone direct to his home in North Platte----in company with Major Mildmay and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand Cafion of the Colorado through upper Arizona and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the rugged camp life, and it gave rest as it gave refershmen to mind and body, as this was a last taste of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visit-ors, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his childhood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regard its civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.
Finishing this slight recreation after a six years' trip in Europe and a campaign with General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe---to be in conjunction with the " Wild West" features--and now known as the " Congress of Rough Riders of the World. " for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Salsbury, the bale and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought and judgment that has characterized his career, has succeeded in securing (at an anormous rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in immediate proximity to Jackson Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become quickly identified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in subjects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions-----the American Indian, and primitive and military horsemen ; and so great was the instantaneous and phenomenal success that the Widl West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as " the World's Fair's most popular annex."
The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of worth of exhibits and architectural frame-work, eclipsing in effect and artistic delicacy the dream of the wildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and artistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education, represented the development of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree as to leave forever on the gages of civilization's gandest achievement the fame of the " White City " of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive conferes---representing the nomadic past----were an educative, thoughtful, sentimental and pathetic key to the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multides with the starting point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the little less famous and always to be remembered annex,
" Buffalo Bill's Tented City. "
Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its proper placing). Messrs. Cody and Salsbury determined to find a situation accessible and convenient to the most favorably located of cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nine-teenth century's progress and the no doubt future Metroplis of the Globe,
" GREATER NEW YORK."
The point selected includes what is now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 39th Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the present colossal improvements have been erected on a spot of interest---in fact, his toric ground. On what is now 35 th Street and Third Avenue commenced the decisive game of strategy between the Father of our Country (General George Washington) and the English general, Lord Cornwallis, and known in the annals of that heroic struggle for liberty of the American pepole as the "Battle of Long Island. " The engaement concluded, General Washington took advantage of the recessibility of this point to evade the superior re-enforcements of the enemy

Picture inculded in the left side

OFF ANTWARP.