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and scenic representation of the history of American settlement, a return to the United States was made in a chartered steamship, Persian Monarch, of 6,000 tons burden. The arrival of this vessel, outside of the company's reception, was an event of future commercial importance to the port of New York, from the fact of her being the first passenger ship of her size draught, and class to effect a landing (at Bechtel's Wharf) directly on the shores of Staten Island, thus demonstrating the marine value of some ten miles of seashort of what in a few short years must be a part of the Greater New York.

After a successful summer season at Erastina, S.I. and New York (originating there, at Madison Sqaure Garden, a now much copied style of Leviathan spectacle) twice crossing the Atlantic, visiting respectively Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington--an uninterrupted season of 2 years and 7 months, starting at St. Louis, Mo., on the Mississippi River, was finished in conjuction with the successful Richmond Exposition on the James River (Virginia).

The members of the organization returned over the vast continent to their respective localities (ranging from Texan Cowboy and Vaquero and his southern valley of the Rio Grande, to the Sioux warrior and his weather beaten foothills of Dakota), to be reuinited in the following spring on board s.s. Persian Monarch, bound once more across the Atlantic to Havre, consigned to the Great Universal Exhibition at Paris.

Sufficiently large grounds were secured from thirty-two different small tenants, at a great expense--two streets being officially authorized to be closed by the municipality so as to condense the whole--in Neuilly (close by the Porte des Ternes, the Bois de Boulogne, and within sight of the Exposition). Expensive improvements were made, grand stand, scenery, a $25,000 electric plant erected, and a beautiful camping ground built.

The opening occurred before an audience said to have equaled any known in the record of Premieres of the brilliant Capitale des Deux Mondes. President Carnot and wife, and the Members of his Cabinet and families, two American Ministers, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Hon. Louis MacLean, the Diplomatic Corps, Officers of the United States Marines, etc., etc.--a representative audience, in fact, of ladies and gentlemen of distinction, known the world over, in society, literature, art, professions and commerce, honored the Inauguration by their presence, and launched, amidst great enthusiasm, a seven months' engagement of such pronounced success as to place the Wild West second only in public interest apparently to the great Exhibition itself.

After a short tour in the South of Frnace in the fall, a vessel was chartered at Marseilles, the Mediterranean cross to Barcelona--landing the first band of American Indians, with accompanying associates, scouts, cow-boys, Mexican horses of Spanish descent, and wild buffaloes, etc.,

and scenic representation of the history of American settlement, a return to the United States was made in a chartered steamship, Persian Monarch, of 6,000 tons burden. The arrival of this vessel, outside of the company's reception, was an event of future commercial importance to the port of New York, from the fact of her being the first passenger ship of her size draught, and class to effect a landing (at Bechtel's Wharf) directly on the shores of Staten Island, thus demonstrating the marine value of some ten miles of seashort of what in a few short years must be a part of the Greater New York.

After a successful summer season at Erastina, S.I. and New York (originating there, at Madison Sqaure Garden, a now much copied style of Leviathan spectacle) twice crossing the Atlantic, visiting respectively Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington--an uninterrupted season of 2 years and 7 months, starting at St. Louis, Mo., on the Mississippi River, was finished in conjuction with the successful Richmond Exposition on the James River (Virginia).

The members of the organization returned over the vast continent to their respective localities (ranging from Texan Cowboy and Vaquero and his southern valley of the Rio Grande, to the Sioux warrior and his weather beaten foothills of Dakota), to be reuinited in the following spring on board s.s. Persian Monarch, bound once more across the Atlantic to Havre, consigned to the Great Universal Exhibition at Paris.

Sufficiently large grounds were secured from thirty-two different small tenants, at a great expense--two streets being officially authorized to be closed by the municipality so as to condense the whole--in Neuilly (close by the Porte des Ternes, the Bois de Boulogne, and within sight of the Exposition). Expensive improvements were made, grand stand, scenery, a $25,000 electric plant erected, and a beautiful camping ground built.

The opening occurred before an audience said to have equaled any known in the record of Premieres of the brilliant Capitale des Deux Mondes. President Carnot and wife, and the Members of his Cabinet and families, two American Ministers, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Hon. Louis MacLean, the Diplomatic Corps, Officers of the United States Marines, etc., etc.--a representative audience, in fact, of ladies and gentlemen of distinction, known the world over, in society, literature, art, professions and commerce, honored the Inauguration by their presence, and launched, amidst great enthusiasm, a seven months' engagement of such pronounced success as to place the Wild West second only in public interest apparently to the great Exhibition itself.

After a short tour in the South of Frnace in the fall, a vessel was chartered at Marseilles, the Mediterranean cross to Barcelona--landing the first band of American Indians, with accompanying associates, scouts, cow-boys, Mexican horses of Spanish descent, and wild buffaloes, etc.,