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THE HOME OF HISTORY.

In concluding the sketch of the pioneer, military and managerial career of Colonel W.F. Cody, and of the historic characters and salient features with which Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World has made mankind familiar, it is worthy of note that their present and 20th annual tour will be signalized by a magnitude, interest, value and perfection even surpassing previous efforts and successes. As indicated by the published programme of performances, and the result is such an historical, martial and equestrian triumph.

It is at once a colossal Object School of living lessons and an entertainment radically and exceptionally differing from all other exhibitions in that it is actually a part of the romantic past it perpetuates, and vitalized by the presence of some of the most noted makers of the frontier history they illustrate. There is no "make believe" about it; nothing that seems to say, "We will now give you an imitation of somebody doing something," and it does not in any degree rely for its success upon the display of sensational feats that have no other utility than mere spectacular exhibition. The men who participate in it are, in absolute verity, just what they are represented to be, and the things they do are such as they have been accustomed to in war and military life, or in the struggle for existence in their several vocations and conditions. Himself an acknowledged master in horsemanship, Colonel Cody is a critical judge of the individual, the collective and comparative merits of the cavalry, Indian, Cossack, Cowboy, Bedouin, Mexican, Cuban, Argentine and other riders he has secured. As an expert he knows just how to most brilliantly and effectively mass these hundreds of representative riders and their horses in grand review, cosmographic pageant and kaleidoscopic manoeuvres. Himself a famous participant in many fierce battles, pursuits, rescues, and even deadly single combats, he knows how to plan and direct the spectacles of dreadful war and carnage, and of savage ambush and foray, in comparison with which the conflicts in the Coliseum of the Caesars were but spiritless and insignificant.

To those who have followed the march of civilization from the Alleghenies to the Pacific, this exposition is like an illustrated reproduction of events which transpired during the long and blood struggle between the white man and the Indian, in the former's effort to extend his empire and the latter's heroic but hopeless defense of his hunting grounds. The singular and savage characters of the Leather Stocking Tales become striking, electrifying realities. The admirers of Lewis and Clarke, the explorers; of Daniel Boone, the poioneer; of Kit Carson, the scout, and of Freemont, Crook, Custer, Sherman and Miles, the fighters, readily recognize in the exhibition how courage, incomitable grit, alertness, sagacity, accuracy of aim, acuteness of perception and physical endurance won for them the names to enviably identified with the history of the fierce and prolonged frontier struggles, wherein every piece of ground was disputed inch by inch.

While it can be truthfully said that "age hath not withered nor can custom stale its infinite variety," still it is proper now to refer to the length of service attained by this historic exhibition in its mission of reflecting and presenting actual scenes that are now really disappearing, and call attention to the fact that this career has been prolonged until, like the epoch it portrays, it is fast approaching an enforced finale, for lack of material--truthful material--is fast being exhausted by Time's inexorable decree. The present generation has an opportunity of witnessing vivid life pictures of a period that has had an abiding and important influence in the development of the western section of this great continent and the building up of the nation. Never before in any age has such an exposition been presented, and it can never be duplicated. Soon the dark clouds of the future will descend upon the present and behind them will disappear the Wild West with all its glories, for ever made mere memories; and as it fades behind nature's impenetrable curtain will be hallowed by a timely and dignified--Finis. JOHN M. BURKE

TRAVEL BY

DISTRICT RAILWAY.

WIMBLEDON ([?]) Wimbledon Park, Southfields (For Wimbledon Common) EAST PUTNEY (For West Hill Wandsworth) PUTNEY BRIDGE & HURLINGHAM, Walham Green, West Brompton, EARLS COURT (FOR THE ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS) Ealling ([For Great [Wosters?] llas to Windsor, Slough, West Drayton, Southall, ?]) Chiswick Park, ACTON, HOUNSLOW, Osterley & Spring Grove, South Ealling, BOSTON ROAD (For Brentford and Hadwall) TURNHAM GREEN, Ravenscourt Park, HAMMERSMITH, West Kensington & ADDISON ROAD (for Olympia) Westbourne Park, Notting Hill, Sherpherds Bush, Brompton, Paddington, Bayswater, SOUTH KENSINGTON

(For the Museums, London University, Imperial Institute, Albert Hall and Memorial, &o.)

SLOANE SQUARE,

VICTORIA (For S.L &C. & L.S.S.C. and Crystal Palace Raileways)

St. James' Park, Westminister, CHARING CROSS (For the Theatre and S.E. and C. Railway.) TEMPLE (For Law Courts.)
&c., &c.

FARES & SEASON TICKET RATES ARE NOW GREATLY REDUCED.

Blackfriars (For St. Paul's S.E. & C.R. Station.) MANSION HOUSE (Central City Station, For St. Paul's Cathedral, &c.) CANNON STREET (For S.E. and C. Railway.) MONUMENT (for Longdon Bridge), MARK LANE (for the Tower & Tower Bridge &[Fasshorah?] Street Station.) KINGS CROSS (For G.N. & Mild Railways.) BISHOPSGATE (For G.E. Liverpool St. Station) ALDGATE Aldgate East, Shadwell, Wapping, Rotherhithe, DEPTFORD ROAD, NEW CROSS (S.E. & C. L. E. S. C. R.), WHITECHAPEL Stepney Green, MILE END, Bow Road, BROMLEY, West Ham, Plastow, UPTON PARK, EAST HAM, Barking, Tilbury, SOUTHEND, &c., &c.

HOUNSLOW TOWN STATION, on the Main London Road, Hounslow, WILL BE RE-OPENED on 1st MARCH, 1903.

THE EXTENSION TO SUDBURY AND SOUTH HARROW WILL SHORTLY BE OPENED.

EXPRESS PARCELTS SERVICE.

Frequent Collections. Prompt Delivery. Low Rates.

PARCELTS RECEIVED AT ALL DISTRICT STATIONS.

64

THE HOME OF HISTORY.

In concluding the sketch of the pioneer, military and managerial career of Colonel W.F. Cody, and of the historic characters and salient features with which Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World has made mankind familiar, it is worthy of note that their present and 20th annual tour will be signalized by a magnitude, interest, value and perfection even surpassing previous efforts and successes. As indicated by the published programme of performances, and the result is such an historical, martial and equestrian triumph.

It is at once a colossal Object School of living lessons and an entertainment radically and exceptionally differing from all other exhibitions in that it is actually a part of the romantic past it perpetuates, and vitalized by the presence of some of the most noted makers of the frontier history they illustrate. There is no "make believe" about it; nothing that seems to say, "We will now give you an imitation of somebody doing something," and it does not in any degree rely for its success upon the display of sensational feats that have no other utility than mere spectacular exhibition. The men who participate in it are, in absolute verity, just what they are represented to be, and the things they do are such as they have been accustomed to in war and military life, or in the struggle for existence in their several vocations and conditions. Himself an acknowledged master in horsemanship, Colonel Cody is a critical judge of the individual, the collective and comparative merits of the cavalry, Indian, Cossack, Cowboy, Bedouin, Mexican, Cuban, Argentine and other riders he has secured. As an expert he knows just how to most brilliantly and effectively mass these hundreds of representative riders and their horses in grand review, cosmographic pageant and kaleidoscopic manoeuvres. Himself a famous participant in many fierce battles, pursuits, rescues, and even deadly single combats, he knows how to plan and direct the spectacles of dreadful war and carnage, and of savage ambush and foray, in comparison with which the conflicts in the Coliseum of the Caesars were but spiritless and insignificant.

To those who have followed the march of civilization from the Alleghenies to the Pacific, this exposition is like an illustrated reproduction of events which transpired during the long and blood struggle between the white man and the Indian, in the former's effort to extend his empire and the latter's heroic but hopeless defense of his hunting grounds. The singular and savage characters of the Leather Stocking Tales become striking, electrifying realities. The admirers of Lewis and Clarke, the explorers; of Daniel Boone, the poioneer; of Kit Carson, the scout, and of Freemont, Crook, Custer, Sherman and Miles, the fighters, readily recognize in the exhibition how courage, incomitable grit, alertness, sagacity, accuracy of aim, acuteness of perception and physical endurance won for them the names to enviably identified with the history of the fierce and prolonged frontier struggles, wherein every piece of ground was disputed inch by inch.

While it can be truthfully said that "age hath not withered nor can custom stale its infinite variety," still it is proper now to refer to the length of service attained by this historic exhibition in its mission of reflecting and presenting actual scenes that are now really disappearing, and call attention to the fact that this career has been prolonged until, like the epoch it portrays, it is fast approaching an enforced finale, for lack of material--truthful material--is fast being exhausted by Time's inexorable decree. The present generation has an opportunity of witnessing vivid life pictures of a period that has had an abiding and important influence in the development of the western section of this great continent and the building up of the nation. Never before in any age has such an exposition been presented, and it can never be duplicated. Soon the dark clouds of the future will descend upon the present and behind them will disappear the Wild West with all its glories, for ever made mere memories; and as it fades behind nature's impenetrable curtain will be hallowed by a timely and dignified--Finis. JOHN M. BURKE

TRAVEL BY

DISTRICT RAILWAY.

WIMBLEDON ([?]) Wimbledon Park, Southfields (For Wimbledon Common) EAST PUTNEY (For West Hill Wandsworth) PUTNEY BRIDGE & HURLINGHAM, Walham Green, West Brompton, EARLS COURT (FOR THE ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS) Ealling ([For Great [Wosters?] llas to Windsor, Slough, West Drayton, Southall, ?]) Chiswick Park, ACTON, HOUNSLOW, Osterley & Spring Grove, South Ealling, BOSTON ROAD (For Brentford and Hadwall) TURNHAM GREEN, Ravenscourt Park, HAMMERSMITH, West Kensington & ADDISON ROAD (for Olympia) Westbourne Park, Notting Hill, Sherpherds Bush, Brompton, Paddington, Bayswater, SOUTH KENSINGTON

(For the Museums, London University, Imperial Institute, Albert Hall and Memorial, &o.)

SLOANE SQUARE,

VICTORIA (For S.L &C. & L.S.S.C. and Crystal Palace Raileways)

St. James' Park, Westminister, CHARING CROSS (For the Theatre and S.E. and C. Railway.) TEMPLE (For Law Courts.)
&c., &c.

FARES & SEASON TICKET RATES ARE NOW GREATLY REDUCED.

Blackfriars (For St. Paul's S.E. & C.R. Station.) MANSION HOUSE (Central City Station, For St. Paul's Cathedral, &c.) CANNON STREET (For S.E. and C. Railway.) MONUMENT (for Longdon Bridge), MARK LANE (for the Tower & Tower Bridge &[Fasshorah?] Street Station.) KINGS CROSS (For G.N. & Mild Railways.) BISHOPSGATE (For G.E. Liverpool St. Station) ALDGATE Aldgate East, Shadwell, Wapping, Rotherhithe, DEPTFORD ROAD, NEW CROSS (S.E. & C. L. E. S. C. R.), WHITECHAPEL Stepney Green, MILE END, Bow Road, BROMLEY, West Ham, Plastow, UPTON PARK, EAST HAM, Barking, Tilbury, SOUTHEND, &c., &c.

HOUNSLOW TOWN STATION, on the Main London Road, Hounslow, WILL BE RE-OPENED on 1st MARCH, 1903.

THE EXTENSION TO SUDBURY AND SOUTH HARROW WILL SHORTLY BE OPENED.

EXPRESS PARCELTS SERVICE.

Frequent Collections. Prompt Delivery. Low Rates.

PARCELTS RECEIVED AT ALL DISTRICT STATIONS.