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Chicago [?] 4/27

MOST THRILLING

Exciting Performance of the Big Wild West Show.

Initial Exhibition Given Yesterday Afternoon with Great Success--Strange Phases of Savage Life Revealed by a Trip Through the Cosmopolitan Congress of Little-Known People--Mrs. John A. Logan Is Present.

As Mrs. John A. Logas was escorted towards the gate after the performance she said to Buffalo Bill: "Colonel, I have spent the most exciting and interesting afternoon that has fallen to my lot for years."

It was just after the successful initial performance of Buffalo Bill's wild west show and congress of cosmopolitan warriors given in the spacious arena in the forestlike grounds lying just east of the Illinois Central tracks, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets.

The performance is so delightfully savage and intensely thrilling that cheers and applause ring out continuously from the picturesque start to the auspicious finish. Nothing is wanting in the performance line to excite the spectators to involuntary jumps and starts of surprise. Wherever one goes the savage, wild spirit of American plains, of Mexican prairies, of Russian steppes, of Arabian deserts, of military encampments, and of mountain fastnesses courses through the veins with such rapidity that one lives for a brief period with the savages acting out their lives before him. Mimic Indian battles, bereft of stereotyped wants to join in the terrible din. Cowboys sport, play and work with a wild roughness that is startling. Arabian bedouins sound their grim battle song, cossack warriors seemingly jeopardize their precious necks with feats of horsemanship, cavalry troops of French, British, German and United States armies perform their brilliant evolutions with a strangely harmonious beauty. But to describe Buffalo Bill's wild west show one must needs lay off a day to listen or read.

Such is a brief idea of the mighty show Buffalo Bill is giving for the edification, gratification, education, admiration and countless other ations of the public.

Chicago [?] 4/27

MOST THRILLING

Exciting Performance of the Big Wild West Show.

Initial Exhibition Given Yesterday Afternoon with Great Success--Strange Phases of Savage Life Revealed by a Trip Through the Cosmopolitan Congress of Little-Known People--Mrs. John A. Logan Is Present.

As Mrs. John A. Logas was escorted towards the gate after the performance she said to Buffalo Bill: "Colonel, I have spent the most exciting and interesting afternoon that has fallen to my lot for years."

It was just after the successful initial performance of Buffalo Bill's wild west show and congress of cosmopolitan warriors given in the spacious arena in the forestlike grounds lying just east of the Illinois Central tracks, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets.

The performance is so delightfully savage and intensely thrilling that cheers and applause ring out continuously from the picturesque start to the auspicious finish. Nothing is wanting in the performance line to excite the spectators to involuntary jumps and starts of surprise. Wherever one goes the savage, wild spirit of American plains, of Mexican prairies, of Russian steppes, of Arabian deserts, of military encampments, and of mountain fastnesses courses through the veins with such rapidity that one lives for a brief period with the savages acting out their lives before him. Mimic Indian battles, bereft of stereotyped wants to join in the terrible din. Cowboys sport, play and work with a wild roughness that is startling. Arabian bedouins sound their grim battle song, cossack warriors seemingly jeopardize their precious necks with feats of horsemanship, cavalry troops of French, British, German and United States armies perform their brilliant evolutions with a strangely harmonious beauty. But to describe Buffalo Bill's wild west show one must needs lay off a day to listen or read.

Such is a brief idea of the mighty show Buffalo Bill is giving for the edification, gratification, education, admiration and countless other ations of the public.