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Then there was another electrical surpise. The instrumental electric "L" road was given a further test. It worked beautifully. General Manager Baker and Chief Engineer C. P. Matlack got out one train of four cars, and under the supervision of Electrical Engineer C.H. Macloskie this train was run up and down the track in the southern end of the grounds. A good many people saw this string of handsome cars skating along overhead and chased themselves all out of breath trying to get aboard. But they all failed to catch that train, for it was out of trial purposes only. The train worked finely. All that was needed was the adjustment of a few brake shoes and things like that.
Scenes in Midway Plaisance.
Within three days the whole road will be ready for operation. It is a novel concern. It is on the "three-rail system." There are to be fifteen trians of four cars each, and a train will make the round trip of three miles in forty-five minutes. This includes many stops, for the electric cars can make thirty-five miles an hour when they try. Each motor car has 500 horses. The three long open carry cars which each motor will trail have a capacity of 400 people.

The people found much of interest in Midway plaisance, too. Yesterday the first Sunday that admission has been charged to the Midway, but the long street of wonders was just as black with people as ever. It was a motley crowd- Cossacks respiendent in big wooly caps, jeweled daggers, and slim pistols; high-booted cowboys escaped from Col. Cody's wild west show, Bedouins in gay striped burnoose, Copts, Eskimos, Javanese, Japs, Singalese, Indiana Hoosiers, small boys, Indians, Turks, French sailors, Swiss artisans, and just plain Chicago citizens in their best clothes.

Dispatch Apl 19th
Big Indian Chiefs.

This morning at 8:15 an interesting scene presented itself to a large crowd of persons assembled in the Wells street station of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. The most conspicious figures in the station were those of Buffalo Bill, Nate Saulsbury and Major John M. Burke. These gentlement were awaiting the arrival of a train which later on deposited on the platform 100 Indians who are to take par in the wild west exhibi. The Indians have the permission of the United States government to particapate in Colonel Cody's spectacular and educational display, and among them were a number of notable chiefs of national reputation, including Red Cloud, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, Two Strikes, Kicking Bear, Short Bull, No Neck and Rocky Bear.

[Chueajo?] Humane Formal Apl 20
BUFFALO BILL'S CHARLIE.
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Buffalo Bill lost his famous old comroade

Then there was another electrical surpise. The instrumental electric "L" road was given a further test. It worked beautifully. General Manager Baker and Chief Engineer C. P. Matlack got out one train of four cars, and under the supervision of Electrical Engineer C.H. Macloskie this train was run up and down the track in the southern end of the grounds. A good many people saw this string of handsome cars skating along overhead and chased themselves all out of breath trying to get aboard. But they all failed to catch that train, for it was out of trial purposes only. The train worked finely. All that was needed was the adjustment of a few brake shoes and things like that.
Scenes in Midway Plaisance.
Within three days the whole road will be ready for operation. It is a novel concern. It is on the "three-rail system." There are to be fifteen trians of four cars each, and a train will make the round trip of three miles in forty-five minutes. This includes many stops, for the electric cars can make thirty-five miles an hour when they try. Each motor car has 500 horses. The three long open carry cars which each motor will trail have a capacity of 400 people.

The people found much of interest in Midway plaisance, too. Yesterday the first Sunday that admission has been charged to the Midway, but the long street of wonders was just as black with people as ever. It was a motley crowd- Cossacks respiendent in big wooly caps, jeweled daggers, and slim pistols; high-booted cowboys escaped from Col. Cody's wild west show, Bedouins in gay striped burnoose, Copts, Eskimos, Javanese, Japs, Singalese, Indiana Hoosiers, small boys, Indians, Turks, French sailors, Swiss artisans, and just plain Chicago citizens in their best clothes.

Dispatch Apl 19th
Big Indian Chiefs.

This morning at 8:15 an interesting scene presented itself to a large crowd of persons assembled in the Wells street station of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. The most conspicious figures in the station were those of Buffalo Bill, Nate Saulsbury and Major John M. Burke. These gentlement were awaiting the arrival of a train which later on deposited on the platform 100 Indians who are to take par in the wild west exhibi. The Indians have the permission of the United States government to particapate in Colonel Cody's spectacular and educational display, and among them were a number of notable chiefs of national reputation, including Red Cloud, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, Two Strikes, Kicking Bear, Short Bull, No Neck and Rocky Bear.

[Chueajo?] Humane Formal Apl 20
BUFFALO BILL'S CHARLIE.
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Buffalo Bill lost his famous old comroade