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DELIGHTED WITH THE ROUGH RIDING.
Many Distinguished Persons Visited the Wild West Show Last Week.
Among the distinguished visitors at Buffalo Bill's Wild West last week were Gen. John M. Schofield, his staff, and their wives; Miss Susan B. Anthony and party; Miss Kate Field and party; Mrs. Mary H. Krout, president of the Woman's National Press league, and a party; Col. John T. Dickinson, secretary world's fair national commission, and a party of ladies, and Gen. Digby. Willoughby, Col. Vibart and a party of English military officers. A company of United States Marines and soldiers from Fort Sheridan also attended the exhibition. They all joined in praise of the entertainment and in hearty expressions of good will and warm friendship for Col. Cody and his enterprise.
The kaleidoscopic changes of colors, of races, of horses, of positions, and of scenes impresses everybody who visits the Wild West show. So rapid and constant are the transformations made that the eye and the brain are kept busy in seeing, in understanding, and appreciating this brilliant panorama.
Buffalo Bill and the guides, scouts, and trappers with him now are the men who made our trackless west a home for the overcrowded countries of the world and made possible rapid development of the country. It was work of this kind that drove the Indians further back as the east became overcrowded and left a peaceful country in which to build a Chicago, a Kansas City, and a Denver. Now are seen at the Wild West every day these men living in amity and good fellowship with their former foes, the red Here too is the Russian Cossack from the Caucasus, showing how he lives, rides, fights, and builds for his race that highest of all compliments in his native home, that he is recognized as "the life of the czar."
The Arab of the desert, the vaquero of Mexico, the cowboy of the western prairies, the rough riders of all nations are seen, joined in friendly rivalry. There, too, are sons of hereditary foes, French and German, English and American cavalrymen, picked from the best regiments of their respective countries, living in harmony and friendship, breaking bread together and smoking the pipe of peace daily, while delighting thousands by their superb horsemanship and generous rivalry in exhibiting the skill and merits of their respective armies.