| 145SHOUT FOR NEBRASKA
HER STATE BUILDING OPENED BY THE GOVERNOR
Buffalo Bill and His Cohorts Swell the Attendance from the Western State and Make a Brave Show on the World's Fair Grounds-Inspected by the Infanta Eulalia
EVENING JOURNAL OFFICE, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
It was difficult to discover which was the more important personage on the World's Fair grounds-the Infanta Eulalia, or the Hon. William F. Cody. Both arrived with music and mounted escort, and were received with the homage which the American citizen accords to whomsoever he has a mind to welcome. Later they met, bowed and smiled in cordial recognition of each other's importance.
Properly speaking "Buffalo Bill" only part of a show, riding in plenitude of gold lace as one of the staff of Governor Crounse of Nebraska, but with the genius which he generally displays in such matters he usurped a large share of the latter's glory.
It was Nebraska's day at the Fair- a day for the formal opening of the building and inspection by thousands of Nebraskans of the State's exhibits. That it chanced also to be the day on which the blue-blooded Princess of Castile made her first appearance at Jackson Park was an accident for which the visiting Westerners
| 145SHOUT FOR NEBRASKA
HER STATE BUILDING OPENED BY THE GOVERNOR
Buffalo Bill and His Cohorts Swell the Attendance from the Western State and Make a Brave Show on the World's Fair Grounds-Inspected by the Infanta Eulalia
EVENING JOURNAL OFFICE, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
It was difficult to discover which was the more important personage on the World's Fair grounds-the Infanta Eulalia, or the Hon. William F. Cody. Both arrived with music and mounted escort, and were received with the homage which the American citizen accords to whomsoever he has a mind to welcome. Later they met, bowed and smiled in cordial recognition of each other's importance.
Properly speaking "Buffalo Bill" only part of a show, riding in plenitude of gold lace as one of the staff of Governor Crounse of Nebraska, but with the genius which he generally displays in such matters he usurped a large share of the latter's glory.
It was Nebraska's day at the Fair- a day for the formal opening of the building and inspection by thousands of Nebraskans of the State's exhibits. That it chanced also to be the day on which the blue-blooded Princess of Castile made her first appearance at Jackson Park was an accident for which the visiting Westerners
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