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BRAVO! BUFFALO BILL

He Entertained Chieago's Poverty- Stricken Children When the Haughty Fair Directors Refused Them Admission.

CHICAGO, July 27.-This was the day set apart by Mayor Harrison's proclamation for a free summer outing for all the poor children in the city, and over his official signature as mayor he asked that Chicago's poverty-stricken little ones be allowed to see the White City, in which corporate Chicago has invested $5,000,000. There was no room for them there, and it was feared that they might prove an annoyance. Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a private investment and under no obligations to the city of Chicago or its poor. Buffalo Bill was not asked by Mayor Harrison or anybody else over an official signature to throw open his gates to Chicago's poor children. But it did not take him five seconds to make up his mind what he would do the minute he heard that the World's Fair knew no "open sesame" for the newsboys and the shoe- blacks, and to-day 15,000 boys and girls from the slums and alleys marched in procession through the streets, became the guests of the Illinois Central to Sixty-third street, and were royally entertained by Buffalo Bill, who gave them the most glorious day in all the history of Chicago waifdom.