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[Roand & mc Nally??] (Chicago) "a week at the Fair."

June 1893.

OUTSIDE ATTRACTION

Naturally many kinds of entertainments have been attracted to Chicago to remain during the term of the Exposition. In addition to those mentioned in the earlier part of this book, among others, the following are selected as especially likely to afford instruction or amusement to visitors.
Buffalo Bill's world-renowned Wild West Show occupies fifty acres between Sixty- second and Sixty-third streets, close to the Exposition entrances on those streets. It is an easily accessible location, being reached by cable, electric, elevated, and steam cars. Colonel Cody has outdone himself in his efforts to make the exhibition outshine all its previous brilliant successes. England, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, and many other countries have been visited by him and conquered, but he feels that success is not complete until Chicago is subdued. The covered grandstand has a seating capacity of 18,000, and the open arena covers seven acres, which is not too large an area when it is remembered that 450 persons take part in the performance. Gauchos from South America, Indians from the Far West, Cossacks from darkest Asia, and Cowboys from Texas combine in friendly rivalry to make a show of unique interest and unending variety. Feats of horsemanship, miraculous skill in the use of firearms, battle, murder, and sudden death, civilization and barbarism in kaleidoscopic intermixture, viewed from a comfortable seat, will prove to World's Fair visitors, as they have to princes and peasants in far-off lands, sources of unbounded diversion. Not far off, between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth streets, stands a building erected for a very different purpose, and known as the Moody and Sankey Home. Here Mr. Moody, aided by other eminent divines, will hold constant services, and strive to win the erring from their ways, and spur on the virtuous to further works of righteousness. Near by, on Stony Island Boulevard, stands the Model Sunday-school, the plans for which were accepted, after much severe competition, as being the best possible for Sunday-school purposes. Here will be held Sunday-school conferences, and other gatherings of a like character. The building contains a complete exhibit of Sunday- school appliances, and will prove a place of deep interest to all those interested in the religious instruction of the young.
It may be news to many visitors to hear that Chicago has been invaded by a foreign army. Nevertheless, Tommy Atkins is here three hundred strong; cavalry, artillery, and infantry have come, and captured, by their skill and pluck, the hearts of their American cousins. Located at Tattersall's, Sixteenth and Dearborn streets, is the Military Tournament, where maybe nightly seen, and on Saturday during the daytime, in that mammoth and luxurious hall, an unsurpassed display of skill in the use of arms, feats of daring horsemanship such as have made English cavalry famous the world over, charges and counter-charges, attacks and repulses, sanguinary battles that are almost too terribly realistic, keen combats between bayonet and sword, sword and lance, wrestling on horseback, tent-pegging, and charming musical rides, where the perfectly trained horses rival their riders in knowledge of the intricate movements, and in the pride they take performing the complicated evolutions with unerring accuracy.
The brigade consists of detachments from the First Life Guards, Grenadier Guards, Royal Horse Artillery, Fifth Royal Irish Lancers, Eleventh Hussars, the Black Watch, and Connaught Rangers-all regiments with records which have made them the theme of poets' songs. They do not forget their glorious past, and under the able command of Gen. Digby Willoughby, an officer of long and gallant service, are daily adding fresh, albeit peaceful, numbers to their long list of warlike conquests. Other attractions of nearly or as great interest as these exist in great numbers. For instance, between Sixty and Sixty-first streets, the Serpentine & Cavern Railway and Paine's Fireworks will afford abundant amusement; and near by, at Washington Park, the lover of sport can have the satisfaction of seeing the great American Derby run for a prize of $60,000, on June 24th, and on the following thirty days be entertained by daily races, for sums that will attract the best horses.

OUTSIDE ATTRACTION

Naturally many kinds of entertainments have been attracted to Chicago to remain during the term of the Exposition. In addition to those mentioned in the earlier part of this book, among others, the following are selected as especially likely to afford instruction or amusement to visitors.
Buffalo Bill's world-renowned Wild West Show occupies fifty acres between Sixty- second and Sixty-third streets, close to the Exposition entrances on those streets. It is an easily accessible location, being reached by cable, electric, elevated, and steam cars. Colonel Cody has outdone himself in his efforts to make the exhibition outshine all its previous brilliant successes. England, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, and many other countries have been visited by him and conquered, but he feels that success is not complete until Chicago is subdued. The covered grandstand has a seating capacity of 18,000, and the open arena covers seven acres, which is not too large an area when it is remembered that 450 persons take part in the performance. Gauchos from South America, Indians from the Far West, Cossacks from darkest Asia, and Cowboys from Texas combine in friendly rivalry to make a show of unique interest and unending variety. Feats of horsemanship, miraculous skill in the use of firearms, battle, murder, and sudden death, civilization and barbarism in kaleidoscopic intermixture, viewed from a comfortable seat, will prove to World's Fair visitors, as they have to princes and peasants in far-off lands, sources of unbounded diversion. Not far off, between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth streets, stands a building erected for a very different purpose, and known as the Moody and Sankey Home. Here Mr. Moody, aided by other eminent divines, will hold constant services, and strive to win the erring from their ways, and spur on the virtuous to further works of righteousness. Near by, on Stony Island Boulevard, stands the Model Sunday-school, the plans for which were accepted, after much severe competition, as being the best possible for Sunday-school purposes. Here will be held Sunday-school conferences, and other gatherings of a like character. The building contains a complete exhibit of Sunday- school appliances, and will prove a place of deep interest to all those interested in the religious instruction of the young.
It may be news to many visitors to hear that Chicago has been invaded by a foreign army. Nevertheless, Tommy Atkins is here three hundred strong; cavalry, artillery, and infantry have come, and captured, by their skill and pluck, the hearts of their American cousins. Located at Tattersall's, Sixteenth and Dearborn streets, is the Military Tournament, where maybe nightly seen, and on Saturday during the daytime, in that mammoth and luxurious hall, an unsurpassed display of skill in the use of arms, feats of daring horsemanship such as have made English cavalry famous the world over, charges and counter-charges, attacks and repulses, sanguinary battles that are almost too terribly realistic, keen combats between bayonet and sword, sword and lance, wrestling on horseback, tent-pegging, and charming musical rides, where the perfectly trained horses rival their riders in knowledge of the intricate movements, and in the pride they take performing the complicated evolutions with unerring accuracy.
The brigade consists of detachments from the First Life Guards, Grenadier Guards, Royal Horse Artillery, Fifth Royal Irish Lancers, Eleventh Hussars, the Black Watch, and Connaught Rangers-all regiments with records which have made them the theme of poets' songs. They do not forget their glorious past, and under the able command of Gen. Digby Willoughby, an officer of long and gallant service, are daily adding fresh, albeit peaceful, numbers to their long list of warlike conquests. Other attractions of nearly or as great interest as these exist in great numbers. For instance, between Sixty and Sixty-first streets, the Serpentine & Cavern Railway and Paine's Fireworks will afford abundant amusement; and near by, at Washington Park, the lover of sport can have the satisfaction of seeing the great American Derby run for a prize of $60,000, on June 24th, and on the following thirty days be entertained by daily races, for sums that will attract the best horses.