Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-14

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RENEWAL or buffalo BILLS ENGAGE
MEST.
Tho following announces a wise step
on tho part Of the Exposition authori-
ties
Presidents OFFICE,
VIRGISM EXPOSITION.
October IL, 1858.
70 ne IUJHc:
In response to a demand on your part
J have succeeded IN making such mr.
Engagements with the Buffalo Bill Wild
West Combination as will continue ITS
exhibitions on the ExpostiOn-Grounds
during the next week, two performances
daily, commencing October 18th, con
Guiding with and including Saturday,
October both. II has been difficult
matter TO perfect these arrangements,
and there is no possible way ID which
TINS exhibition can be extended be-
yond tine time above named. As q
stu greater attraction Buffalo Bill
will on Monday glvo the Custer Massa-
ere. in which one hundred Richmond
gentlemen have volunteered TO appear
This magnificent historical event Will be
repeated several times during the week.
Bufialo Bill has Also thrown out a chal-
lenge TO any rider for a five mile race
with ten horses against ten OF his horses.
rider TO change horses every one half
mile If there is wild or what IS
known ~ n bucking horse in the commu-
nifty / nm requested TO invite such out,
90 that any doubt M 10 the buckng
horses having been trained Will be dis
palled. The trotting races have heen
POSTPONED until the week commencing
October %, 1888.
Respectfully,
AsHrON SrARWF, President
Matters have been so arranged that
the trot'ing races will be- postponed, thus
giving the Wild West the entire control
Of the track for two performances daily
nj 9 =. NJ. and z. ". This programme
is final. as on next Sunday Tins great or
eauization thatleft Nebraska nearly three
years ago. travelled America and visited
England successfully, will " dissolve into
thin air, leaving not track behind,
80 far as Richmond rs concerned.
Tho comfort of the public at the en-
trance Is now to loo assured by the cut
ting OF four new gates through the fence.
The exhibition Of the Custer massacre
wild be given TO morrow night, and Colo
mel Cody writes the young men who are
to take part IN it If they desire TO wit
ness his afternoon performance Monday
to enter at the upper gate at 3 o'clock.
II they have uniforms they can bring
them. and all should bring horses who
can. At the close OF rho afternoon per
formancc, about $40 o'clock, the reher-
sal for the Custer massacre will take
place, after which the gentlemen viii
dine with Colonel Cody.
THE CoNEy-IsLAND CARS.
For some time the Exposition mnn-
aCement have been comforting with the
railroad authorities with view to having
the Concy-lsland train run down
Broad street as far as the Theatre,
and it is probable that the scheme
would have been consummatod il
the trains on the fredericksburg
road did not pass SO frequently. Fully
twenty five trains go ny every day. 'and
each time one passed the COney- Island
train would have been DELAYED for ahout
five minutes, to the dissatisfaction and
Inconvenience Of the passengers to or
from the Exposition.
Mr.. Flynn, who contracted for the
Coney-lslnnd cars, said yesterday tia.
he was willing 10 run them that he had
a IL .4.,lf,-. 4 f.tr ].
bringing the cars here AMI thousand
dollars moro would not make much diff
ference. and Major =. I. ID. Myers said
no would charge nothing for the use OF
the track, but the Exposition authori-
ties thought 1t would be- better not TO
change the present arrangement. 1t
costs $50 day to run the trains on the
present schedule.
POMPEu.
The Exposition folks have been in cor
respondence with the management OF
g ompem, good spectacular show now
at Staten Island, and if possible 1t will
be gotten here. 1t will be tremendous
undertaking. however, as It VIII take
several hundred people to work it.
KuaRtBg Races over.
Something less than ]. 900 persons wit
messed Yesterday races, which were the
last ones Of the fall running meeting.
There were only two events on the pro-
gramme, the special race not having
filed, and it was foregone conclusion
rs soon as the horses started which would
win both of these. in neither contest
did the victor have to be hurried, as
their opponents showed little mettle and
seemed content with inferior positions.
The track was stiff and heavy and no.
thing hike good time could be expected.
In front of the Grand-Stand water and
mud were several inches deep on the
course.
DoswELL TO THE FRONT.
The first race was one mile. Purse.
$3.50, of which $50 went 10 second. The
entries were Maidenhair, by T. w. Dos
well; Triple Cross, by w. w. Brad
shaw Josh Billings, by II. W. Husk /;
Lorris, by Robert Brsdky; Alveda, by
I. +. Coles. The pool sold as follows :
Alyeda $40. MSidenhair 81. Triple Cross
81, field g.. Maidenhair hal shown mp
badly in race on former day and this
accounted for her having no better
backing. She took the lead, however,
from the word so, kept it all the way
twice around the course, and won in n
jog in l:5S, with Afveda second, Josh
Billings third, and Triple Gross and
Lorris in the order named.
BUII.FIHLD PURSE.
The second and last trial was the two
mile dash. called the Bulihe3d purse.
The prize was s159, of which S76 wens
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