New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-26
PERE HYACINTHE.
AT TIE WILD WEST SHOW AND IN HIS owy
POOR CHURCH

\ BunaiO BITS wiz WeSJ was not the place IN
look for the Protestant Monk as Pcfe Hya-
cinthe is called. But, strange as it may seem
in the United States, Buffalo Bills Wild West "a
the very place in Paris 10 look for the most
noted persOnages OF France The Wild West IA
the only rival OF the Universal Exposition Il ia
accepted as an exponent OF life in the United
States, precisely the houses, recreations domes
tic habits and costumes of the various Orentals
who have booths and dwellings within the Expo
sition grounds are accepted as fairly representa-
tive Of the races and countries for which they
appear in the Champs de Mars When the elite
Of Paris, President and Nine Carnot among the
rest, had taken their places within the terraesd
amphitheatre at the complimentary inaugural per.
Torrance, the band struck up the National airs
of France and the American Republic. All eyes
were turned upon the players. They were in
buckskin trousers, disappearing within big boot
tops in flannel shirts girded with stout leathern
belts; and on their heads was that frontier broad
brim which preserves a "reminiscences OF the
| Quaker married to Mexican bandit. French
lacy at my side whispered TO her escort, who wore
the rlDpon OF the Legion Of Honor, What dress
is that the musicians have on p He promptly re.
Piled, That is the National costume OF America,
A shadow of incredibly swept over her face. Hs
added, OF course the American gentlemen.
especially those who come to Paris, have adopted
European dress like the japanese
| The figure which sat at my side was one mo-.
likely TO escape observation anywhere. In sombre
garb, his ecclesiastical character was ayoyed in
the silk waistcoat which reached to his throat
and in the neat Roman collar which encirced H.
He was tall, slightly stooping-perhaps because
nc was reading-and his flesh was little sug.
gestive OF insufficient physical exercise not white
ana hard, but dark and almost fabby. He was
not rat, nor was there aught in his aspect to
/ Suggest tnat ne does not live life of temperance
II not OF austenty. His head was singuarly fine
It's dome, perfect In outline, except, perhaps, q
trife too high for its breadth, is scantily fringed
with hair that is now iron gray and will be white
! in another five years. The face, clean-shaven. ia
long, almost handsome, thoughtful and melan-
choly. The dark gray eyes were meditating be-
hind eyeglasses or perused tiny duodecimo in
calf, little classic one Of the second-rate Roman
authors The reader evidently quite at home
in Latin. His hands, which held the book at an
easy angle, were those of the student, long, thin,
flexible, sallow.
Meanwhile the show was getting under wav.
The scene was mixture of the grandiose and
grotesque. Society was coming at every entrance,
gayly dressed as society always is in Paris. and
chatting animatedly as everybody chats in Paris
Admission was only by invitation. A hundred
thousand dollars cannot buy seat here today
was the impressive but veracious negative which
NJ. LIE Colonel Cody, as the engraved cards read,
gave to an aristocratic applicant. "Yes and
we lost hundred thousand dollars by not having
ten thousand more seats, and by issuing invitations
for the ten thousand we have Half Paris
society is here for nothing, and the other half
is so mad it will never come for money! was the
growl of one of the Big Chiefs whose dusly skin
was suspciously like that of the red paint Of
a Bowery wagon shop. In came the guests,
gay, brilliant noisy, while the band played medleys
of plantation airs and the ring masters were arrang
ing the ropes and posts and puleys in the
central field. Now and then horseman dashed
wildly OUT from behind the distant scenery and
rode at breal1necll speed across the field, while
everybody shouted. Feathers and unkempt heads
and the heads of well disciplined Wild ponies
darted up from time to time above the fortifca-
tions.' The trees which had been planted around
the approach to the frontersman's abode OCCASION
ally wobbled. Everything was getting into shape
and the Partisan audience was simply wild with
eagerness TO see the show
| Pere Hyacinthe-have forgotten to say thai
| il was he who sat at my side ?-lOOled up fire.
| quently from the small print of the duodecimo
| and smiled rather pensively at the indications OF
! the Fastening spectacle. lie looked up very lam
guidly when Mr.. Reid passed along the conspicuous
! centre of an American party; and the wise ones
whispered " that is he as the American Minister
saluted President and Nine Carnot in their box
Ministers of the French Cabinet strolled in with
their families, and took places in the loges
respectively allotted for their use. Although
every one present was u guest Of VI. lie Colonel
! Buffalo Guillaume, many men and women climbed
over the frail but high barriers placed at intervals
! throughout the rows Of seats, and number OF
men forced their way down from upper tiers into
the official boxes and denuded the latter of tho
chairs. These they carried over their heads mp
! into coigns of vantage in the aisles and seated
! themselves upon them with perfect cOmposure.
| When the guests to whom the pillaged boxes were
assigned arrived and found nothing to sit upon,
policemen were sent through the distinguished
audience 10 forage for the missing chairs
Presently the herald mounted the managers box
! in the centre of the field. and proceeded
to deliver long Grafton upon Buffalo Bill IN
Partisan French mitieated by years Of residence
on the upper Missouri and in the gulcheS OF Woll
Canon Tor Kansas City. They listen at first with
astonishment. Then they began to smile at the
appalling power of his lungs Then they shouted
with fun at his enuncaton of the French, every
syllable being hammered out if with spade
As he continued the Frenchmen broke quite loose.
They hooted shriel1ed, pounded canes and umbrellas
and carried on such riot of vOciferation that the
second half of the grafton was sacrificed and the
show began.
Pere Hyacnthe eyinced Gimsy interest in IT,
lie laid aside his duodecimo and took off his
glasses. lie smiled as plaintively as baby who
is getting over summer sickness and tries TO find
earthly affairs curious. As the programme became
more vivid his eyes lighted up with boysh humor,
but still it only an insubstantial attention he
condescended to bestow upon the antics of the
ponies and the dyes of the savages.' Doubtless
until he visited the United States few years ago
his impressions of it were acquired from the senti-
mental, dylic pages Of Chateaubriand whose ac-