Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-13
ALL INVITED.
A Chat With Maj. Burke About Subject
in Which Kennebec People are Interested.

Buffalo Bill will arrange to seat any
where from 10000 to 90, people at his
Wild West show here July 10, next Fri
day, and these accommodations wouldn' t
be big enough II Maj John NJ. Burke,
general manager of the show, could have
had the opportunity to sit down and talk
with the people while in the city, Friday.
He called at the journal office on bust
ness and the pleasure of a half hours in
teresting conversation with him was en-
joyed. The major has been with William
Cody on the plains and among the poten,
tates of Europe has fought Indians and
assisted in managing them, not only
when turbulent in their native homes
but as part of the greatest chronological
exhibition in the wide world.
The major says there was considerable
difference Of opinion between Mr.. Cody
and himself and Messrs. Salisbury and
Bailey regarding the advisability of bring
ing the mammoth show into Maine. Mr..
Cody has an ambition to carry his Wild
West into every state In the Union and
he did not propose to skip Maine. He
has all along commended that Maine would
be one of the best states he would find
OF course every one that has seen the Wild
West once will go again. That Is assured
from the start. But those, who have not,
and most people have not, and have no
comprehension of the attraction, are the
ones whom it is necessary to inform. 1t
is difficult for them to realize that the
Wild West will be an event of a lifetime,
that 1t is the greatest aggregation in point
of magnitude ever taken through the
country that is three times as large as the
largest circus aggregation; that nearly
500 people accompany 1t; 600 horses are
connected with it that three trains, num-
bering over fifty of the largest show cars
ever on the road, arc required to carry
1t; that it is too large to be covered with
canvas and that the daily expenses are
something over $4,000. "Cody stops at
nothing" is the watchword of the Wild
West.
The Indians are genuine red skins;
some Of them in fact, participated In the
ghost dance uprising that Buffalo Bill In
command of the Nebraska troops assisted
in quelling. Who ever saw Cossack, a
South American Gauchof A Mexican that
lassos either horse or rider at his will and
pleasure? Who ever saw buffalo hunt?
the pony express rider of the plainss
Who ever saw the rough riders of the
world, riding like centaurs, Tor like mad
mounted cuirassiers from the German
army. regulars from the French army
and the best riders in our cavalry? the
dashing cowboys, agile Arabs, all COM
peting in their daring feats for the ap-
plause of thousands of spectators? No one
who hasn't seen the Wild West of Buffalo
Bill. You can't scratch the paint on one
of these fellows and find either a down
east Yankee or a son of the Emerald isle.
They are what they purport to be and how
Mr.. Cody ever managed to get together
these representatives Of the different ma
lions of the earth is mystery about
which there is many an interesting story.
He has accomplished what no other man
ever did in this respect. An attempt was
once made to take the Indians from him
but through Cody's energy and friends at
Washington. the attempt failed During
his long stay abroad he made friends with
the powers that be, as with all he came
in contact with.
1t was Mr.. r. c. Hill, who after a two
years tour of the world said on his return
that he hardly found place where the
people had not heard Of Buffalo Bill. He
wrote for the Philadelphia Record poem
entitled Energy" In which he compares
the unique career OF William Cody with
that of the other conspicuous men of this
century, and two verses of this may not
be inappropriate here and may serve to
explain how Buffalo Bill has succe eded in
getting whatever he went after:
For he has fought, and conquering
Made captive foes his friends;
And shows how war well ord cred
In peaceful triumph ends.
No tutor he, and yet his skill,
| His daring courage, too,
Have taught the races everywhere
| What energy can do.
| He has shown the world the redskin
Who soon must pass away,