The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18
LIFE ON The BIG PRAIRIES
BUFFALO BILLS BIG TROOP OF IN
DIANs, COWBOYS AND SOLDIERS.

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ians How n Few Things Are Done
Where They Came From-Fancy
Marksmen Who WouId Make Good
Sea GIrters-HOw the Big show
Looks in the Rear-It Was a Treat
to Everybody Who saw It-COI.
Cody Was in Savannah Twenty
Years Ago.
They were all here yesterday, and Sa-
vannah knew it; there was Col. w. F.
| Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill,
| with his Congress of Rough Riders or
the World, his Indians cowboys, Mexi-
| cans, Cossacks, Gauchos, Arabs, scouts
and detachments of soldiers from the
armies of England. France, America, Ger
many and Russia.
The most refreshing and interesting
thing about Col. Codys rough riders, and
his representatives and characters from
other nations, is their genuineness. HIS
Indians are not disguised Americans, nor
We're his Cossacks, Germans and others
made to order. Savannahians had plenty
of notice about what the show was to
be, and at the matinee performance In
the afternoon about 10000 or 1900 or
them saw re-enacted some of the wilc
] d
/ Col. Cody's life as a scout, and with
them the other interesting features OF
which the exhibition consists. Seats We're
arranged for about 1900 people, and at
! the night performance even a larger crowd
/ greeted the performers than was presen,
/ in the afternoon.
| The mammoth show, which occupies
two large trains when on the railroad. ar
/ rived In Savannah from Charleston early
/ yesterday morning, and was soon located
and set up at the Bolton Street PARK.
| Crowds of curious people watched the
numerous employees unpack the heavy
wagons, and saw the large canvas tent
/ ing and the grand stands go in place.
"A noteworthy fact is that the street
parade was promptly on time, being on
/ irrS Hafch through the city at IL O'CLOCK
me parade was headed by Sergt XII
/ Iourny ana Policemen McQuade Cron;u
! ana floyd. 1t was indeed a novel sight
anu perhaps the most interesting paraGe
! ever seen IN Savannah. 1t was a paraGe
OF al nations lnterspersed with apprOpr.-
ate music and other features, but in
| magnitude 1t represented hardly more thar,
ohe-haI OF the show itself. People nnec
| tne stIeets TO see it. and there appeared
s ~ pc a temporary suspension of business
alohs the line OF march.
| "A representative of the Morning News
saw Col; Cody in his tent near the large
| arena shortly before the performa noe
| began. He is evidently very much taken
with savannah, and says it is one of the
Ppsttlest and most interesting cities he
mas seen in all his travels Although
this Is the first time he has ever brought
ms wild west show to the Forest civ.
tniS Is not his first visit to Savannah.
| Il was here about twenty wears acc. &"
| ne said, playing on the stage. and At
mat time | thought Savannah as fair a.
CITY as had ever seen. These breath
/ ing spaces and wide streets you have are
most attractive and interesting"
Coi. Cody was asked what he was
! playing al that time.
"Oh, border life pieces. nothing much -
| he replied They consisted of some
| tning like Jackass, a COW boy and a.
Winchester rifle. But" he added, ''tney
seemed TO take about as well as Booth
! or Barrett or any of the rest of them.
Col. Cody did not talk much about his
| present production. He evidently thought
II would speak for itself, and he was
not far wrong.
There is one thing about the average
| spectator" he remarked land that e
he does not view this exhibition 'i in tbs
rlght hght. Its every feature is educa-
uonal in that it shows you customs
manners and characteristics of other ma
| lions ana while the reading and thinking
man usually sees it in that light. the aV.
erage spectator takes the more super
The can for the first feature of the
| AFTERNOON exhibition was given just here
ana Bunalo Bill began to prepare himself
70 lead the grand review, made up of
| the 500 or more men of various nations
| VINO constitute the congress of rough rid
! ers. mis- was one Of the star features
of the exhibition. Many of the specLa-
tors began to realize for the first time
| that they We're looking upon genuine char
acters and not representations, and as
the large body of riders was Unanswered
| upon the field there was much applause
| from the spectators.
There are very few, if any. women VINO
| can equal Miss Annie Oakley as an expert
| shot. She can load her rifle and crack
clay balls just about as fast as they
can possibly be tossed into the air and II
I a
! and. The horse race between a cowboy.
a Cossack, a Mexican, an Arab, a Gar-
| cho ana an Indian on the horses of their
| respective nations was a lively feature.
and the illustration of the pony express
showing how the post riders used to car
ry important letters and kilograms across
the country before the building of rail-
roads and the telegraph was an interest
| ing study.
1t is funny to see how the naraudine
Indians are always repulsed when they
| make their attack on the emigrant train
Inc brave defense is make by Buffalo Bill
ana his scouts and cowboys, and the dis
| gusted and defeated Indians retire under
a thick and deadly fire of blanks. The
Rifl1an Arabian horsemen in their fears
| of horsemanship and difficult turning and
| tumblng would have worn themselves
out responding to encores If they had been
| them.
The Sea Girt team will probably take
under serious consideration the matter of
| securing Johnnie Baker, the celebrated
! young American marksman for the mr.
! pose of piling up bullseyes at the newt
| big shoot. No matter in what position he
| was placed he could knock the wind oIlt
of a clay ball. and he rarely let either of
two that were thrown in the air at the
same time, drop to the ground except in
| fragments. "
The daring riding of the Cossacks of the
Caucasus, and the expert lassoing and
Craftsmanship of the Mexicans well-ill1s-
| trated what those classes can train them
selves to. The hurdle race and the buck
| ing bronchoes, Tornado, Cyclone Dvna-
| mite and others of equally suggestjve
names interjected considerable fun prob
| ably al the expense of the fellows who
| have learned to stick on the Fuckers for.
! the amusement of their fellow countTv
men.
Perhaps the most imposing feature. and
one that would always attract the mill
| tary man and the chronological student was
| the military musical drill by detachmentS
! from United States troops, Fifth RovaI
Irish Lancers, French Dragons. and me
| Kaiser's cuirassiers. Their cavalry manefI-
vers in body and as Separate
detachments called forth loud applaI1se
from the many special tors, and when they
| made their fierce, fiery charge directIy
| toward the grand stand, some peonie
stood up in their seats. becoming alarmed
for fear that the horses in their anna -
| emily mad rush might break throu~b ~ ;,