The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-01
GREAT WILD WEST SHOW
IND CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS
BUFFALO BILL.

An Immense Concourse of People at the
| Afternoon Show--Another Multitude in
the Evenlng--A Great Show.
Hundreds of children Of all ages, from
the little tot just entering school to the
young man or miss who is. about to
graduate from the high school or col
lege, received great deal of instruction
yesterday afternoon and last. night It
was a good school and the ten thou
sand people who were on the grounds
| yesterday afternoon at Buffalo Bills
Wild West show and Congress Of Rough
Riders of the World thoroughly appre-
cited it, as was manifested by their ex-
Carnations of delight, Of surprise, at
some of the remarkable feats perform
ed. and the applause which they gave
as appreciative of what was done in the
arena. Yesterday was the first time
that the school children Of New Haven
had had an opportunity of witnessing
the riding Of the soldiers of all nations
of whom they study and read about day
after day. There were cavalrymen
from Great Britain, the Royal Irish
Lancers, a detachment from Germany,
one from France, and they were good
horsemen, too; a band Of Bedoutns,
numbers of American Indians, and by
no means the least, a detachment from
the Seventh United States Cavalry, the
pride of the war department.
AT 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
famous cowboy band opened the exhibit
ton with a selection of the Star Span
gled Banner but not, though, until af-
ter the announcer, who no doubt has
the most powerful voice of any man in
the world, announced from stand near
the center of the arena the events that
would take place. Then at the wave of
a red flag which he held in his right
hand followed the real opening Of the
Wild West show and Congress of Rough
Riders of the world. There came band
after band Of Indians, cavalrymen Of
almost all nations, and just before Buff
falo Bill was announced the standard
Bearer of the Seventh United States
Cavalry with Old Glory rode about the
arena to the applause of the multitude.
l. Is needless to say that the only Buff
falo Bill was received with enthusiasm
Miss Annie Oakley did some very re-
markable shooting, missing but few
balls and clay pigeons, and so did John
ny Baker, who followed her after a.
short interval
But the principal feature and one that
was instructive of wild west life was
what is called Cowboy Fun. Some Of
the most reckless riding ever seen was
given The men, going at full gallop
on their horses, picked up all manner Of
articles from the ground lassoed one
another, and then Sam Carter closed the
feature with his fight with the famous
Jubilee, in which man and horse rolled
on the ground before he succeeded in
mounting him.
A most interesting, entertaining and
instructive feature was the military
musical drill. Four nations were repre-
scented in this and each one went
through its various evolutions, the Irish
Lancers with the lances and the United
States, Germany and French detach-
ments with the sabres. The entertain
ment concluded with an attack on a
settlers cabin by Indians and a rescue
by Buffalo Bill and band of cowboys.
Take it all in all, the Wild West must
be seen to be appreciated.