The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-01
Some Transmissippi Scenes.


ippi Exposition in Omaha Buffalo Bill
having been one OF the guides who biazed
the way of empire TO the west, the big ex-
position gave him a day. and IL was ar
ideal day. There was banquet in hal
looking out on the grand plaza of the ex-
| position. where, mustered in war bon
nets, war paint and their weapons of war
| were the Indians that the government had
gathered in great numbers from more
than thirty aboriginal tribes, the largest
| assenblage Of their race since the Sioux
| war, in which Custer was killed. A great
er number than Will ever be congregated
again. These savages inpressively empha-
| sized the change in the west within the
lives Of comparatively young men from
4 the wigwams OF the wilderness to the
sculptured architecture of highest civili-
cation that now arose imposingly before
them.
Encircled by vast crowd of sightseers
were these Indians Gas well as those Of
Colonel Cody's wild west with all the
other rough riders Of his show. from the
cowboy in the shade Of his sonbrero to
the British lancer beneath his plumes. AT
| the banquet table were distinguished cit
liens, governors and ex-governors. sena-
tors and ex-senators, generals and ex-
generals. One man representing all these
titles was there-ex-General Ex-Governor.
ex-senator Thayer, Thurston. senator and
pioneer; Creighton, millionaire and pion-
eer; Clarkson, exposition manager and pi-
oneer; Colman, ex-Secretary Of agriculture
and pioneer; Rosewater newspaper build
er and pioneer: Jones, the first Omaha
postmaster, who in his day carried his
postoffice in his hrat-and now wore the
same hat or one appallingly like it-all
nd 1f rir1
were there The most picturesque of them
were the venerable Alexander Majors. who
established the pony express" and Col
onel Cody. The latter spoke of the old
man as Uncle Aleck," and he spoke OF
the gallant plainsman as my boy" and
embraced him, whereat the hearts Of all
the beholders were deeply touched. Tears
came down the burrows that time had
plowed in the faces of the old ''silver
grays" about them: men who have seen
1.-The great American desert" develop into
a garden that is tinted with the hue of
the rose.
When the old man, in trembling voice
spoke Of the famous westerner he told of
many daring and exciting things the
boy" had done, and he said that forty
four years before. on that very day, VIII
liam Cody's mother came to him bringing
her 9-year-old son, asking that he be given
work to help support his fatherless sis
tiers. Eloquently the old man spoke of
his admira ton for the lad and his worthy
ambition; how the boy was set TO work
at IS month as a pony express rider.
the means of communication in that day
across the continent; how faithfully and
fearlessly he did his work, and how at the
end of two months service Will Cody
came into his mothe's cabin, and, taking
out the $50 he had earned, spread 1t out
with his hands all over the table"
and l have been spreading II ever
since" Cody interjected. At which there
was a roar of laughter, and some ono
given to phraseology of the street yelled
out:
And that's no dream''
Fay Fuller was there to write about
the remarkable gathering for q ma game
printed in the state of Washington, and
of which she is one OF the editors.
1t is high time that the eastern half of
this republic should know Fay Fuller as
the Pacific slope does. She is one of the
women in the world. 1t has been
said that great surgeon should have the
eye of the eagle, the heart of the ION
and the hand of a lady. Fay Fuller is not
a surgeon, but she has the attributes |
other ways. There is not more womanly |
woman than Fay Fuller, and yet not a |
more manly. She is an able and graceful |
writer, and not only earns her living with |
the pen, but helps her father, a very nes- |
tor of newspaper men in the west, to care |
for the family. She Is a member of sew |
sral Notwithstanding clubs and has |
stood upon the crown of many a monarch |
Of the Sierras. hSe was the first woman
that climbed to the summit of Mount |
Rainier, 1900 feet, and until short time |
ago the only one. She climbed that noun
tain in 1890, and one other woman has |
since accomplished the feat She is Slight
Of form, handsome and yivacious, has a
voice that ever sounds like a sweet song
n a minor key, and in her newspaper
work she does the task OF the strongest
nan cheerfully, even enthusiastically.
Lately, at the Transmssissippi EXPOSE
ion, Captain Mercer, L. S. A, IN charge
IF the Indians there, supplied her with a
stunning buckskin, beaded, feather-trim-
ned outfit of an Indian chief, and she
out that on and went among the braves
md their squaws to interview them. She
speaks the Chinook jargon OF the north
western Indians perfectly, and knows the
ign language so well that she obtained
Information otherwise unobtainable. and
Iborigines.
Miss Fuller takes TO the water as nstur-
IL vas she does to the mountains. and
ately she went into one of the boats at
he Omaha exposition to be cspsized and
sved by the United States lifesavng crew
here. She's was once elected harbormas-
ar for one Of the counties on Puget Sound.
hat of which Tacoma is the county seat.
nd during his term OF service performed
he duties of that Office with signal sue
is. looking after the wrecks OF
ea-going craft along the coast and seeing
hat they are properly disposed OF.
Altogether. Fay Fuller, young. amoi-
ious. energetic, pushing, yet womanly,
modest and sincere, is a heroine, and fame
gill be her NEED.
WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VlSSCHEER. ,