The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-10
COL. CODY'S DAY TO SHINE
HE AND HIS WILD WEST WE'RE
1T YESTERDAY
Nineteen Thousand People Witness
the Performance of buffalo B1Il's
Congress of Rough Riders-It Is
Great Show, With the Horse a
Striking Feature Off 1t AIl-Ttme
Works Little Change.

works Little Change.
The unerring eye and strong right arm
of Co. w. F. Cody and his cashier separated
this town from several thousand bright shin
ing dollars yesterday. The town will make
its contribution to Buffalo Bill just as cheer
fully the next time he arrives. This morn
ing the people will be afflicted with what
Col. Kiefer might call Wild ten
jammer," but, like other sensations of the
next morning, that will wear away and they
will be ready to indulge in another debauch
long before the opportunity is again pre-
sented: Everybody will admit that the Wild
show is wonderful show and Col Cody is
wonderful. man-particularly a wonderful
Snowman. But if Mr.. Cody had lived 200
years Later, when the Horse and. the dodo
list and the automotor will be the only thing
to go about upon, thensCo!. Cody would not
be rolling in wealth and cleaning uo large
cities of their spare cash. 1t is fact that
cannot be lodged that Col. Cody is very
much alive today and that the horse is still
a a, part OF contemporary, zoology. Hence is
living exponent of thes@fact that there is
much good in the friend Of man
1t is great show, though. and the horse
is the whole show-if the rider is not to be
with. Co. Cody has gotten together a good
ly number of men who can ride They can
not ride any better than some of the youths
who are spending their time ard ta,ents rid
ing around the pasture of tie old farm.
But the youth who is still practicing in the
pasture is not seen under the same condi-
tions as are Col. Cody's riders. There is
so much in environment. rough rider do
ing business in the pasture down back of the
mouse has no more chance of ory than
Marie Bashkertseff would have in the laun-
"a ary; H. Ihe marvellous thing about Cody's show
IS me great number Of people and horses that
are thrown into comparatively small space
ana Who mix themselves up in the most
haeaafHi Iafa a,d manner m and then escape without
Delng Killed That is what people like about
IT, 1T is the daring of the performance til at
counts The feeling that presently one of
me me @ heroes who has Just been applauded to
diversion to the spectacle by getting himself
broken into small pieces. Mr Cody knows
anls is Particularly ar we'll marked fofb:e and
go to the second town If, it were not for the
element of danger. But then, 1t would not be
his show If 1t were not for the dangerous
cement. sc II is not a gaudy spectacle. With
Inc exception of the trappngs of the Co.'S
SACKS and the uhlans and the lancers there
is nothing about 1t all that appeals to the
iove M o. color 1t appeals straiehtly to that
IN IN man when the Roman; am hitheater was
the source of amusement for tie peop.e. The
aash Gas OF the riders, the shr Il whoopng of
the Dlanket Indian, the crack of the re-
vo-ver and the utter fearlessness of the men
VINO made companion of the horse ali
make ma TIE blood course through the veins
me me PHYSICAL exctation Is better for the svs-
would be. 'p"i iia
49,. Inc show Yesterday did not bring tie coun-
Try COUSIN IN to any great exert The sh7w
saw saw 1t in the two Performances The 10 :
9oo that were present at night can sc RELY
be said to have seen the show for it is rot
that Col. Cody dipped into the efTete Ea #
!!ong enough to add a private electric ligat-
dagn5d ing plant nj to his Wild West combinat on
some, but they did not dispel the dark essV
they made the more effective the spectac es
enotmauI In tine lanes ssaua Of light ttoSg, Ard te
greater create ease as than they could have been at a
circus The form OF the great enc osur.
Ssiped fp in, in this matter and the practice thot
of thousands would make HIM a wo~der in
instance Last night he got 1000 % people a out ut
d Dent. It 'en' IN h''een miautes without al acai-
There has been little change in the show.
me same old Indians and tie same old COW
Doys ., ana the same old Cossacks a-e doing
wonder as you see them again that they ever
learned to do those things in the first place.
a. Az "a lase IN nights performance they Id coupe
w weston Iaied to get a grip Of the rommrl
oh OF his saddle Just at the tine the bl5k ng
oroncho was about to buck and Wally WIS
W. Waily a half block and then he had to limp
familiarly Baldy, who was engaged W tn
another gentleman In tanning a fiery broncho
forgot to get cut of the way Of the fiery one
lust as his friend mounted and the broncho
threW MIN down and stepped on his heal
SO nara that the spectators in the grand
STANG, near which 1t occurred. experien ed a
oehghtful thrill of horror as they waited for
s99nepouy ss9 TO ceme up and carry off the body.
baloy has been stepped on that way before
though and he got I'D after moment rubbed
ms head and escaped into the outer darkness
were not received with the acclaim that w5uld
nave been accorded them if they had &C me on
the scene just bfore the battle of SANTIAGO.
me recitation of their services and the de-
sc.pCon OF the many wounds they had
sunered IN their efforts to free Cuba did not
even warm the crowd up much. TIE gentle
man with one leg, who rode the horse he WIS
on, IKE q Centaur, and who, the people were
assured by the stentor lunged person in the
middle Of the field, had lost his leg in th,
cause of Cuba, did arouse some enthusiasm
but there was evidence that the applause was
tribute to the missing leg rather than the
cause In which 1t was blown off,
SHOWS may come and shows may go. but as
long as Buralo Bill continues to arrive with
MS PROOF OF the greatness of the horse ami
proves to people that there is much In COM
none between some Of the men of today and
the the heroes OF the Roman arena, who rsk7d
III IRE ana nmb for the public applause.--snd
the sestert1a OF the patoons-so long will he
be able to carry off allsthe money he needs to
solace him in his old age for the sufferings
OF his youth on the prairies-where he first
conceived the great idea that it was a very
wild West indeed and ought to be put under