Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-22

CODY and N|LD WEST
The Only Show Of Its Kind Draws
an Immense Crowd to the
City.
More People in Town Than on Ring.
ling's Day Parade a Pleas
ing Spectacle.
Tents Pitched at the Fair Grounds
Features Of the Afternoon
Performance.

Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show
were in town today. They not only
brought to the city great variety of
peoples from various parts of the globe,
but Were the means of bringing quite
percentage of the population of Mar
shall and adjoining counties.
The show arrived from Algona over
the Northwestern, reaching the city at
6 o'clock a. m. The tents We're pitched
at the fair grounds in hard rain, but
everything was in readiness for the pa
rade at 1890. While the rain and
threatening weather of the morning
probably kept good many of the farm
ers at home. there was an immense
crowd in the city. The morning trains
brought more people to town than on
the day Ringing Bros. show appeared
here.
The morning train from the east on
the Northwestern, which was late and
did not arrive until about o'clock,
brought in several hundred people. in
Guiding the usual large delegation from
the Sac and Fox reservation at Tama.
The Story City branch train, which
was composed of five coaches, was
damned and crowded to the car steps,
and even into the baggage car. 1t is
estimated that over 500 people came in
from the Story City district alone.
From the west on the Northwestern
every car was crowded, even to the
baggage car, platforms and steps. The
fast mail on the Northwestern does not
usually carry passengers along with
Uncle SANS property, but it did this
morning, as there wasn't room in the
coach for those who were on board.
The Central trains from the north and
south We're also heavily loaded, extra
coaches being added to both to accom-
modate the crowds
I While wild west show does not wear
as we'll with the amusement loving pub
lie as does circus, Col Cody and his
managers are seeking something new
and are adding to their attractions.
Hence they are able to fill demand for
variety in canvas shows. The parade
was all that could be expected or de-
sired, and was as attractive as fine
horses, Representatives of many nations
and music could make it. There were
cowboys, rough riders, cavalrymen, ar
tillerymen, Indians galore, Cubans,
Mexicans, Arabs. etc, with rapid-fire
Maxim guns, the veteran stage coach,
a cavalry band and two other bands.
Col. Cody himself led the parade.
| An immense crowd was present this
tafternoon,- and saw re-enacted recent
event that will live long in history.
Some of the actors fought in Cuba, but
this was a struggle in which blank cart
ridges figured exclusively, and though
the noise equalled the real thing, the ex
ecution was bloodless. This scene is
more realistic at night however, as then
| it is embellished with huge calcium
lights.
The first punber on the elaborate
program was spectacular to a degree.
| 1t was grand review of the entire
company. The picturesquely-clad cow
boy band, whose sombreros alternated
with the shining brass instruments they
bore, struck UP THE Star Spangled
Banner" and into the arena cantered a
half hundred bronchos, bearing as many
lnalf-clad aborigines. Their yells min
| gled with the sound of the bells about
the ponies necks, and what clothing
they did wear was confined to much
lmulti-colored war paint and many war
| feathers. Next came small bands of
some twenty each, including the vari-
lously-costumed sons of all nations
cowboys, Mexicans. Cossacks, Gauchos,
| Arabs, scouts and the regular soldiery
| of England, Germany, Russia. Cuba,
] Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
| The last to appear We're the United
States regular cavalrymen of the Fifth
Regiment. AS they rounded the front
at breakneck speed, the threats of thou
sands of previously Indifferent specta-
tors were Embossed, and, when, second
later, the stars and stripes came to the
Ifore, patriotism became vocal, and
every one seemed to be trying to out
shout his neighbor.
Then the entire band of horsemen
called to the front, saluted, and, as
Buffalo Bill himself Joined them at the
head, WED with those who watched from
the seats in lusty cheers for their famed
Header. After all, Buffalo Bill himself Is
the real attraction.
/ After they had all disappeared in the
wings young woman took
the front center of the stage"
and did the impossible with
rifles and clay pigeons, shooting the
white globes in midair from all sorts of
queer postures. 1t was Miss Annie
Oakley, the celebrated lady shot.
After the race of races"-a horse
back contest between representatives
jof ten nations-came splendid drill by
1.-TWO squads Of artillerymen from Capt.
Thorpe's battery D. Fifth United States
artillery. The prairie emigrant
train next hove into view. and
/ two great white "schooners' OF the
primitive transportation days Of 49.
The Indians appeared almost
simultaneously. and duplicated. in fun,
their maneuvers Of yore by opening fire
on the vehicles. from which they were
soon driven by the timely arrival of
Buffalo Bill and band OF cowboys,
whose guns came painfully within
4 speaking distance"
A former pony post rider showed
how the mail used to be delivered in
the days before railroads or telegraphs
belted and dotted the western plains.
A group of Mexicans showed how easy
1t is to manipulate a lasso-when you
know how.
Then came the feature of the show,
the bivouac before and the battle of
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