The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-20
WILD WEST SHOW.
The Review of Reviews.

The R6N1eW Ol IlGNlSWS'
 The initial feature of the perform ances in Buffalo Bills Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, which comes June 28, IS the grand international equestrian review and everybody should be seated by or s D. n., as it always opens sharp at those hours, and to miss it, or any part of it, is to lose magnificent, electrlfy- ing. enthralling, martial eye-feast or 1n- diyidual and cosmopolitan horseman- shin. even the remotest furore and Ha- yor of which no description can Dossl- blv convey. All the old-time, stereo- typed crawling pageants and so-called "grand entrees" are but cardboard and nunnet travesties when opposed to it's magnitude and splendid ensemble or glancing, glittering, flying, thunderlhg' overwhelming action. It has been re- corded that 'it stirs the blood as no other spectacle could short of battle, shipwreck or an earthquake, ana II arouses the martial and chiValrous spirit to the very climax and exultant abandon of enthusiasm. The dash, the fire, the glory and glomour of it all VIII transport you. You will be immensely pleased with yourself if because your patriotism has aroused you so ana yollr blood has leaped responsive in your veins. The flashing, danclng' prismatic splendor of the show, the nerve and adroitness of the ridedrs, the epeed power, nobility and intelligence of the horses, the streaming colors and ringing, corruscating steel-lance, ,,1n hp1r1at and bur- nished breast-rlate, the clanking scab- bard and jinglingi ringing spur--these all intoxicate your brain and intlame Ill you the exultation of glorious war.
 The stirring strains of the Cowboy Band form the signal in response to which a band of savage Sioux horse men appear at the far end of the vast enclosure. With shrill cries and straieht and swift as an eagle-feath- cred arrow the barbarically arrayed and fearsomely painted braves shoot into the open, through the sunlight, or under the almost equally bright electric rays, taking their headlong, bareback fight down the plain to where the ap- plauso is swelling With a swoop the fierce cavalcade curves at the end, spreads like an opening fan, circles and is stretched across the plain, notion less. Succeeding them with splendid regulated sweep or swift rush come on the gallant "QKueen's Own" Lancers; the stalwart cavalry from the Emperor of Germany's Bodyguard; the famous horsemen of our own pet Sixth Caval- ry, with their yellow braid and plumes, Old Glory with them; the 1.-the and swarthy contingent of scared Cuban patriots; wild Cossack light cavalry men of the VoIga whooping, dare-dev- il Cowboys; the Arabs with their quaint, long guns and the streaming draperies; the Mexicans with wide sombrero and Tapping trousers; the South American Gauchos, whirling their deadly bolas as they gallop on; and behind them all rides Buffalo Bill, the managerial spirit among all these Centaurs, lowing as his horse gallops with long and even stride, until he faces the vast and expectant throng, which. as he raisees his hat above his head in graceful salutation greet him with universal roar of welcome
 It is a splendid picture then--rank af- ter rank of horsemen from all nations stretching across the plain, shining with steel and afiame with color; toss- ing manes, running along the lines like wheat moving under a breeze; above them the plumes and the bright crests, and still higher, held in upstretched arms, the white flashing sabres, until a a signal the ranks melt into moving streams of color and light, the horsemen threading their way in and out past one another, circlng, halting, advan- cling, receding, reforming by fours and sixes trailing out in single file, moving ribbons of men and horses spangled with gleaming metal, until two long lines gallop away evenly and steadily and disappear whence they came