New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-24
THE ROUGH RIDERS RETURN.
THEY FILL THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
WITH POWDER SMOKE AND ENTHUSIASM

THEY FILL THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
WITH POWDER SMOKE AND ENTHUSIASM.
The Madison Square Garden was blue with the
smoke and gunpowder last night and the arena was
strewn with the broken glass balls and clay pigeons
which the marksmen had hit. and with the whole
ones which they had missed. Buffalo Bill and the
whole aggregation OF the Wild West and the
Rough Riders were back again. and the public
there ready to welcome them. The welcome has
never been Wa inner. Colonel Cody received
with more and longer and louder cheers than he
ever heard in the Garden before. Everybody was
glad to see him. and everybody showed IT.
The show has gone developing and improving
as the country has gone on. through all the many
years since 1t was started. The Wild West used to
be the whole of 1t; it is rather the lesser part.
The old important features retained, but there
are newer and better The attacks the
emigrant train, the settlers cabin and the Dead
wood coach and the buffalo hunt a bit per-
functory in their nature now, because they
longer represent things which are. The military
features have risen into greater prominence be-
cause they illustrate the things which in
everybody's mind.
But there is act which can never grow old.
though 1t has been in the show long as any The
riding of the bucking horses will always be the
funniest and the most exciting feature Of the show
and 1t would not be easy 10 find a feature of any
show TO equal II in the elements of amusement and
suspended interest. which dramatists deem so
portant The horses from the evidences last
night, have not yet made up their minds TO be
ridden peaoeabiy. If they ever do, they will lose
their jobs Perhaps they know that and at any
rate they seem to be in danger of losing them
The recent solemn declaration of the Indian
Bureau that never, never any would It lei
anybody at all have any Indians for exhibition has
not in the least diminished the number of aborig-
ines In the Wild West. Buffalo Bill could probable
manage very we'll without them he has so many
other attractions but no doubt the exhibition is
better with them. They take their old part and in
a sense, the further the time passes from the days
when they were the interest and the terror of a
great part of the country the interesting they
become
Porto Ricans and Filipinos bring the collection of
strange peoples quite up date and the battle of
san Juan Hill is by no means old story yet. 1t
is done on an even more fiery scale than year
ago. and the whole Garden is foggy long before 1t
is over. There a small boy who In his
widest dreams could desire noise than the
battle Of San Juan makes Next year perhaps it
smith, with real British soldiers and Beers, but no
1t has been remarked that the wild west diff
ters from the circus in the fact. among others,
they nave learned to do for the special purpose of
FORM fss WHERE In f MILD o6sr P Pe
poses. and for the most part, for some important
though it is dcuIf TO see Quite What d the cossaek
IN tho sadde ne n E he srH d on IN ms aee
part of the cavalry maneuvres, in the shooting
an 9 the Pne hod Ger features OF the
No American has any reason to feel otherwise
than proud of his country's soldiers when he
them beside those of Europe in the Congress Of
Rough Riders. The EmperoFs and the Queens
cavalry do only the tamest of feats in comparison
with the horsemeD of the 9th United States: They
do not stick lances into tent pegs, and they do
not trouble themselves about the music but they
ride horses In ways that even circus riders might
probably study.
1t may be added that Miss Annie Oakley and
Johnny Baker true in their aim ever
that the pony post rider mounts his relays with
exciting CELEBRITY; that the MeXicens astonlsh all
behoders with their throwing of the lasso, be-
who sees II only once year never can
sufficiently used TO IL believe that the lasso
is going TO light where it inevitably does light
that the wfirlnc deryish Whirls his seven minutes
without apparent discomfort; that the CossaCks
ride and swing their swords with the utmost dis
regard of life and health. and that Colonel Cody
shoots at glass balls while riding at a gaop. And
the smell the powder makes ii all three times as
exciting and delightful any description where
the smell does not enter IN, can possibly make it.
day morning and a consequent opportunity for
everybody to see enough free to begin to burn
with the desire to see the rest. for which it is
necessary TO pay The show being now launched
Ii go GA, afternoon and evening, for the next
weeks.