The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-19
WILD WEST CAME HERE
TWO BIG AUDIENCE AT BUFFALO
 BILL SHOW.
Streets Were Thronged With People When Big Parade Passed
 Along - Colonel Cody Cynosure of All Eyes.

Friday was Wild Vest Day in Montgomery. Buffalo Bill was here, and the heart Of the old as well as the young was glad. It was a real circus" day persons became young and the young in a sense of instruction became older.
 The weather was ideal. and long be- fore o'clock yesterday morning the crowded with a vast throng of people, both from the city and from the county. Hundreds of country wagons had come in during the early morning hours. and about the time the big parade passed along the principal streets, the thorough fares were crowded. It reminded one of the congested appearance of the streets during the Street Fair of last year. Ev- erybody was in good humor, and every one was talking about Buffalo Bill"
 1t was about 10 o'clock that the big It was nearly ten blocks long. and was a very creditable cavalcade. Many na- tions and races of people were represent ed. Colonel w. F. Cody (Buffalo BID osure of all eyes. He rode in a stylish rig drawn by four white horses. Good bands of music were interspersed in the parade. and their music enlivened the
 The big performance took place in Todd's field on Goode Street. Here was presented typical circus scene. The large main tent was in the background,
 
 ry-go-round. the balloon peddler and the scores of temporary negro lunch stands made things merry on the outside. There was a jam at the afternoon performance and 1t is estimated that ten thousand persons witnessed the exhibition.
 The arena was packed again at the evening performance, and every one ap- peared to enjoy the big show. To form anything like an adequate idea of the vast enterprise of Buffalo Bilis Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders. and the prodigtous extent of every de- partment, would require something more than casual inspection. Only a we'll trained eye can comprehend the lmmen- Sity Of the arena, and the amount of quired to victual and care for the vast army mustered Is astonishing. Differ ing, as 1t does in all other respects from other exhibitions. Buffalo Bills Wild West stands IS a living monument of historic magnifcence. It's distinctive feature Hes in it's sense of realism, bold dash and reckless abandon. It is not a show in any sense of the word. On inc and instructive object lesson, in which the participants repeat the heroic part they have played in actual life on the plains, in the wilderness and in the thrilling features have been added this year that 1t Is impossible to enumeratO them all but probably the most inter- esting was a vivid reproduction of the Battle of Tien Tsin and the relief of Peldn.
 There is also included in this years entertainment a number of selected men from both the English and Boer ar mics. a platoon of Canadian Mounted Ri- fles and Northwest Mounted Police, a corps of the United States Life Saving Service, with al! their parapherhalia
 The service of the Montgomery Street Railway was entirely inadequate in handling the big crowds yesterday. and the hacks did an enormous business. large number of people had to walk to and from the show grounds for lack of aCcommoda ton.
 The exhibition left at an early hour cial trains.