The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-24
WILD VESTS PROGRAMME.
,-.otures of Buffalo Bits Shows This
ArternOon and Tonight.

pufalo Bills Wild West Show will
-, at the Bolton Street Baseball
D~ounds to-day for two performances.
.,o1ock this afternoon and o'clock
-..rirht. The parade is announced to
.,r+ from the grounds at $50 o'clock
ME morning. In all probability, how
,,or it will be somewhat later than
ena+ hour. The shows will arrive this
.,,orning from Augusta, and it will take
come time to get everything in readi-
.ss for the parade. Col. Cody is a
nH,jctIer for keeping his word with the
.',bIc and his management is COM
IlIed TO make due allowance for the
Gtoiav in arriving, in order to start the
,ierade. The procession will be through
ibe streets usually followed in parades
of this kind.
There is no show which visits Savan-
rob in which there is so great interest
ae there is in the Wild West.
n was a boldly original idea, not only
,eculiarly American but also char
aacteristic of the adventurous origina-
tors of Cody and Salisbury, to employ
Gov their representation of important
Rings in recent contemporaneous his
INV. the men who were actual partici-
nants in the events and conditions they
Illustrate Had the managers of the
Wild West been mere showmen, they
would have been content with approx
roately correct costuming of a gang of
cheap and easily procured ''supernum-
cries" possibly trained Sandwich
Men" by day, and Roman Citizens"
Nv night. or any other old things occa-
sion might demand. But instead of that
thew went to infinite and great expense
n procure the real thing" in every
instance. Their Cossacks, Arabs, Ger
man cuirassiers, British Lancers, Sixth
United States Cavalrymen, French
light Horse, Cuban guerillas and
American Rough Riders are as unques-
tionably genuine as their dashing cow
bows and red men, about whom there
could be no question.
This season, in continuance of this
policy. Col. Cody and Mr.. Salisbury
have engaged representative soldiers
from both sides to illustrate the South
African war, and show the quality of
men fighting in it. The detachment of
Beers secured for them in South Afri-
ca are men who served with Cronje
and DeWet, men who would be in the
field to-day, invading Natal, no doubt.
had they not been incapacitated for the
extremely rigorous service of their
campaigning methods. And, riding with
them in the Wild West arena, will be
seen platoons of the two organizations
of the Canadian contingent of the Brit
ish army, most worthy of regard as
rivals of the American Rough Riders in
horsemanship and daring, the North
west Mounted Police, the Canadian
Mounted Riflemen and the Strathcona
Horse. All these gallant soldiers are
uniformed. armed and equipped pre-
cisely as they were on the field.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
something extremely original in the
way of entertainments will be given
as an addition to the many familiar
and most popular features of Buffalo
Bills exhibition. 1t has become an es-
tabished fact that Messrs. Cody and
Salisbury are the pioneers in the re-
production, on a grand scale, of the
most interesting of current historical
events. Clusters Last Rally" and the
Charge of San Juan Hill have been
reproduced, and have marked eras in
educative entertainment that are re-
cognized as history making in them
selves. This season the management
of Buffalo Bills Wild West eclispes in
every way, all former efforts; and in
order to do so they have spent time
and money lavishly preparing for re-
production of the relief of the Chris
tan minister's missionaries and others
penned up in the foreign section of the
Chinese capital at Pekin, awaiting
with alternating hope and fear either
the much desired relief from the allied
forces advancing across the country,
or the more dreaded torture and death
at the hands of the Boxers, should that
relief fail them. The scene is one that
lends itself to picturesqueness by rea-
son of the commingled and vari-col-
ored uniforms of the various nationali-
ties, as well as the spectacular effects
possible to be reproduced in the re-
view before the commanding officers,
the march, the attack on the walls,
and the final tableaux of the relief.