Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
BUFFALO BILL is HERE
Hero of the Wild West Comes
With His Show TO Remain
One Day.
BIG CROWDS SEE THE PARADE
Two Performances to Be Given
at Ninth Avenue and Four
teenth Street.
ZIG CROWDS SEE THE PARADE

Buffalo Bill, or more properly
speaking, Col. w. F. Cody, is in
town. lie came this morning from
Fairfield. Iowa. on special trains over
| the Rock Island road, accompanied
by his cowboy band and other adj
juncts that go to make mp what is
conceded to be the only faithful re-
production OF frontier life that is
presented under canvas The show
is anchored for the day at Ninth ave-
nue. and Fourteenth street, where two
performances are to be given, at 2
and 8 p. IN. The big parade, en-
bracing all and more than promised,
occurred this morning and was wit
messed by large crowds OF people.
The procession was led in person by
Col Cody, who will also take part in
both exhibitions.
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 au
established fact that Messrs. Cody
and Salisbury are the pioneers in the
reproduction, 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 by this management,
impossible to others OF more limited
resources, and have marked areas in
educative entertainment that are
recognized as history making in
themselves. This season it is the in
tention of the management of Buffalo
Bits Wild West to eclipse, in every
way, all their former efforts; and in
order to do so they have spent time
and money lavishly preparing for a
grand reproduction of the relief of
the christian ministers, missionaries,
and others penned up in the foreign
section of the Chinese capital of
Pekin. awaiting with alternating hope
and fear either the much desired re-
lief from the allied forces advancing
across the country. or the more
dreaded torture and death at the
hands of the Boxers, should that re-
lief fail them. The scene is one that
lends Itself TO picturesque beauty by
reason of the commingled aud vari-
tionalties, as well as the spectacular
effects possible to he produced in the
review before the commanding oili-
GERS. the march. the attack on the
walls, and the final tableauX of the
relief.
south African War Heroes.
Other features that will be- equally
as interesting. though probably not
so thrilling, will be a full exhibition
with paraphernalia, etc of the use
of the breeches-bOuv, as made by the
United States life saving corps, a
number of veterans of that corps hav-
ing been especially engaged and thor
oughly drilled for arenic exhibitions
by prominent officer of the service.
Still more new features are to be
added to the program, the most prom
inent of which will be q display of
manoeuvers. tactics. etc, used in the
South African war, and illustrated bv
sctual participants in that war; all Of
them carrying not only official docu-
ments to prove their genuineness, but
many of them wounds into which the
doubling Thomases" may place their
fingers. 1t would be impossible TO
name All OF luese nhlt- nunUreu OOuLu
African heroes, but few of the more
prominent who have frequently been
mentioned in the dispatches, and who
will take part in this exhibition are
Commandant Won der Loe, one of the
heroes of the battle of Dundee; Scout
DsRoos, who by strategy led the
English into the Boer trap at Spion
Kop; and, on the o'her side can be
mentioned the 20 survivors of the
siege of Matching, who were with
Gen. Baden-Powell, together with a
number of Canadian mounted rifles
and Strathcona Horse. Those who
figure most prominently among the
cOlonials are Sergt. Maj. Roth, of the
Strathcona Horse. MacDougal, of the
mounted rifles. Sergts. Bates and
Morgan. Prlvates Macarthur, Thornton
and others. IL was for carry ing Pri-
vate Thornton from within the
enemy's lines after he had been
wounded that Private Richardson was
awarded the Victoria cross.