The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-11
Wichita Woman Sees RuIl Eiuht.


Mrs. Hattie Huff. wife Of engineer J.
( NJ HUFF. OF the Santa Fe. is at FL Paso
( visiting her daughter Mrs. Thad Van
Horn. and writes bull fight story. from
a womans view. for the Eagle. as fol-
lows:
/ The thing to do in F. Paso on Sunday.
is TO go over on the electric cars 20
Jaurez to see the bull fights. 50 Of course
I had TO go, too.
Waiting in the motley crowd Of Next
/ cans, Negroes. Chinese. Jews and Amer
leans. to deposit $3.50 apiece FOR tickets
gives one q chance for observation
On entering I noticed as we picked our
way OF the wide spaced flooring OF q sort
OF gallery. describing the arena, that
cleaning eyes peered through the cracks
and that brown fingers g5asped the edges
The underworld seemed more popuIous
than the upper one. Al intent on seeing
the approaching combat Necessarily from
narrow point OF view although the
cracks were rather geuerout-as cracks
That sort OF viewing underworld gives
one a shivering kind Of feeling and makes
the concreteness Of asphalt q thing 10
be most desired
=
which for high stepping beats our ordin-
any circus seats an hollow. ne were
seated with opportunity TO observe our
surroundings
/ couldn't help wondering Why 50 many
people sat IN the glazing hot sun while
many seats in the shade ~ere unoccupied
They save fifty cents by the arrange
ment" said ny escort-
The crowd was strikingiy American.
every bit as much 50 as one sees at Ring
ling Bros circus AT home with the abb
sence OF the farmer ard his family IL
was a disappointment. I expected to be
in an entirely different environment
foreign lot of people excited and gesticu-
latiug talking an uninteillgibie. though
mel0dious tongue
But here vas the same old crowd. the
men y.ll dressed, probably a little swell
the women. well. they wou.d lend them
selves -sry nicely for the bits Of color
and the high lights 70 a painter OF the
a 4emblage. IL seems u me I noticed
an unusual number Of queer complexlonss
II may Be the custom Of the coultrT-
The wide-brinmed. foDpy hat ~ this
season IS greatly iu vogue here among
the women f0lk-the Americans 7 mean.
OF course the black-haired Mexican 40
man disdaius such superious head-gear
in q hot country. while she caa drzpe
her shoulders with the inevitable black
shawl
should Judge there we're about two
thousand people preseut-ze woaidn
and hot sun.
IN ne center ~ the arena is caEe ~
what seemed o. me very slender l79a bars
considering the amount - brute force
i xas 20 restrain within lis bounds u
vas abou;-weu. I'M Tot good az dinsu-
sious n height except hy comp1rison--
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gre ~ circumference tlaa a SIX ring cir-
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