The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

ecutlon, balance and Interpretation are
distinctly in evidence. A more perfecr
ensemble has rarely been heard in Gin
clnnati when runs are to be delivered
each group of instruments sounds like
one. Accelleration, retardo. pauses
where a little raggedness and uncer
tainty can easily be pardoned, needed
no such indulgence, for one thought
pervaded the entire band.
The religious pieces, with the church
chime effects. were extremely beauti-
full. The light, piquant. popular music
was crisp and clear, and the serious
music, as in the Parsifal professional.
was given with dignity and intelli-
gence
"One of the best numbers was med
ley of British airs deity put together
with musicianly skill by Carl Baatens.
who was once a Cincinnati musician.
Mr.. Kopp, in his cornet solo, played
with refined taste and a tone the
timbre of which was sweet, delicate.
sympathetic, penetrating-a true trum.
pet tone.
The vocal soloist, Miss Flora Sch
wartz, in her Italian aria, Don Carlo"
received an ovation and gave an Ave
Maria by Mascagny, She has a high
soprano voice of carrying quality and
under a good degree of artistic train
ing"
The Herald has published complete
list of the liberal money premiums Of
fered in the Floral Hall and Poultry
and these departments
will be the best in the history of any
fair ever held in the county. The
premiums in the show rings for cat
tie, sheep. hogs, mules, jacks, trotters.
and saddle horses are more liberal
than for some years, and one would
think the Association would be salts
fed with these arrangements for the
of their visitors, but
they did not stop there they are out
after special free attractions, some
thing high-class in the way of special
ties and they closed contract this
week, with the Wild Bill aggregation
Of COW boys and Indians which will
prove an unique and most interesting
feature for this occasion and will doubt
less draw thousands of people to the
grounds. This attraction was secured
1t large cost. but will be worth more
than twice the money expended, if the
following account of the attraction
rom The Souvenir Magazine is half
way true:
Eastern interest in the West and
Western types never wanes.
IN the Indian Congress and Wild
West of Wonderland there are faith
July reproduced. not only for the
amusement, but also for the instruc-
ion of Wonderland patrons the lives,
customs. habits and pastimes of the
Indians and the cattlemen.
The very name of the proprietor
1reathes Of the strenuous life which
7ertains to the cowboy Col. William
i. Kennedy, ex-cowboy and ex-ranch-
nan of Oklahoma is known far and
vide in the West as wild Bill" He
5 as genuine a cowboy and cattle
,uncher as ever threw a lariat or con-
luered a "bucking" broncho
wild Bill has assembled at Won
lerland a troupe of ninety people. For
V of them are bona-fide Indians
Apache. Sioux Tuscarora and Chey-
,nne-all under the immediate charge
if Chief Toughfeather The latter is
fierce old warrior who is disting
lished in the West as being a survivor
# the Custer massacre at the Little
Big Horn
There is an equal number of cow
Joys from the ranches of the cattle
They are of the fearless,
type which Mr.. Owen
Nister has so heroically portrayed in
lis celebrated novel, THE Virginian."
they can ride hard and fast, shoot
luick and straight and can do things
IN galloping broncho which an ordi-
larry man would hardly dare to at
empt on a saw-horse.
Not the least in the Wild West are
he five Cow girls" if the expression
nay obtain They are daring maids of
he West, graceful riders and admir-
bile examples of the fearless Western
.irl.
Every performance of the Wild
Vest is proceeded by an imposing pa
ade through Wonderland which alone
$ better than the best Indian and cow
10Y parades ever given in any circus.
The paraders are followed into the
Wild West grounds by throngs of pa