The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-27
BUFFALO BILL COMES OCT. II
Returns From Abroad After Sew
eraI Years Absence
Great Wild West Aggregation Soon to
% Give One Of its Unrfyalled Per-
formances In This Oty-Special
Features of the Present Show.

"
After touring Great Britain and Con-
tinental Europe for the past four
years, Buffalo Bills Wild West and
Congress of Rough Riders of the
World, is home again. Arrangements
have been perfected for the exhibition
to appear in this city ON Thursday,
October 18th, exactly as given in Mad
ison Square Garden, New York City,
when the show opened its tour this
spring, the performance will be pre-
scented without curtailment or changes
of any sort.
Buffalo Bill has beer abroad so long
that his homecoming affords what is
practically a novelty in arenic enter
tainment. During his absence the
little folks nave grown into youths
and young ladies and those of US who
saw the exhibition years ago will
take equal interest in seeing it over
o6olA. Tx UC ISdl uOSclIy DIC-
vided in many features of the pro-
gram and for the homecoming Jour
of this foremost among arenic insti-
t%uitons, two spectacular features have
been prepared az special attractions.
During the four separate tours CT
Europe which Buffalo Bill has made
he has presented his historical enter.
tainment in eighteen different coun
tries, before crowned heads and pie
beans and in vast majority of instan-
ces where an English-speaking person
was a rarity. But in all his travels
he has depicted conquest and event
tual civilization of the Indian and
has presented scenes of historic events
with unfailing fidelity and with sue
cess which astonished the skep-
teal. He has done more than any
other American to open the book Of
our early history before the eyes Of
Europeans and they have looked with
admiring eyes upon the wonders there
unfolded.
While the exhibition will be prac-
tically new this season, the display
will, of course, conform to the gen.
eral style of entertainment which Col.
VIM. F. Cody ("Bufalo Bill") has al
ways presented; historical in it's fun
damental principal, original in it's
conception and maintenance, unique
as an arenic entertainment and in a
class all by itself among out-of-door
amusements. There will be a number
OF special features in the department
of rough-riding and general equestrian
displays, and there will be two special
exhibits which have been exclusively
designed and perfected for the present
tour.
The topping features of the program
will be the pantomimic melodrama
"The Great Train Hold-Up' and ''The
Bandit Hunters of the Union Pacific
together with the Battle of Summit
Springs. These separate and dis
tinct features will depict two import
ant eras in western development-the
conquering and subsection of the bar
barrie red men and the fast disappear
ing hoard of bandits who followed
the trail of the colonizer and preyed
upon the railroad and express COM
panies in their advance across the
plains.
The Congress of Rough Riders of
the World will constitute an import
ant factor in the exhibition and will
present a display Of equestrian ex-
pertness and an exhibition of nerve,
skill and manly daring which is sure
to excite enthusiastic admiration.
Horsemen of all nations will vie in
feats of fearlessness, and our own
American-bred cowboys will be not
the least factor in the stirring picture