The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-22
BUFFALO BILL IN TOWN AGAIN
LOTS OF NOVELTIES AND THE
BEST or THE OLD THINGS,

Prairie Fire That Hasn't Yet steadied Down
10 BE q First Rate AotOF-COl. Cody
sum . Central Figure In the Ropresen-
tatiOn Of the summit springs Fght.
Buffalo Bills Wild West show came back
to wi again last evening at the Madison
Square Garden. It can be stated that the
show seems TO have suffered no Ill effects
during the winter season, and II the smell
Of the moth balls hangs round II still all It
needs is a bit Of airing 10 set II quite right.
In other words, Buffalo Bill Is Buffalo Bill
and his show is his show. Both have been
institutions hereabouts for some time.
Col. Cody himself is, as heretofore, the
picturesque centre about which everything
else revolves, and II he IL perhaps a shade
grayer and possibly a pound or two stouter
than when last we saw him, he still resembles
his most dashing pictures, which IL saying
something, when you come to think about
il. And there are Indians and plainsmen
and cowboys and bucking broncos, and
COssacks and i~nfantrymen and cavalTymen
and gunpowder and gunpowder and gun
powder. No lever OF gunpowder in its most
| rural mAnlIeb htlDIb VIII Say Niut t"p nv
has deteriorated In the least,
The audience was an overlooking one that
gave ~unmistakable signs OF enjoying Itself
II was interested in everything, all the way
from Joe Bailey, the marvellous well trained
horse, TO a prairie fire that wasn't quite so
we'll trained but which was possibly only
suffering from the stage fright incident TO-
first metropolitan performance, When airs
said and done a performance before a
| s.--g--I A. ut.At a,tAiannaH Ia nnf IN Ina
sneezed at, and any prairie fire, no matter
how hardened, might we'll be pardoned Tor
feeling nervous about IL, II was a very
handsome prairie fire and decidedly worth
looking at.
Before the FIRE five buffalo, including
one buffalo calf, appeared and roamed the
sawdust prairie until Buffalo Bill and several
Of his trusty scouts espied them. They
kent right on roaming the sawdust prairies
| after that, and n Buffalo Bill and friends
hadn't been shooting blanks they would
have proved themselves to be pretty bad
little shooters, for the bison all got away
In safety,
mere is Just a possibility that Arabs and
Japanese may not be exactly typical OF the
life " our great Western plains, but there Is
no doubt that these with the Wild West are
entertaining. There was, Tor example one
awaiting jap boy who was luggled on the
soIes Of his fathers feet with a speed and
apparent recklessness that made one believe
little boys must be extraordinarily numerous
in Japan else nobody would take such
chances with this one.
One Of the features Of the show is a
representation Of the battle OF Summit
Springs, in which Col. Cody Is reliably said
to have acted ~ a scout for the troops
that licked the redskins. To prove II, last
evening he was the first, excepting several
thousand spectators. to loo ate the red
diyvles in their night encampment, and he
also slew the dauntless Tall Bull az a wind
up.
Buck jumping seems to have lost zone
Of It's charms for the public, and thus year +
buokers are assisted by a lively young mule
whose name Ia Maud. Their antics are incl
dental TO a series Of cowboys frolics sup
posed 10 wind up a day Of hard work on
the ranch. This being a typical ranch day
il winds up with the regular daily lnJun at
tack and repulse.
II wouldn't be fair to pass the real lnjun
| braves by without a word IN praise OF their
artistic achievements. Between them they
do some chromatic stunts that MaXteld
Parrish needn't have been ashamed OF.
They are clothed mostly in paint, but there
Ia 80 much Of that that IL doesn't matter,
Most OF il is decidedly impressionistic, but
designers OF wall paper and llnoleum effects
can get some good points by observing them.
or course Johnny Baker is there again.
The show wouldn't he the show without
him. His eye seems to have lost none OF it's
keenness. though some OF his work lost it's
effect last evening because though he could
see what he was shooting at, the spectators
couldn't.
The attack Of the DeadwOod stage coach
sagain reproduced, the 2ouave drill ia given
and real Cossac ks do their dizzy deeds on
horseback, while toward the end OF the
programme the awful avalanche, ' follow
ing a blizzard, sweeps down and blots out
a little mountain village, and as a finale
comes the grand salute OF the whole pic
turesoue troop, headed by the figure that
gives a name TO the aggregation, the figure
Of Buffalo Bill himself, and physicians who
EXPECT TO be summoned may leave their
seat numbers at the box office.