The Washington herald., 1909-05-31
SMALL BOY IS GLAD
Watches Arrival of Buffalo
Bill and the Indians.
BIG TENTS AWAIT CROWDS
Two Performances To-day and Two
To-mOrrOw-Far East a New Fen
ture and the Desert Dream Also
Prafsed-Huge supply of Food
Needed for the Performers.

Without a shot from pistol or a gun,
without an angry word or look. though
with a physiognomy full OF astoEishment,
more than I0J redskins yesterday descend
ed on this city with Buffalo Bills Wild
West aggregation-now combined with
Pawnee Bits Far EasJ-and captured
the lot at Fifteenth and II streets north
east.
There were a score OF ether nationali-
ties with them, but the Indians were 1t
with the crowds The small boy and the
gray-haired boy wanted TO peep into the
tepees OF the Indian and see how he
really lived. and they did. Nothing could
stop the thousands that visited the show
grounds from seeing all they wanted to
see. for they were apparently thirsty for
the lie OF the West
And here let & be remembered that
Col William T. Cody. also known 70 thou
sands as Buffalo Bill and Maj. Gordon
w Lille. whose pseudonyn. Pawnee Bill,
Is a password IN the land OF the red
skin. have done what Rudyard Kipling
dered any one 70 Go. They have Joined
the East and West, and the exhibition
viii perhaps give the results OF what
two great men" can do when they rep
resent the Occident and the Orient That
viii be shown this afternoon at o'clock;
also al night and the next afternoon and
night
Six Hundred Horses.
There are several persons with the Wild
West and the Far East Six hundred
horses were on the lot yesterday. Then,
there are also elephants camels. and
( buffalo; cutie enough 20 keep q small
town busy. especially when 1t IS reuen-
I bered the daring types that are with the
outfit
! There are many new features with the
Wild West. including those with the Far
/ East aggregation. and the Desert Dream
/ has been Iauded as one of the fairest pie
/ lures OF It's kind that has ever been at
! tempted on such an immense scale
/ Mounting their steeds and taking two
/ led horses BY the halter. the Indians and
/ COWBOYS yesterday morning rode 20 their
camping ground Here everything was
activity. The canvas Of the great dining
/ tent was already being drawn 10 the top
! OF the poles with the aid OF pulleys. while
I elsewhere the shorter tent poles were
1 being driven into the ground 10 the regu-
/ lar fan OF sledges swung IN the hands OF
I six men 10 every peg The wagons were
/ being. arranged in the places they are 10
( occupy. The outline OF the arena IN
which the exhibition IS TO be held was
/ being marked by short tent poles and
piles Of canvas II was not long before
! this was IN readiness. with the sll-impor-
tsnt ticket wagon near the entrance
Supper Is Prepared.
BY that time the supper hour had sp-
preached From an open tent came
+ sounds or baking and frying and bro.l-
ing innumsrabIe steaks. and outlets were
thrown into pans that looked Ike the
+ lower half of such pans rs are used 10
roast The family turkey on Thanksgiving
Day. The outside Of the tent. instead OF
being lined with canvas, was surrounded
with portable stoves. under which wood
fires were burning brightly and over
which vegetables were cooking. one days
/ supply Of food is always taken with the
show from the yown il has last left. and
Y the succeeding days provisions is bought
from the town in which IL has Just ar
rived.
/ Eighteen or twenty long tables. divided
into two parts separated By a partition
OF canvas. filed the dining tent. They
were set with agate plates. cups. and
u lsaucers. One Of the partitions was set
aside for the Indians and the contingent
from the Tar East, and the other was
used for the cowboys and others con
Inected with the Wild West. Indians and
/ Cossacks and cowboys. each al their al
ilotted tables. were eating voraciousiy, the
Indians especially happy because OF theii
recently having learned 20 cool their COZ
fee by pouring it from the cups into the
fsaucers and then drinking Il. Followers
OF the show say fl is wonderful how
quickly the Indians learn the luxUTieS
iOf civilization