Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-12
CHEYENNE IS tanned
No Longer Widest and Wool
Hest of Places.
BRONCOS BUCK FOR SHOW
Desperadoes Are Gone and Business
Thrives.
MANY BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS
Carnegie Library and Wool Grow
ers' Bank Have Classic
Outlines.
Bushes. a Sale of Small Ii
Bargains those seeking best styles and
absolutely without regard former price
BY WILLIAM f.. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.

Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
CHEYENNE. Wyo., August 3, 1909.
There was time, and it was not long
ago. that Cheyenne was the NEST complete
type of the wild and woody west. Foreign
tourists and students of sociology and
political economy came here to observe
the desperate and fronteirsman in their
native habitat
But Cheyenne has been tanned. All that
sort of thing is limited to the third
week in August 1.-The Frontier days."
when a spectacular exhibition by Indians.
cowboys and rough riders for four days,
on the far grounds shows 1.-The West as
1t was. The pioneers of the plain and
prospectors of the mountains sit in the
grandstand, stroke their whiekers and
crticise the performance to Their children
and grandchildren, just as IAN old grad
talks to "A freshman at college when he
gees ba * to spend commencement week.
On these Frontier days" what is left
| of the past and of local coor is brought
| out and exhibited like the q splav of
| colonial relics in New England There
are Indian pony races COW pony races,
| and re'ay races in viii h the riders have
| tn ee horses each and are required to
| saddle. unsaddle, mount and d smount
| three times unassisted.
| There are bucking contests with broncos
selected by the committee for the worlds
| championship. Each participant is re-
quired to ride any horse and as often
as the judges may deem necessary to
| determine the winner. The no ses are
| furnished by the judges and the riders
! draw for@them. There are exhib tons of
breaking. Harvesting. hitching and driving
! Wild horses that We never saddled or
| bridled O. harnessed before, and wild
/ horse race in which men ride animals
that were never sadded until they came
| on the track.
! There are steer-roping contests in which
! cowboys are to lasso, throw and tie
| steer within three minutes. There are
| races for cowgirls for squaWs and for
| ladies = and all sorts of othe competi-
| tons with horses and steers each days
pc Torrance being introduced by a wild
west process on and a spectacular gal
| Looping parade of one thousand cowboys
and cowgirls, Indians and rough riders.
Chance for a Holiday.
These are great shows and were de-
vised by the Cheyenne Industrial Club ten
or twelve years ago in order to give the
! ranchmen in southern Wyoming and
| rhern Colorado chance for q holiday.
| They were so success I'll that they have
not only b>en held here annually. but
other cities have initiated them. Frontier
days" occur tn year August 20 81 and
~. and the program is the Longest and
the best. the prizes are the most valua BILE
and the attendance will be the largest
| ever known. Fifty thousand people are
expected 10 come and camp around the
| fair grounds. where adequate preparat 'ons
will be made for them. Every household
in town has agreed to tax, in as many
visitors as they can accommodate, and
every body Will be mad welcome.
| Several thousand Indians are coming
/ from the Sioux, Oh ,yenne and Shoshone
and Arapahoe agencies, and bucking horse
I ,t2 lore ND 1a,acf Nnr$
and Texas will come to contest for a big
purse and the worlds championsh p belt.
new feature o the program, and "a
cone ssien to modern progress, will be'a
| series of automobile races upon four
mile track that has been laid cut, almost
a perfect circle, upon plateau just out-
| side the city upon land belonging to the
/ United States government and the city
| of Cheyenne
| It includes "a portion of the Fort D. A.
| Russell military reservation and the
municipal park, and is said to be the only
four-mile race course in the world upon
| which race can be seen rom beginning
to end by the spectators in the grand
stand. This land was purchased by the
| nun cpality many years ago with re-
markabe foresight on the part of who
eral thousand acres. 4 portion of 1t has
been used for artificial lakes-reservoirs
!! for storing a surplus. emergency water
supply for the city. Another portion is
n.
\ mainder will be added TO the military res
ervation as Fort Russell Is extended. =
| A Beautiful Site.
! The fair ground occupies a beautiful
! site about n mile from the Wyoming
| state house, and has been inclosed with
barbed wire fence and furnished with
| a crandstand made Of steel. From the
| upper tiers of seats spectator has
| View of many miles OF the prairie as fair
as a human eye has ever seen.
| Yes, Cheyenne has been tanned. 1t is
| "rie' orderly. busy little city Of 1900,
Inhabitants, with one of the finest high
| school buildin,s in the country; with
/, long rows of attractive residences lining
| the shaded streets: with Il little park Of
| cottonwood trees opposite the capitol,
| where lovers may wander IN the evening:
! and another with a large, artificial lake
| upon the edge OF the city. where the
| richer portion of the p puation take
the air in their automobiles. The streets
| are so straight and So wide that you
! have a vista of the prairie which ever
| way YOU may Look. One is reminded in
Rat way of the width of the world and
| he possibilities of the growth Of Chey
| enne.
do not know any city of its size that
las so many handsome buildings. The
| oNernment post office and courthousf
| 7ost nearly $5to.c0o and is big enough
| md fine enough for city as large as
Cleveland or Buffalo: but all the rooms
| tnder the roof are required fer the United
! States courts. the land Offices. the pos
| flee and other branches of the. federal
| overnment that have headquarters here
The Carnegie Library and the Wool
| ~irowers' National Bark arc as perfect
/ examples of the pure classic as you car
| md In all the architecture of New Eng
. and The railway station is the finest
| IN the mountain states. The X oman
| Catholics have just completed a splendid
| rathedral Of white limestone. with a
| ',andsrme residence for the bishop ad
icning it. The Convent of the Holy
Child is one of the largest and best
/ schools for young women in the west
| The Presbyter'ans. Methodists. piscopa
! fans, C1neregationalists and Baptis:s al
! ave houses of worship of excellent archi-
|
/ The Masonic orders have built an inn
! posing temple. thu Elks have one OF tn
| largest and most conspicuous bull !i,gs in
town, and the Id Cheyenne Club, which
| was once as well known in London as in
Omaha. IS now occup ed by the Indus
trial Cuban organization 0 busi-ess
men for ent raining distinguished visit
o-s, giving information to investors and
promot ng the prosperity of the city.
! Before the farmer pushed the cowmar
nR %l,. Easa aerfSf