New-York tribune., 1910-04-27
BUFFALO BILL SHOW IS ON
Smoke and Noise A-PIenty in
Madison Square Garden.
FAR EAST FEATURES ADDED
Familiar Old Wild West Now
Something Like 3-Ring, q
Platform Circus.

Enough powder smoke fioated up to the
steel girders Of Madison Square Garden
last night TO satisfy the most rapacious
small boy who hung half out OF the top
gallery and gszed rapturously at the I'm
dian chiefs that fought on blood-stained
fields; rough riders who dare danger and
peril all the time: dazzling. scintillating
brilliant acts by performers from the
Orient cowgirls. rosy-cheeked and cour-
ageous. in hazardous equestrian feats, and
vivid pictures Of past events painted with
flesh and blood" as Frank Winch. the
press agent OF the combined Buffalo Bill
Pawnee BIZ show. puts IT,
Bang, bang, Two shots rang out on the
midnight air''-only there were several hun
dred OF them the cowpunchers dashed
and wheeled and screamed out cross be-
tween the rebel yell and "Hughey'' Jen-
nings's ''E-yah!'
Everybody in the Garden was glad TO see
Colonel Cody when he rode out for the
opening of his farewell-maybe-pe
ances- Just as much a centaur as ever he
was a picturesque figure as the spot light
cleaned on the silver Of his saddle and the
silver of his hair. let out OF the knots for
once. And all the men in the tiers on tiers
Of seats became little boys again and yelled
and clapped when he led his cowboys and
'greasers" and Bedouins and Arabs and
cavalrymen and redmen around the saw
dust at rafting gallop. 1t looked like old
times. and so did the Deadwood Coach and
the Military Tournament and the Pony
Express. except that there are twice as
many Indians and twice as many cowboys
and several boxes more OF blank cartridges
than there ever were before
Now that Pawnee Bits Far East is half
of tie big show, IL is something like a
three-ring and two-platform circus. for
everything is going on at once After the
Dahomeyans, who look not unlike thew
hailed from 5sth street EXCEPT for their
lack Of clothes. have filed out of the way.
the Arabs whirl and swing and turn them
selves into rubber balls and the Bushmen
hurl their backfiring boomerangs at th.
startled audience. while the Cingalcse spin
I'm a dance that looks like the first stages
OF paresis. A troupe of Russians dance
the fascinating czardas and are wildly an
plauded. but the coup d'etat was Rossi,s
musical elephants. On the broad grsv
back of each was a Rhine maiden lent for
tho occasion by Alberich. Signor RossI.
who put the elephants through their PAGES.
or gamuts, just as you wish, was a very
excitable person, but he awakened the
phlegmatic natures OF the "ponderous
pachyderms"-Mr Winch again-and they
waxed so gay that two OF them wanted to
keep on with the bill. even when the musi-
cal number was over. In the middle OF II
all a dervish whirled in a businesslike way.
oblivious of all else
Get a programme. Yer can't tell nuttin
about der show widout book" yelled the
gentIemanly usher who passed around
But everybody was too busy looking at the
sights to wish for print.
The battle OF Summit Springs is the big
noise" said Mr.. Winch. and he is right
II Is a collection OF war paint. blank cart
ridges. whoops. yells. creaking saddles.
weather stained tepees. wampum. Shrek
ing women. dead men. feathered head
dresses. khaki. dust. sweating ponies six
inch spurs and Springfield rifles. And at
the end Buffalo Bill pumps several charges
Of lead into the glistening red body Of
Tall Bull. The scene is founded on the real
battle. I'm July 1869. when General f. A
Carr fought Sioux. Cheyenne and Arspahoe
renegades with a troop composed OF Paw
nee scouts and United States troopers
Colonel Cody was chief OF the scouts. and
SO the play is staged true TO history
There are seventeen episodes In the
show. all the way from troop OF zouaves
10 a horde OF mad Cossacks. May Thomp-
son. the cowgirl who rode without a bride.
and the COW puncher. who whirled his rope
IN overwhelming circles while he sped round
and round the sawdust, attracted as mnch
attention last night as anything else.