The Washington times., 1911-04-16
BUFFALO BILL AND
!. HIS WILD WEST HERE,
TENTS UP IN NIGHT
Colonel Cody and Army
Spend Easter Day in
Idleness.
PERFORMERS LOUNGE
IN BALMY SUNSHINE
Everything Ready for Opening of
FareweS Exhibition
Tomorrow. Fl

OF mushroom growth more rapid than
even that Of a mining ''Doom' town,
Buffalo BilTs canvas circus city has
over night raised its tops at the circus
grounds. -.
And because today is Sunday, with
twenty-four. whole hours before even
the first public performance, the men
and women of the show are taking
things easy, and enjoying that rare oc-
casion in Their itinerary-a day of.
In the dressing tent this morning,
they sat around In little knots and
groups until big cowman, lolling on
a pile of that miscellany known as
property" spoke
i picked up pome the other day."
he said. started out East is East and
West is West, an Il kinda struck me
that this outfit uh Colonel Cody's West
and Pawnee Bills Far East might
hitch up under them verses.
Il amt never been much on verses"
commented another of the cowmen.
"Oh, but this one was a real he-verse"
. sai6 the first.
"1t said East and West would never
meet unless it was when a strong big
man from the East met mans man
from the West, and then it told about
horsemanship that Amt even beat in
this show"
Moon Worshiper.
Kind uh reminded me too. We had
one year with this outfit an East In
dian fellow. Moon worshiper, he was,
. and I'D stand all night in the arena just
starin' up at the moon.
well, he was standin' out there one
night when one uh tn outlaw horses
got loose somehow, an you know what
that means. That cayuse made straight
out in tn arena ( where the moon
worshipers was standing. Buck Taylor
had hear the cayuse when he broke
loose though, and grabbin' a rope he
ran into the arena. II was some hard
for him TO put the line over that ami
E ,naI and him afoot, but he did it.
Th fight between tn cayuse an Buck
was the prettiest 1 ever heard of, and
1t would gone hard with Buck in tn
end If some uh tn other boys hadn't
come with their ropes and thrown tEat
outlaw. An during it all that moon
worshiper hadn't paid no attention at
all
'Oh, tell that 10 the press agent" one
of the cowmen said. I'm going to pur
on my chaps and go for that automo-
bile ride Ibis afternoon "a
Indians and two or three of the cow
boys did to pass Easter Sunday. They
- had long string OF automobiles TO take
them around the city.
Chief Iron Tail.
Iron Tail the big chief, was in the
first car, and his leg isn't broken, as II
was reported to be in morning news
paper. Iron Tail says so himself in his
cultural grunts.
And while the automobile trip was
being run off hundreds of canvasmen
were busy getting up the last of the
big tops which are to transform the
vacant lot at Fifteenth and II streets
into a busy savage sort of CITY for
tomorrows performance.
There are lots of things to Sc about
there. For instance, even a trained
crew of engineers would have baIked
at the prospect of draining thousands
of gallons of water from the circus
grounds, and that was the problem that
faced the circus people yesterday.
But it is all dry now. or will b by
the time the Easter sun has finished its
drying-up process.
Colonel Cody himself was on the
to him, and he Immediately becomes en-
thusiastic. From the SIS clay-bank
bronc with a disposition like a rat-tail
file, TO the big golding Joe Bailey
principal of the high school horses, val
ued at thousands and thousands of dol
lars, the colonel loves them all
Colonel Cody favors the plan of the
army breeding its own mounts. He
thinks the Northwestern type of animal
Is Just about the best thing in horse
flesh for endurance that can be found
IF the cavalry was mounted on Mon
tana or wyoming horses they could not
do better" the colonel said: Those
horses are raised in a mountain coun-
try, with limestone substratas, and
they are as deep-lunged and sure-footed
as the men that country produces. And
these same horses are good for artil-
]ery work. Why we've got some of the
old heavy Napoleon cannon with this
show, and those little 1,100-pound horses
whirl them around in the mud and
heavy-going like they were one
FOUNDERS"