The Wild West Show.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 501, 25 September 1890, Page 3

The Wild West Show.

TO BE IN GIBBOBNE NEXT WEEK.

Ths AnMralia h*R been charterpJ hv Wirth Brn*. to bring down the Wil’ Weit Rbow f which repentiy arrived frrm America. Mr Boattie, nn* of the odvano« m*aag<*rß. arrived in Gi*bnrna yppterday to Daka the nwwery arrangement* fnr the exhibition, which throw* in»n th a fhad* al! Oth°r exhihi’inng that have vi«itad N°w * Z r al*nd, Writing nf tho opening performance in Auckland, th# N.Z. Herald There will be a rlnnh’p rirru* enmnanv. „ performing in two ring*, at one and the aame time, and the Roerialtv troitw will fimu!taßaon»!y he performing on the p’evatnr stage, while the various o’nwnt wiH go through the onmie act* on the Hippodrome trade. Immediately after thia part rf th* programme Is ftobhed there will be B-man fx)t races, chariot rapes, and othar Roman paptimee, meetly horae raring, which will be gon* through nn the lines nf Rgrnum’a HinYhdrome. After the parformanea*. the Wild West Shgw will fake place, which will occupy over an hour. The staging and paraphernalia ia then removed to permit of their perform Bnoea. which require an area nf nearlv 2 acres The Indians, Cowhors, and Mexican* take possession of the arena, and go thropch th°ir performance under the leadership nf Captain Jack Button. He was the first man to intro 4uce tha Wild West Show intn the United Bta'fS. from which all the n’faers have been derived. Captain Rattan state? that he will give a much better performance than be ha* previrusly done, for the reason he hae wi’h thia outfit th® pick rf th* Am*rioan cowboys, including Charles Meadows, the champion lasaooer ol the world • also Brown and Felton, the Arkansas Kid, Broncho George, and Keogh, the thief.” The Mexicans are handed by Antnnin E«qu f val. pwnera nf the uildeet horses are reODPBted to "bring* them in and let the cowboys ride them—the wilder the animals are th* better the cowboys like them. They claim that no hors® in the world ran unapat tb°m, and Mr Meadows is willfag to pub down £lOO of his own money in gmdorteipent. of his opinions op that Anlnt/ An Impression prevails that the Indians nnd cowhows cannot give a proper exhibition under r-anyßg, but that is pot to, ns everything can l>e exhibited except introducing mad bulls or wild animals, whose stampede might he dangerous to the onVokcrs. The desire is to make the ahow both interesting and ingtraoHve, pad comfortable to the visitors. maitsiTHnent fiaye also brought over a special Variety Concert Company, headed by the Perry, end Lu’u, and the Bil’y aod Pearl. Their perform ingea take place on the elevator stage, Immedla’ely after the Wild West Show ia over. There will be numerous side shows, and the whole will form the largest show ever he’d in the Australasian colonies, and it on exactly cm Abe Jinaa. of B'Fnum’s Wild West Show. Mr Harry Wirth und Mr Alexander visited the Barnum •how frequently while is Chicago, and have , utilised all the improvements there exbibited, and the information they have paired]