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Show DR. CARVER'S WILD WEST. Preparations all Ready for the Great American Shows. All arrangements are complete for the reception re-ception of Dr. Carver's "Wildest show on earth" which cotues to the new race track tomorrow afternoon. The famous "Scout" together with his entire band of Iudians, cowboys, Mexican rough-riders, Vaqueros, etc., will arrive tonight by special train over the Union Pacific. 'This organization numbers over seventy-!tw seventy-!tw people and are . the same that accompanied accom-panied the doctor in his five year tour of the world, appearing in every capital and before every monarch of Europe. Dr; Carver commenced his American tour iu San Francisco three weeks ago. Of the initial performance at Central park in that city the VhnmU-le said: "The performance was all the programme said it was to be... There were a score of painted Indians, brave in feathers and glaring colors, and as thoroughly evil appearing a set as the most exacting imagination could demand. There wore cowboys and vaqueros as reckless and as daring as the crowd of applauding spectators spec-tators ever set eyes on." There were Indian marches and massacres, cowboy thieves, and rough-riders whose daredevil antics set a thousand small boys in and out of the park in a roar of admiration. admira-tion. There were exciting scenes on, the plain, attacks on helpless settlers, war dances and savage torture enough to provoke pro-voke the small boy and not a few of his elders eld-ers into storray yeils of delight. There was , the din of cowboy voices,' the rush of unbroken un-broken horses, clouds of dust and smoke from firearms, until at times the maze of moving, shouting figures became blurred. ' From the manner of its reception the I'luusiiip uup, kuuicu an eu.ieujeiiL uirec- tly with his old rival, Maurice Yignaux, who n is running a rival academy to the Folies 1 " . J Bergcre, which engaged Ives and Slosson. JL ' ' - Shivfer had played no billiards since Ives aFsbw won the cup from him in Chicago over two llftCfiL. months ago and he showed his lack of fm ;3mfHMMmf it '.ia?'wsv':v -x v.?' A "ton -V- vftH 'Turr .ji'iL ft .show was evidently a success, presenting to the spectators scene of western life and danger in a strikingly realistic way. There was not a dull event on the programme. Everything went with a vim and" a rush, the spectators takiug the enthusiasm of the performance per-formance until the park echoed to the applause. ap-plause. The cowboy as he is was pictured, now racing at breakneck speed, again breaking vicious buckinsf branchos and displaying his marvelous dexterity with the lasso. At one moment he was dashing around the arena on an unbroken horse, at another he was astride of a maddened steer. It was an interesting exhibition of pluck, endurance and daring, crowned with enough of the unexpected to keep the spectators in suspense. sus-pense. The Indians, in .their strange war dance and their attacks upon the settler's home, displayed a satisfaction that did not seem assumed, and some of those who watched their sneaking, snake-like movements and heard the unearthly monotone of their voices in the torture dance evidently-thought evidently-thought so. Dr. Carver himself was, of course, the central figure of the performance. His marvelous accuracy with the eun excited well-won applause and provoked a general exodus of the small boys from the roofs of surrounding buildings. It did. not appear to make much difference how he held his rifie or where the glass balls were thrown, they were broken." - - - t |