Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 05, 1919, Page Page Seven., Image 7
STORY OF ANNIE OAKLEY
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World's Most Famous Woman Bifie
Shot.
WAS WITH BUFFALO BILL SHOW
Ther? Were Few Men Marksmen Who
Were Anywhere Near Her Equal?
Has Exhibited Her Skill In All Parts
Of The Country. I
By Mart*ret C. Getchell.
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She couia nave ?uvl uiv ? ?
by accident and escaped unpunished.
But she didn't do it
Fact is, it was in those days of long
ago before the kaiser became hated of
mankind. He was then crown prince
** and was much interested in watching
^ the American woman shoot. Standing
at a distance of thirty feet from a row
of men, each with a cigarette in his
mouth, she would shoot the anhes off
each cigarette.
Prince William asked her to try* it
on him, but she hesitated. She never
' had missed, but it was taking risks
with royalty, for a slight deviation
might have meant the wounding of the
crown prince. So she had him hold
the cigarette, in h?c hand and then she
shot the ashes oft'.
. Day Of Wild West Paot. .
1 "What a chance I missed," Bhe ha3
thought many a time during the Inst
four yea) s, "for 1 could easily havo shot
the kaiser, apparently doing it by accident."
^ The American woman who had this
unique chance was Annie Oakley,' one
of the woild's champion shooters,
whose name brings up memories of
the Wild West show to the many
I / thousands of people In this country
and abroad who saw her during the
seventeen years when she was costsr
with Buffalo Bill himself in his great
* show.
Eighteen years ago she left the circus
arena, having made enough money
to retire, build a home and live comfortably
tjie rest of her life. But she
has never been able to settle down to
a simple round of domestic duties and
pleasures.
? "You can't cage a gypsy," she says
with a playful smile that lights
up her face. It is only after being with
her some time that one begins to feel
the gypsy nature of which she speaks.
At first she seems to l>e just a gentle,
sweet, white-haired little woman, with
a soft voice apd charming manners.
But gradually one comes to have a
sense of the restlessness underlying
her vivacity which keeps her on the
alert every moment.
She is far from inactive at present
for she teaches shooting at I'inehurst,
N. CY, for an hour every morning during
the season, and rides horseback
eaoh afternoon. Ten thousand women
i have come under her instruction there
Jn the last four years, and many are
r the. friendships which have x-esilted
L from her new line of activities.
I u was while visiting one of her
r friends whom she met at Pinekurst.
fXfra Louis J. Kolb, of Germaniown,
Pa., that she went to Rlngland Bros.,
and Bam us & Bailey's circus, where
she watched from the grandstand the
little wild west Bhow following the circus
proper.
, "But the day of the big wild west
show is past," she. said somewhat regretfully,
"and will not return again.
The old performers arc/ falling away
from the ranks and there are no new
ones In the west to take their place."
i To speak of Ohio as the "wild west"
is today absurd, yet when Annie Oakley
was born in Woodland, Drake county,
Ohio, In I860, the little log cabin
I which was her home was hi a wild
I cov&try of mostly virgin forest. With
the building up of the west it is plain
to ofe what happens to the stuff that
wild west shows are made of.
"My parents were of Pennsylvania
Btock, members of the Society of
Friends, and wont west to settle in a
little Ohio village, eighteen miles front
a railroad," she said, in telling the interesting.
story of her early life. "I
lived much outdoors and loved to play
in the woods near our home.
Learned to Shoot as Child.
"I was eight years old when I made
my first shot, and I still consider It one
of the best shots I ever made. I saw a
squirrel run down over the grass in
front of the house, through the orchard
y and stop on a fence to get a hickory
nut. I decided to shoot it, and ran
into the house to gft a gun which was
hanging on the wall and which I knew
to be loaded. I was so little I had to
jump up on a chair and slide it down
rto the mantel and then to the ground.
3 laid the gun on the railing of the
porch ;fnd then recalled what I had
heard my brother say about shooting, j
One remark'which came to me was:
'It is a disgrace to shoot a squirrel
anywhere but in the head, because
it spoils the meat to hit him elsp^
Where.' With the confidence of a
younger sister, I took the remark
'literally and decided, in a flash, that 1 j
mustinit tnat squirrel in ine ncao, or
be (Tisgrnced. It was a wonderful shot.
"I going right through the-heart from aide
to side. ?
"My mother was so frightened when
she learned that I had taken down the
loaded gun and shot it that I was forbidden
to touch, it again for eight
months. Then 1 was allowed to shoot
small game, and from that' time on 1 I
earned all my pin money that way. We
^ were eighteen miles from a railroad.
but once a week I took my game up to
the station to send it to the cities.
From the time I was nine I never had
a dollar given me for spending money,
but earned It all by shooting game.
A "WhenM was sixteen years old 1 l?oI
gan to do match shooting, and r.iy first
big match was against the man who is
now my husband. 1 won no much
money from Mr. Butler that he used to
say he had to marry ine to get ii back |
'He was a professional shot, under contract
with a circus, and he sent me to a
school thu year after we wore married.
I was only sixteen years old. He then
arranged for me tq enter Buffalo Bill's
Wild West show. We net the price,
which Salibtyiry. the nmhager, thought
rather high. Mr. Butler suggested trying
three exhibitions in Louisville, and
it the company was not satisfied then
to pay the price ho asked, we would
leave.
"For seventeen seasons 1 was with
them, doing all kinds of rifle, revolver
ana lancy trap siiuuuu,,,
Known Among World Royalty.
"Then I retired, huil a home In
Maryland, where we had our own boat,
dogs and oyster bed, and settled down
to 'live happy ever after.' Rut I
couldn't do it. I went all to pieces
under the cave of a homo. As Mr.
Butler puts It, I am a complete failure
as a housekeeper. So. then, I began to
do work for gun companies once in a
while, just enough to keep me out of
mischief.' For three'.yea!rs 1 was with
the Young Buffalo Company, and .1
also starred in Langdon MrfCormnck'J
play/'The Western Girl.'"
Among the most interesting chapters
! of Annie. Oakley's life is that dealing
with her tours of Europe, when nht
gave exhibitions before rpeny of the
kings and queens cf countries whirl
itave recently l>eoome our allies or oin
enemies. At the time of Queen Victoria's
jubilee she shot at one cinrro be
fore the queens of Denmark, Belgium
Roumanla, Greece and Portugal. Tin
Crown Princess Alexandra of Englanc
wan al3Q with the live queens.
"My principal recollection of Kin?
Edward is in connection with one o
those exhibitions before royalty,'
Ajinie Oakley said. "King Edward
whr* wn# thpn" Prince Edward, a younj
nobleman and f were talking. 'Don'
you feel Just a bit frustrated shootinf
befdre so many crowned heads'? askO(
i he young lonl/ 'Why, no,' I answefet
'I have shot before 30,000 Americans.
He looked at me In amazement am
said nothing, but Prince * Edwan
caught the point and laughed heartily
"Another amusing Incident occurrei
one time in Parle, when I shot wltl
Grand Duke Micliaelovitch of Russia
not knowing who he was. He was will
a friend at a club shooting gold lout
sweeps. A louis is worth about $5
They would shoot in tiirn nt a targe
until one missed, and the other wli
a louis;
"When Mr. Butler and 1 entere<
they asked him to join them. He an
swered that tie gun was mine, so the:
gave me the same invitation, which
accepted. They then offered to stoi
playing for money if I wanted them to
but Mr. Butler said he 'would put h]
some stakes for the lady.' Before lonj
I had won $800 from them. When i
mutual friend entered and Introduced
us, the grand duke and I were equail:
surprised to learn who our opponent:
were."
r* 1QA1 fiftoi* o hnnfl.nn nnlli,
sion in which she was seriously Injured
that Annie Oakley mode up hei
mind to retire from the Wild West
show. The doctors feared that she
would never be able to shoot again
but before long she was in as good
form as cvei. Her beautiful hair i?
due to the shock of the accident, for
it turned pure white in seventeen
hours.
During the last two years she has
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the proposed treaties with Germany's
allies has been refused by President i
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would set a precedent encouraging j
senatorial encroachment on, the presl- I
der.tlnl power of treaty negotiation. In
an oxchanjQ of letlrrt? just made pub- <
11c ) Mr. Wilson wrote that it was
"out of the question" to accede to
the committee's suggestion, and
Chairman Lodge replied that although
ihe treaties were closely vconnected
with the treaty with Germany, the
president undoubtedly had authority
to keep information about them from
the senate If he chose. The correspondent
apparently brought another
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committee on the much-debated subject
of what information tHe senators
should have in their consideration of
the treaty with Germany. Mr. Lodge
and others have declared the committee
could not act Intelligently until all
the Versailles treaties were before it,
but at the White, House conference,
Mr. Wilson told the committee that Ihe
form to be taken by the four treaties
under negotiation depended largely on
Ihe senate's action iegard1ng the Ini
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' camps, where she gave exhibitions and
talked with the teachers 6f shooting.
giving them some pointers picked up in
. her long experience. Her dogs, "have"
' and "Fred." named vfor her dear
I friends, Dave Montgomery and Find
Stone are also, stio claims, among the
' most patriotic dQga the country has
' produced. One of Dave's special tricks
is to find fnoney which is hidden. The
. money is first held out to him while
' he smells it, and then it is hidden in
^ remote places. Occasionally It is enr'
ried a long way and concealed in a
I place where it is very difficult for him
I to go, such nil in a thick hedge. Hut
he nlways works until he finds It nlI
though It may take 1dm an hour or
I nlore. Then he Rives it to me iteo
. Cross, and In this way ha3 found luinI
dreds of dollars to he turned'over to
i work of mercy.
Davo loves above all else to play
r William Tel 1: Hfe'mistress is Wifllom
i and he is the son with an apple 1-al
anced nicely on his head. She hns
i never yet missed her mark and shot |
i him, and he has confidence that she I
never will. Like a tru^ sport, he loves
I to balance her target on his head, and
puts his nose forth eagerly when he
r sce3 her approach to give it to hirti.
I Another ^>ne of her tricks is to shoot
? the center of a- htart an inch and a
. half in height from a distance of forty
five feet. Then'the little piece of pastc1
hoard in held horizontally and she
i shcots it in two pieces. Among her
I records are hitting 486 blue rooks out
' of 500 with a shotgun, and 1,016 two.
>' inch discs while thrown into the air
without a miss, using a rifle an.l single
bullet. , I 1
Among Old Circus Friordo.
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There was a momentary glimpse of
Annie Oakley in her old environrpent
during her recent visit to Philadelphia, 1
V for she left the^clrcus tent where she
was a spectator ~to go out for a little
chnt with old friends in the wild west
show. Cy Compton, its manager, for
twenty years with Buffalo Bill, was
there wi/h his whole family. Mrs.
Motorists are familiar with
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of them inferior tube* are tmc $ $.j
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Compton is in the show, but the children,
Myrtle nnrt Cody, had come on
from their heme near Philadelphia
during their parents' stay here. Cody
Is proud of bearing Buffalo Bill's name,
and he and his sister, who ride horsehack
with the ease of real cowboys,
entered the arena with the company
the opening of the wild west show.
Then there were other members of
the company, too y&ung to have been
with Buffalo Bill, nvho eagerly clustered
about the former star who is
now. in her owi> words, "only one of
the good old has-beens." Yet she
could swing a rope like the best of
them and it would have been a pretty
safe wager to bet that she could still
rido n bucking horse.
'Of course, I never rode a. bucking
horse in the show," she said, "but I
had to learn to do It. because I had
nnr, horse that bucked. I was very
fetid of her, for she was a beauty, and
rather than give her up I learned to
ride her.'
Was it with a feeling of regret that
shook hands all around with.powboy
^>nd cowgirl and made her way
over the muddy paths leading between
dressing tents back to the seat reserved
In the grandstand for "one of the
good old has-beens?"
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