The Kemp shows played the New York State Fair in September, 1898, and the management of the fair wrote that "nothing but praise can be offered" and they complimented Mr. Kemp on his "straightforward methods of doing business." In Baltimore in 1895 the exposition officials wrote that "we never saw better riders than M'lle Rosalia and the Kemp brothers. The Kemps are daring horsemen and fine gentlemen." Joseph G. Baker was mayor of El Paso in 1897, and as most local citizens, he had never seen the show. Away from home in an eastern city, he found the Kemp Brothers Wild West Shows in town and bought a ticket. "I was surprised at the high quality of their show," Mr. Baker wrote home, and he told the booking agent in the East that they would always find Mr. G. P. Kemp a "square dealing man; one who will do all that he contracts to do."
One of these contracts was to race three chariots around a half mile track with one Kemp man and one Kemp sister and another showgirl riding in each of the chariots, the Kemp's guaranteeing the time of the winner on a perfect track to be under a minute. There is no record of any accident ever happening in any of these dangerous, galloping races, so careful was the Kemp management and driving. They also contracted a specialty race between Frank Kemp on his fast horse and a greyhound called Lamplighter. The dog always beat the horse and rider, proving to the skeptical public that the greyhound, like the