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Title: The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Neuhaus, Karl Eugen, 1879-
Subjects: Panama-California International Exposition (1916 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rywhere on the Plaza, par-ticularly where choice morsels of food are dis-tributed by ever-ready visitors. To sit on oneof the benches and watch these birds in theirindividual behavior is most entertaining. Theyare all different in color, ranging from pure blackand white, from the slate-blue of the unadul-terated carrier-pigeons, through every conceiv-able shade and tint of color. By and by onebegins to recognize certain ones of them amongthe many. As different as their colors, so aretheir manners. Some are clownishly pirouet-ting around, showing off in youthful vanity —others are sedate, stiffly holding up their manlychests as if they had to uphold the dignity of allbirddom. All are intensely interested in eating,only interrupting their material pursuits tomake love to each other, in the true manner ofhuman beings. They are a great family andthey seem all to be guided by a common under-standing of signals. Suddenly they will all riseand with clapping wings perform great rhythmic(68)
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A PATH BEHIND THE BUILDINGS THE GARDEN ASPECTS swirls over plaza and around towers, to settledown again to eating and love-making. Thepigeons of San Marco are older as an institution,but the pigeons of San Diego have a faithfulnessto a spot which is surprising considering theirrecent settlement. Living in close company with the pigeons, thepeacocks assume their characteristic attitude ofsuperiority. Strutting about in aristocraticfashion, disdainfully, without scrambling for it,they condescend to peck some of the tenderedfood. They do not mingle with the crowd, andthey barely tolerate the company of the pheas-ants, who in their gorgeous plumage seem toincite them to jealousy and anger. The pea-cocks, however, do not hesitate a bit to showoff. Spreading their tails with wild agitation,they are a curious combination of dignity andsilliness. The little Australian bush-fowl andguinea-hen complete the picture. It seems sological to animal and man alike — the impres-sion grows everywhere

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