The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-06
Park Crowded All Day


 The park was crowded all day yester- day and until 1t became too dark for the people to watch the antics of the animals. There was a constant stream of people up the hill and down again to see the elephant. the bear, the eagles and other animals. Miss Fancy was in her glory yesterz day The cooler weather Just suited her and she was as playful as d kitten. l Dayton Allen, her keeper, declares that Miss Fancy has more sense than a lot | of people he knows and it does seem that she grows wiser every day. She has the art of extracting peanuts from her small admirers down to fine science. A little miss was feeding her and Miss Fancys attention being at tracted elsewhere she dropped several peanuts from her trunk. The child de- clined to give her any more until she picked up the ones from the ground So the elephant after her beseeching failed to elicit any more fayors, began to look for the peanuts she had dropped. She snuffed around and couldn't find them and began to grow worried. At fast she sank ponderously to her knees and went over the ground care fully once more. Finally she located the peanuts and swept them into her mouth along with a considerable amount of hay and earth. She rose | to her feet and once more turned to the little one who was so delighted with the beasts wisdom that she poured the | best part of sack of peanuts into her trunk. And still Miss Fancy asked for more.
 | Miss Fancy had new way of making music yesterday afternoon As, she swayed from side to side she would swing her trunk first against one leg and then against the other. man standing watching her counted and she went through this performance 4S times without missing a beat
 From Miss Fancy the crowd gener- ally drifted up the hill to see the bear and he amply repaid them for their trouble. The bear was fed royalty on peanuts and ate them so daintily that | the spectators were convulsed with merriment at the contrast between himself and his manner of eating. If :, a peanut fell outside the bars he would k1eel down, stick his nose through as far he could andA then run out his tongue and the peanut would dIsap- pear The manner of eating of the bear and the elephant Is radically differ ent. The elephant eats everything while "Tedoy'' if not hurried Is care ful to shell the peanut and even re- moves the skin.
 | l In his cage yesterday was wooden ball with which he amuses himself in | his lonelier moments. It fell in his pool and Teddy" didn't fancy it. With one sweep of his mighty paw he knocked the l ball across the cage and fell on it and
 began knawing in seeming fury. Then l he sat up on his haunches. turned a
 auizzical countenance toward the crowd l and lolled out his tongue lazily as if to l say: T was only fooling." Teddy at length became tired of the crowd and calmly turning his back, stalked into his
 cave and refused to be lured forth again. l One of the most comical sights to be seen at the zoo yesterday was the per- plexity of Pat a smalls monkey. Some
 one had given him cob pipe and he was | greatly puzzled. He turned 1t over and
 over, and around, put the stem in his
 mouth and then the bowl. He evidently didn't like the taste as he hurled the pipe across the cage, made face, and actually spat in disgust. He soon re- ] covered the pipe. however, and began hammering 1t on the edge of his cage. When the stem broke he was even more puzzled than ever and his attention was only distracted when someone gave him a cigarette which he promptly tore open. | George Ward would have been de-
 lighted if he could have seen what hap pened to a saucy little English sparrow
 The peacocks were eating some grain
 that had been scattered in the pen when
 the sparrow flew down and began to
 eat also. The peacock eyed him for a minute and then gave him such a peck
 that the invader fluttered in the dust
 for a few moments and then lay still
 Children Enjoy Wading Pool | Notwithstanding the fact that the anil
 mals were great favorites. the wading pond proved strong counter attrac- tion for the children. There were some- 1 thing like 50 of the little ones in wad- ing at the same time, and they kept up a great splashing. There were in the pond children from six months old on up to 12 years of age. Two little babies who had not yet learned to walk pro- vided great amusement for the scores of onlookers by insisting that their nurses place them on the water.
 The nurses. after being harassed by the noisy lamentations of the babies, f- nally placed the babies in the water. Tha little ones seemed to enjoy the ex- periece greatly. They had been accus-
 toned only to the tub and the inneva- tion was not displeasing, judging from