FEEDING THE PIGEONS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 53.

FEEDING THE PIGEONS.

A VERY pretty sight is that which takes place down on the corner of Milk and Hawley Streets, up three flights, on the wide projecting stone window sills, every morning at just 11 o'clock. It is the feeding of town pigeons by President George T. Angell, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

This regular feeding has been going on for years, and long ago the birds have learned that if they are there at 11 o'clock they will get a good meal of shelled corn. Some have learned that it is well to come early and sit around on the neighboring eaves of the buildings, watching with an eager eye the window in the office of President Angell.

Some of the old-time "feeders" have grown so tame that they will eat out of President Angell's hands, and one day when he was a little late, and the window was up, he entered the room to find some sitting on his desk, while one was perched on the top of the frame of his picture, which hangs on the wall back of his writing table.—Boston Globe.