Every one appreciates the blessing of the trees and flowers, without which the Exposition would have lost much of its beauty.
The flowers used at the opening of the Exposition can alone be given, but these will serve to show the plan of arrangement.
The six lions are by Albert Laessle, who has many fine examples of his animal life in the Fine Arts Palace.
The fountain of Beauty and the Beast, which should have been placed in
the Court of Palms, the Court of Occidental Fairy Tales, is by a young
San Franciscan, Edgar Walters, whose fine bears can be seen in the Fine
Arts Palace.
The base of the fountain shows a procession of beasts - the bear, the cynocephalus ape, the lion.
Upholding Beauty and the Beast are fauns and satyrs, playing on their pipes.
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Walk down the colonnades and take note of the coupled smoked ivory pilasters on the pink ground.
A fawn-colored ceiling has suspended from it Italian bronze lanterns - the bronze suggestive of the color of the blue eucalyptus. At night these lanterns glow with color.
In front of the Court of Flowers is "The American Pioneer," a fine meaningful equestrian figure, by Solon Borglum of Ogden, Utah.