The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
GERMAN EXHIBIT.
It Occupies Twelyes Acres al
the Fair.
PAVILION IN TIE MANUFACTURES

II Is the Most Costly and Impressive One
In That Mammoth Building-Tire Thou.
sand Exhibitors q. the Exposition =
| Many Features of Interest from the
| Fatkerland.
WORLDS FAIR, July II. = Especial =
Never before did Germany make so fine a
display Of her arts and industries at an in.
ternational exposition Deutchland's ex.
| hlbits rank with those Of Great Britain
| and France il amount Of space occupied,
| about twelve acres. 1t has spent more
! money here than any other foreign nation,
/ France alone excepted. The amount ap.
propriated fer this exposition by the Ger
| man government was about three-ouarters
of a million OF dollars If to this sum be
added the monies expended here by pri-
vate exhibitors, the total of German out
lay will be found to far exceed that of any
other country. There are more exhibitors
here from Germany than any ether foreign
country, their number being about five
thousand
Germany has the costliest and most i'm
pressive pavilion in the Manufactures
building. 1t has the largest and most
picturesque Of all the foreign buildings
In Machinery hall and the Electricity
building it makes better showing than
any country save the United States. It's
great krupp gun and heavy forgings ex-
hibit, in special building, is one of the
sensations of the fair In the Transports
ton department it is more interesting
than any of its European rivals, Great Brit
ain alone excepted. In the Palace of Fine
Arts 1t is second among the foreign Ea
tons, France alone taking precedence: and
from some points of view Germany is
ahead even there In horticulture Deutcl-
land is beautiful, for it is German florists
who have made Wooded island, that
charming bit Of landscape within the great
lagoons, blossom with the rose In the
Mining building Germany is far ahead of
any other foreign land In Midway plais-
ance the German village and the German
military bands form a striking and pop
u1ar feature Of life in that cosmopolitan
thoroughfare
This rapid resume of the status Of the
German display at this greatest of worlds
fairs shows how much right the son Of the
tatherland has to feel proud of his native
country when he walks through these
amazing grounds. In the friendly rivalry
of peace the empire has shown itself
valiant, artistic, enterprising, ingenious.
Two or three years ago, when prepara-
tions for this exposition were making
throughout the civilized world. we were
told that Germany would make a great
effort; that she recognized this as an OBJ
portunity not to be thrown away: that in
aSmuch as the last two worlds fairs had
been held on French soil, where naturally
the Germans Gid not care to do much, they
would eagerly seize upon this occasion az
one affording them the chance which they
had long awaited to show civilization that
the people of the empire had kept pace
with the steps of progress. Well, the Ger
mans have done it, and they have done it
royalty.
There is so much here from the Fnther-
land SO many things and features of Ia
terest, that l cannot hope to tell you much
about them. But / can say, in all candor,
that the man who makes a careful study
of the German exhibits in the thirteen
great departments of the exposition, In
specting them not only with thought Of
what they are but of what stands behind
them, will finish his task with his heart
full of affection and his mind charged
with admiration for that great people
Where the Germans excel most other
nations is in their devotion to the com
of life. The French show more
beautiful articles of vertu, far greater
skill in the fabrication of things which
bre Ell fl
the things which are beautiful in their