Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-08
MUNICIPAL EXHIBITS
PREPARATIONS MAKING FOR Elk
POSITION AT DRESDEN.
Fair to Be Devoted to the Subject of
the Development Of
Cities.
From Public Opinion.

from iupllc opinion.
Six years ago, while prepare tons were
going on for the Paris fair, body of Ger
man burgomaSterS met at Carlsruhe to
consider the proposal for a point municipal
exposition at their fair by German cities.
The project was discarded, each city being
left to its own course respecting Paris; but
instead, the suggestion that municipal
exposition in and for Germany be held in
1903 was heartily approved. Active prepa-
ratfons to that end were soon under way;
Dresden, whose burgomaster had made the
original suggestion. was chosen as the
place, and the exposition is to occur in that
city fro mMay 20 to September 80 of the
present year.
1t promises to be an event of genuine in
terest and Importance. 1t will, in the first
place, be unique in conception. Municipal
exhibits constituted something of feature
at Paris in 1900, as they had to less ex-
tent in previous worlds fairs. The forth
coming exposition, however, will be the
first to be devoted exclusively to the sub
ject of municipal development. In the Sec
ond place. it will be widely representative
of municipal enterprise in the German en-
pire. Out of the 156 cities in that empire
having population of % 600 or more in
1898. 12S are to participate. and their prep
aratlons have been progressing with DELHI
Grafton and wholesome emula ton. In the
third place, recent municipal history In
Germany is peculiarly worthy of being thus
displayed
Growth of German Cities.
The rapid growth of the cities of that
country has been not less remarkable than
that of American towns, and the efforts
made, not only for superior administration
in general, but especially toward compre-
hensive direction of that growth. form one
of the notable facts of recent social history
Indeed, the great widening Of municipal ac-
ton in the cities of the fatherland respect
Ing education, recreation, charity, hygiene
and municipal trading is less significant
than the attempt to give proper shape, both
for economic and esthetic ends, to the en-
tire physical organization of those cities
The authorities have set up the ideal of a
city which, In arrangement and structure,
should be a rational unity; and while the
results achieved have naturally been limit
ed, they are in many respects surprising
There have actually developed in Germany
land in Austria. too-especially during the
science of city building, with limited but
distinctive literature of it's own.
In its internal organization. the display
will fall under two main divisions The
first Is intended to disclose 1.-The condition
of municipal life ir Germany at the begin
ming of the twentieth century and it's de-
lepoment in recent years. The second will
sbring together a collection of appliances
firms for municipal purposes" The first
division will be supplied by city authorities
and will occupy 12,000 square meters of
space. It's eight general departments will
comprise-(D public streets and places, In
Guiding street construction, mains, lighting,
tramways. bridges, harbors; (2) town ex
pansion. including housing; (O public art;
~ public health and safety; 90 education;
(6) charities; ca public finance. including
municipal trading and (S municipal
statistics, including methods of regulating
public employment.
Models Of Cities.
Models will constitute a favorite and
effective method Of display Berlin, for ex-
ample, has appropriated $4,000 for models
alone: and will exhibit by this means sew
eral of it's public baths. it's new overhead
and underground electric railway, it's abat-
toirs. its most approved school houses In
Guiding manual training school. and one
of its school gymnasiums.
Hamburg will send q model OF its great