The Exposition Palace at Dresden 
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THE GERMAN MUNICIPAL EXPOSITION IN DRESDEN 
Bv MAX FLOESSEL 
A T a meeting of burgermeisters of Ger¬ 
man towns, held at Carlsruhe in 1897, 
H err W. Beutler, the Mayor of Dresden, 
proposed an exposition for the purpose of 
showing the splendid development attained 
by the German municipalities. At subse¬ 
quent meetings 
the idea took 
f o r m and it 
was resolved to 
hold such an ex¬ 
position in Dres¬ 
den in 1903. I n- 
vitations to join 
in the enterprise 
were sent to all 
German towns 
having a popula¬ 
tion of twenty- 
five thousand or 
more and accept¬ 
ances were re¬ 
ceived from one 
hundred and 
twenty-eight, re¬ 
presenting col¬ 
lectively thirty 
million inhabi¬ 
tants. The au¬ 
thorities ol the 
German states as 
well as the Imper¬ 
ial Government 
gave their aid to 
the project, and King George of Saxony 
became its protector. The permanent 
Exposition Palace of Dresden was beauti¬ 
fied for the occasion ; the authorities of the 
principal cities of Europe and America 
were invited to take part in the inaugura¬ 
tion and the 
Exposition was 
opened to the 
public from the 
28th of May 
to the end of 
September. 
The aim of the 
Exposition was to 
show the status of 
the German towns 
in the beginning 
of the twentieth 
century and es¬ 
pecially the de¬ 
velopment of the 
larger German 
municipalities 
during the last 
ten years in differ¬ 
ent directions, il¬ 
lustrating as many 
principles of civic 
growth. 
The conditions 
of living in Ger¬ 
many have been 
entirely trans- 
THE MAIN ENTRANCE HALL 
At the far end is the Neptune Fountain 
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