The German Municipal Exposition 
II. The Ex¬ 
tension of Towns, 
Building Inspec¬ 
tion and Sanita¬ 
tion. 
III. Public 
Art, Architecture, 
Painting and 
Sculpture. 
IV. Public 
Health, Sanita¬ 
tion and Police. 
V. Public Ed¬ 
ucation and 
Schools. 
VI. Public 
Charity, Care of 
the Sick, Charit¬ 
able Institutions 
and E n do wm e n ts. 
VII. Adminis¬ 
tration of Fin¬ 
ances, Civic In¬ 
dustries, Real Es¬ 
tate, Taxes, Sav¬ 
ings Banks and 
Loan I nstitutions. 
VIII. Registration, Official Statistics and 
Reports. 
From this can be readily seen what many- 
sided tasks the municipal administration in 
Germany had to assume during the last fifty 
years and how many officials and buildings 
were necessary tor the city’s management. 
The Exposition, therefore, was interesting 
not only for the lay visitor but for the spe¬ 
cialist in civic science as well. Inasmuch as 
industry in general extends to a certain ex¬ 
tent into the service of the city, there was 
one part of the Exposition reserved for the 
trades and manufactures. Four hundred 
firms exhibited, among them some of the 
most prominent in Germany, and their wares 
consisted of various machines, machine 
tools and kindred appliances, building mate¬ 
rials and implements and miscellaneous man¬ 
ufactures. These were grouped by the 
clear-reasoning Germans so that the most 
ignorant visitor could seize upon the out¬ 
lines of civic science and at least comprehend 
its important factors. 
The whole Exposition covered an area of 
nearly five acres and was comprised in the 
main exhibition 
area, the Exhibi¬ 
tion Palace and 
the exhibits in the 
different pavil¬ 
ions throughout 
the grounds. It 
is impossible to 
describe all the 
exhibits here, and 
I reproduce, 
therefore, only 
some particularly 
interesting photo¬ 
graphs of interi¬ 
ors, a number of 
the most impor¬ 
tant models and 
some attractive 
outdoor views 
with characteristic 
pavilions. Upon 
entering the Ex¬ 
hibition Palace by 
the main entrance 
the visitor has 
an impressive 
view of the spacious main hall, illustrated 
on page i 8 8. The light blue walls were 
relieved by a darker shade of the same color 
in rows of small niches. At the distant 
end is a larger niche painted a bright orange 
and containing the enormous Neptune 
Fountain, a plaster cast in imitation of the 
old marble fountain in the park of the 
Marcolini Palace in Dresden (now a hos¬ 
pital). On the right and left of the fountain 
stood the statues of Bismarck and Moltke. 
In the foreground of our picture are models 
of the rathhauses of Leipzig and Hanover. 
From this hall opened rooms leading to 
the section of “ Health and Public Safety.” 
Models and pictures of public parks and 
buildings were ranged on either side of the 
aisle and the apartment was tastefully deco¬ 
rated with artificial foliage. The group en¬ 
titled “ Public Education and Schools ” was 
housed in a court surrounded by antique 
architecture. Elevated upon a table at the 
right was a model of a new school house for 
the city of Munich, which was easily the 
finest of a series of plans, models and pic¬ 
tures of schools exhibited by as many as 
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