House and Garden 
ing their own national traditions, now yield¬ 
ing to the influence of France. 
Elsewhere in the halls were the exhibits 
of the various systems for dealing with fire 
in cities and the latest modern equipment of 
fire and police stations, all of which have a 
rather technical character. But we leave 
these and pass into a corridor upon which 
open a number of rooms, the most lavishly 
furnished being that of the ancient city of 
Hildesheim. This is one of the most beauti¬ 
ful rooms of the Exposition and contains a 
model of the monument to Kaiser Wilhelm, 
executed by Prof. Lessing of Berlin, and 
unveiled in 1901. The typical timbered 
and gabled houses by which Hildesheim is 
always remembered, are represented by 
numerous models, one of the most interest¬ 
ing of which is a carved and painted wood 
fa9ade of the Knocheshaueramtshaus (the 
bone-cutters’ guild house), erected in 1529 
and one of the most celebrated historical 
buildings of Germany. 
Leaving the Exposition building by this 
corridor, the visitor found himself amid the 
outdoor examples of city construction, ar¬ 
ranged, as 1 have said, in systematic groups. 
The most interesting examples were the 
cross sections of streets, built after those at 
Breslau and Dresden. Here were shown 
by actual temporary constructions the street 
sewers and the means of reaching them both 
from the surface and from the buildings, the 
conduits for surface drainage, electric wires 
and for gas, while above are admirably dis¬ 
played, as if for daily use, the different 
methods of paving the surface. It is a re¬ 
markable fact that the streets of Breslau, a 
city twice the size of Dresden, contain much 
less underground construction than those of 
the latter city, the reason for this being found 
in the fact that the administration of Dresden 
is more far-sighted and has taken the exten¬ 
sion and growth of the city into account from 
the beginning. 
These street sections are not only inter¬ 
esting to the specialist, but to the general 
public, by reason of their bringing before 
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