The German Municipal Exposition 
AN AVENUE IN THE EXPOSITION GROUNDS 
The Pavilion of a Dresden Manufacturer 
the laymen’s attention, in a way never be¬ 
fore attempted, the advantages of scientific 
street building. After a view of these mod¬ 
els few can remain unconvinced that streets 
should be designed and built with no less 
thoroughness and foresight than the build¬ 
ings themselves and other public monuments 
of the city. In this outdoor portion of the 
Exposition were innumerable specimens of 
paving bricks and stone, cement and con¬ 
crete work, coal-tar products and various 
constructions in iron and other metals. At 
the right of the lower illustration on page 
194 is an apparatus for heating and cook¬ 
ing, as novel on account of its original 
construction as the pavilion in the middle 
of the same picture, painted white and 
gold, and exhibited by a prominent machine 
works. 
A more extended tour of the grounds re¬ 
vealed many interesting things pertaining to 
the various means of interior and exterior dec¬ 
oration, which is of great importance in the 
life of the German city. 1 ’he Exhibition has 
given a spur to innovation and improvement 
in this direction as upon the purely sociologi¬ 
cal lines, and the idea first put forth by the 
Mayor of Dresden has been accounted a great 
success, financially and otherwise; so much so, 
indeed, that similar expositions are likely to 
be held elsewhere in Europe. Already we 
hear that Brussels is to have a large munici¬ 
pal exposition in the near future, and the 
civic societies of the United States are 
planning to demonstrate their ideas at the 
approaching St. Louis Fair. Every Ameri¬ 
can citizen who visited Dresden the past 
summer must admit that, so far as city admin¬ 
istration is concerned, he can learn much from 
Germany, notwithstanding other important 
and modern progress in his own country. 
Unfortunately the different and contending 
political parties in America have a bad and 
hindering influence in sound municipal ad¬ 
ministration. But this concerns the question 
of means rather than the end, and it was 
the end which was celebrated at Dresden. 
May the visit of so many Americans to the 
German Municipal Exposition and a view 
of the beautiful, clean and perfectly admin¬ 
istered City of Dresden work improvingly 
upon the other side of the water ! 
