The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

MH 158 DENMARK else this amiable man of science had a grasp of practical life. He thus contributed to give the dullness of the ancient trade corporations a decided antagonist such as the Industrial Union proved to be. The Industrial Union started with a little more than 500 members, which was then a large number; since then the membership has been constantly on the increase, and now it is more than ten times as large, a proof that the Union has constantly understood how to gain adherence to its work. It was the reform of the laws and customs connected with trade to which the attention of the Union was directed during its first years, working also, at the same time, for the development of the means of communication. In 1844 it obtained the concession for constructing the first Danish rail- road. The Union wished for movement and liberty, arid thus its position to trade followed as a matter of course: it worked with eagerness for liberty of trade, and greeted with joy the law that, in 1857, introduced freedom of trade into Denmark. But after this it was necessary that other objects should come to the front and especially the development of a market for the products of industry by holding expo- sitions, and a better training of the industrial classes by means of an enlarged technical education. Already from the outset the Union had worked at both these ends by means of weekly displays of manufactures, by small periodical expositions, by the founding of a library, by supporting a school, by publishing a periodical, etc. But as far as expositions are concerned an effective impulse was not given till the Union invited not Denmark only but Norway and Sweden as well to a great Exposition of Art and Industry at Copenhagen 1872, an enterprise that was successful in eco-