No. 494.
Baron von
Zedtwitz to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, June 4, 1888. (Received June 6.)
Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor, in obedience to instructions received from the Imperial Government, most respectfully to inform you that it is proposed to hold during the months of April, May, and June, 1889, in the Exhibition Palace at Berlin, a general German exhibition of devices for the prevention of accidents.
The initiative in this enterprise has been taken by parties interested in the manufacture of such articles, and its object is to disseminate a knowledge of the apparatus and devices that have been invented for the prevention of accidents among those engaged in the various branches of industry, and also to promote the improvement and multiplication of such inventions.
The accomplishment of this enterprise will, it is believed, not only facilitate the fulfillment of the duties incumbent upon employers, but at the same time secure to the employed increased protection against the dangers to which their wait exposes them.
The Government of His Majesty the Emperor recognizes the enterprise as a means of benefiting the workingman, and will strive to promote its success.
Foreign exhibitors also are invited to take part in the exhibition.
I inclose a number of copies of the programme, which has been issued in the name of the committee of arrangements, remarking at the same time that additional copies of this document will be furnished, if desired, and that the management of the exhibition intends, if it shall be found necessary, to have an English edition of the programme prepared.
Accept, etc.,