Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-25
An Enormous Establish nsent.

The 4BteYScGn artisan describes the
famous cast-steel works of Fried. Krupp
in Prussia, which comprise of themselves
a great city of workmen. We copy
some of the particulars relating to this
colossal factory:
This establishment was founded near
Essen, in the year 1910. 1t was con-
Quoted by Mr. Alfred Krupp from the
year 1920, and in 1S4S he became sole
proprietor. The works have been grad
ually developed, until, in January of the
present wear, they covered a continuous
area of about 1000 acres, of which
about 200 acres are under roof. The
total number of men employed in these
works and in the mines and smelling
works belonging to the firm. is about
IL, 900, besides 739 officers and regular
employees.
The quantity of cast-steel produced in
the year 1872, exceeded 125, 600 tons.
This product consisted of aXles, tires,
wheels and crossings for railways; rails
and springs, shafts for steamers; ma
chinery of various kinds; boiler-plates,
rolls, spring steel tool steel, guns, gun
carriages, shot, etc. There are in the
works, now in operation, 2j0 smelling
furnaces. 800 annealing furnaces, 161
heating furnaces. 115 welding and pud-
ding furnaces, Il cupola and reverber-
atOry furnaces, 100 furnaces. of other
kinds, 275 coke ovens, 264 smiths
fOrges, 240 steam boilers, besides 20 now
in process of construction.
There are, besides this, y steam ham
mers, 286 steam engines, 1862 turning
lathes, 50 shaping machines, 195 boring
punching and growing machines. %
pressing machines. 63 grinding machines,
81 glazing and polishing machines, and
142 machines Of a miscellaneous charac-
Ter.
In 1872. these works consumed, Of
coal. 500. coo tons of coke, I25, 600; of
water. 113. 900. 900 cubic feet- of gas,
155, 900, 900 cubic feet. supplied by the
gas-works of the establishment, to &c.
500 burners.
To facilitate traffic al the works, there
are about pa mixes of railway track, Of
the usual gauge, with $50 sidings, and
80 turntables, on which run 10 tank To-
comotiyes, with cylinders - inches in
diameter, and $50 cars. Six more loco
motives are now in process Of cOnstruc-
tion. Ten miles of narrow-gauge track
go inches, WIN TT sfufngs, und &C
turntables, are also in use. On this
track run three locomotives (cylinder
six inches in diameter and 270 cars.
-Four of the locomotives of the latter
size are now being constructed Horses
are also used on the narrow gauge road.
In the carting department, there are 1J1
horses, and 272 carts. Communication
between the several workshops is estab-
lished by 80 telegraph stations. A corps
of 166 watcbmen, and permanent fire
brigade of 20 men, who also perform
police duty, are constantly employed.
General supply stores, under control of
the firm, supply to voluntary purchasers
belonging to the works. for cash, pro-
visions, clothing. dry goods, boots. etc,
at cost prices. The present monthly re-
ceipts Of these stores amount to about
S55, 900 gold. and are continually in
creasing. This department comprises
one hotel, three beer-houses, one seltZer
water manufactory, one fiour-mill, and
one bakery. with two steam engines.
The officers inhabit two hundred and
sixty-six dwellings. 4 portion of the
workmen are housed in two thousand
nine hundred and fOrty-eight dwellings.
either inhabited or in the course of con-
struction. There are also boarding
houses for the unmarried workmen. A
hospital, containing one hundred beds,
and an epidemic hospital containing one
hundred and twenty beds, are placed
under the supervision of physicians es-
pecially engaged for the purpose, and
ample provision for the sick 4 sick,
burial and pension fund has also been
instituted for all the workmen, the firm
contributing to the fund half as much as
the workmen, and providing pensions
and support for those who have been
rendered unfit for work, and for the wild
ows of the workmen. The total receipts
of this fund for the year 1872 were
eighty thousand dollars the expendi-
lures were siXty-two thousand five hun
dred dollars, and the fund in hand at the
beginning of the year 1878 was ninety
six thousand nine hundred and forty
dollars in gold.
From another fund members receive
for their families free medical treatment
on paying seventy-five cents annually
The firm has also organized a ehemi-
cal laboratory a Photographic and litho-
graphic atelier, and printing and book
binding establishment. In the printing
Office there are two steam and four hand
presses in operation.
The total number of mines belonging
~ the liIih - SiAs WIN an AREA ol dDJut
$4,000 acres. The firm also possesses
important concessions of excellent iron
ore beds in the north of Spain, whence
it is intended to import annually up 10
300, 900 tons Of ore for the production of
cast-steel. To facilitate the importation
railway in Spain, nearly eight miles
long, as well as several steamers, are
now in the course of construction.
The five different smelling furnaces
belonging to the firm produce, with IL
blast furnaces, nearly 1000 tons of pig
iron per month. They have 140 coke
ovens in operation, and 100 in the course
of construction. The steam engines en-
ployed in them represent together nearly
10000 horsepower.