The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
-KRuPPa aREAT GNN EACTORY.
ITS PROGRESS FROM TEN MEN EMPLOYED IN
1910 TO NINE THOUSAND IN 1877.
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Berlin, Dec, 1677-An international con-
gress of q rare character assembled o short
time ago at Bredelar, in Rhepish Prussia.
Mr.. Krupp, the greatest gunmaker OF the
entire world, and director of the celebrated
foundry at Essen, invited Representatives
of all Notwithstanding, Engfiah Aus
trian, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish,
Brazilian, and even Jspapeae-tO witness
the experiments of a new piece of artillery.
the plated cannon, or as 1t is called in
German. the "panEer canone" The num-
Der Of ofi oers present at these interesting
experiments was fifty-fve. The object
was to solve two problems considered ex-
tremely difficult, and which have hitherto
defed the ingenuity of inventors: First, q
permanent pointing in aim secondly, the
protection of the piece. Now, this new
Ia only necessary to aim it once if the
object does not change. In the second
place it can neither be damaged nor dis
mounted by the enemy. The srtillerymen
who serve it are sheltered in a sort of sem
try box formed by iron plates of about
twenty inches in thickness. This sentry
box contains the gun and the gunners.
The roof and the exterior sides are protect
ed by earth, while the front lie pierced by
q hole for the passage of the mouth of the
gun. The enemy can see pothing but
this hole. The experiment was 80 decisive
that almost all the officers wanted to 60
into the sentry box while two enormous
siege guns showered shot upon them at
short range. This invention may bring
about q revolution in the art of defending
strongholds.
1t is known that the Emperor, while at
the military mar9ovres. at Essen, visited
the factory of the Messrs. Krupp, and this
affair recalls the origin of this great indus
trial family. When the fret chief of the
factory came to Essen the village had only
5000 inhabitants. To day it has 4O,OOO.
Krupp commenced in 1910 with ten work
men, and in l543 he bad one hundred. It
was his son, Alfred Krupp, that gave the
establishment the prodigious development
to which it bias reached to-day. It was
from England that he brought his method
of making steel, and he has wonderfully
improved upon it by combining it with the
Bessemer process. In 1868 he had 4 600
hands employed, and he has 1000 at pres
emit. The buildings of the factory cover a
space of over two hundred acres, and are
snrmonnted by 100 chimneys. A working
mems city, with three thousand houses,
gives to the hands apartments which are
rented at from $40 to $50 year. An as
ISOLATION for providing food, with twenty
two salesroems, furnishes the inhabitants,
ut reduced prices, with all that they desire.
A single bakery makes 400. 900 pounds of
bread in month. There is in this factory
of Essen, Alb steam engines, representing
q total Of 1900 horses, and II steam
hammers for striking iron, among which
figures the famous hammer called "Fritx,n
and which weighs 100,00 pounds. There
are 30 miles of railway communicating
with the different parts Of the manufactory.
as we'll as 40 miles of Geographic lines.
The establishment can manufacture in
twenty-four hours &, 200 rails, $50 locomo-
tive wheels, $50 wagon wheels, and 1 500
shells and in q month $50 field pieces
and 81 others of larger calibre.