Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-03
GAUL AND ITS CAPITAL.
FOREIGNERS IN DISFAVOR IN
THE COUNTRY.

THE COUNTRY.
The Smelling Works of CreuzOt and
Their HistOry-The Minerals of Ma
zenay-The Real Status of the Ton
quin Affair a Mystery-Other Topics.
Correspondence Of the Morning Neaos.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-The consequences of
associating with the Chinese is already
telling on France, as she continues to ex-
pei the ''foreign DEVILS" The Germans
have never been in the odor of sanctity
since 1870, and the English and other
jewellers beyond Mesopotamia are rapidly
being similarly classed. This lockout"
of the stranger does not look hopeful for
Victor Hugo's European republic, nor in
deed is it maintaining what the French
call their national hospitality. The An
| archists have more pellucid programme.
They recognize as a man and brother,
whether he dwell at Indies or the Pole,
all who aid to demolish society and that
can lodge lead pills in the latest and
most vital part of a bourgeois; then, man
to man the wide world DER, shall brothers
be for a. that. During the first revolution
a journal appeared, and but one number,
like the IdeeS Napoleon, it contained a
project of law of two classes: 1. Moth
ing exists. 2. Nobody is entrusted with
the carrying out of this Decree" Its
lines might be revived.
CreuzOt is the most celebrated smelling
works and foundry in France. Indeed,
1t ranks as an institution. This estab-
lishment has just dismissed it's last batch,
about 120, Of foreign WOrkmen. Among
the latter are several Englishmen vino
held skilled positions. CreuZOt is not so
much factory as an iron world, for it
employs directly and indirectly over IL
600 persons. Its operations comprise the
extraction and smelling of iron ore, the
working of coal mines, the manufacture
Of locomotives, marine engines. rails,
bridges, and various articles of domestic
iron work-a kind Of needle to an anchor
ability.
Creuzot is situated about 10 miles
southeast of Nutun, in the departen ent
of the SaOne-et-Loire. 1t is thus in the
centre of France, and in direct communi-
cation, by rail, river and canal, with
every corner of the realm. The Metallur-
gic Society of CreuzOt, was founded in
1872, under the auspices of Louis XVI,
who was shareholder for the moiety of the
capital. Its object was to make iron with
coke after the process brought from Eng
land by Williams-WilklnsOn The fol-
lowing year Marie AntOinette estab-
Hshed a glass works in the neighborhood,
and which later became the now famous
establishment Baccarat.
THE CREUZOT SOCIETY WAS RUINED
by the Napoleon wars; it was put UP for
sale in 1903, and bought for $50, 900 francs.
An English firm took the works in hand
twenty years later, but failed. Ultimate
~ the Schneider Brothers bought up the
scrip, and it is now the property of that
family, being directed by young Henri
Schneider and his brOther-in-law. The
late NJ. Schneider, who was President of
the Corps Legislatif under the Second
Empire, sharp, shrewd, rosy little
Frenchman, quickly took in the natural
advantages of his property, his social pO-
sition, and political connections. He de-
cided that in order to make CreuzOt ma
tiOnal, he must commence by making it
English. French artisans were intelli-
gent and theO-ish, but they were deficient
in practical ability and experience. The
result Of his visit to England in 1916 was
to arrange for steady supply Of English
skilled wOrkmen, and the most improved
machinery and tools.
Next followed almost the reconstruc-
ton Of the works; furnaces, coke ovens,
fOundries, rolling mills. factories and
sion is at MaZenay, twenty-seven miles
from CreuzOt, and includes a surface of
nine square miles: the coal beds cOnces-
sion embrace a surface of forty square
miles, and the establishment is built on
them. The water supply is abundant.
The premises cover 800 acres, of which
2l5 acres are actually under buildings. 1t
has railway lines, including running
powers over a part of the Lyons Railway,
n hoC Ioo
motives in its service, and 800 wagons
About SOC, 900 tons of iron ore, and the
same Of coal, are annually extracted.
Perhaps One-third of the output of the
ore, 100000 tons, represents the yearly
product of manufactured metal; of which
10000 tons are rails, 10000 sheet and 3d.
000 forged iron. Some 100 locomotives are
built during the year, besides steam boil
ers, marine engines, barges, bridges,
pumps, ETC., representing total of some
10000 900 francs Of affairs.
THE VEIN OF ORE Is RICH AND AS THICK
as two yards in the deepest mine. But
CreuZOt receives ore from other regions
of France, from the Isle of Elba, and from
Algeria. The coal is found at the surface
of the soil in some places, but the best is
from mines about 1900 yards in depth.
1t is good all-round coal, but to make
excellent coke it has to be mixed with the
''fatter'' coal from Saint Etienne. The
ovens convert 1900 tons Of coal daily
into 900 tons Of coke. There are 80 Mas
myth hammers, and Is blast furnaces.
The puddlers earn Str. a day.
CreuZOt made the first locomotive in
France for home railway; that ''comet'
has disappeared. The factory supplies
Eastern Europe with good deal of rail-
way rolling stock. and aims rather to
have old orders renewed than to take new
ones; this saves fresh designs. At Ma
Zenay the miners are a comfortable pa
ternity, live on white bread, beef and
wine; they can have a special villa and
garden for S0fr. year; or can be boarded,
lodged, and washing supplied, for Afr.
per month. There is a canteen for the
sale of provisions, cooked or uncOoked.
OF the total IL 900 work-peOple, 1,400 are
employed in the ore, and 1900 in the coal
mines. There is a branch establishment
at Chalone, mainly devoted to the prOduc-
ton of girders for bridges, etc.
Every facility has been provided for the
educational and recreative wants Of the
population. There are no police, not TWO
convictions in the year take place; lille
gitimacy is One-half less than are the
natural children in Paris, and the various
trades live together tremendously. AT
the close of the Second Empire the cele-
brated Socialist, Assy, created little rest
lessness; he was soon attracted to Paris,
and drawn into the vortex of the Com
mune. He is now amnestied and the
owner Of little Creuzot establishment in
Nor EoIa