The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11
THE KRuPP WoRKa.
Description OF the largest 1Eaa1eAcearsz
establishment In the World

In the beginning Of this century only
. town Of 1880 souls stood where now
dwell nearly 10000. The surrounding
district has also been made populous,
chiefly by Essen. 4 wonderful and Inn
pressiYe sceneI Around the many
storied edificas with their high chimneys
that make the iron-works-there must
be at least q hundred such-the vast
plain is dotted as far as the eye can
reach with buildings of the innumerable
iron and coal mines, with chimneys
floating white banners Of smoke. The
landscape is Variegated with pretty ham,
lets, Glimpses of rivers, endless poplar
avenues along white highways, and
everywhere moving lines of shining
cloud where trains Of the three great
railways that encompass Essen speed
perpetually and in all directions. Fred
erick Krupp, belonging to an old Essen
family. started his works in 1910, but he
suffered by ten years lawsuit, which,
though won, burdened him with debt
After his death, in 1925, his widow
barely managed to secure for her Alfred
good education, and when he was
called to the works, in 1S48, he found,
to use his own words, ''three workmen
and moro debts than fortune" It is
of seventy-three years, who has built up
the Krupp works to their present inn
mensity. The firm name Is still Fred.
Krupp," but the works do not belong to
a company, nor yet, as some suppose, to
the government, but to this one man,
Alfred Krupp, who thus owns probably
the largest business in the world de-
pendent on an individual. The works
within the town cover more than 500
acres, half Of which are under cover.
According to census taken in Septem-
Der, 1881, the number of hands en-
ployed by Mr.. Krupp was 19,605, the
members of their families 1916, making
65, 381 persons supported by his works.
OF the laborers, 11,211 were engaged
upon the works in Essen, the rest being
employed in the surrounding mines, the
branch works at Neuweid and Sayn,
and the mines in Spain (Bilbao), from
which, though less extensive, the finest
ores are brought. Mr.. Krupp owns 547
iron mines in Germany. He owns four
sea-steamers, and there are connected
with his Essen works ~ miles of rail-
way, employing % locomotives and 8S3
cars, SO horses with 1871 wagons, and 40
miles of telegraph wires with 50 stations
and 55 Morse apparatuses. The estab-
lishment possesses a grand chemical
laboratory. a Photographic and litho-
graphic atelier, a printing-oifice with 8
stean1-and hand presses. and book
binding room. The establishment even
runs hotel-an excellent one, as have
good reason to KNOWN Essen; and
three years ago, for the advantage Of
the population he has gathered, Mr..
Krupp erected large central supply
I, e oh
extending its benefits to all parts OF the
town and to the colonies he has built
for his workmen in the neighboFhood.
OF these stores and Of the colonies more
must be said presently. Although
rumors have gone through the world of
the vast extent of these works, it is
difficult from mere printed statistics TO
estimate the impressivenesS OF this great
industrial centre until one has looked
upon it from some height, and attempted
to wander through and around it.
To the general world the name
'Krupp" has almost ceased to be per-
sonal; it signifies particular implement
of destruction. Two-thirds of the work
here are devoted to things belonging to
the arts of peace-all the parts Of steam
engines, locomotives, iron axles, bridges,
rail, wheels, tires, switches, springs,
shafts for steamers, mint dies, rndders,
and parts of all varieties of iron ma
chinery, are prepared here for manu-
facturers. That is, they are not COM
bined here: all the iron parts of loco
motive may be obtained here, but not a
locomotive. although nearly all of the
locomotives and engines used in the
works are made in them. Both Brah-
ma and silva are in the employ of MIR.
Krupp, but the creative power prepon-
derates, and if the destroyer is more
famous it must be attributed to the
worlds keen interest in a fight.
Krupp is king. Iron Is master of the
situation. When an ancient king dis
played bis gold, a sage said, but il
another comes with more iron than you
he will be master Of all this gold" The
late Franco German war Is modern In
stance. It has Just been discovered tina
although NJ. Theirs declared proudly t.
the victorious Germans, you may have
all our money, but not Q foot Of oul
| territory nor stone of our foftresses,
privately he had advised differently
better surrender our provinces thar
our money, for our money can buy bacl
our provinces" He had to part witt
both, and Berlin has grown magnihcen
with French milhards. The French
also find that money can not Away
buy iron. For no amount can they puF
chase Krupp guns. This patriotism !
In notable contrast with the impartial
ty of Englishmen. Wherever English
men are Killed, in Africa or In the East
it is with English guns. In the Indiai
Museum In London there is an orgal
representing tiger deyouring an Eng
lishman; It was constructed by Birn
inRham house for England's chic
enemy, Tppoo Saib, who was won't t
have il set going during his meals tia
he might listen with delight to th
tigers growls and the Engiishman'
groans. MIR. Krupp has no objection
selling guns to England, but is shrew
in that direction. Recently Englan
wished TO purchase one or two OF b
latest and Best cannon. but Mr. Krup
said he would not sell them less than
million pounds worth. Should the
obtain one or two they would present.
be copying them at WoolWich, just 8
the Russians have long been copyip
Krupp originals at Aboukhoh Il Il
English would give him q millid
pounds order, under condition that Il
guns supplied should fulfill every test I
Shoeburyness, they might then repr
! duce them as much IS they liked. En-
/ land declined; and II must have bee
] ! with curious sensations that its Ainistl
learned that Turkey has Just signed
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