The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-07-07
GREAT CANNON MAKERS,
The KrI..ps and Their Big Plant
at Essen.
Energy and Enterprise Achieve tn
surpassed Success-Facts About
the Enormous Estab-
Iishment.

The city of Essen is located in the
center of billy valley, which abounds
in coal and iron ore, and the digging
for both and the melting of the ore and
casting the metal into ingots and roll
irg il into bars have been the occula.
tons of the inhabitants for centuries
past. Frederick krupp, the founder of
the great works bearing his name, was
born in 1887, and when crucible east
steel was first being introduced in
England, and its importation from
there into Germany had been made i'm
pussible through the edict of Ma
poleOn called 1.-The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
r. krupp began to produce crucibIc
east steel, first in small quantities for
files. stamps, rolls for coins and shears.
hut only slowly could he convince and
persuade GcrTan manufacturers to use
his cast steel, and aftcr n life full of
disappontmcntaa and hardshirs be Ci.d
in 1896. after Il long and severe Illness,
leaving TO his son Alfred little else han
the old homestead, which still stands
in the midst Of the great works, and
the secret of his invention.
Alfred krupp's energy and enterprise
soon conquered. His first success was
10 be able to furnish cast steel of
varying degree of hardness. thereby in
crcasing its adaptablity for many new
purposes. Next came the invention of
the wcidlCss car wheel tires. which
were patented in 1853 in all countries
and furnished him capital for enlar%-
tng his plant. In 1865 he interested
himself in coal mines, iron ore mines
aud furnaces, which should furnish the
material for his own works, and in
1867 he began to reap the harvest fron
his experiments inaugurated long since
with stccl cannons, and tie great
FranCo-GerInan war of 1S10-1l proved
beyond doubt their superiority as
against the old bronze cannons. Since
then the success of these works and
their growth have been phenomenal,
and when Alfred Krupp closed the busy
and successful and philanthropic work
OF his life in 1857 at Villa IIuegcl, his
princely home on the side kills of the
valley of the Ruhr, the city of Essen,
in recognition of his great work, erect
ed in his memory n E.autiful monu-
ment on the most prominent square of
the city, and Populations from many
nations mourned at his grave.
Essen is n city of $4,000 inhabitants,
and over 10000 of this population are
employed in the works of the able and
energetic son of Alfred Erupp-Fred-
rich Alfred. Over 1900 acres of ground
are covered with buildings and ma
chinery. Many coal mines furnish fuel
for the works, over AGO iron ore mines
furnish the metal, and large iron ore
deposits in Spain, near Bilboa. have
Leen purchased in addition, and q spe-
cial fleet of steamers has been built
which bring over 100000 tons of this
Spanish iron ore from Spain to the
German coast and up the Rhine. Tween
" furnaces at Duisburg and Neuwicd-
on-the-Rhine are reducing this ore for
the krupp works and are owned or
controlled by them.
The main street of Essen divides the
Krupp works into two parts, connected
overhead with innumerable mammoth
steam pipes and bridges, and parallel
with it, running east and west, the
tracks Of the Rhcnish railway pass the
works in the north, while in the south
the railroad heading from Dusseldorf to
Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin skirts the
mill. Innumerable tracks connect
these two main lines of railroad, sur
rounding in an incXtricable network
the buildings and crossing the street
leading to Muclheim below its level.
Powerful locomotives bring train loads
of raw material into the yards and leave
the works with valuable products,
finished and ready for shipment II all
parts of the globe. Miniature engines
and cars move about between the build
ings on narrow-gauge tracks, bringing
material of smaller size from one build
ing to another until il is finished and
ready for the market.-Iron Age.
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