The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-31

Napoleon. CALLED "the continental
sperre." r. Krupp began to produce
crucible cast steel, first In small guam
titles for files. stamps, rolls for coins
and shears. but only slowly could he
convince and persuade German manu-
facturers to use his cast steel. and af-
ter a life full of disappointments and
hardships he died in 1926. after a long
and severe illness, leaving to his son
Alfred little else than the old home
stead. which still stands I'm the midst
of the great works. and the secret OF
his invention.
Alfred Krupp's energy and enter
prise soon conquered. His first sue
cess vas to be able to furnish n cast
steel of a varying degree Of hardness.
thereby increasing its adaptability for
many new purposes. Next came the
invention of the weldless car wheel
tires. which were patented in 1853 i'm
all countries. and furnishedAhim capi-
ia! for charging his plant. In 1865 he
interested himself In coal mines. iron
ore mines and furnaces. which should
furnish the material for his own works.
and in 1867 he began 20 rear the har-
vest from his experiments ~inaugurated
long since with steel cannons. and the
great Franco-German war Of 1s70-11
proved beyond doubt their superiority
as against the old bronze
Since then the success of these works
and their growth have been phenom-
email. and when Alfred Krupp closed
the busy and successful and philan-
thropic work of his life in 1887 at villa
Huegel. his princely home on the side
hills of the valley of the Ruhe. the
city of Essen. In recognition OF his
great work, erected i'm his memory IA
beautiful monument IN the most prom
inent square of the city. and deputa-
tions from many nations mourned at
his grave.
Essen is a city of 90, 900 inhabitants.
and over 10000 of this population are
employed in the works of the able and
energetic son of Alfred K~rupp-Fried-
rich Alfred. over 1000 acres of ground
are covered with buildings and ma
chinery. Many coal mines furnish fuel
for the works. yer 400 iron ore mines
furnish the metal and large iron ore
deposits in Spain, nea Bilbao, have
been purchased in addition. and a spe-
cial feet of sceamers have been built
which bring DIVER 800. 900 tons OF this
Spanish ore from Spain to the German
coast and up the Rhine. Twenty fur
naces at Dulsburg and Ne~uwied-on-
he-Rhine are reducing this ore for the
Krupp works and are owned or con-
trolled by them.
The main street of Essen divides the
Krupp works into two parts, connected
overhead with innumerable mammoth
steam pipes inc bridges, and parallel
with IL, running east and west, the
tracks Of the Rhenish railway pass the
works i'm the north. while i'm the south
the railroad leading from Dusseldorf to
Bremen. Hamburg and Berlin skirts
the mills. Innumerable tracks connect
these two main lines OF railroad. sur
rounding in an inextricable network
the buildings and crossing the street
leading to Muelheim below Its level.
Powerful locomotives bring train loads
of raw material into the yards and
leave the works with valuable pro-
ducts, finished and ready for shipment
to all parts of the globe. Miniature en-
gines and cars move about the
buildings on narrow gauge tracks.
bringing material of smaller size from
one building To another until II Is fin
ished and ready for the market.