Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-12
THE THREE kRUPPS.

The Great Shops of the German Gum
mrkers.
From the Iron Age
The city Of Essen is located in the center
of hilly 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 rolling it into bars have
been the occupations of the inha bitants for
centuries past Friedrich Krupp, the
founder OF the great works bearing his
name, was born in 1857, and when crucible
cast steel was first being introduced in
England, and its importation from there
into Germany had been made impossible
through the edict of Napoleon called 1.-THE
continental-sperre,' F. krupp began to pro
duce crucible cast steel, first in small guam
titles for files, stamps, rolls for coins and
shears, out only slowly could he convince
ana persuade German manufacturers to use
MS cast steel, and after lAfe full of disap-
pointments and hardships he died in 1896,
after a long anu severe Illness leaving To
ms son Alfred little else than the old home
stead, which still stands in the midst OF the
great works, and the secret of his inven-
ton. -; n.
Alfred Krupp's energy and enterprise soon
CONQUERED. HIS first success was to be able
70 furnish cast steel of a varying degree of
hardness, thereby increasing its adaDtapili-
" for many new purposes. Next came the
invention Of the weldless car wheel tires.
"AAANii WOiC pdteHteU In 1898 In all countries
and furnished him capital for enlarsine b.s
plant In 1865 he interested himself in coal
mines, iron ore mines and furnaces which
should furnish the material for his own
wplks, ano In 1857 he began to reap the
harvest from his experiments inaugurated
long since Win steel cannons and the great
franco-German war OF 1901 proved be-
yond doubt their superiority as against the
of these works and their growth have heen
phenomenal. and when Alfred Krupp closed
the busy and successful and philanthropic
work OF his life In 1887 at Villa Huesel, his
pTinceiy home on the side hills of the valley
OF the Ruhr. the city Of Essen in recoeni.
ton Of his great work erected in his mem
DRY beautiful monument on the most
prominent square Of the city, and deputa
grave. go ~
Essen is city of $4,000 inhabitants, and
over twenty thousand Of this population are
empioyed IN the works of the able and en-
ereetlc son or Alfred Krupp-Friedrich AL
fred Over twelve hundred acres of pround
are covered with buildings and machinery
Many coal mines furnish fuel for the works.
oyer eH Iour hundred iron ore mines furnish
the metal, and large iron ore deposits in
spain, near Bilbao, have been purchased in
addition, and special fleet of steamers has
been built whic-. bring over three hundred
thousand tons of this Spanish iron ore from
Spain to the German coast and I'm tho
Rhine Twenty furnaces at Duisburg and
Neuwfed-on-the-Rhine are reducing this ore
TOT the krupp works and are owned or con-
trolled by them. VIII
The main street of Essen divides the
hrupp 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
Rhenish railway pass the works in the
north, while In the south the railroad lead
ing from Dusseldorf to Bremen, Hamburg
ana Berlin skirts the mill. Innumerable
tracks connect these two main lines of rail-
road, surrounding in an inextricable net
wo.k the buildings and crossing the street
leading to Muelheim below its level pow
erful locomotives bring train loads of raw
material! into the yards and leave the works
with valuable products. finished and ready
LOT Shipment to all parts of the globe
Miniature engines and cars move abont he.
tween the buildings on narrow-ranee
tracks, bringing material Of smaller size
rom one building to another until It is An
ished and ready for the market.