Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-09
THE THREE KRtPPs,
Their Wonderful Gun Works nj
Eascn.

Essen.
From the lion Age.
The city OF Essen is located In the center
Of a hilly valley. which abounds in coal
and iron ore, and the digging for both and
the melting OF the ore and casting the
nretal into ingots and rolling 1t into bars
have been the occupations OF the inhah.-
tants for centuries past. Frederick Krupp.
the founder OF the great works bearing his
name was born in 1857. and when crucibls
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 the
continental sperre," F. Krupp began to
produce crucible cast steel. first In small
quantities for files, stamps, rolls for coins
and shears. but only slowly could he con-
vince and persuade German manufacturers
to use his cast steel. and after a life full
OF disappointments and hardships. he died
In 1876. after long and severe Illness.
leaving to his son Alfred little else than
the old homestead, which still stands In
the midst of the great works, and the Sc
cret OF his intention.
Alfred krupp's energy and enterprfse
sttn conquered. His first success was to
be able to furnish a cast steel of a vary
ing 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 in all countries. and furnished him
capital for enlarging his plant. In 1885 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 to reap the harvest from his
experiments, inaugurated long since. with
steel canaons. and the great Franco-Ger-
man war of lSf0-sl proved beyond doubt
their superiority as against the old bronze
cannons. Since then the success of these
works and their growth have been phe-
Lomenal. and when Alfred Krupp closed
the busy and successful and philanthropic
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 a beautiful monument on the
most prominent square of the city, and
Populations from many nations mourned at
his grave.
Essen is a city Of $4,000 inhabitants. and
over 5000 OF this population are en-
ployed in the works of the able and ener-
getic of Alfred Krupp-Friedrich AL
fred. Over 200 acres of ground are COW
cred with buildings and machinery. Many
coal mines furnish fuel for the works, over
400 iron ore mines furnish the metal and
large iron ore deposits in Spain, near Bill
bao. have been purchased in addition and
special fleet of steamers have been built
which bring over 800 600 tons of this Span
ish ore from Spain to the German coast and
up the Rhine. Twenty furnaces at Duls-
burg and Neuwied-on-the-R Rhine are reduc-
ing this ore for the Krupp works and are
owned or controlled by them.
The main street of Essen divides the
krurp works in two parts. connected over
head with innumerabe mammoth steam
pipes and bridges. and parallel with II,
running east and west the tracks of the
Rhenish railway pass the works on the
north. while in the south the railroad lead
ing from Dusseldorf to Bremen, Hamburg
and Berlin skirts the mills. Innumerable
tracks connect these two main lines OF rail-
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