The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13
The Three Krupps.
From the Iron Age.

AChA VIC IAbAA A6N-
The city of Essen is located In the center
of a 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 rolling it into bars
have been the occupations of the inhabi-
tants for centuries past Friedrich Krupp,
the founder of the great works bearing his
name, was born in 1887, and when crucible
cast steel was first being introduced into
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 manufacture
ers TO use his cast steel, and after a life
full of disappointments and hardships he
died in 1895, after a long and severe H.
ness, leaving to his son Alfred little else
than 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 to
be able 40 furnish cast steel of a varying
degree of hardness, thereby increasing its
adaptabllity for many new purposes. Next
came the invention of the weldless car
wheel tires, which were patented in 1855
In all countries and furnished him capital
for charging his plant. In 1866 he inter-
ested 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 ex
periments inaugurated long since with
steel eannons. Since then the success of
these works and their growth have been
phenomenal, and when Alfred Krupp
closed the busy and successful and phil
anthropic work Of his life in 1887 at Villa
Huegel his princely home on the side hills
OF the valley OF the Buhr, the city OF
Essen IN recognition of his great work
erected in his memory a beautiful monu.
ment on the most prominent square of
the city, and Populations from many ma
tons mourned al his grave.
Essen is city of $500 inhabitants and
over 1900 of this population are emplovad
in the works Of the able and energetic SON
OF Alfred Krupp-Friedrich Alfred. over
l,2W acres Of ground are covered 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 Bilbao
have been purchased in addition, and a
special fleet OF steamers has been built
which bring over 100000 tons of This snan-
ism iron ore from Spain to the German
coast and up the Rhine. Twenty furnaces
at Duisburg and Neuwled-on-the- Rhine
are reducing this ore for the Krupp works
and are owned OF controlled by them.
The main street of Essen divides the
Krupp works into two parts, connected
overhead with innumerable marnoth
steam pipes and bridges, and parallel with
1t, running east and west the tracks of
the Rhenish Railway pass the works In
the north, while in the south the railroad
leading from Dusseldorf 70 Bremen Ham
burg and Berlin skirts the mill. Innumera-
bic tracks connect these two main lines Of
railroad, surrounding in an inextricable
network the buildings and crossing the
street leading to Muelheim below it's level
Powerful locomotives bring train loads of
raw material into the yards and leave the
works with valuable products, finished and
ready for shipment to all parts of the
globe. Miniature engines and cars move
about between the buildings on narrow
gauge tracks, bringing material of smaller
size from one building to another until IL
is finished and ready for the market.