Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-08

to be ''in the swim" and TO assert their
Importance by having guns as good as
those of their neighbors
The Big Gun Models.
We ascend to q platform above the floor
on which we have been standing and we
find representations of tho various kinds
of engineering works carried out by Creu-
sot. including bridges of all sizes and de-
signs which the COMPANIES prepared to
supply ready made and only waiting for
erection. On this platform-are to be seen
models of the yariousab guns. The mod
els, which look like mere toys beside the
mammoth originals. are completely finished
weapons. and al one time would have been
considered quite formidable little pieces OF
artillery. Fancy pretty toy that can send
a half-pound shell tosa distance OF mile
and half, and that at the rate of a shot
per second On this platform is exhibited
a diminutiive model of the disappearing
tower. but the temptation to work it is
checked by the growing voice of hlrsute
attendant, who asks you if you do not OBJ
serve the notice posted everywhere. "Priere
de ne pas TOUGHER" tpleace do not touch)
The terrible monsters of war are guarded
with quite an afectionate and jealous So
licitude.
On the same platform young sailor in
attendance worked for us a small naval
cannon which looked out from the side of
vessel, and which he turned from side to
side and elevated and depressed with ease.
The word small must be taken relatively,
for the calibre of the gun was, after all.
TOUR inches and the projectile surrounding
the brass cartridge case: containing the
charge stood about three feet six inches in
height.
Where Guns Are Built.
Perhaps one Of the most interesting ex-
hibits in the place is finely executed
Il ~ oc 1~tl Of
Creusot. The factories and the dwellings
of the work people form in reality large
town, being quite unique as a city, built
around and dependent entirely upon the
works of single company, for Essen,
which Is the home of Krupps works in Ger
many has separate though small exist
ence apart from the manufacture of big
guns. Each branch of the Cruesot indus
try has separate workshop and the de-
partment of the big guns has not only a
very special installation, but 1t has Sc
cured the services of the most noted chem
lists. metalurgists and engineers in France.
who devote their whole attention exclu-
sively to the improvement of the Creusot
weapons The company has also three
trial grounds for testing in every particular
every piece, as well the plates of armor,
issued from the works. One of these trial
grounds, situated not at Creusot, but near
Havre, permits tests to distance Of eight
miles.
The entire town of Creusot Is built on a
model plan and there is perhaps no other
center of population in the world In which
every part is arranged on a system OF such
concordance with every other The railway
system, for instance, is so installed that the
finished product of the workshop is de-
posted directly the truck destined to
carry 1t to the general railway system of
France and thence to any part of the world.
The town it also united by railway lines be-
longing to the company, with centers Of
supply Of the material used in the working
of the manufactures. The coal pits of
Montchanon and Longperdu, in the depart
ment of Saronne and Loire and of Decize in
the department of Nievre supply a great
part of the fuel consumed. The farthest
are distant some fifty miles from the work
shop. The iron ore is obtained in great part
from the mines of Mazenay and of Change
In the department Of Saone and Loire.
These are distant about twenty-five miles.
The connection of the workings of the coal
pits and iron mines is so close with that of
Creusot that they may be all looked upon
as parts of the same great system
Organization and System.
The same system of order and organiza
ton presides over the laying out of the
whole town, yet though everything is de-
pendent on the workshop and owes its life
to that great function, a considerable
charm has been given to the town by the
arrangement of parks and tree lined boule
wards. One of the most striking buildings
ceiving $50 patients: the service, together
with that of the Dha rnacy and of all at
tendance during sickness. is gratuitous. The
workmen's houses aresmo5l buildings and
fa' lities are 1t rded to the me-. u become
p: prietors of their dwellings after a SeI-
tain term of service. TIL Old age p-r-4 m
system is hera practical success and in
full: swing. A man after thir.y wears of
service Is entitled to one fIanc Ter ,iay
and there are various ways of tightening
the burdens of those having more than five
IT. family. or whom Ill fortune mas placed
at a disadv? mage. Free scho is for bows
AMI girls flourish in the pace ana the el,I-
cat on afforded II brought 20 :. fairly high
grade And yet, such Is human nature
strikes frequently occur in Creusot, and for
some time a desultory condition of strike
seems to have. become chronic.
Work of Three Generations.
Such an establishment. so vast, so COM
plete. well ordered and organized could
not be worked out by any one man. Creu-
sot is a growth, an Industrial evolution
whose development has been determined by
the needs of our century 1t is grim sa-
tire on our bOasted march toward the mil
lennum that enormous a work and so
great an expenditure of thought and energy
should mainly be devoted to the task of de-
struction.
The bust of the founder. Eugene Schnei-
der, a keen and clever-looking Alsacian
Frenchman. adorns the upper gallery. He
has been succeeded in turn by his son. Hen
ri Schneider, and his grandson, Eugene
Schneider, the present representative All
the Schneiders have been able men. and 1t
is to their credit that while they have so
closely followed the commercial develop
ment of their country, in its metallurgical
side. they have been sincerely DESTROYS of
providing for the comfort of their employees
Hence in the various strikes which have
agitated the community. NJ. Eugene Schnei-
der seems to have retained his personal
popularity and by that means he has more
than once averted what would have been
not only a calamity in Creusot, caused by
the shutting down of works SO vast, but
also veritable national disaster
v. GRlBAYEDOFF
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