Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-05
THE GREAT kRUPP WORKS
OVER 10000 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN
VARIOUS BRANCHES.
Consul General Guenther's Interesting
Report the Subject to the
State Department..

Consul General Guenther at Frankfort
has made an interesting report to the State
Department in regard to the extensive OPP
erations of the cast steel works of Freder
lex krupp. These works comprise the fol-
lowing: Cast steel works at Essen, Krupp
steel works formerly F.. Asthoewer & Co.
at Amen. in Westphalia: the Gruson works
at Buckau. near Magdeburg: four blast
furnaces at Dusburg. Neuwied. Fingers and
Rheinhausen (this latter consists OF three
furnaces with "A capacity for each of 30
tons per twenty-four hours: foundry at
Sayn; four coal mines tHanover, Saelzer.
Neuack and HannibaD. with interest IN
other coal mines; more than 800 iron mines
near Bilbao. i'm northern Spain. shooting
grounds at Meppen, with length OF ten
and five-eighths miles and a possibility of
extension for fifteen miles: three ocean
steamers. several stone quarries. clay and
sand pits. etc. In addition. the firm of
Frederick krupp operates the Ship and
Machine Stock Company Germania. at Ber-
lin and Kiel. under contract.
The most important articles OF manufac-
ture of the cast steel works at Essen are
cannons (up to the end of 1899 IS, AIS had
been Sold, projectiles. percussion caps, am
munitton. etc: gun barrels; armor plates
and armor sheets for all protected parts of
men-of-war. as also for Qualifications: rail-
road material, material for Shipbuilders,
parts OF machinery of all kinds. steel and
iron plates rollers. steel for tools and other
purposes. The steel works in 1890 operated
about l, 100 furnaces. forge fires, etc, about
1000 tool and work machines. l32 steam
hammers of from 200 pounds to 5000 metric
tons force, more than thirty hydraulic
presses tamong them two of 5000 tons
each, one Of 1000 tons and one of 200 tons
pressure). 316 stationary steam boilers. 497
steam engines with an aggregate of I,2i3
horse power. bbS cranes of from 400 to 150,-
coo tons lifting power. During the last
year the iron mines yielded aggregate
of 1877 tons of ore per day. The coal pro-
duction from the mines belonging to the
krupp Company teXcepting the Hannibalb
amounted, on an average, to about 3, 13S
tons for each working day.
The consumption OF coal and coke in 1872
was as follows: In the cast-steel works al
Essen 90. 80 TONS in the other works and
on the steamers of the company, 622. lis
tons: IL all. i'm round numbers, 5000 tons
per day. The consumption OF water at the
caSt-Steei works in 1889 was II O1S 1!6 cubic
meters. which equals about the conSump-
ton of the city of Frankfort with 22a,21S
inhabitants. The consumption OF gas in
the steel works at Essen was Is S36 $50
cubic meters in 1899.
The electrical power plant of the works
at Essen has three machine houses with
six distributing stations, and supplies 81
arc lights, q, ia incandescent lamps and
1I9 electric motors.
For the traffic of the works. railroad
tracks of standard gauge of about 36 miles
are laid. which connect with the tracks or
the main railroad STATION AT ESSeh Dix
teen locomotives and 707 cars are operated
on the grounds In addition. there are mar
row-gauge tracks of % miles. with rs loco
motives and LOO cars
The telegraph system of the steel works
has 81 stations. with 81 Morse Geographic IN
struments and 30 miles circuit. The tele-
phone system has IDS stations. with $50
telephones and a circuit of 200 miles.
On April l. 1900, the total number of per-
sons employed in the different works was
667s, viz, 27, 49, at Essen, 3,475 at the
Gruson works of Buckau, 3. 450 at the Ger
mania works at Berlin and Kiel g. 1874 in the
coal mines and 8.12S at the blast furnaces