The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-24
WAS NOT SUICIDE
ALL SUSPICION OF KRUPP's SELF
DESTRUCTION REMOVED.
AP0PLEXY WAS THE CAUSE.
INDUCED BY ITS VICTIMS MENTAL
EXCITEMENT.


cIaIistIc Views-'These Did Not Ex-
tend 20 the Abolition of the Wage
system-Krupp Doubled the Great
Fortune Lett Him in Fifteen Years.
Knew Little of His Metal Works.
Employees Rarely Saw Him-Char-
actcristics.
Berlin. Nov. 2s.-The first assump-
ton that Herr Krupp, the great gun
maker, whose death was recorded yes
terday. committed suicide, is yielding
to precise and abundant testimony to
the contrary
Prof. Binswanger, a physician of the
highest reputation. was in the apart
ment adjoining Herr Krupps sleeping
room when he was stricken on Satur-
day morning. and DR.. PAIL. Herr
Krupps family doctor, also was in the
house. They summoned several other
physicians and it is regarded as being
beyond belief that all of them should
have connived at a concealment of the
cause of death, which they ascribe to
stroke of apoplexy, induced, they add
unoficially. by mental excitement from
which Herr I<rupp was suffering.
Herr Krupp's medical history for
several years past indicates that he
was in delicate health. He was asth-
matte, had a weak heart and was sub
ject to fainting spells. He fell to the
ground unconscious when in Genoa
several years ago. and again while at
dinner in hotel here eighteen months
ago. He had been warned to avoid
over-fatigue and worry.
He was at Hamburg Thursday last
and at the Hamburger Hof it was OBJ
served that he was in a highly nervous
condition, and scarcely in control Of
himself. His condition accounted for
the presence of two physicians in the
house at the time of his death, one Of
them being Prof. Binswanger.
Prominent Men CondoIe.
Mrs. Krupp was sent for from lena.
She is suffering from a nervous mall
ady, but was brought to Essen in a
special train. arriving there this morn
| ing. The funeral has been fixed for
| Wednesday. Chancellor Buelow, all the
ministers and great number of oth<r
officials, following the example of the
Emperor, have telegraphed their con-
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leaves two daughters who are at
school, one named Barbara, aged II,
and the second named Bertha. Is.
Herr Krupp's favorite study was to
think out schemes for improving the
we'll being of the lower classes, which
he applied practically to what are
called. labor colonies" He assented
seemingly to most socialistic principles,
except that he held tight to the wage
| no be,s
were not yet sufficiently de-
veloped or self-controlled to reg
ulate for themselves Just
system of division of profits. Ii
is mentioned as an odd chance that a
man who applied social reform ideas
In so extensive way should have
been crushed by Social Democratic
newspaper, which, however, regarded
his measures to ameliorate the condi-
ton of the laborers as not touching the
| question of economic Injustice
Herr Krupp's father started the sys-
| tenn of modern dwellings for the work.
ing man as a matter of expediency.
and Herr Krupp himself appears to
have developed them from conviction
and IN accordance with his ideals. He
owned 5,469 dwellings, each, to what
ever group 1t belonged, being construct
ed with variations in the architecture
| to avoid monotony. Each. house had
front yard, in which were bits OF
ornamental gardening; the outside coll
oring and the interior decoration gave
a certain aesthetic unity. while there
was plenty of space and light.
He Had some Fads.
Herr Krupp had also a variety Of
| institutions, some of them rather sim
| gular. such as bachelors home" and
"widowers' retreats" Besides conva-
| lescent hospitals and orphanages he
had pension fund for his employees
| amounting to $4125, 600. He contribu-
ted last year, as required by the law,
| $4,000 to the national insurance fund
and gave voluntarily s4,0S0000 to other
| insurance funds. Notwithstanding
his benevolent interests in the labor
ers, he was an autocrat in the manage
ment of his concerns. He was almost
unknown by sight to his workmen. and
rarely visited the works or his offices.
He spent several months every year
on the Island of Capri, and managed
his gun works, rolling mills, iron
mines and shipyards by letters and
| kilograms
| Like his father. Herr Krupp took no
| interest in the technical side of his
business, yet in fifteen years he more
than doubled the fortune he inherited.
! Since their foundation. the Essen fac
tories have turned out 1900 pieces OF
artillery. Herr Krupp resented being
called the cannon king and he said
! that half of all the output of his works
was ciyilizing products, such as rail-
way and merchant ship material and
structural steel
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