The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-24
KRUPP DID NOT
KILL HIMSELF
Assumption of Suicide Was Evil
IDENTIFY an Error.
TWO PHYSICIANS PRESENT
THE GUNMAKER HAD BEEN IN
FEEBLE HEALTH RECENTLY.

n ERLIN, Nov. 23.-The first assumo-
n ton that Herr Krupp. the great
gun maker. whose death was re-
corded yesterday, committed suicide is
yielding to precise and abundant tes-
timony to the contrary. Professor
BinsWanger, a physician of the highest
reputation, was in the apartment ad-
Joining Herr Krupp's sleeping room
when he was stricken on Saturday
morning, and DR.. PAIL, Herr Krupp's
family doctor, also was in the house
They summoned several other ply
sieians and it is regarded as being he
yond belief that all Of them should
have connived at a concealment Of the
cause Of death, which they ascribe 20
stroke of apoplexy, induced, they az
unoffieially. by mental excitement FROM
which Herr Krupp was suffering
Herr Krupp's medical history for
several years past indicates that ne
was in delicate health He was asth
matte, had a weak heart and was sub
ject to fainting spells He fell 70 ire
ground unconscious while in Genoa
several years age. and again while at
dinner at a hotel here eighteen months
ago. He had been warned to avoid
overfatigue and worry He Was at
Hamburg Thursday last and at The
Hamburger Hof it was observed 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
Professor Binswanger.
Funeral Wednesday.
Mrs. Krupp was sent for from Jena.
She is suffering from nervous malady,
but was brought to Essen in special
train. arriving there this morning. The
funeral has been fixed for Wednesday
Chancellor Won BuelOw, all the minis
ters and a great number of other Of
ficials, following the example of the
emperor, have telegraphed their con-
dolence to the widow. Herr Krupp
leaves two daughters, who are at
school; one. named Barbara, aged Il,
and the second, named Bertha, Is years
Old Herr krupp'S faVOrite study was
to think out schemes for improving the
well 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
/ system, averring that the wage earners
were not yet sufficiently developed or
| self-controlled to regulate for them
selves a just system of division or
profits.
It is mentioned as an odd chance
that a man who applied social reform
ideas in so extensive way should
have been crushed by a social demo-
cratic newspaper, which regarded his
measures to ameliOrate the condition OF
the laborers as not touching the ques-
ton of economic injustice.
Owned Many Houses.
Herr Krupp's father started the sys-
tenn of modern dwellings for the work
ingman as a matter of eXpediency, and
! Herr Krupp himself appears to have
| developed them from conviction and in
accordance with his ideals. He owned
5.449 dwellings, each being constructed
with variations in the architecture to
| avoid mOnOtOny. Each house had a
front yard, in which were bits of or
| namental gardening; the outside color
ing and the interior decoration gave q
certain aesthetic unity, while there
| was plenty Of space and light
| Herr Krupp had also a variety OF
Institutions, some of them rather SIN
guIar, such as bachelor homes" and
| "WidOWerS' retreats Besides cOnvaI-
escent hospitals and Orphanages, ne
had pension fund for his employees
uted last year, as requested by law
$372 600 to the national insurance FUND
and gave voluntarily $40S0. 900 to Other
insurance funds. Notwithstanding his
benevolent interests, he was an auto
crat in the management of his con
Germs. He was almost unknown BY
sight to his workmen and rarely Wis
tied the works or even mis- offices. HI
spent several months every year on thu
island of Capri and managed his gun
works. rolling mills, iron mines anC
ship yards by letters and kilograms
Unlike his father. Herr Krupp tool
no interest in the technical side of hi
business, yet in fifteen years he NOR
than doubled the fortune which he in
herited Since their foundation tn
Essen factories have turned out 1,O0
pieces of artillery. Herr Krupp re
scented being called the Cannon King.
and he said that half Of all the outpu
of hts works were civilizing products
such as railway and merchant shil
/ material and structural steel