Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-26
HERRKRUPP'S SUDDEN DEATH
1T is RUMORED THAT HE CON-
MITTED SUICIDE.

He Had Been ~ for Several Years
His Favorite Study Was to Think
How to Help the Lower Classes
Applied Them PracticaIIy-crea:ed
Funds and Built Homes.
Berlin, Nov. 25.-The first assump,
tion that Herr Krupp, the great gun.
maker, whose death was recorded re
Gently, committed suicide Is yielding
to precise and abundant testimony to
the contrary. Professor Binswanger,
a physician of the highest reputation,
was in the apartment adjoining Herr
Krupp's sleeping room when he was
stricken, and DR.. PAIL, Herr Krupp's
family doctor, also was in the house.
They summoned several other physi-
clans and it is regarded as being be
yond belief that all of them should
have connived at concealment of the
cause Of death, which they ascribe to
stroke of apoplexy, induced, they
add unofficially, by mental excitement
from which Herr Krupp was suffering,
Herr Krupp's medical history for
several years past indicates that he
was In delicate health. He was asth.
matte, had weak heart and was sub
ject to fainting spells. He fell to the
ground unconscious while In Genoa
several years ago and again while at
dinner at hotel here IS months ago.
He had been warned to avoid fatigue
and worry. He was at Hamburg
Thursday last and at the Hamburger
hof 1t was observed that he was In a
highly nervous condition and scarcely
in control of himself. His condition
accounted for the presence of two ply
sicians in the house at the time of his
death. one of them being Professor
Binswanger.
Mrs. krupp was sent for from Jena
She Is suffering from a nervous NAL.
ady, but was brought to Essen in a
special train, arriving there this morn
ing. The. funeral has been fixed for
Wednesday. Chancellor Won BueIow.
all the ministers and a great number
OF other officials, following the exam
pie of the emperor, have telegraphed
their condolences to the widow.
Herr Krupp leaves two daughters
who are at school, one named Barbara,
aged II, and the second named Bertha
aged Is years.
Herr Krupp's favorite study was to
think out schemes for improving the
well being of the lower classes, wnrch
he applied practically to what are
called labor colonies" He assented,
seemingly. to most socialistc prlnci
pies, except that he held tight to the
wage system, averring that the aver
age wage earners are not yet suffi-
ciently developed or self-controlled to
regulate for themselves a just system
of division Of profit.
1t Is mentioned as an extraordinary
circumstance that a man who applied
socialistic ideas in so extensive a way
should be crushed by social demo
cratic newspapers. which regarded his
measures to ameliorate the condition
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
ingman as a matter of expedlency and
Herr Krupp himself appears to have
developed them from conviction and in
accordance with his ideals. He owned
5469 dwellings. each, to whatever
group 1t belonged, being constructed
with variations in the architecture to
avoid monotony. Each house had a
front yard, In which were bits Of orna
mental gardening; the outside coloring
and Interior decoration gave a certain
esthetic unity, while there was plenty
Of space and light.
Herr Krupp had also a variety OF
institutions, some of them rather sing
ular, such as bachelors home. Be.
sides convalescent hospitals and or.
phanages, he had a pension fund for
his employees amounting to $4,125 900.
He contributed last year, as required
by law, $372,000 to the national insur-
ance fund and gave voluntarily $4,080,-
900 to other insurance funds.
Notwithstanding his benevolent In
terests, he was an autocrat In the man
agement Of his concerns. He was al
most unknown by sight to his work
men and rarely visited the works or
even 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.
Unlike his father, Herr Krupp tooI
no interest in the technical side of his
business, yet in Is years he more than
doubled the fortune which he inner.
tied. Since their foundation the Essen
factories have turned out Al 900 pieces
Of artillery. Herr Krupp resented be-
ing called the cannon king. and he
said that half Of all the output Of his
works was civilizing products, such as
railway and merchant ship material
and structural steel.