New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-07
KRUPP'S GREAT WORKS.
ENGLISHMAN'S DESCRIPTION
OF THEM

The attention of the world has been attracted
by a sixteen-year-old girl. The famous gun
works of Herr Krupp, who died the other day,
have been bqueathed to his eldest daughter
Bertha Krupp. BY those who are familiar with
the Essen factories they valued in the neigh
borhood of $75,0OO.OO0. Such a legacy. accord
ingly, elevates Fraulein Bertha to a high rank
among the wealthiest heresses of Europe or
America.
\ clear conception of the immensity of the
gun shops at Essen is obtainable from the fol-
lowing description OF them written by Thomas
Ashbury OF Manchester, England who recently
visited the plant and carefully investigated its
nuitifold industries and wrote a pamphlet
about it entitled IAN Englishman's Visit to
Krupp's Works in Germany-Wake Up. Eng
land" In this pamphlet Mr.. Ashbury says
among other things
These works were founded in 1911 by Fried.
furnace for making. In 1918 the building OF the
Oldest Workshop of the present plant begun.
and his son Alfred. then a lad of fifteen, followed
shin Of his thr Ia slH Ib Iotr S9 & IAN
barrels made. and III 1S47 the first gun tube In
death OF Alfred Krupp in 1857 the number of OFF,
Gals and workmen at the Essen works was 1854
while in 1901 there were 24,536 persons employed.
The works of the firm comprise the Essen cast
the Krupp steel works at Amen. in Westphalia:
the Germana shipbuilding works at kie. and blast
Duisburg, Neuwed. Fingers and Rheinhausen (the
last named consisting of three blast furnaces with
outturn of $50 to go tons furnace in twenty
four hours; engineering works and iron foundry at
Sayn. three coieries, large number of iron ore
docks in Rotterdam. with steamships. etc The
chief products of the Essen works are guns (of
which up to January l, 1902. there have been sold
SO 500. mortars gun barrels plates for war
ships and Notifications. railway material ship
building material machine parts of all kinds. steel
and plates rolls. tool steel hard steel, special
stees steel wnehes etc, AT the steel works in
ton $500 machine tools p rolling mills III steam
hammers from two to one thousand pounds falling ling
pd @ o %, So t0ns s2a Vertisai steam boilers 5S
horsepower EACH aggregating 43S4S horsepower; S5s
weiebf to one hundred and ATTY tons capacity
In the smelling works in 1901 there were smelted
mines daily TIE coal output from the firms COL
ieries in 1901 was 1.f7sSs4 tons The total eonsump-
ton Of the krapp 1 wors eos and vas tons tons Of
brquettes. Converted into equivalents of coal this
works, in so far as it is provided from Essen. Of
Is7S.175 At the Meppen gun testing grounds
6ss Of family GWeing in the workmens
colony OF the firm on January 1862. was 4os The
/, i9S2 was 4SoS3. OF these 245s6 employed at
works in Buckau, 1887 at the Germania shlpyard
in KEEL 6ls9 the collieries and 56 at the smelt-
ing works Meppen grounds. etc The number or
persons dependent on ne krupp works In May 1850
dnsudng aaa a r Is wh hoW R the fact
that the land property is nifty times larger in
area IN area sne Covered WITH buildings Is 1853 times
larger in 1901 than IL was in 1850
of so high class OF material and workmanship
that It Is impossible within any reasonable space
only mention few prominent things that arrested
his attention as being eye openers to an English
steel armor plate for a warship measuring
over 80 feet in length. over IL feet in width and