The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-24


Death Regarded as Beyond Belief
Had Weak Heart for Several Years
His Worry Over the Recent Charges
Against Him.
Berlin, Nov 23.-The first assumption
that Herr Krupp, the great gunmaker,
whose death was recorded yesterday
committed suicide, is yielding to precise
and abundant testimony to the contra
ry. Professor Binzwanger, a physician
of the first reputation, was in the apart
ment adjoining Herr Krupp's sleeping
room when he was stricken down on
Saturday morning, and Dr. Pahl, Herr
Krupp's family doctor, was also in the
house. They summoned several other
physicians of some celebrity and it is re-
garded as being beyond belief that all
of them should have connived at con-
cealment of the cause of death which
they ascribe to stroke of apoplexy, in
dured, they add unofficially, by mental
excitement from which the deceased
was suffering.
Herr Krupp for several years past
has had weak heart and was subject
to fainting spells. He had been warm
ed to avoid overfatigue and worry. At
a hotel in Hamburg last Thursday he
was observed to be in highly wrought
state and scarcely in control of himself.
His condition accounted for the pres
ence of two physicians in the house at
the time of his death, one of them being
Professor Binzwanger.
The mental excitement referred to
above was caused by charges against
Herr Krupp printed in the Voerwaerts
and reflected on his character. These
charges were strongly denied by Herr
Krupp who declared they We're prompt
ed by the jealousy of italian hotel keep
ers on the Island of Capri, where Herr
Krupp had a magnificent residence and
where it was rumored he was to build
hotel that might ruin those of the
Italians. The charges were investigat-
ed by the italian police but legal action
was not justified.
Mrs. Krupp was sent for. She is suf-
fering from a serious malady, but was
brought to Essen in special train
Wednesday. Chancellor Won Buelow, all
the ministers and great number of
other officials, following the example Of
the emperor, have telegraphed their
condolences to the widow. Herr Krupp
leaves two daughters, aged seventeen
and fifteen years.
Herr Krupp's favorite study was to
think out schemes for improving the
well being of the lower classes which he
nk;a b.
labor colonies" He assented seeming
ly 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-con-
trolled to regulate for themselves a just
system of division of profits. 1t is men,
toned as an odd chance that a man
who applied so-called reform ideas In so
extensive way should have been
crushed by social-democratic newspa-
per, which, however, regarded his
measures to ameliorate the condition
of the laborers as not touching the ques-
ton Of economic injustice.
Herr Krupp's father started the sys-
tenn of modern dwellings for the work.
ingmen as 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 whatever group
it belonged, being constructed with va
riations in the architecture to avoid
monotony Each house had q front
yard in which were bits of ornamental
gardening; the outside coloring and the
interior decoration gave certain aes-
thetfc unity, while there was plenty of
space and light. Herr Krupp had also
a variety of institutions, some of them
rather singular. such a bachelors
homes and widows retreats" Besides
convalesrent hospitals and the regula-
ton orphanages he had pension fund
for his employees amounting to $4,125, 900.
He contributed last year as required by
the law $372,O00 to the national insur-
ance fund and gave voluntarily $40S0.-
900 to other insurance funds. Notwith-
standing his benevolent interests in the
laborers he was an autocrat in the man
agement of his concerns. He was al
most unknown by sight to his workmen
and rarely visited the works or even his
Offices He spent several months every
year on the Island of Capri and man
aged his gunworks, rolling mills, iron
mines and ship yards by letters and
kilograms.
Unlike his father Herr Krupp took no
interest in the technical side of his bus
mess, yet in fifteen years he more than
doubled the fortune he inherited. Since
their foundation the Essen factories
have turned out 41,OOO pieces of artillery
Herr Krupp resented being called the
Cannon King" and he said that half
of all the output of his works was civil
izing products. such as railway and
merchant ship material and structural
steel.
The main facts in the career of Fried
rich Alfred Krupp might be summed up
in very few lines. He inherited a
famous gun, became the armorer of the
world and made the name of Essen ia
nous as one of the biggest Industrial
centers of its own peculiar kind upon
earth. Wherever there are ships or
Notifications there are to be found the
say, except in France, the one country
which Krupp would not supply. Ever
since the Franco-German war he had
been looking forward to the possibility
of war of revenge, and he vowed that
he would never put weapons into the
hands Of an avowed enemy of his coun-
try.