Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-25
All About Krupp and What
His Estate is Doing for
Workingmen.

their terms In the shops and have PEN
sions. There Is a regular system of in
surance and pensions by which the
men after "a certain term get $40 and
upward per year and have these houses
free of rent The most Of them have
other incomes from their savings. This
section is made up " neat one ana one
half story cottages. surrounded by gar
dcns and filed with flowers They are
of brick and stucCo, and have what the
Germans would call all modern conyen-
fences
There is one family to the cottage and
the cottages are kept boy the widows Of
the old men after their death. II is a
beautiful village almost every inhab-
liant of which Is over 60, q town Of old
men and old women fairly well dressed
and apparently contented.
FOR AGED WIDOWS AND WIDOW
EltS.
In addition 10 the cottages there are
club houses for old widows and old
widowers. These are for those OF the
aged who have no families on who do
not want to keep house. In one Of these
clubs ! found eight men and talked with
several of them, one told me that he
had worked for Krupp q years, aud
that out 0f his savings he had now AN
income Of about $40 a month. HIS
house rent costs him nothing ana he
can, he says live quite comfortably on
this amount | asked him if he did not
get tired doing nothing.
"No, / worked as hard as a black
smith for a years ! am GA years old
now, and ] am glad 70 stop. When l
am tired sitting / take q walk, and
when am tired walking l take a seat
II suits me very well'
Among the widows / found some quite
as content as this Old man. one nice
Old woman said she had a pension Of
$3.50 month and that II kept her very
Well She cooked her own breakfast
and had her dinner sent In from the
old-age eating house at cents per
meal.
A part Of the pension fund IL fur
nished by the government, but krupp
gave vast AMOUNT himself every year.
Indeed in this respect alone his char
tiles annually amounted to about a
quarter of a million dollars
THE KRUPP STORES.
The company stores OF the United
states are OIEn run LOT inc Utnelll VI
the capitalists. The Krupps have estab-
lished cash stores for the benefit Of the
men. There are 5A different stores and
shops great and small here, which sell
only TO Krupp employees, They are ali
managed by the establishment and are
run on a cooperative principle. The
Krupps take out Il low interest on the
capital they have invested in them and
the profits beyond this are divided
among the customers according 10 the
amount Of their purchases, This profit
fo0ts up 7 or per cent year. so that
IL man spends 800 at the store he re-
ceifes 81 or IS back at the close Of the
year.
These stores provide everything that
a man needs. They embrace butchers,
bakers and candlestick makers, They
include dry goods shops, tailor shops
and even undertaking establishments.
The man who belongs TO Krupp's works
can have a coffin at his death, and his
heirs at the end Of the year VIII re-
ceve per cent ~ the purchase.
The Krupp bakeries make .2O,OOO,OOO
loayes Of bread year, the butcher
shops annually kin 10000 cat lle and
everything else is llroportionately large.
All sales are made for cash. and every
thing is sold as cheap as or a little
cheaper than it can be bought else
where.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.