Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

and cucumber salad.
Observation-Disclosures: Coffee, ham and
bread. Dinner: Soup, mutton stew, vege-
tables. Supper: Scrambled eggs and pota-
toes" In addition to this beer Is furnished
at a little over cost price.
One of the most interesting of the coll
onies is Altenhof, which might be trans
lated "Old Age Court" This is for the re-
tired workmen who have served out their
terms in the shops and have pcnsi ms.
There is a regular system of insurance and
pensions by which the men after a certain
term get SIS and upward per year and have
these houses free of rent. The most OF
them have other incomes from their saw
ings. This section is made up of neat one
and one-half story cottages, surrounded by
gardens and filled with flowers. They are
of brick and stucco. and have what the
Germans would call all modern c9nven-
fences.
There is one family to the cottage and
the cottages are kept by the widows CT the
old men after their death. 1t is a beautiful
village, almost every inh2bitant of which is
over CO., a town of old men and old women,
fairly well dressed and apparently con-
tented.
In addition to the cottages there are club
houses for old widows and old widowcrs.
These are for those Of the aged who havo
no ldullle Ut VIM ~ nOI WdHl l U keep
house. In one of those clubs l found eight
men and talked with several of them. One
told me that he had worked for Krupp
twenty-four years, and that out of his saw
ings he now had an income Of alb tut so a
month. His house rent costs him no hing
and he can, he says, live quite comfortably
on this amount. / asked him If he did not
get tired doing nothing.
mo; / worked hard as a blacksmith
for twenty-four years. ! am GA years cid
now, and 1 am glad to stop. When I am
tired sitting / take a walk. and when l
am tired walking 1 take a scat. 1t su:.s me
very we'll"
Among the widows / found some quite
as content as this old man. One nice old
woman said she had a pension of $3.50 a
month and that 1t kept her very well. She
cooked her own breakfast and had her din
ner sent in from the o,d-age eating house
at 8 cents per meal.
A part Of the pension fund is furnished
by the government. but Krupp gave a vast
amount himself every year. Indeed, in this
respect alone his charities annually
amounted to $250.000.
The company stores of the United States
are often run for the benefit Of the capt.
talists. The Krupps have established cash
stores for the benefit of the men. There
are hfty-four different stores and shops
great and small here, which sell only to
Krupp employees. They are all managed by
the establishment and are run on a CO.
operative principle. The Krupps take out
a low interest on the capital they have
invested in them and the profits beyond
this are divided among the customers &C
cording to the amount of their purchases.
This profit foots up Z or s per cent in a
I year; go that II a man spends 800 at the
store he receives 81 or So back at the close
of the year.
The stores provide everything that a
man needs. They embrace butchers, bakers
and candlestick makers. They include dry
goods shops, tailor ships and even under
taking establishments. The man who be-
longs to Krupp's works can have a coffin
at his death, and his heirs at the end Of
the year will receive 8 per cent on the
purchase.
The Krupp bakeries make 20, 900. 600 Ioaves
of bread a year, the butcher shops annually
kill 10000 cattle, and everything else Is
proportionately large. All sales are made
for cash and everything is sold as cheap
as or a little cheaper than 1t can be bought
elsewhere. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Attention is called to the advertisement
In another column Of Dr.. Whitney's Nerve
and Flesh Builder, which Is sold in Omaha
by the Sherman & Mcconnell Drug com
pany5 In some former advertisements in
this paper our types made US say this
preparation was expensive" when the
wcrd inexpensive should have been used.
Call at the Sherman q Mcconnell Drug Co.
for convincing free trial package.