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the floor of the shop! Their barrels are so
large that a twenty-pound baby could
crawl through them. and the weight of
each is so great that it would take 100
horses to haul them. See how they are
handled! They are carried from one end
of the shop to the other more easily than
you bring in an armful of wood to the fire.
That>lttle man under the roof touches
button and tweive-inch gun is picked up
by a travelling crane and carried from one
end of the shop to the other.
If We had a week We might study the
making Of the guns. The iron is kneaded
like dough. After it comes from the fur
mace the red hot mass is pounded into
shape as a blacksmith pounds a horseshoe.
The hole is bored into it as easily as boy
bores out pop-gun. and the hard metal IS
p!aned down as carpenter planes board.
The Krupps take fifty tons of the toughest
metal and handle it as easily as the black
smith, the carpenter and the boy handle
their tools. Everything is done by machin-
cry and everything must be scientifically
correct. 1t takes a long time to make
gun. and the biggest of them. if I rightly
remember. costs as much as 100000.
Among the Krupp Workmen.
But I cannot begin to describe the pro-
cesses. The machinery is that of thou
sand workshops under one head. Krupp has
his own school of inventors. where men are
always experimenting and assaying. He. has
number Of laboratories. and at Mappan
there are large experimental grounds.
where guns and projectiles are practically
tested. Shortly before he died the kaiser
was here examining some new guns, and
only thirty were present when the tests
were made.
The Krupp workmen are of all classes.
1t takes an army of clerks for the offices,
and there are hordes of commercial travellers
on the road. He has more than 1900 me-
chanics in his building department and
dozens of architects and subarchitects. The
thousands of men in the shops are dressed
in blue Jeans, and many wear wooden clogs.
They appear well fed and more than ordi-
narily intelligent. They are up to the best
of the French laborers and better looking
and better dressed than those of Sheffield
and Birmingham.
Hours of Work.
AS l went through the shops l asked
something as to wages and hours of work.
The usual day begins at and at the men
stop a quarter of an hour for rest and
cup of coffee. They then work on until
noon, when their wives or children bring
their midday meal. They have an hour
and a half at this time, and then work on
until 4. Then there is another 10 minutes
for rest and coffee, or beer, when they go
back and work on until g. putting In on the
average ten-hour day.
The men are paid by the hour and not by
the day and they glad to work as long
as possible. There are, am told. no trade
unions connected with the works. and so
far no trouble has been had with strikes.
Wages are much lower than with us, not
only in the foundries but also in other
branches. Bricklayers,- for instance, re-
ceiye from to cents an hour and COM
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no families or 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
twenty-four years. and that out OF his saw
ings he had now an income of about $40 a
month His house rent costs him nothing
and 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 blacksmith
Tor twenty-four years. am sixty-four
years old now. and am glad to stop. When
| am tired sitting take a walk and whom
| am tired walking l take seat. 1t suits
me very we'll"
Among the widows I found some quite as
content as this old man. One nice old
woman said she had pension of $50
month and that IL kept her very we'll. She
cooked her own breakfast and had her
dinner sent in from the old-age eating
house at cents per meal
part OF the krupp pension fund is fur
nisneo Dy the government. but krupp gave a
vast amount himself every year Indeed. in
this respect alone his charities annually
amounted to about a quarter of million
dollars
The Krupp Stores
The company stores of the United States
are often run for the benefit of the can't
talists. The Krupps have established cash
stores for the benefit of the men.
There are ffty-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 cooperative principle The Krupps
take out low interest on the capital they
have invested in them and the profits be-
yond this are divided among the GUS
toners according to the amount of their
purchases. This profit foots up or per
cent year; so that If a man spends
Slc0 at the store he receives 81 or IS back
at the close of the year.
These stores provide everything that a
man needs. They embrace butchers. bak-
ers ana candlestick makers. They include
dry goods shops, tailor shops and even
undertaking establishments. The man who
belongs to Krupps works can have a coffin
at his death, and his heirs at the end of
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CITY OF THE |! kRUPPS
A Visit to Essen and It's Six
ty Great Foundries.
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ARMY OF. rssW0RKMEN
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LEADING
GUN WORKS, OF EUROPE.
Ten-Hour Day and No strikes-What
the Estate Does for It's
Employees.
Copyright. 1908, by Frank G. carpenter.)
Special Corresnopdepce ef The Evenipo Sf.r

Copyright. 1908, by Frank G. Carpentcr)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ESSEN ON THE RUHR.
1 am in the heart Of the Prussian Black
Country. where the foundries and factories
are as thick as in the Black Country Of
England or in our own Black Country
about Pittsburg. The land is underlatd
with coal and iron. and upon it has grown
one of the greatest steel centers of the
world. rode here through forests of
smokestacks. There are cities and villages
all about me which have steel and iron
mills. Solingen. the Sheffield of Germany,
is not far away. and within hundred
mile radius are towns making almost
everything under the sun. There are wool
en- factories and cotton factories. silk
mills and velvet mills. There are glass
works. steel works. and great shops for the
equipment of railroads. steamships and
every other steel thing under the sun.
The heart of this region is Essen and the
soul of 1t is the Krupps. The chief Krupp
Is dead: but his spirit remains and Essen
goes on as though he were alive The
town was practically founded by a Krupp.
it was built up by krupp. and the Krupp
When the first krupp began work In his
little foundry it was village. Along
in the SOS. when the second Krupp had
begun to make steel cannon, it had only
ten thousand; but today it has more than
a hundred thousand Inhabitants. and nine
ty-nine hundredths Of these are supported
by the Krupps.
An Enormous Business.
despair of giving you an adequate con-
ception of the extent of this steel business
which has been managed by one man and
is now owned by one family. The word
Krupp In Germany has much the same
place that Carnegie" or the words THE
United States Steel Company" have in
America The Krupps have vast prop
critics of many kinds. They own five hun
dred different mines in Germany and other
mines in Spain. They dig their own COAL
and they transport much of their goods on
their own steamers. They have ships on
railroads and thousands of railroad
cars. They have their own telephone
and telegraph stations numbered by hull
dreds. and they have great factories at
their employees more in number than
was our army at the beginning of the
Spanish war They have other thousands
in their shipbufiding' yards at Kiel
and their workmen' altogether approx.
innate fifty thousand men, the greatest In
dustrial brigade that has ever been COM
manded by private Individual.
Essen practically belongs to the Krupps.
AS you come here from the Rhine you
pass a castle on a hill and are told 1t is
estate and a private entrance where the
emperor passes up to visit the krupp fam
lily In Essen the hotel belongs to Krupp.
There are a Krupp Hospital. Krupp CLUB
the suburbs are made up Of Krupp..s col
onies built by Krupp architects and Krupp
|. " orkmen, and in one quarter you will find
the beautiful village Which Krupp has erect
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story buildings. situated along wide streets
shaded by forest trees. The streets cross
one another at right angles, with a large
there is music by the Krupp band several
times week.
The flats are of two. three and four
rooms The first one 1 entered had bed
room. Kitchen. living room and parlor. Its
tenant had hot and cold water and the
use of a laundry in the basement The rent
was $50 year. or $3.50 month. The man
who occupied 1t received $50 a month.
In another house 1 visited a fiat of two
rooms. which rented for 500 a year, the
tenant getting only IS a week The woman
who showed me the fiat was as clean as a
pin, and she took pride in her housekeep-
lng which was as clean as herself The
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ed for his men who are too old to work.
There are scores of krupp stores, krupp
factories and Krupp Fairgrounds for the

There are scores of Krupp stores, krupp
factories and Krupp Fairgrounds Tor the
children.
Germany's Biggest Steel Mills.
The heart Of all this is the steel mills.
whose sixty factories and furnaces are
ever sending their volumes of smoke into
the air. Their buildings cover an area OF
a dozen good-slzed farms. They extend on
and on along wide streets. so that it wearies
you to walk from one end of them to the
other. They have many windows bla ckened
with smoke and the dense clouds of carbon
lied vapor which hang above them are
ever dropping SCOT.
Here and there a gate opens into one
factory or another: but every gate has its
guard and strangers are not admitted. En-
deed. 1t Is only through my letters from
the United States government. which show
that have nothing to do with steel and
iron. that am a guest Of the works. and
am thus enabled to give an inside view Of
this. the chief Industrial institution of con-
tinental Europe .a.. !. .
Come with me and take a glance at the
works. We might spend days. and not go
through them all. See this yard filled with
steel rails just from the rolling mills.
There are miles Of them. They are. being
shipped TO different parts Of Germany and
also to Russia and the South American re-
publcs. Further on Is an Enclosure full
of mighty cannon, The unmounted guns
are scattered over the sod as thickly as the
leaves OF VailombrQSa. Next door are steel
plates for ships and there at the right
out for an parts OF the world. The Krupps
have their drummers ion, every continent
and In almost every country. I have met
them In Souh America, in Japan and In
China. and they are now working every
part of South Africa
Europe's Greatest Gunmakers.
Among the great products of this fac
tory are guns and munitions of war. Tho
Krupps have been smaking guns for more
than half century, IS Alfred Krupp. the
grandfather of the man who died a few
months ago. made cast steel cannon as far
back as 1847. and In 1859 old Kaiser Will
helm gave him his first order for the Ger
man army. I am told that the first cam
non were not a success, but those which
followed were. and. the Franco-Prussian
war was fought with materials supplied
by the krupps, Today Germany gets the
most of its war supplies here, and Krupp
guns are used by the Russians. the Turks,
the Italians, the Japanese. and. in fact.
in almost every part of the world.
was in Germany at the time of the
Dusseldorf exposition where the Krupps
had samples of their best guns, as well
as the great armor plates which have
been penetrated by them. The guns were OF
all Sizes some small enough to be mounted
on the back Of a mule and others which
sent forth steel projectiles a foot thick
and as high as your waist. weighing half
a ton. Today the Krupps make single
guns which weigh 120 tons and which,
notwithstanding this weight, are manipu-
lated by such machinery that a child could
operate them 8
Notice some Of the guns as they lie ON
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"Be Came"
Take the cup and drink 1t up

Take the cup and drink 1t up
1t may be bitter brew;
1t may be wine with tang divine
That Life has drawn for YOU.
No matter what-if sweet or not
You'll drink 1t just the same:
SO send 1t down without a frown-
Whatever you do, be game!
Bite your lip and stand the ou,p
That stfngs you to the heart:
Brave with a laugh the teerinp chan
That bids you stand apart;
For: soon or late, as sure as fate.
Twill be your turn to aim:
Twill be your day to have your saw
Whatever you do, be camel
Grit your teeth and stand beneath
The cracking whip Of luck.
Unless your skin be weak and thin
You'll pull out Of the ruck.
Good luck or bad, good news or sad
The path is aye the same.
Joy runs behind the grief unkind-
Whatever you do, be game!
Take the cup and drink 1t up
1t may be fortunes within
That In the lees art ecstacies,
Though bitter at the brim.
No matter what, IL sweet or not.
Don't shirk 1t to your shame
The shame that fts the man who quits
Whatever you dc, be camel
w. D. NEsBrT.
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Of them. some composed of beautiful cot
tages with gardens and lawns. others of
sanitary tenements about parks not far
from the works and others of little houses
for those too old to work. There are alto
gether about A., 900 apartments. renting from
So to $50 year. In addition there are
also more expensive buildings for the fore
men and officers Of the works, and alto
gether a collection of the most wonderful
workingmens homes Of this continent.
In the Krupp Tenements.
The first colony visited was near the
works. 1t is composed of three and four
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the year will receive per cent on the pur-
chase
Inc krupp bakeries make 2OO00o00
ioaFes OF bread year. the butcher
shops annually kill 20CO0 cattle. and
everything else is proportionateiy large
All sales are made for cash, and every
thlng Is sold as cheap as or little cheaper
than 1t can be bought elsewhere.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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Church-sI see Jersey man is complain
ing because his wife thought more Of a dog
than she did of him.
Gotfam-''Well, perhaps the dog growled
less''-Yonkers Statesman.
Churchman-''That was an eloquent SER
mon you preached to US last Sunday on
THE Poor We Have Always With U.s."
The pastor-'Yes, ! was inspired haA
observed how small the collection was tha1
Press.
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Lament Of the Country.
Wallace Whitelock In McClure'l


Give back, o city. from thy clutch,
My children to my breast
That rayished, aches to feel their touch
And lull their pain to resti
My dngs are full, while bark! they cry
For food. but cry IN vain!
o vampire Of the glitterfng lie,
Give back mine own again!
My fields are golden Of grain
l bore for them TO reap,
My bounty swells some gamblers gain
Who heeds not while they weep;
My children render to my arms,
Thou wanton draped In red.
That hurst the quick with deadly charmA
And send st me but the dead.
Give back the children whom nursed
And brought to mans estate.
Until they heard thy voice accused,
Thou cursed one OF fate!
Mine age Is lonely. and my breast
Longs for my faithiess sons.
That may luIl their pain to rest,
My poor deiuded Ones
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of brick and stucco. and have what the
Germans would call all modern conven-
fences.
There is one family to the cottage and
the cottages are kept by the widows of the
old men after their death. It is beautiful
village, almost every inhabitant of which Is
over sixty. town of old men and old wo-
men, fairly well dressed and apparently
contented.
For Aged Widows and Widowers.
In addition to the cottages there are club
houses for old widows and old widowers.
These are for those OF the aged who have
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-27

endowed charities in the county of London. For instance, in the depoTts dealing with the city parishes we have an estimate of the value set on ser- mons by city men in olden times. That estimate varied from five shillings to one pound ten shillings. One Thomas Bright had left bequest for sermon to be preached on the 5th of November every time it fell on a Sunday, the minister to get thirteen stillings four pence, the clerk three shillings four pence, and the sexton one shilling four pence. But David Gittin had a more modest idea of the value of a sermon in the same parish. He required two ser- mons for ten shilIings, ane to be preached on the second Sunday in Ad- vent and the other on the second Sun day in Lent. The reader got two shil- lings, the church-Warden two shillings eightpence and the poor sexton four pence for each occasion. John Ireland thought thirteen shillings fourpence enough for two sermons,
 In 1860 John Winn left curious be- quest to the parish of St. Bonnet, PauPs Wharf. A pound was set apart for an annual sermon, the text to be taken from the fifth chapter of St. John and the twenty seventh verse. He also left enough to buy twelve pen- ny loaves for twelve poor people of the parish, who attended a sermon every Friday in the parish church. But he expected more for his pound than the annual sermon, for before or after the sermon the minister had to spend an hour examining or instructing the poor people in the Christian doctrine.
 The most generous donor of the preacher was James Wood, who thought a sermon in St. Nicholas-C Cole Abbey was worth one pound ten shil- lings every alternate year. In 1925 he bequeathed to the company of Bowyers a sum to enable them, among other things, to repair to the parish church named, after they had sworn in their Wardens and master every second year, there to hear a sermon and pay the parson one pound ten shillings and the clerk and sexton one shilling fivepence each. In the parish of St. Michael Bassishaw one Edward Heylin in the eighteenth century left money, the in- terest on which was to be applied to purchasing two sixpenny loaves each Sunday for two poor men or women
 who should attend divine service.- London News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-27
BIG MONEY. BIG ROADE,

M, Witte, the Russian Finance min- ister, has just submitted to the Czar an interesting report on the Siberian and
 Manchurian railroads. In speaking of the financial sacrifices made in the con- struction of the lines he says it is not to be denied that these sacrifices have
 imposed a great and heavy burden on
 the finances of Russia. In a compara-
 lively short space of time the treasury has spent 75S,955,9O7 rubles on the Si- berian, Manchurian and auxiliary lines, and the cost of the whole undertaking, including the railroad round Lake Bai-
 kal, will reach a thousand million ru-
 bles. Nor is this all that the work has cost the State, as the railroad has indi- rectly been the cause of increased ex-
 penditures in many other ways--the in
 crease in the military and administra-
 tive personnel, the strengthening of the fleet in the Far East, the building of harbors, etc. M. Witte then urges the
 importance of encouraging the coloni-
 zatien of Siberia. He proposes that the country be thoroughly and systematic
 ally explored with view to deternin-
 ing what parts are suitable for settle
 ment; that such parts of the country should be brought into direct conlmuni-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-27
AN UxNEC EssARY ScHEm E.

Some people want to see the beautiful and symmetrical capitol at Hartford enlarged, and they are saying that such enlargement is needed. We do not think it is. The Hartford Times correctly states the situation when it says: It is believed by people familiar with the situation that addition, or the provision of a separate building, is not necessary and will not be necessary for years. Get out all tenants who have not natural official right there, repeal any legislation that gives the use of of fees in the building which are more needed for officers or employees of the State, revise the apportionment of rooms if necessary. and if all this is done with good will it will be found that provision can be made for all the office quarters that are required for the good of the State and the efficient transac- tion of it's business.
 The scheme to enlarge the capitol should be promptly discouraged. It may be a little crowded while the legis- lature is in session, but it isn't at any other time, and it will be many years before there will be any real need of enlarging it.
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SlEADK.

We read of an eastern author who wrote three stories in one night, and then walked out of an open window and fell four.-Atlanta Constitution.
 Gan I see Dr. Sprinks, the oculist?"
 I'm sure I don't know. If you can, you have no need of his services and he wont care to see you; if you can't, why, |step right in."-Chieago News.
 Mother will be down in a minute"
 Why, the maid said your mother wasn't at home"
 Then, wont you please go? It will save me good licking. Life.
 More Than Petit.-Madge-He stole a kiss from me.
 Mabel-Well, that was only petit lar ceny.
 Madge-It wasn't-it was grand- Town and Country
 Are you not glad to see the warm weather approaching?"
 T don't know" answered Mr. Sirius Barker. Tt merely means that we will quit worrying about the coal bin and start in to study the refrigerator. "- Washington Star.
 Ruth-Mr. Millions has been going with you steadily for almost a year. Why doesn't he propose?
 Maud How do you know he hasn't?
 Ruth-Why. the engagement has not been announced,-Kansas City Journal.
 Bridge-And you go right on eating soggy bread and half-cooked meats. For heavens sake. why don't you dis charge your cook and get another one?
 Pike-Well, you see, old fellow, so fat as I can find out, the courts wont grant you divorce for bad cooking.--Boston Evening Transcript.
 Correspondent--Yo saw what the papers said about you this morning, l presume?
 Returned millionaire (president of a great corporation)-No: I don't know what they said about me, but you may say for me, sir. that there wasn't a word of truth in it.-Chicago Tribune.
 Have the detectives made any pro" gress toward solving the Burdick mur- der nystery?"
 "Oh, yes; they have discovered that the murderer is not a. member of the Missouri legislature
 'How do they know?"
 "He turned out the gas."-Kansas City Journal.
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THE SHOE ON TIE OTHER FOOT.

THE SHDE OR I'll r or ER EOOTs That is an interesting and significant little story which comes from the island
 of seney, in our new Philippine pos
 sessions. It appears that on that island white regiment succeeded a regiment
 of negro regulars who had told the na- tives that the white men did not amount to anything in this country, that the republic which had conquered
 them was made up of blacks, that the white trash was of no account, and
 that the black soldiers had little to do
 with them in the field-they felt above
 them. As result, the natives held the whites in utter disrespect and would have little to do with them. This
 proved very annoying to the white reg
 inent, but at last accounts it had not
 succeeded in making the natives dis
 cover that they had been fooled.
 If this rather good joke teaches the white soldiers that they ought not to
 feel too big just because they are white
 it will not have been in vain.