Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-01-15

In the death of Krupp Germany has
lost her chief captain of industry. In
her march of modern progress and
social development, in the practical
adaptation of scientific invention on
the great scale of utilitarian purposes,
Friedrich Alfred Krupp stepped fore
most. she could point to him as her
Carnegie and place him beside the
American Morgan. He was the steel
man of the Fatherland, the organizer
and director of labor, and giant
among capitalists. Under his admin
istration the colossal institution of the
Krupps underwent, like other under
takings of similar nature, something
of merger.
Ii the individuality of the head of
the house was less pronounced than
in the time of his father, the great
Alfred Krupp, it only suffered trans
formation due to new conditions and
worked in fresh forms. His inheri-
lance continued to grow. He continued
his fathers policy with remarkably
tenacious loyalty, and the little Essen
forge, which his grandfather, Fried
rich, left in 1926 in tumbledown shop
filled with worn out tools and a drawer
full of impossible plans and useless
specifications, has become Pittsburg,
with ever expanding forces.
1t is owing mainly to his enterprise
that Germany's output of steel exceeds
that of Great Britain, which fifty years
ago produced ten times as much as her
present competitor in the worlds mar
kets. He acquired coal mines in
Germany and went to Spain for the
ores which could give his steel the
hardened tempering that gave it it's
fame and brought him fresh fortune
He was a railway magnate of the first
order, and embarked in the ownership
of an industrial fleet which kept pace
at Kiel with the empires ships of war.
The Krupp works, from the extra
ordinary successes of their artillery
manufactures, have often been iden-
titled with militarism. This, to some
extent, explains the antagonism which
the German socialist political party
has long shown TO Herr Krupp. But
though Essen and is subsidiary works
have turned out more than forty
thousand of the most formidable en-
gines of war, comprising the field artil-
lery, which made a revolution in
gunnery, ships guns and coast defense
cannot, this is but branch of the in
dustrial operations of Krupp's.
Like his father, Friedrich Alfred
Krupp was averse to assuming a title.
He was however, frequently consulted
by Kaiser Wilhelm and accepted from
him a Prinz Councilorship. His
energies remained undated in pro-
noting and developing new CONNER
cial undertakings in addition to the
supervision of his vast particular do
main which surpassed with but one
or two exceptions, German principali-
ties and powers. His income was es-
timated at 100000 marks ($5,000,-
000), exceeding that of the German
emperor He employed fifty thousand
people and maintained through his
agencies the two hundred thousand
dependent on this army of workmen.
He carried ON the system instituted
by his father of promoting the welfare
of his operatives by founding settle
ments of healthy homes and hygienic
surroundings. Barely fifty years of
age, the son passes away fifteen years
after his father had bequeathed to him
the vast properties, for the manage
ment of which he had qualified him
self by toiling early and late in the
works.
If Friedrich Alfred Krupp may be
said to have been born with gold
spoon in his mouth, it was the silver
spoon which figuratively and literally
made the fortune of his father, Alfred
Ersen, in the Rhenish province of
Prussia. twenty miles to the north
east of Dusseldorf, had a traditional
interest in gun making. 1t made