The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-27

HUGE GU SHOPS now THE PROP
blY OF A GIRL.

bertha Krupp 81 sixteen Yenra of Ago
Owns the Essen Factories Valued at
$4,000, OOO-An Article which Gives a
Clear Conception Of Plants iInInsnsity.
The attention Of the world has been
attracted by a sixteen-yearold girl.
The famous gun works OF Herr Krupp.
who died the other day, have been be-
queathed to his eldest daughter. Bertha
Krupp by those who are familiar with
the Essen factories they are valued in
the neighborhood of $75,0OO000. Such a
legacy accordingly. elsyates Fraulein
Bertha to a high rank among the
wealthiest heiresses OF Europe and
America.
A clear conception Of the immensely
Of the gun shops at Essen is obtainable
from the following description of them
written by Thomas Ashbury, Of Man
chester England, who recently visited
the plant and carefully investigated its
multifold industries, and wrote a PAM
phlet about it entitled AN English
mans Visit to Krupp's Works in Ger
mapy-Wake Up, England In this
pamphlet Mr.. Ashbury says, among
| other things:
These works were founded in 1911
| by Fred KTupp, who built in that year
| the first smelling furnace for steel max
ing. In 1918 the building of the oldest
workshop Of the present plant was be-
gun and completed in 1919. In 1925
Friedrich Krupp died, and his sen AL
fred, then lad of fifteen, followed him
in the works management under the
guard anship of his mother. In 1843
the first cast steel gun barrels were
made, and in 1847 the first gun tube. In
1893 the rm employed nine men at
Essen On the death Of Alfred Krupp,
in 1887, the number of officials and
wprkmen at the Essen works was 12,
674, while in 1901 there were 24,536 per-
sons employed,
/ The works Of the firm comprise the
4 Essen cast steel works, with gun test.
ing grounds at Meppen; the Krup9
steel works at Amen, in Westphalia;
the Germania shipbuilding works at
Kiel and blast furnace plants for the
production Of pig iron at Duisburg,
Neuweid, Fingers and Rheinhausen (the
last named consisting Of three blast
furnaces, VITA an outturn Of $50 to
4 230 to3ls a furnace in twenty-four
\ hours); engineering works and iron
hfound1y at Sayn, three cOlleries, a large
hurshear o. iron ore mines in Germany,
iron DE mines in Bilbao and docks in
Rotterdam, with steamships, etc. The
chief products Of the Essen works are
guns (of which up to january l, 1892,
there have been sold 1886, mortars,
gun barrels, armor plates for warships
and for Notifications, railway material,
ship-building material, machine parts
of all kinds, steel and iron plates, rolls
tool steel, hard steel, special steels
steel WinChes etc. At the cast steel
works in 1901 there were In the sixty
departments in operation $500 machine
tools % rolling mills, 141 steam ham
mers, from two to one thousand pounds
falling weight; CA hydraulic presses
tons, forging press Of 5000 tons anC
one of 1000 tons), 1923 vertical steam
boilers, 513 steam engines from two
{ to thirty-fye hundred horsepower eacl
= aggregating 43,848 horsepower; S6!
G electro motors and 591 cranes from sew
|. en- hundred weight to one hundred ant
2 fifty tons capacity.
In the smelling works in 1901 Their
were smelted on an average 1914 ton
of iron ore from the firms mines daily
d The coal output from the firms CO.
II lieries in 1901 was 1 ,479, 334 tons. TIL
G total consumption Of the Krupp work
q in 10000 was 995, 298 tons of Goa
ls Ats, 044 tons of coke and 81, 1875 tons c
n briquettes. Converted into equivalent
of coal this represents an aggregat
At consumption Of the Krupp works, in S
u far as it is provided from Essen, {
n LOTS, 175 tons. At the Meppen gun test
n ing grounds 1856 ballistic tests were ca
p ried out in 1901. The total number {
At family dwelling houses in the worl
il, mems colony of the firm on January
Of 1902, was 5469. The total number
a persons employed at the Krupp worl
7g in Germany Qncluding 1859 officials
ID on April l, 1902, was 43.O83. Of thei
~ 24,536 were employed at the Essen ca
Of steel works, 2773 at the Gruson worl
- in Buckau 1887 at the Germania shi
90 yard in Kiel, 6159 at the cOllieries al
|, 1928 at the smelling works, MeppC
~ grounds, etc. The number of persol
dependent on the Krupp works in Ma