Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-25

Come with me and take a glance M
the works. We might spend DAYS and
not 30 through them all. See this vard
lIeu WIN steel rails Just from the roll
i.s nllls' There are miles Of them,
Ihey are being shipped to different
parts OF Germany and also TO Russia
ana the south American republics. Fur
ther on Is an Enclosure full Of mighty
cannon, The unmounted guns are
scattered over the sod as thlckly as the
leaves OF Nallombrosa. Next door are
steel plates for ships, and there al the
rlEht are bridge materials ready to
start out for an parts Of the world
Ihe krupps have their drummers on
every continent and in almost every
country ! have met them in South
America, IN Japan and In China. and
iAey are now working every part Of
South Africa.
EUR0PEs GREATEST GUNMAK-
Frs.
Among the great products OF this fac
tory are guns and munitions OF war
The Krupps have been making guns for
more than half a century. Alfred
krupp, the grandfather of the man who
died few months ago made cast steel
cannon as far back as l6i1, and In 1850
OLD Kaiser Wilhelm gave him his first
order Tor the German army. / am told
that the first cannon were not sue
cess, but those which followed We're,
ana the Franco russian war was
fought with materials supplied by the
htupps Today Germany gets the most
Of IFS gltnr.liAu
guns are used BY the Russians, the
Turks. the italians. the Japanese, and,
IN facl In almost every part of the
world
was In Germany at the time Of the
Dusseldorf exposition, where the
hrupps had samples Of their best guns
as Well ra The great armor plates which
have been penetrated by them. The
guns We're Of all sizes. some small
enough 10 be mounted on the back Of
q mule and others which sent forth
steel projectIes foot thick ana as high
as your waist, weighing half a ton. To-
day the krupps make single guns which
weigh l20 tons and which notwith-
standing this weight, are manipulated
by such machinery that a child could
operate them.
IN THE GUN SHOPS.
Notice some of the guns as they lie on
the floor Of the SHOP Their barrels are
so large that a 20-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
and nf tDn gNpf "a IA. al Ill
than you bring In an armful Of wood to
he fire That llttle man under the roof
touches a button and a l2-inch gun is
picked up by travelling crane and car
lied from one end Of the shop TO the
)ther.
II We had a week we might study the
making Of the guns. The iron is knead-
I'd Ike dough. After it comes from the
furnace the red hot mass is pounded |
nto shape as a blacksmith pounds a
The hole is bored into IL as
,asily as a boy bores out a pop-gun,
md the hard metal is planed down as |
/ carpenter planes board. The Krupps |
AXE so tons Of the toughest metal and |
landle IL as easily as the blacksmith, |
he carpenter and the boy handle their |
ools. Everything is done by machin- |
ny and everything must be scientific |
lily correct. II takes a long time 10 |
make a gun, and the biggest of them, |
! rightly remember costs as much as |
100000,
AMONG THE KRUPP WoRKMEN. |
But ] cannot begin 10 describe the |
,rocess The machinery Is that Of |
thousand workshops under one head. |
Nrupp has his own school of inventors, |
where men are always experimenting |
nd assdying He has number of |
laboratories, and at Mappan there are
irge experimental grounds where guns
nd proiectiles are practically tested,
hortly before he died the kaiser was
ere examining some new guns, and
My 30 were present when the tests
'ere made,
The Krupp workmen are OF all class
b. 1t takes an army Of clerks for the
Ulcers, and there are hordes of COM
lercial travellers on the road. He has
iore than 1900 mechanics in his build
lg department and dozens Of architects |
nd subarchitects The thousands OF
zen in the shops are dressed in blue
ans, and many wear wooden clogs
hey appear we'll fed and more than
intelligent They are up TO
he best Of the French laborers and bet
n looking and better dressed than
lose OF Sheffield and Birmingham
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