The San Francisco call., 1906-10-16
HeiresS Of Germany
Weds a Man Without Gold.
Bertha Krupp Married
in Presence Of the
Emperor.

ESSEN, Prussia, Oct 15=In the
presence of Emperor William and 40
guests Fraulein Bertha Krupp and
Lieutenant Gustav Won Bohlen und
Halbach were married today in a little
improvised chapel adjoining the brides
birthplace. the villa Huegel-H . gel.
The ceremony was performed by the
pastor of the neighboring village of
Krupp. where the bride has long wor-
SHIPPED.
The Emperor sat with the family
while the simple Lutheran marriage
service was performed and then stepped
forward and congratulated the bride
and bridegroom.
The bride wore q princess robe Of
heavy ivory-tinted crepe de chine, with
panels of point de Venise and had a
four-yard train. The veil was of Brus-
sells lace and tulle. The bride wore
myrtle blossoms on her head and had
few sprays of those flowers at her
waist Arthur Krupp, father of her
cousin, gave away the bride, who was
attended by her sister. Barbara. Lieu
tenant Won Bohlen's brother acted as
his best man.
TOASTED BY KAISER.
At the wedding breakfast, which was
served at the conclusion of the cere
mony, the Emperor drank the health
of the bride.
Ine coupe dllGENdEQ lGLl n@ SH6NAel
train from Krupp Castle for Rheineck-
on-the- Rhine, where the honeymoon
viii be passed.
The brides travelling dress was
severely simple gray cloth costume.
The wedding guests included six fore
men and fourteen men from the krupp
works. but the workmen generally
were not given a holiday in honor of
the wedding.
Bertha Krupp and Lieutenant Won
Bohlen made a joint gift of s25o,o00 to
the workmen's invalid fund before the
wedding, and Mrs. Krupp gave notice
that she had donated another S25O,OOV
10 the same fund and 125 acres Of land
on which to build economical model
dwellings for the workmen. The bride
groom accompanied his portion OF the
gifts by the assurance that he per
petuated the present relations with the
working people maintained by Alfred
and FREDERICK Krupp-
The Emperor conferred upon the
bridegroom the right to use the name
..Krupp Won Bohlen und Halbach-'
MISS KRUPP SIMPLY REARED.
While in no sense a beauty, Frau
( lein Krupp is described by those who
know her as a healthfuI-looking and
robust girl who does not differ in
] character or manners from thousands
Of other carefully reared young Ger
man women in affluent circumstances.
The position which Miss Krupp holds
in the social. industrial and political
affairs Of the German Empire is unique
Sixty three thousand employees are on
her payrolls. In Germany alone she
has $50 mines. while a feet of powerful
steamships conveys coal and iron to
Hamburg from her mines in Spain A
score OF stone auarries contribute to
her wealth She has shipyards at Kiel
and gun and armor works at Magde-
burg. besides the giant steel and iron
works at Essen, whose estimated value
is $4,000. 000-
Miss Krupp. who is 90 years old.
( has been reared with a simplicity that
would compare strikingly with the
! complicated luxury of most American
( households Of the moneyed classes.
With her 1S-year-6ld sister Barbara,
she was brought up in the seclusion
OF their fathers magnificent palace
on the river Ruhr.
Lieutenant Won Bohlen first met Miss
Krupp in Rome. where ne was first sec
retary of the Prussian legation at the
( Vatican. He is about 36 years old. He
studied at Lausanne. Strasburg and
+ Heidelberg He viii help carry on the
F Krupp works.