The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-02


is one of the great sociological! stories
of modern times and his younger
daughter seems to have inherited his
concern for the welfare of the work
ers. Among other places visited by
the baron and baroness since their
arrival was the Macdonald college at
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Rev. A. w.
Wood. B. A, rector. where they met
Principal j. w. Robertson and caught
some of his inspiration. The visitors
we're very much surprised at the
thorOughness and extent of the work
being done there anr came away be-
lieving that it was one of the finest,
If not the finest, institution of it's kind
in the world. They wishes that the
standard of domestic science teaching
were as high in Germany as at Ste.
Anne de Bellevue.
Making Great Guns.
The great krupp works at Essen.
said Baron Won Wilmowski, now en-
ployed 10000 to 10000 workmen,
while dependent upon them were two
or three times that number of people.
At eight different places in Germany
the huge concern has now established
plants, having altogether about 1000
furnaces for the production of iron
and steel. 1t also controls coal pits,
ore mines. sand and clay pits,
wharves. quarries and railways in
Germany and other countries. 1t is
popularly believed that the krupp
works only turn out cannons, but this
is not the case. The works turn out
almost every form of structural steel.
A huge portion of the steel used in
making the trans-Siberian railroad
and the railways of European Turkey
We're furnished by the Krupp estab-
lishments. The fame of the works in
the making of cannon, of course, need
not he enlarged upon, suffice it to say
that the Krupp cannon played a prom
inent part in winning the Franco
German war of 1870 and that Krupp
cannon constitute the basis of modern
European artillery.
A remarkable record of principles
laid down and kept with Spartan
sternness is furnished by the history
Of the Krupp works. The mammoth
works were built by three genera
tions, viN.. by Friedrich Alfred Krupp,
who died in 1902. his father and
grandfather. All three men possessed
technical skill and administrative
ability in a remarkable degree. mo
good steel without good iron" was
principle laid down and still prides
itself, above all things, on the quality
of its products. All three men, too,
lived simple and quiet lives. The
house from which the body of Alfred
Krupp was craried to its last resting
place in 100 is a humble dwelling in
Essen from which the remains of his
father and grandfather were also car
ried to their graves.
One of the outstanding features of
the great Krupp works is the inter
esting object lesson in sociology
and his father before him. showed an
Of their work people. They built them
formed model villages with green
cal schools, play grounds. bathing
places. libraries and number of 9TH
er useful and recreative institutions
German government to contribute
surance of it's workmen. the Krupp
III III auuo lIlIlu vi Ilo wv II
accord. One part of Essen is called
Altenhof, and here with everything
to make life pleasant. live many of
the retired work people.
The great bugbear of Alfred Krupp
was social democracy. He had no use
for socialism and his days ended dur
ing a bitter personal fight with the
we'll known German socialist paper
Vorwaerts.
Asked about the recent navy scare
in Great Britain Baron Won Wilmow-
ski said he did not believe that any
educated person. either in Great Bri-
tain or Germany had any hostile in
tentions toward Great Britain. Ger
many. he said was building fleet
for precisely those reasons which
caused other nations to build fleets.
Principally, she had to protect her
growing commerce. why" he said
with a smile which seemed to settle
the question. II hear that Canada is
building a navy"
After remaining for couple of
days in Winnipeg, Baron and Baroness
Won Wilmowski will proceed by easy
stages to the Pacific. returning
through the United States. They saw
some farms while in Ontario and hope
to see something of farm life in the
west.