The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-09-10

Largest OF Giant Triphammers, Still
Used at Essen.
In these days. when half the world Is
watching Germany and wondering
what she will do next In the way of
military expansion or aggression. the
Krupp works constitute the hinge and
pivot on which Germany's military
strength turns. They are a constant
menace to her foes. 1t is here that
militant Germany's inventive genius
and productive power are concentrat-
ed, and here is the birthplace of myr-
lads Of engines destined to deal out
death and destruction to those who
venture to thwart the Teuton will.
The Krupp works dominate the
whole of Essen, town of about 300.-
600 Inhabitants. Situated in the CEN
ter, close to the railway, they. together
with their attendant institutions, COW
er an area of 500 acres.
Two thousand trucks and fifty loco
motives rush along these tracks daily,
conveying Germany's guns, armor
plates, ammunition and shells to Ger
man garrisons, forts, ports and harbors.
Six thousand tons of coal, coke and
briquets are poured daily into the
huge creatures rapacious jaws. One
and a quarter million tons Of fuel are
required annually to appease Its In
satiable appetite.
Passes Hard to Get.
1t will be plain to the most casual
observer that in such circumstances,
where Germany's future, prestige and
fate are concerned, it Is almost impos-
sibe for the foreigner to gain access
to the works. Argus eyed janitors,
semimilitary guards and trusty agents
have to be passed and perhaps outwit-
ted before the stranger can approach
the precincts of Krupp's.
To great many persons the name Of
Krupp implies only the vast gun and
armor plate factory at Essen. This
conception does not correspond to facts.
| The firm comprises, in addition to the
Essen factory. huge shipbuilding yard
the Germania-at Kiel, three coal
mines employing 10000 men, iron ore
mines in Germany and Spain, three
huge smelling works at Engers, Neu-
/ wied and Sayn, the Gruson armor plate
works near Magdeburg, the "Annen"
| steel works at Amen, the Friedrich
i Alfred smelling works at Rheinhau-
SEN -Friemersheim and shipping
/ wharf, with ocean going steamships, at
/ Rotterdam. Feb. / last there was a
total of 67.662 men employed at these
establishments, including 8,779 officials.
AS striking instance of German en-
ergy, tenacity Of purpose and thor
oughness 1t is interesting to 60 back to
the humble origin of the mighty con-
cern.
Starting in 1910 in the small cottage
factory with six workmen, Friedrich
Krupp began operations with the dog
ged purpose of achieving fame. Sac
rificing both resources and health to
the object in view, he bequeathed at
his death in 1926 nothing but small
forge and his secret Of making cruci-
BILE steel to his son Alfred, then four
teen years Of age. How this lad, i'm
bued by similar spirit, converted as
If by magician's wand the little forge
into the huge works of the present
day, works that have made his name
renowned in every quarter Of the
globe, is a matter Of common knowl
edge
Alfred Krupp died, and his son
Friedrich ALFRED Krupp. the friend OF
the kaiser. reigned In his stead. con
tinuing the same victorious path unit
Nov. %, 1902. when he followed hi:
fathers. After his death the works
passed into the hands of the eldes
daughter. Fraulein Bertha Krupp, th,
richest woman in Europe. and wer'
converted into company with q cap
ital Of 5000. 900 on July 1. 1908.
Works Contain Many Wonders.
1t Is impossible for the unintiatet
visitor to gather anything but feet
ing impression Of the multifarious ma
ture of the work carried on in the vas
establishment, and 1t would take week
to visit the sixty-five different depart
iucutb tudt cAibt at ESSeu diOue.
The famous steam hammer Fritz, tn
giant Of the 100 steam hammers,
still at work in the establishment
Fritz was constructed in 1860 by Al
fred Krupp at a cost of $500,000. A
that time Krupp's competitors regart
ed his intention to set up the gian
hammer, which possesses fallin
weight Of fifty tons, as sign Of II
cipient madness. Undeterred, Krup
continued. and today. after Fritz ha
been at work for fifty years. he is q
useful as ever.
In the armor plate department ar
seen huge hydraulic presses, of whic
there are no fewer than eighty-one
the works and under which ste'
blocks are pressed and squeezed unit
compelled to assume the desired shap
no matter how large they may be.
A huge crucible steel block weighin
no less than eighty tons is placed vi
der a 5000 ton hydraulic press. Aft,
being coaxed. handled and formed II
half an hour II emerges In the shaI
Of the gigantic shaft Of an ocea
steamship, 150 feet long.