The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-21

iIeurIch Alfred krupp, the friend of
h'Isef, relgned in his stead continu-
Ine same victorious path until
'N eiiloer -, 1902. when he followed
us ldthers- After his death the work
| 50Gu INTO the hands of the eldest
sHler, FrauIein Bertha Krupp. the
l,cnest woman in Europe. and was con
teu INTO a company with a capital
u 9,fo,ooV,ooO on July l, 1903.
me company is managed by a di-
otoIdte OF ten members who in their
turn are answerable to board of FIVE
1poe I, including Herr Krupp Won
nohien und Halbach. the husband Of
[auleln krupp. who possesses nracti-
'dIlE all the shares of the company.
IL was the secret of crucible steel
pequeathed by Frederick Krupn 70 bis
son that made the Krupp works. It's
incompatible qualities and nuritv have
enabled perfectly homogeneous uniform
ana dense blocks to be cast. These
characteristics caused the Prussian
government to give the works their
hrst order for 300 cannons and from
that day the connection between GOV.
eminent and works has never been
severed. Huntsman of Sheffield an
Ehgl' shman, had also discovered the
secret of making crucible steel soma
hundred years before Krupp, and he
manufactured it for some time tbera
Unfortunately. the secret was buried
WIN him and lay dormant until revived
by Krupp.
Mutlfarious Activity.
lt IS impossible for the initiated
VISITOR to gather anything but a fleet
ing impression of the multifarious
nature of the work carried on in the
vast establishment, and it would take
weeks to visit the sixty We different
departments that exist at Essen alone
In n1ne long extended cannon shops
We see grim monsters of warfare. from
the baby mountain gun up to the naval
ana fortress gun OF the largest calber,
lSlng peacefully side by side. Among
them are guns over forty feet in length
mat weigh forty tons and are capable
or hurting projectile weighing eight
hundred weight distance of about
SIXTEEN miles. There are Others the
h!ckel-headed projectile of which can
pierce the strongest armor of anv
dreadnought afloat at a distance Of
three miles. Some of these shells are
filled with over a thousand steel balls
or more than sufficient to annihilate
half an infantry regiment. Up to the
present krupp's have supplied the
various countries in the world with
over $4,000 cannon. the orders given
including naval guns, coast defence
hoWltzers, siege guns, cannon for for
tlheations, mountain artillery, etc.
IT we go past the cannon shops we
come to the crucible works. Here we
find hundreds of men walking together
IN pairs carrying between them on
long sticks, white hot crucibles of re-
fractory clay which contain the mvs-
FERROUS mixture of steel claimed Is an
exclusive secret Of the Krupp family
from the time of Frederick Krupp. The
pairs advance singly and tilt the glow
ing mass into the mold in which the
giant block is born. In this manner
blocks of 50 tons have been turned out.
The filing goes on until the desired size
has been obtained. The process seems
1aborious and lengthy but by its means
solid steel blocks of any size can be
produced which are entirely free from
bubbles and fiows-the despair of the
manufacturer Some idea of the mag
nitude of the process involved can be
gained from the fact that to supplement
the stock of crucibles special pottery
had been established within the works
which turns out 1900 daily.
Some way further we see the IA
nous steam hammer Fritz the giant
of the 100 steam hammers al work in
the establishment. "Fritz' was con-
structed in 1860 by Alfred Krupp at