The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-26
TO-DAY IS CENTENNIAL
 OF ALFRED KRUPP
 GERMAN GUN MAKER.

There will be a great celebration to-day at Essen, in Westphaila, Ger many, in commemoration of the cen tennial of the birth of Alfred krupp, the great cannon manufacturer, whose name has become synonym Ter death and destruction as exempl1fied in the modern science of war. How many souls have been hurled Into heaven, CT elsewhere, by Krupp guns, the statistics do not state, but enough that the Emperor of Germany will to- day pay tribute to the memory of the man who made the cannon that en- abled Prussia and her allies to over whelm France. The House of Krupp is still the greatest gun manufactur- ing concern in the world.
 To-day's celebration at Essen Is a joint one. for it .ras only a short April 26, 1912, that his father, Fred erick Krupp, the inventor of the art of making cast steel, established his little two-man foundry in Essen and laid the foundation of the great struc- ture of to-day. Frederick krupp had been a grocer, but was induced to invest his money in foundry by two brothers named Won Kechel. The experiments of the latter were unsuc- cessful. and Krupp dissolved the part nership and began experiments on hls own account. At length he managed to produce a satisfactory metal, but when he died he left as heritage to his son only the secrets or n1s m perfect process of making steel and a small forge that employed two work men. Alfred Krupp, whose centen- ary is observed to-day, was the real inventor of what is now known as the Krupp process; by which steel IS cast in large masses. The name or Krupp first became internationally
 prpIS ie2yS war, the cannon from his foundry proving vastly superior to the guns of the French. Within a short time all the powers of the world became patrons of the Krupp gun factory, and the inventor became about the veal the richest in the world. He repeat edly refused the letters of nobility of fered him by the Hohenzollerns, and was still plain Alfred Krupp when he died in 1887. His son, Alfred Krupp succeeded him, but he too died ten years ago, broken hearted, it was said, over terrible charges that had been made against his moral character. The German Emperor spoke in de- fense of Krupp's memory at the fun- eral.
 To-day is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
  crate Veterans and the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy pay tribute to the memory of the vanish ed ''boys in gray" The occasion is a legal holiday in all four States. Other States of Dixie will honor their soldier dead in May and June North Carolina and South Carolina observe Memorial Day on May 10. while Tennessee celebrates the sec ond Friday in May. Louisiana com pines Memorial Day with the observ- ance of the birthday of Jefferson Da- wis, the third of June. which is also 8 legal holiday in Florida Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Tex as and South Carolina, and a school holiday in Virginia.
 Members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows throughout North America will celebrate to-day the anniversary of the order To-day is the birthday anniversary of David Hume. in 1711 of Artemus Ward, humorist, in 1884, and of John Clark Ridpath, historian, in 1S4O.