Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-06-20

SS al institution, and that every German
- has been immensely proud of it
OF the glories of the Fatherland.
And to discover that this great industry
has stopped to the bribng of oficias-a fact ad-
mitted by the Krupp firm. after the charge had
been made in the reichstag-and that it had been
J supplying French newspapers with material for
war-scare articles to induce the German
government to buy more armament from the
krupps, is more to Germany than scandal. 1t
is catastrophe.
The charges were made in the rechstag by DIR.
Liebknecht, the Socialist deputy, and in the col
of the Vorwaerts the Socialist newspaper.
1t is coincidence that it that newspaper
which ten years ago printed another scandalous
story about the krupps. which caused the death
of the then head of the works Friedrich Alfred
Krupp.
1t impossible to refute him, because the
minister of war, Gen. Heeringen, Obliged
to admit then and there that inquiry going
on which had already revealed that 'one of the
Krupp officials" had bribed officers to reveal GER
tain information The following day the Krupps
issued 4 statement in which they admitted that
their representatives in Berlin had maintained
friendly relations with their former comrades
OF the war department for the purpose of obtain
ing business information" and had bestowed
small present on certain under officials
1t Friday that Lebknecht exploded his
bomb and forced Heeringen to reveal that
secret inquiry and Saturday that the Krupps
Vorwaerts published the text of the instructions
sent by the Deutsche Munitions und Waffenfabrik
to its Paris agent to leave stone unturned"
to persuade some popular French newspaper to
publish a statement that France intended to dou-
BILE her orders for machine guns. The object was
to get the German government to order machine
guns from the Deutsche Munitions und Waffen
fabrik.
On Tuesday the popular indignation had risen
so high that Gen Won Heeringen's plea for sus
Cin nDfi imI ant until 70 ipc had
done its work was forgotten. The budget commit
tee of the reichstag voted to appoint parliament
tary commission of inquiry into the scandal This
commission however despite the protests of the
Socialists not vested with power to send for
persons and papers,
Although the Krupp works date from 1910, when
Friedrich Krupp established his forge at Essen, it
was his son, Alfred Krupp, who the real
founder of the industry. Friedrich died practical
1y bankrupt in 1926 leaving little more than the
secret of his cast-steel process his son, and it
was 80 years before any striking results were
achieved -
1t was in 1910 that Friedrich Krupp purchased
small forge in Essen, where he devoted himself
to the problem of manufacturing cast Steel but
though the article put the market by him
In 1915 it commanded but little sale, and the firm
was anything but prosperous He employed only
three workmen.
Alfred Krupp born April &C. 1912, and at
the time of his fathers death only fourteen
years old His mother carried on the works until
Alfred reached his majority, that twice in the
history of the works have they been managed by
women. The present head of the industry is
Bertha Krupp, the granddaughter Of the woman
who became it's manager in 1926
The Krupps had so little money that Alfred on
his fathers DEATH compelled to leave school
to assist mis- mother. He displayed phenomenal
aptitude for the foundry business, and the works
developed with increasing rapidity after his in
huence was felt in their management BY 1S4S
the firm had expanded so that 122 workmen
employed.
AS late as 1S4S, the year in which his mother
into his hands he melted the family plate to pay
his workmen. Today the mighty industry fur
nishes employment to majority of the workmen
of three cities and dozen coal and iron mining
towns. The ships built from it, equipped with
its steel and armed with its cannon, all
the seas, and wherever steel is used the name OF
Krupp is known. The capital of the firm now is
about $60000,O00
1t was in 1S47 that Krupp scored his first real
success, when he made three-pounder muzzle
loading gun of cast steel. At the great London
exhibition Of 1851 he exhibited solid Aawless
ingot OF cast steel weighing two tons, thus estab
fishing the fact that important firm existed in
Germany capable of turning out samples of excel
lent workmanship The Essen works were every
where spoken OF, and the output watched with
steel. tires for railway vehicles was another in
vention which followed soon after.
The making of heavy ordnance, which has made
the name OF these works famous the world over.
was not then prominent part OF the business.
One of the first large orders he got for firearms
came four years after the London exhibition, when