The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-20

He directed in his will that the firm should be-
changed into stock company. This done.
but Bertha Krupp, his daughter, who married Dr.
Behlen und Halbach, holds all but four
shares of this company. She is not only Ger
manys wealthiest woman, but its wealthiest SUBJ
ject and greatest taxpayer
Hence she has been called the Queen of Es-
sem and Our Lady of the Cannon" and other
romantic names. At the age of eighteen there
descended upon her the greatest industrial in
heritance the world has yet known. She was six
teen when her father died and attained her
jorty in 1904
Essen is city now of 10000 population, and
il owes it's existence as a city to the Krupp works.
But there is hardly city In the world which is
governed more in the communistic spirit than
this. 1t is of the very earliest places in
which cooperative stores were established They
have been in existence there for over so years.
Bertha Krupp, says one writer may be the
queen of Essen but her workmen conduct their
own affairs without molestaton. She limits her
interference to gifts of money, by which institu-
tons of mutual good to the workmen may be
established
From the three men whom Friedrich Krupp
employed the 122 whom Alfred Krupp had in his
employ 90 years after he took charge, the foros
working for the Kr1pps had grown to $4,000 at
the death of Friedrich A. Krupp in 1902 The
establishment comprises $4,000 workmen and
$3.50 engineers and clerks.
The works comprise five separate groups, the
first of which is the Essen Steel works, with prov
ing grounds at Meppen TangerHutte, and Essen.
This group includes the Milhofener1utte, with
its four blast furnaces; the Herman-Hutte, with
three blast furnaces and the Sayner-Hutte, with
coal and iron mines
The second group is the Friedrich-Alfred Iron
works in Rhenhausen; the third, the Amen Steel
works the fourth, the Gruson Machine works, at
Magdeburg Buckau, and the fifth, the Germania
shpyards at KEEL
The Essen Steel works alone comprise
sixty-odd departments, covering an area of about
500 acres, and housing 1900 machine tools, II
roll trains, 1877 hammers. 81 hydraulic presses
397 steam boilers, and 500 steam engines. more
than 1900 electric motors, and 900 cranes.
Almost In the center of the Essen works stands
the original Krupp factory and family house.
maintained intact, In accordance with the direc
tons of Alfred Krupp. 1t bears this Inscription:
FIFTY years ago this cottage was the home OF
my parents. May OF workmen have to
go through the struggle which the building up OF
these works has cost US The success which now
splendidly has rewarded our faith, anxiety
and efforts, doubtful during twenty-five
long years.
Let this example an encouragement
to others In difficulties. May 1t increase the
spect for the many small houses and the great
sorrows which often dwell In them
The object Of work must be mutual welfare:
the work is blessed. then work Ia prayer May
all, from the highest TO the lowest amongst US.
work with the same earrestness to found and
secure his own future success That's my great
wish
Essen, February, 1873 twenty-five years after
my assuming charge ALFRED KRUPP.'