The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-06-26

He directed in his will that the firm should be
changed into stock company This was done.
but Bertha krupp, his daughter, who married DR..
Won Behen und Won Halbach, holds all but four
shares of this company. She is not only Ger
manys wealthiest woman, but its wealthiest sub
5ect and greatest taxpayer.
Hence she has been called "the Queen of Es-
sen" and Our Lady of the Cannon" and other
romantic names At the age of eighteen there
descended upon her the greatest industrial in
herltance the world has yet known. She was six
teen when her father died, and attained her ma
jority in 1904
Essen is city now of 100000 population, and
1t owes its existence 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 one of the very earliest places in
which cooperative stores were established They
nave been IN existence there for so years.
Bertha krupp," says writer, may be the
queen OF Essen, but her workmen conduct their
own affairs without moestation. She limits her
interference to gifts of money by which institr-
t1ons OF mutual good to the workmen may be
established"
From the three whom Friedrich Krupp
employed, the 1922 whom Alfred Krupp had in his
employ 20 years after he took CHARGE the force
working for the Krupps had grown to $4,000 at
the death of Friedrich A. Krupp in 1902. The
establishment now comprises 10000 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, Tango Hutte and Essen.
This group includes the Milhofener-Hutte, with
It's four blast furnaces; the Herman-Hutte, with
three blast furnaces and the Sayner Hutte with
coal and iron Mines
The second group is the FriedrichAlfred Iron
works In Rhelnhausen; the third the Amen Steel
works; the fourth the Gruson Machine works at
Magdeourg buckau, and the fifth, the Germania
shipyards, at Kiel.
the Essen Steel works alone comprise some
s1xty-odd departments, covering an area of about
800 acres, and housing 1900 machine tools, II
roll trains, 1877 hammers, 81 hydraulic presses,
ss7 steam boilers, and 500 steam engines more
than 22o0 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 none of our workmen have to
go through the struggle which the building up Of
these works has cost US. The success which now
SO splendidly has rewarded our faith our anxiety,
and our efforts, was doubtful during TWENTY-FIVE
long years
Let this example serve as an announcement
TO others IN o1mculties May it increase the re-
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 is prayer May
all, from the highest to the lowest amongst u.s.
work with the same earnestness to found and
secure his own future success That's my great.
est wish.
Essen, February. 1879 twenty-five years after
my assuming cnarge ALFRED KRUPP."