The Springfield herald., 1913-06-20

He directed In his will that the frm should be
changed into stock company. This was DONE
but Bertha Krupp. his daughter. who married DR..
Behlen und Won Halbach holds all but four
shares of this company. She ts not only Ger
manys weathiest woman, but its wealthiest sub
ject 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
heritance the world has yet known. She was six
teen when her father died. and attained her ma
jority in 1904.
Essen Is city 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. It Is one of the very earliest places In
which cooperative stores established. They
have been in existence there for over SO years
Bertha Krupp. says writer. may be the
queen of Essen, but her workmen conduct their
own affairs without molestation. She limits her
interference to gifts of money. by which nstitu-
tions of mutual good to the workmen may be
established"
From the three whom Friedrich Krupp
employed. the 122 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 $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. Tanger-Hutte, and Essen
This group includes the Milhofener-Hutte 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 FriedrichA Alfred Iron
works in Rheinhausen; the third, the Amen Steel
works; the fourth. the Gruson Machine works. at
Magdeburg Buckau. and the fifth the Germania
shipyards. at Kiel.
The Essen Steel works alone comprise some
sixty-Odd departments, covering an area of about
500 acres, and housing 1900 machine tools, IT
roll trains, 1877 hammers, 81 hydraulic presses
397 steam boilers. and $50 steam engines. more
than 2.200 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-
uons 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
60 through the struggle which the building up of
these works has cost The success which now
so splendidly has rewarded faith, our anxiety.
and our efforts, doubtful during twenty-five
long years.
Let this example serve as an encouragement
to others In difficulties. 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 US,
work with the same earnestness to found and
secure his own future success. That's my great
est wish.
Essen. February, 1873, twenty-five years after
my assuming charge. ALFRED KRUPP."