Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-06

flaWleSS cast Steel. OlnCe tHeH tue German army and navy have bought 29,O00 Krupp guns. And 30,OOO Krupp guns have been sold in the last half century to 52 nations throughout the world-23 in Europe, IS in America, six in Asia and five in Africa.
 But the Krupps have never manu- factured munitions of war for France.
 Alfred Krupp's breech-loading rifle and cannon, adopted by the Prussian army in 1861, proved their superior ity in the Franco-Prussian war. From then on the factory became world famous for it's manufacture of heavy ordnance and armor plate. Under the next Krupp the output of the gun factory was increased and diversified by the incorporation of other enter Irises.
 And now the Krupp von Bohlens not only have the immense plant at Essen, which comprises an area Of 1,2OO acres, 235 of them under one roof, but many other plants as we'll At Essen, at the three neighboring 15-mile long gun ranges of Meppen, 5000 men are employed.
 !, At Krupp colleries in Rhineland- Westphalia and Silesia, 10000 miners dig coal for Krupp branch works at Amen and Gruson, where armor plate is made, and for Krupp blast furnaces at Kheinhausen, Druis5urg, Ncuwied and Fingers, which, between them, keep another 15,000 pairs of hands busy.
 At Kiel 6,1O0 shipwrights build bat tlcships, torpedo boats and subma- rines in Krupp's 55-acre Gerrlan;a 1ockyard.
 In Germany and far away Spain 5000 miners are disemboWlling ore from Krupp iron mines, which, in the case of that mined in Spain, is ship ped in Krupp steamers that unload their burden at Krupp docks at Rot terdam, there to be transshipped down the Rhine.
 For all those employees the krupp payroll totals $25, 5,OOOOOO a year.
 When the last of the Krupp men died he gave the Krupp works to Bertha, his oldest daughter, now 2S. She married, after love affair at Rome, young Prussian diplomat at tached to the legation there, Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, und Halbach. He is now managing director of the vast system of which she is sole own CT. He no longer is merely Bertha Krupp's husband, however He no longer is simply the man who mar ried the greatest fortune in Germany. He has become the master of Essen in reality The 75,000 members of the Krupp staff, and the community of 100000 souls dependent upon Krupp employment, today look up to Krupp von Bohlen with the same spirit of reverential royalty that in spired three generations of workmen to regard Krupps as their liege lords.
 In "The Men About the Kaiser" Frederick William Vile paints about the couple a happy picture. The vast bulk of their time, he writes, is de voted to their home, their three chil- dren and their work people.
 The social work of the Krupps at their foundries and factories among their work people dates back to 1861. At that time, finding there were not in Essen sufficient houses for their employees, the Krupps began building dwellings,. Now, some 400 houses are provided, many being given rent free to widows or former employees. A cooperative society divides pro- fits according to the amounts pur- chased. A boarding house for bach elors now accommodates 1000. Bath houses are provided, and employees re- ceive free medical attention. Acci- den', life and sickness insurance so- cieties among the men are given $6O,OO0 a year by the firm for their support. There is a trust fund of $25O,O00 for the benefit of the needy who are not qualified to receive pen sions. There is also g. fund for a building association. And technical and manual training schools are pro- vided.
 Altogether" sums up MT. Vile. "the Krupp von Bohlens are inspir. ing reminders that the age of luxury and splurge is still adorned by folk to whom great riches can never be curse"
 And 1t Is in the hands of the Krupp von Bohlens that the fate of Germany may rest.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
 LOCAL BREVTIEs.