New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-27
Pv Henry Beach Needham.

| By Henry Beach Needham,
TILL fragrant with much Of its beauty re-
~ naming delicate pink carnatiOn, fifty
IL --ilire.res in size, blooms in glass OF
-..- setore nc as I write. With some base
-,,, bullets. otherwise shraPnel, and visiting
ard las the foreman called iD Of steel al
-o,t but not quite, as thin as one OF our in
snDsrsble satety-razor blades, this rnagnih-
~, flower is The souvenir Of visit to lie
fcruso,-the "KtuPp OF France"
1 Karl Baedeker, whose hardbooks for travel
ss will soon be out Of print as we'll as out OF
h,.. tells one that the hourishing town OF lie
c-,nso,. with 33.437 inhabitants, owes its pros
,s,i.y TO the Schneider Iron Works, "the most
important Of the kind in France" founded by
Eugene Schneider, who departed this life in
IgS being then seveHty years old The
FORKS" says Herr Baedeker, comprise coal
-ines. furnaces and workshops for the con-
rpction of locomotives and other machinery,
lang occupation in all to about $4,000 people"
Not word about cannon or shells or any of
{, ieath-dealing instruments in which Krupp
s.ks world monopoly. The reason for this
arange omission in a German handbook is, if
Herr Bacdeker would put it into words, Why
Mvertise our great rival?'
The Schneider Iron Works are competitors
4 4 Krup2 in the business of man-killing sup
Lies for the civilized world Already Creusot
Guns. which figured first in the cable dispatches
the Balkan war. are the deadly rival of
Kupp guns If the Allies win, as the Allies
-,an 10 win. Creusot guns will have contrib
a,d tremendously to the victory. Creusot guns
Constitute the main defence of France and the
secondary defence of Russia, Italy and Serbia.
.r.usot guns indeed, are assisting in many
British advance So when the war is over and
,armal trade in war playthings resumed, it is
aghly probable that Creusot, and not Krupp,
vii be the name on the gun in South Ameri-
TN revolutions, as well as the name on the gun
1.-THE government de jure Certainly when Bel
PUN is restored and her neutrality again forti-
I'D as well as guaranteed It will be by Creusot
gns and not by the seconds" supplied as be-
o's the invasion Of Belgium by corrupt Krupp
Having other information than Baedeker,
new when the French Ministry Of War invited
., to visit lie Creusot with the government ar
'nal at Bourres as a way station, that l was to
s shown artillery and shells in the making
'HhaPs given a private view" in an atelier
which serves in French for both studio and
'o'kshop) Of a new mammoth gun something
lats Verne would have been proud to imagine.
wasn't going to see locomotives building, or
eoncoction OF things to serve the humdrum
" peace, but the art of demonstrating high ex-
~'sves Nevertheless, was unprepared for
Ne inaugural Of the tour of inspection.
The Schneider Iron Works fronts a mean
|sst and a wall OF stone at least ten feet high
@S''!es the giant plant completely. Entrance,
~s'siore, is through immense iron gates,
'-s'oed by man in uniform. l am told that
-''e has been but one strike, that fash in the
a. IN all the history Of the stone-stockaded
Nsnt Who would be so foolish, wonder, as
strike against armed Creusot? Just as well
~sat few regiments mutiny against whole
Enyi
upon entering the works" | saw nothing
most beautiful park In its splendid oaks
sged turf and, TO the eye, unendngness.
~ eae owners playground, much resembles
seat English estate. But it was planned as
'"S is planned with an eye 70 vistas. One
"siofest; another, slopng afar off to distant
Wage carpet of young green; another a
'"npse OF broad river (Which turned out TO
" an artificial pond). Only one vista was de.
's"'o 10 remind M. Schneider, if he could
get what il was to which he owed the DOS
,'s0n OF such an inordinate share of Gods
s"'0oi-s steel furnace and an immense ma
- snop, the whole dominated by a sky