The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11
.HON|| OF The
R|.|R.UPP WORKS
IS DESCRIBED
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Nearly Everyone in Essen De.
ponds upon Cannon Manu-
facturers for Livelihood.
WASHINGTON. 10. C. April 10

WASHINGTON. d. c., April -
Describing the city of Essen,
Germany and the great industrial or
ganization that has made it famous,
the NATIONAL Geographic Society. in
today's statement concerning the
geography Of the European war.
says: .
The town.of Essen might Just as
well have been named +Krupp @Of.
course Essen was founded centuries
before the House Of Krupp. but its
importance and Industrial fame is of
very recent growth. 1t is, IN fact, a
product OF the famous firm. Almost
everybody In Essen nowadays de-
ponds for his livelihood upon the firm
h Of krupp. and Essen Is town of
800. 900 population. 1t might also
be pointed out that while the hori-
ION of Essen is limited by Krupp
steel, the Arm extends far beyond
the limits Of the city. with numerous
Ssmelters, and ind ustrial villages bear
ing it's name. foundries in Berlin
and other cities, and "a shipyard at
Kiel.
Essen is situated in the heart OF
rich coal and iron country and upon
a network Of railways that reach to
all OF the chief mining and indus
trial centers OF the Rhineland. It is
4 located In the Prussian Rhine pro-
vince, twenty miles northeast OF Dus-
seldorf. The streets of the town are
clean and well laid out. The houses.
for the most part, are substantially
built and belong to the firm OF Krupp.
There is. however, thick atmos-
phere Of Industrial gloom over the
city. It looks drab in spite of paint.
and cherries in spite Of the vast
wealth that its labor earns. There
is no single lighter feature to redeem
the city which has been called into
an important place. in the world by
Germany's greatest steel firm.
THE firm of krunp, about which
numerous notices have been printed
since the wars outbreak, is little
more than 1O3 years old However,
1t is some years since fa prominent.
about the Dynasty OF Krupp. in
which he. considers this family's for
tune as large enough to be classed
among the Seven World Wonders.
The foundation OF the Krupp
hrm at Essen on the Rnhr occurred
in the year 1872. IL It was in the first
days Of cast steel, and at that time.
the English steel industry led the
world almost to a degree Of m onop-
y Oily aired hruppjs WORKS We're aes-h
tahlished for the manufacture of cast
steel. The early days Of the firm
were days Of ,bitter.@and apparently,
fruitless strug sle. AS late as 1915.
thirty-six years after their founda-
ton. the Krupp works employ ed
only q Workmen. But then the age
OF railways dawned. and cast steel
became an important article OF COM
merce. About this time. too. the
owner went into the work OF devel-
4opfnE guns. and his factory forged
thefcast steel guns amid whose thun-
der the empire was forged and weld
ed.
The founder OF the factory died
before realizing the success OF his
life's venture, and his .fourte en-year-
old son took UP the burden, con tin-.
uing the establishmen t,s slow prog.
ress. After 1s4e. the struggle was
finally successful, the Krupp works
sold their goods throughout Germany
and numbered customers IN more
than half the countries or Europe.
BY 1873, 4 1000 workmen were em-H
ployed and the firm had begun to
purchase iron and coal mines and
blast furnaces. Long before their tri-
UNI nh. however. the Krupps had put
into operation hose social service