The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-12
KRUPP FOUNDRY MARVEL
OF INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

ish war workers have to fight and
beat, and that is just as big a
task as the soldiers have to fight
and beat the German army.
krupp S is more than the great
est war factory IN the world; III
is the mightiest single industrial
organization that has ever exist.
ed Never IN any industrial cen
ter has there been anything Ike
the stupendOus concentrated ac-
uyity that now rcigns in Essen,
the Westphalian city that has
grown up round the great works
Essen IS Newcastle and Sheffield
and Barrow in Furness rolled INTO
one, and more
Before the war the company
employed more than 10000 men
About 10000 were engaged IN the
gigantic steel works at Essen,
where the II eentimeter monsters
come from. and whore daily there
streams forth a tremendous vol
ume of guns and ammunition for
Germany 5 armies Ten thousand
men We're digging for coal in
their mines IN Germany tirteen
thousand toiled at their rolling
mills at Amen and Grusen and
| the blast furnaces of Rheinhaus
IN. Duishurg. Neuwid and En-.
gers An army of 1000 was en-
gagged IN their ship building yard
at kiel. aud 5000 miners dug ore
IN Spain
How many are employed nowi
very, very few in Germany
knows, and perhaps nobody out
side kalserdom does. No govern
ment knows better than krupp s
how TO guard secrets. perhaps
| few know so well.
Day and night in Essen work
| goes on without ceasing In the
great works. spread over 1900
acres, 235 of them under roof, a.
least $4,000 men toll IN shifts OF
eight hours each Some sixty fae
tories make up the organizations
forty mills of standard railway
link then together and carry their
product out. thirty miles OF mar
row lines are required as auxIl
larry for the shops
| More than $50 miles of cable
and wire and over 600 telephone
stations and twenty telegraph
stations are needed 10 facilitate
communications throughout th,
works There are more than 80,
steam boilers 10 generate The
steam for the 1900 different ma
chimes and 2924 electric motor.
at work.
Everything Is on the giant scale
The 42-centlmeter gun We know
now too well Visitors they are
a privileged few, carefully guided
J could not see II But when
tehy looked into nine great can
non shops they could see plenty
of grim monsters 40 feet Ions
guns among them dwarfing th,
men working beside them IN
machine shop No 9 the soaring
towers of Cologne tathrdra
could be comfortably housed
And the whole gigantic conccrl
has sprung from a humble cottag,
factory with SIX workmen EssI
was a filthy, poyertyslricken lii
tie hole of a town "A century agC
! when the Krupp firm was IN ~
brg'n Today 1t has NOR,
thrn 100000 inhabitants aud q
one of the finest towns IN Ger
many
But friedrich Krupp, the found
er, made no commercial success
He bequeathed at his death I
1926 to his son, Alfred, theI
aged IA, nothing but a SINAI
forge and his secret of max
ing crucible steel. 1t was Thu
secret of crucible steel that mad,
the krupp works, however. IT
comparable qualities and purity
enabling perfectly homogeneous
uniform and dense blocks TO ~
east, caused the PrusSian govern
ment to give the works their frs
order for 300 cannons.
1t was the boy Alfred who wor
fame for the firm, but he had Q,
stick 10 it for twenty-five years
before gaining success. When h
died in 1857 he was employing
10000 men.
friedrich Albert Krupp, his sol
and the friend of the kaiser S
succeeded him, and when he died
in 1902, he left his daughter