Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-11
GERMANY BOASTS OF
 ESSEN AS WORLDS
 BIGGEST GUN MART
Home of Famous Krupp Plant Is Town of 300,0O0 POpula- ton and Is Devoted Exclusive ly to Making Artillery.


 Geographic Society, in todays state ment concerning the geography of the 1 European war says
 "The town of Essen might just as well have been named 'Krupp or ] course. Essen was founded centuries before the House of Krupp, but its importance and industrial fame is of very recent growth. It is, in fact product of the famous firm Almost everybody in Essen nowadays depends for his livelihood upon the firm Of Krupp, and Essen is a town of 300. 900 population lt might also be point cd out that while the horizon of Es- sen Is about limited by Krupp steel ;he firm extends far beyond thefimits of the city. with numerous branches. iron-ore mines, coal mines, smelterg an industrial village bearing it's name ioundries in Berlin and other cities and a shipyard al Kiel
 "Eseen is situated in the heart O. l rich coal and iron country and upon a network of railways that reach tC ail of the chief mining and industria senters of the Rhineland It is To sated in the Prussian Rhine twenty miles northeast Of Duesseldorf Tho itreets of the town are clean and well laid out The houses, for the most part, are substantially built and be ong to the firm of Krupp. There il however, thick atmosphere of indu. rial gloom over the city It looks irab in spite of paint, and cheerles. spite of the vast wealth that it abor earns. There Is no single light " feature to redeem the city whicl las been called into an important plaCe in the world by Germanyt l greatest steel firm
 The firm of Krupp. about whicl numerous notices have been printed since the wars outbreak, is little nor, than lO3 year old However 1t is 1 some years since D prominent French man wrote a thick volume about th, Dynasty of krupp, in which he con siders this familys fortune as large enough to be classed among the Sey an World Wonders
 The foundation-of Irupp firm al : Essen on the Rhhr occurred in the ] year 1872. lt was In the first days ol cast steel, and. at that time. the En. glish steel industry led the world al most to @ degree of monopoly AlfreC 1 Krupp's works were established for ! The manufacture Of cast steel. The 1arly days of the firm were days of bitter and apparently fruiuess strug gle. As late as 1848, 36 years after their foundation the Krupp works l employed only 70 workmen. But then the age of railways davned. and cas, steel became an important article O. commerce About this time too. thl owner went into the work of develop ing guns, and his factory forged th, cast steel guns amid whose thunder the empire was forged and welded
 The founder of the factory died i before realizing the success Of hi. life's venture, and his fourteen-year old son took mp the burden, contiuu
 ing the establishments slow progress
 After 184S, the struggle was finally
 successful, the Krupp works sols
 their goods throughout Germany. an, lnumbered customers in more thar
 half of the countries in Europe B, ] 1873. l2,0O0 workmen were employed
 and the firm had began to purchasI
 Iron and coal mines and blast furu
 aces. Long before their triumph ] however, the Krupp's had put int ! operation those social service reform that were destined to fine echo arOun the world. In the early 50's the hT , had established for it's workmen 4 sick-aid and pension fund from whic the German Empire was @ draw th
 inspiration that led to the establish 3 mcnt of a state insurance system. .. "The firm has always remained th personal property of the Krupp fan $ fly lt is owned today by Berth g Krupp who, in 1906, married th
 Prussian diplomat, formerly attache
 to the embassy at Washington, Dl
 Gustav von Bohlen and Halbaci ,- Just before Bertha Krupp took owe
 the works they were organized fo
 administration purposes into a join 8 stock company An but four share Il of S250 each were taken over by Mis- krupp The firms capital was place at $S5,OOO,OOO
 a The Krupp steel works now eu
 ploy more than 45.0OO men in Esse
 alone. The firm has one Of the mos
 highly developed social service sy tems in operation in existence an. a where. It maintains clubs, cooper
 tive stores hospitals general an ? maternity; boarding houses, pensioi n. accident and sick-beneht funds, b.
 sides being partner with its emplo
 oos i'm a number of social underta'
 ings The krupp's make an mann, T. Of things of steel, but and this mai ! ly constitutes their world renown-
 the Krupp gunshops have a uniql Do support from its organization Tho
 have made and unmade maps an
 empires. Bertha Krupp is known
 her fatherland as the CannC Pr Queen.
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