Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — The Big Gun Makers. [ARTICLE]

The Big Gun Makers.

Of iron men named Krupp there are two in Germany having A for their sole initial. Both originally belonged to the same firm, and how they became separated forms an interesting story, which has just been told in Paris, where Hugh Arthur Krupp recently arrived. In 1855 the Krupps, by being thus together, took to easting guns at their factory, and in 1863 made the weapon which took the first prize at the French exhibition of 1867. Soon after this thedirm proposed to Marshal Niel Von Moltke to cast for both their governments respectively, an offer wlfieh was the cause of the retirement of Arthur Krupp, who founded thereupon an iron foundry at Berndorf, in Austria, and left Alfred to conduct the works at Essen. Arthur’s foundry, outside of Europe, if often there, is not heard of, but Alfred’s gun business is the wonder of the world, as the statistics will show that it ought to be. The population of the Essen works is 15,700, and the number of boilers and engines is as follows: 429 boilers, 453 steam engines, with a horse power of 18,500; 82 steam hammers, and 1,556 furnaces, of which 14 are high furnaces, producing 300,000 tons ot steel and 26,000 tons of iron yearly. ‘ Cornelius Vanderbilt, the eldest son of W. H. Vanderbilt, is often called the “flower of the Vanderbilts.” He possesses the most estimable traits of character, is manly, kind, charitable and generous, and universally popular among rich and poor alike. He is married and has an interesting family of little ones, to whom he is devotedly attached. A New York man, desiring to commit suicide, shot at himself four times without hitting. He will probably be given a position on the American rifletearn in the next international shootingmatch. Ex-Sanitary Com. Rufus K. Hireman, of New Orleans, was cured of a severe attack of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil, so we see by an item in the Columbus, Qa., Enquirer-Sun,