Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Krupp’s Steel Works. [ARTICLE]

Krupp’s Steel Works.

Herr Krupp’s steel works at Essen and elsewhere form, perhaps, the largest private manufacturing establishment in the world. The town of Essen, which may be almost said to owe its existence to the Krupps, is now a place of 70,000 inhabitants, and the works themselves cover I,COO acres, and employ 25,000 persons, who live in 8,000 houses, all of which belong to the firm. There are eleven large furnaces, 1,542 smelting furnaces, 439 steam boilers, 82 steam hammers, the largest of which are of 1,000 horse power apiece, 450 steam engines, 1,622 steam-driven machines, and 54 locomotive engines always in use on the spot; and away from his central foundry, Herr Krupp possesses and works three c,ial mints, '547 iron mines in Germany, other iron mines in Sjain, and four ocean steamers. He supplies his workmen with almost everything they require, and he maintains for their use an hotel, eight beer saloons, a mineral water factory, a flour mill, a bakery, a slaughter-house, and fifty shops. Krupp makes guns for nearly every natiou except England and France; but he makes many other things besides. The best proof of bis fair treatment of his men may be found in the fact that, during the recent labor troubles in Germany, although 100,000 people were on strike in the district immediately around Essen, not one of Krupp's employes showed the least trace of discontent.