Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — Herr Krupp’s Straggles. [ARTICLE]

Herr Krupp’s Straggles.

“The old lady,” Herr Krupp’a mother, managed the small business affairs, while Alfred stepped Into the shop, rolled up his sleeves, worked all day with his arms, and then until midnight with his brains, .pays the Outlook. They lived In a small cottage which Is still standing in the factory, and which he did not exchange for a better home until long after his marriage. I now quote Mr. Krupp’s own words uttered on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the factory: “From my fourteenth year I had the care of a family father during the day, added to hard work at the factory, and at night had to study how to overcome the difficulties in the way; during this period I lived on potatoes, bread and coffee, and scant portions of meat, and toiled until late In the night; for twen-ty-five years I struggled thus, until conditions grew a little easier. My last remembrance of that period Is the growing danger of total ruin, and my endurance, suffering, and hard labor to avert the calamity; and I say all this for the encouragement of young men who have nothing, are nothing and want to get something and be somebody.”