Show AT WORK where re the lie gm in in the world anro made Sti Ml tho the germans are justly pr proud ud of Her rAlfred krupp the owner and creator of the lar largest est and most famous foundry in the alio world although continually turning out immense castings of iron iron and steel for various purposes it is f for or the noted cannon that the great establishment at essen in 13 prussia russia lias has the widest alfred krupp is is a n native 11 five of E essen asen and is seven seventy ty years old in 1826 the elder krupp died lied without leav leaving ing any considerable fortune to his widow who with tho the assistance stance of other her son carried on a small foundry until 1848 when she retied retired in favor of her assistant herr continued to make inal c great progress with his foundry but without attaining any international reputation until the great exhibition of 1851 when he lie attracted attention by sending to london a single block of steel weighing 1500 kilo grammes in the 1862 exhibition herr krupp was a most successful exhibitor showing showing sho among other samples of his winf ski skill a caststeel block of cwt cat which being broken into halves by a steam hammer of 1000 cwt cat was found to bo perfectly clear and free from flaws one specialty of herr krupps exhibit in i 11 1851 not be passed by without ment mention ioD and that is is his caststeel cast steel guns the attention of the F french rench government was particularly attracted by this artillery and the experiments that the government mado made with it afforded convincing proofs of tho the practical value of the essen manufactory these guns at that time were of very small calibre but herr krupp was continually experimenting experiment g them until he be finally succeeded in producing those gigantic diecce of ar artillery which aro now world famous indeed it io asserted that upwards of caststeel cast steel guns have up to th the e present time gulls been een made by tho the E essen asen establishment and disposed of in various parts of the globe in the philadelphia exhibition of 1876 herr krupp exhibited many man wonders that startled even americans mci cans accustomed as they are to all kinds of mechanical wonders altogether the establishment covers a superficial area of 1000 acres about of which are covered V with buildings in tho the year 1877 the tile krupp rupp foundry posses possessed wd 1648 various kinds of furnaces steam engines ranging from two to one thousand horsepower horse power or altogether horsepower horse borse power and 1063 kinds of machines herr krupp by means of an army of workingmen is enabled to turn aut out a monthly supply of field pieces thirty small and ana twenty large cannons besides an enor enormous mons quantity of articles for peaceful purposes purpose to keep all his foundries employed herr krupp poss possesses M es several mines in various arts of germany and even at bilao aarts in in spain whence tho the metal is bro brought ul ht by by a regular line of steamers to the mouth of the erbine and thence conveyed by rail to tho the furnace altogether the number of leoyle people employed by herr krupp in t alio lo 10 performance of these various various labors is 13 little short of who allwork all work together under their employers pl direction with the regularity of the daily consumption of coal by this army of workers is about 2200 tons the creature co comforts and requirements of his people are carefully provided for by herr krupp he lias has had dwellings erected for his clerks and workmen in which e every everything thing needful has been thought of F fire ire and life invalid and penson societies hospital bathing establishments r four our p peoples e schools besides an indest industrial r ia school for girls and work school for women all proclaim the thoughtfulness of herr krupp their founder and benefactor herr krupp a few weeks ago had in his employ men but new orders nave have just obliged him to hire an tin additional force of which places him at the licad head of the population of of bf a small city more than me men n the only of all kaiser wilhelme wilhelms subjects cretu return rn a larger income income than herr krupp not even the set in nio motion so many hands |