KRUPP CENTENARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 5

KRUPP CENTENARY.

» . FESTIVITIES AT ESSEN; ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyri'sht , Berlin, August 4. There are to be five days' festivities at Essen, when 71,000 employees will hold a celebration of the centenary of the birth of Alfred Krupp. The Ivaissr will attend. Eight hundred and twenty-one employees, who have worked for Ivrupps for ffty years, are to be specially provided for, Friedrich Krupp, the celebrated German metal-founder, was born at Essen, in Rhenish Prussia, on April 11,1812, Tbere, jn 1827, his father established a foundry, which under the proprietorship of tho son has grown to one of the most extensive manufactories in the worlt).' In 1851 he exhibited in London at theGjrent Exhibition a block of steel, woighing 45cwt, and cast after a method invented by him. The steel manufactured by this process is called Krupp steel. His great fame, however, rests upon his steel guns, which were used so successfully by the Prussians at the siege of Paris during the FrancoGerman war (1870-71). After that he cast an 80-ton breech-loading gun in steel, which was nearly 30 feet long, and threw a projectile three-quarters of a ton, in weight, and also a 124-ton gun, made upon the same plan, whose projectile weighs one ton. He died on July 14, 1887.