KRUPP'S ESTABLISHMENT AT ESSEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3257, 5 March 1885, Page 3

KRUPP'S ESTABLISHMENT AT ESSEN.

The Brus»elß Bevue Commerciale, Diplomatique et Contndaire, communicates the following details concerning the famous works at Essen. The works are organised to perfection. Mr Krupp, true to the formula of economists, strives to utilise the elements of which he disposes without losing a particle of metal op one second of the labor of his workmen. Thus at Essen the Bteel cylinders removed by boring are subsequently bored themselves and serve to make cannon of a smaller bore, while everywhere else such cylinders are treated as refuse. Gannons are not the only artioles made at Essen-; axletrees, iron wheels, and rails are likewise manufactured there. A few figures will testify better than any other commentary to the important results obtained by Mr Kriipp. In 1860 his works gave employment to 1764 workmen ; m 1870 to 7084 ; at the present time 20,000 are employed. The families of these 20,000 workmen represent a population of G5,381 souls, 13,000 of whom are children, who' receive a good education m admirably managed schools. From these children the future workmen, foremen, bookkeepers, and even engineers, are recruited for the works. The workmen's houses erected by Mr Krupp give shelter to 19,000 persons ; he lets them to his workmen at a low rent. The Essen works include 11 high blast furnaces, 1542 ordinary furnaces, 439 boilers, 82 tappet hammers, and 450 steam engines developing a total of 185,000 horse-power. During the previous year 250 million kilos of. steel were produced, the quantity of coal consumed amounting to 3000 tons daily. The safety of the works is watched over by 63 firemen ; many a provincial town does not possess one-fourth the number. But the activity of this formidable company which supplies cannon to more than half of the actual armies is not limited to this. It works also 547 iron mines m Germany and m Spain, near Bilbao ; three coal mines m the suburbs of Bochum, on the Rhine ; it has constructed four high blast furnaces at Duisbnrg and NeUweid,' a large experimental camp at Meppen, and

has further established at Essen workshops for photography, lithography, and bookbindiug, also a printing establishment which possesses three rotary machines.