Identifier: alfredkruppsketc1888mich (find matches)
Title: Alfred Krupp: a sketch of his life and work, after the German of Victor Niemeyer
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Michaelis, Kate Woodbridge Michaelis, Otho E., joint author Monthaye, E
Subjects: Krupp, Alfred, 1812-1887
Publisher: New York, T. Prosser
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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helooked from principle for the joyous points in life, Work for the daylight, smiles for the night,Earn by each days toil, a Sundays delight, was his motto. He was a charming conversationalist, joining to hisknowledge and experience a keen sense of humor, whichsurvived all his trials and perhaps lightened them. Shadow owes its birth to light, the poet tells us,in all natures light and shadow are mingled, but in few,does the light so predominate as in Alfred Krupps,shining in imperishable works of love, imperishableworks of genius. Alfred Krupp has builded his own monuments—thoseof stone and iron, which tell of his executive force andof his achievements in the field of industrial progress—those of good deeds and benevolent measures, which tellof the generous heart of which his mental powers werebut the servitors. Write him as one who loved his fellow men. T A VISIT TO he Krupp Works, AT ESSEN. From the French op Captain E. Monthaye,Translated by Captain O. E. Michaelis, U. S. Army.
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> < si o Wenat W a: s a!o jB w bCO U A VISIT TO THE KRUPP WORKS; If we have been fortunate enough to retain ourreaders interest thus far, we will invite them to visitwith us the great Krupp Works at Essen, which are sojustly entitled to be called the pride of Germany. I.—ESSEN. The city of Essen lies north-east of Dusseldorf,and isreached from Brussels by way either of Cologne or ofGladbach. It is situated in the fertile basin of the Ruhr,near Duisburg, another manufacturing city. Indeed,Essen is in the centre of the great factory district ofWestphalia, a veritable hive of industry, in which arealso to be found, Crefeld, Elberfeld, and Dortmund.These are not the only noticeable features of Essensposition, for it lies in one of those fortunate regions inwhich Nature has stored abundant coal and iron, thevery bases of metal working. To the Krupp Works Essen owes its world-wide rep-utation, and in a great measure, all its prosperity. In1862, its population scarcely reached sevent

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