House and Garden 
Alfred Krupp until his death on 
November 22, 1902, became the 
property of his daughter, Berta, and 
in accordance with the last wishes of 
her father, were made a Stock Com¬ 
pany on July I, 1903, the shares, 
however, remaining in the hands of 
the proprietress. 
The capital stock amounts to 160 
million marks (about ^40,000,000). 
The board of directors consists of 
eleven members, of whom nine re¬ 
side in Essen and one each in 
Magdeburg and Kiel, the former 
being director of Krupp’s Gruson 
Works in Magdeburg-Buckan, the 
other of Krupp’s Germania Ship¬ 
building Yards in Kiel. The board of 
THE PROTESTANT CHAPEL—COLONY ALTENHOF supervision coiisistsof four members. 
The original firm was established 
In the colony of Kronenberg there are sixty-three 
dwellings intended especially for office employees 
and masters. They contain four to eight rooms with 
separate space in the attic and the cellar. There 
is a common wash-house for every three dwellings. 
The foregoing shows that the colonies for the 
workmen at Krupp’s establishments have been built 
on dift'erent systems. No doubt the cottage system 
is preferable for hygienic and social reasons to the 
tenement house. But it requires greater outlays 
for maintenance, streets, etc., so that the rents nat¬ 
urally have to be a little higher. In the colony 
Friedrichshof it is shown the tenements can be so 
grouped and arranged as to fully comply with all 
hygienic requirements. The rent for the several 
lodgings is as follows: 
For dwellings in barracks 
$15 to $22 per annum. 
For other two-room dwellings 
$22.50 to $27 per annum. 
Three rooms $30 to $55. 
Four rooms $42.50 to $80. 
Five rooms $67.50 to $100. 
The total value of the ground, 
property and buildings is $4,- 
000,000. The rate of interest 
is about 2| per cent. 
The following complete sta¬ 
tistical summary of the stupen¬ 
dous yearly operations of this 
world-famed corporation has 
been prepared for special pub¬ 
lication in House and Gar¬ 
den by Friedrich Krupp, Ftd., 
of Essen. 
Krupp’s works, the sole 
owner of which was Friedrich a playground in the courtyard—colony friedrichshof 
in 1810 by Peter Friedrich Krupp, born in 1787. 
In 1811 the first smelting works for cast steel were 
erected and in 1812 Alfred Krupp was born, who 
during his long and hard-working life, raised the 
firm to its high standing and world-wide importance. 
In 1826 Peter Krupp died. In 1843 
barrels from cast steel were made and in 1847 the 
first guns (three pounders). 
In 1848 Alfred Krupp became sole owner of the 
business and in 1853 first introduced his invention of 
making wheels of railway cars without welding. In 
1854 Friedrich Alfred Krupp was born, and in the 
same year the first twelve pounders were made. In 
1861 the famous fifty ton hammer “Fritz” was 
erected and a year later the manufacture of Bessemer 
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