House and Garden 
SITTING-ROOM OF A FOREMAN S DWELLING- COLONY WILDAU 
These institutions provide exclusively goods of' 
excellent quality, a small margin only being allowed 
for profit, the balance resulting from sales being 
devoted to social welfare purposes. 
The Schwartzkopff Company’s sense of respon¬ 
sibility for the welfare of the rising generation finds 
expression in the three-storied schoolhouse, with 
its seven class rooms and a large school hall, and 
a gymnasium equipped with modern devices. 
The school hall is also used for devotional pur¬ 
poses, and is likewise availed of by the members 
of this industrial community for instructive and 
social evening gatherings. 
That full attention has been paid to the sanitary 
conditions of the settlement is apparent from the 
existence of the filter-beds, which per¬ 
form the duty of removing the sewage 
of the waste waters, which after com¬ 
plete purification and sterilization are 
thus rendered fit for discharge into the 
canal, communicating with the Dahme 
river. The plant is constructed on 
Schweder’s bacteriological system, and 
has proved satisfactory in every way, 
so much so that it is the object of fre¬ 
quent visits on the part of home and 
foreign authorities. 
In addition to the provisions made 
for the comfort and well-being of the 
workmen, efforts have also been made 
to secure the comfort of the higher 
members of the staff, for whose accom¬ 
modation residences suitable to their 
station have been built on the south 
side of the establishment amid park 
plantations. Ample arrangements 
have also been made for the develop¬ 
ment of a pleasant social intercourse, 
by affording the means for healthy 
recreation in various forms. These 
objects are facilitated by the existence 
of a Gymnasium Club and Musical 
Society, which boasts of well-trained 
singers and a practiced orchestra. 
It will thus be seen that the mana¬ 
gers of the Company have at all times 
done their utmost to promote the 
happiness of the officers, employees 
and men engaged in this immense 
organization. 
The following data have been sup¬ 
plied to the author by the Schwartz- 
kopff Company, expressly for publi¬ 
cation in House and Garden. 
The Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien- 
Gesellschaft works were established 
in the year 1852 by the late “Gehei- 
mer Kommerzienrat” Louis Schwartzkopff, under 
the title of “ Eisengiesserei und Maschinenbau- 
anstalt von L. Schwartzkopff.” In its earlier 
days the firm occupied itself mainly with foundry 
work and the construction of special machines of 
original design; in particular, power saws, pumps, 
ventilators, steam-hammers, mining machinery and 
rolling mills. 
The commercial crisis arising from the over¬ 
speculation following upon the Crimean war 
rendered a decline of the trade in these articles 
more than probable. This foregone conclusion 
prompted Schwartzkopff to take up the manufacture 
of railway implements. The prognosis of the enter¬ 
prising founder proved correct, and his expectations 
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