up In vender. Erect and motionless a* a statue, in his erudite, forcible manner, Judge Eaton quoted the law, applied HER PITIFUL It to a remission of the guilt STORY of the prisoner, and practically ig nored the results of the -evidence. Im- pressed Plea to Judge of Loyal by a realization of the su- Patient perior Wife Restores knowledge of the judge, the KRUPP SCANDAL Liberty jury to retired and brought in a verdict Despairing of—- Prisoner. “Not guilty!" BY FLORENCE That evening a messenger from LILLIAN HENDER- Judge Eaton, under secret orders, left t e home of the Tho last day of the month, the last liberated prisoner, AMAZES le left a month of the year, the hour substantial sum of money last of with the the session of the great doomed Invalid, but did not criminal name the almoner. court in which the famous case of the When he reported state vs. Walden to the man who had sent him on the Reustone, charged mission, with conspiracy to defraud, however, he told of a sudden had flash of unspoken dragged its slow length for a full appreciation and gratitude In the wife’s eyes. GERMANY week such a time, the scene, the cli- It was max. the last flicker of hope in a broken, wasted life. There had been little but the hum- A few minutes drum progress of the law In the case after Judge Eaton had entered his until that day. The judge, William chambers the next Eaton, had morning, two associate judges came listened to the evidence to in his usual subdued him. They looked serious and manner. The at- troubled. torneys and the jury had been impa- tient “Judge.” spoke one of them, “we to conclude their labors before your are the approaching holiday. friends, as you know. Your de- The fate of cision in the the prisoner bad been Renstoue case has caused forestalled. It a great seemed patent that deal of criticism? We fear W alden Reustone, the bar accused of selling fraudulent association willdemand an in- bonds vestigation.” * with the collusion of a band of disrep- utable brokers, He extended a folded document. was guilty. He had Read a good lawyer, it,” he said, stone-faced, not however, and every a quiver point in the in his masterly mien. It was case was stubbornly con- his excitement over the Krupp tested. formal resignation of the judge- ship. scandal is not due alone to the rarity The last evidence was in, the state of graft caseß in that country, or to the Irom that day Judge Eaton disap- was about to begin its argument, fact that it touches her in her most sen- peared from public view. It wus ru- when a woman, deeply veiled, who v sitive place--the army. It is due partly mored that ho had retired to a GERMANY’S had sat beside the prisoner small all family estate. JM to the fact that the Krupp establishment through the trial, arose to her feet, has to be looked upon as a nation- Then current gossip told of a heavy f.in, come threw back her veil and confronted al institution, and that every German property loss, of his serious illness, the judge and jury. -¦¦ ¦ has been immensely proud it as and then the world forgot him. ¦ of one If the eyes of the court room had of the glo-ies of the From that illness, ihrce years after Fatherland. been fixed upon the judge instead of he had made the sacrifice of wealth, And now to discover that this great industry upon this woman, would have there position and judicial honor out of has stooped to the bribing of officials—a fact ad- been noticed a quiver pass over the sympathy for a woman, Judge Eaton mitted by the Krupp firm, after the charge had austere face, dignity, go self-control come back to consciousness to find been made in the reichstag—and that It had been hurtling to the winds, a sudden pallor supplying a beautiful young girl at. his Bide. French newspapers with material for obscure the set, statuesque features. She had acted as his nurse for over war-scare articles, so as to induce the German a month. She had seen to it that in government to buy more armament from the Krupps, his straightened circumstances he was is more to Germany than a scandal. It surrounded with every comfort money Is a catastrophe. could supply. The charges were made in the reichstag by Dr. And in a day or two she told him Liebknecht, the Socialist deputy, and in the col- who she was —the daughter of Walden umns of the Vorwaerts, the Socialist newspaper. and Lucile Renstone. Both were It is a coincidence that it was that newspaper dead, but had spent two years of which ten years ago printed another scandalous comfort and peace since he had saved story about the Krupps, which caused the death her father from imprisonment. of the then head of the works, Friedrich Alfred An unexpected fortune had come to Krupp. Renstone. Dying, he had directed his It was impossible to refute him, because the daughter to pay off all he had embez- minister of war, Gen. von Heeringen, was obliged zled- Dying, her mother had blessed to admit then and there that an inquiry was going the noble man who had sacrificed his on which had already revealed that “one of the all for her in her darkest hour. Krupp officials” had bribed officers to reveal cer- She had directed Florence to find tain information. The following day the Krupps him, to tell of her undying gratitude. issued a statement in which they admitted that And it was she who had come to the their representatives In Berlin had maintained judge’s side when all others had for- "friendly relations" with their former “comrades” gotten him. of the war department for the purpose of obtain- Judge Eaton cared no more for am- ing "business information,” and had bestowed bition. But he was still a compara- small present “on certain under officials.” tively young man. The fair girl, so It was on Friday that Liebknecht exploded his like her mother, clung to him fondly. bomb and forced von Heeringen to reveal that He told her she must establish her- secret inquiry and on Saturday that the Krupps self with some relatives or friends. made their admission of bribery. On Sunday the "Do not send me away!” she plead- Vorwaerts published the text of the instructions ed. Remember, I am as friendless sent by the Deutsche Munitions und VVaffenfabrik Prussia gave him the contract for her new breech- He directed In his will that the firm should be He Extended a Folded Document. and lonely as yourself. I seek only to to its Paris agent to "leave no stone unturned" loaders. The Khedive of Egypt followed this with changed into a stock company. This was done, devote my life and service to the no- to persuade some popular French newspaper to a large order for war material, and Russia fol- but Bertha Krupp, his daughter, who marned Dr. ¦Then, with his glance riveted, fas- blest man in the world." publish a statement that France inteuded to dou- lowed with contracts for large quantities of new von Behlen und von lialbach, holds all but four cinated, Judge Eaton simply bowed And so new brightness and hope ble her orders for machine guns. The object was weapons. v shares of this company. She is not only Ger- as the woman made a request to camo to the man the world had re- to get the German government to order machine While the Essen works were designed for gen- many’s wealthiest woman, but its wealthiest sub- speak in behalf of her husband. jected, and interest on his part and guns from the Deutsche Munitions und Waffen- eral foundry work, the output forfmany years has Je ; and greatest taxpayer. "Let me plead for him, let me tell gratitude on the part of Florence fabrik. consisted almost entirely of heavy guriß; but it Hence she has been called “the Queen of Es- my story!” she cried. “Guilty or in- Renßtone, grew into a love that united On Tuesday the popular indignation had risen was not until 1846, 20 years after his father's sen,” and ’’Our Lady of the Cannon,” and other nocent, give me the opportunity to them in a marriage radiant and so high that Gen. von Heeriugen’s plea for a sus- death and 36 years after the founding of the firm, romantic names. At the age of eighteen there he is more sinned agatnst show that happy. pension of judgment until his private inquiry had that Alfred Krupp began gunmaking. His first descended upon her the greatest Industrial in- than sinning." (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) done its work was forgotten. The budget commit- results were pieces of small caliber. As he be- heritance the world has yet, known. She was six- attorney the “Object!" cried the for tee of the relchstag voted to appoint a parliamen- came interested in thd science, and as his dis- teen when her father died, and attained her ma- state. tary commission of inquiry into the scandal. This coveries in steel casting developed, the size and jority in 1904. mandatorily from LAST RICH RITES FOR FIDO weight “Overruled,” came commission, however, despite the protests of the of the cannon he was able to construct Essen is a city now of 150,000 population, and Friedrich Krupp established his forge at Essen, It The Krupp field gun is the basis of the mobile this. It is one of the very earliest places in Then, as one in a dream, the judge was his son, Alfred Krupp, who was the real artillery of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Rus- which co-operative stores established. They An extensive obituary notice ap- wore Bat with bent head, his hand gripped founder of the Industry. Friedrich died practical- sia, and Turkey. Under the administration pf have been In existence there for over 50 years. peared In the newspapers of Geneva, to hold steady the nerves that had ly bankrupt in 1826, leaving little more than the Friedrich A. Krupp, Essen turned out the great "Bertha Krupp,” says one writer, “may be the N. Y., recounting the virtues of Fido, hitherto been as iron, disrupted at the secret of his cast-steel process to his son, and it pieces which guard Germany’s fortresses and are ‘queen’ of Essen, but her workmen conduct their of Henry A. Zobrist, a sight of a face he had not seen for the pet dog was 30 years before any striking results were mounted in her coast defenses. Krupp answered own affairs without molestation. She limits her wealthy real estate and capital- eighteen long and bitter years. owner achieved. Krupp from the emplacements of Port Arthur ‘interference’ to gifts of money, by which institu- from paralysis. Mr. was a pitiful story the woman ist. Fido died It was in 1810 that Friedrich Krupp purchased against the siege batteries of Japan. And Bide tions of mutual good to the workmen may be It called a specialist from New told, of a reckless man with a loyal, Zobrist a small forge in Essen, where he devoted himself by side with the instruments of war Essen placed established.” York and paid S3OO to have the dog illustrating patient r»ife. He had been deceived to the problem of manufacturing cast steel, but a thousand and one. steel products, From the three men whom Krupp treated, but Fido took a relapse and Krupp’s first good Friedrich by bad companions. In the midst of though the article was put on the market by him Alfred and chief maxim: "No employed, the 122 whom Alfred Krupp had In his straightway departed this life. steel without good iron,” used today’s ma- poverty temptation had come. Look in 1813 it commanded but little sale, and the firm in tools, employ 20 years after he took charge, the force Mr.’ Zobrist had provided $20,000 in chinery, railroads, and Bhips. at consumptive, a physical was anything but prosperous. He employed only working for the Krupps had grown to 50,000 at him—a will for Fido. and had ofTered an wreck. doctors, she Bald, had his three workmen. Krupp ordnance has roared all over the world. the death of Friedrich A. Krupp in 1902. The The of $3,000 a year to the given him up to die, his span of life endowment Alfred Krupp was born April 26, 1812, and at Some of the gunß that fired at Dewey’s squadron establishment now comprises 60,000 workmen and Sand Hill Cemetery corporation for was limited. The vivid eloquence of the time of his father’s death was only fourteen at Manila came from Essen The siege guns used 6,760 engineers and clerks. permission to bury the dog in the old. His mother carried on the works until in the war and use the this faithful helpmeet brought tears years Franco-German in at The workß comprise five separate groups, the person in graveyard. Alfred reached his majority, so that twice in the bombardment of Paris w'ere from this factory, to the eyes of nearly every expensive first of which is the Essen Steel works, with prov- Fido lay in state in an history of the works have they been managed by and the Parisians’ terror of them was not dimin- the courtroom. dog ing grounds at Meppen, Tanger-Hutte, and EBBen. banked with flowers. The women. The present head of the industry is ished by the memory of one of the Krupp master- As in a daze the judge listened to coffin This group includes the with clothed in a robe which had been Bertha Krupp. the granddaughter of the woman pieces which had been exhibited in their city in Milhofener-Hutte. arguments followed. As in was its four blast furnaces; the with the that bought for him as a Christmas gift. who became its manager in 1826. 1867. It weighed 16,000 kilograms, and made away Herman-Hutte. a dream he went back in his life three blast furnaces, and the Sayner-Hutte, with An conducted the burial The Krupps had so little money that Alfred, on with SBOO worth of powder and iron every time it years. The only woman In undertaker coal and iron mines. twenty ceremonies, and several of Mr. Zo- his father's death, was compelled to leave school was fired. After that war the Krupps refused to whom he had ever been Interested the funeral. The second group is the Friedrich-Alfred Iron her brist’s friends attended to assist his mother. He displayed a phenomenal make cannon for France. n this woman. He had known of ground works in Rheinhausen; the third, the Annen Steel was The grave is in a plot aptitude for the foundry business, and the works As the business grew collateral Industries were Danvers. He worshiped her works; the fourth, the Gruson Machine works, at »t as Lucile which Mr. Zobrist bought and dedicat- developed with increasing rapidity after his In- developed, and Essen, which had been a tiny vil- had married Ren- Magdeburg-Buckau, and the fifth, the Germania r- at a distance. She a dog fluence was felt in their management. By 1848 lage, expanded a town of over 100,000 inhabi- never forgotten. ed as cemeter>. to shipyards, at Kiel, stone—he had the Arm had expanded so that 122 workmen were tants, all dependent on the Krupp Industries. Coal plight she The Essen Steel And now, in her forlorn Dickens in Australia. employed. mines, coke ovens, iron mines, steamships, rail- works alone comprise some as wife o had revealed herself the when a Scotsman As late as 1848, the year in which his mother were bought. 1872 sixty-odd departments, covering an area of about judge ha It is said that roads, and blast /urnaces In the man name the his homo relinquished the sole management of the works diggings, 600 acres, and housing 7,200 machine tools, 17 whose leaves old Scotia to make Alfred Krupp owned 414 iron ore and forgotten. solaces his ex- hands, he melted the family plate to pay roll trains, 187 hammers, 81 hydraulic presses, ' almost land he Into his when his son Friedrich died he owned over 500. loveless la some other 397 steam and 569 it It seemed that practical, of Robert Burns his workmen. Today the mighty industry fur- Upon Alfred’s death, July 1 4, 1887, Friedrich A. boilers, steam engines, more that sin- ile with the book 2,200 yearn crumble like putty at the Scot abroad nishes employment to a majority of the workmen Krupp became the head of the establishment. It than electric motors, and 900 cranes. o poems, and that gle appealing glance from the e>es better versed in of three cities and a dozen coal and Iron mining has been said of him that he devoted himself to Almost in the center of the PJssen works stands chang comes to bo even worn, weary woman, bo peasant poet than towns. The ships built from it, equipped with the financial rather than the technical side of the the original Krupp factory and a family house, the had the rhymes of the lovely, artless girl who at home. its steel, and armed with its cannon, are on all business, but in 1902, at the annual meeting in maintained intact, in accordance with the direc- from the the Scot who has remained he loved her. the seas, and wherever steel used the name of tions of Alfred Krupp. It bears this viever known that has been remarked that same the London of the Iron and Steel institute, the Besse- Inscription: any blame to her, It and The capital the firm now is had never attached as regards the Englishman Krupp is known. of mer gold medal for scientific research was award- “Fifty years ago this cottage was the home of the word th is true act- $60,000,000. for he had never spoken Dickens. W. M. Hughes, about ed to him. This is one of the highest honors that my parents. May none of our workmen have to now h Charles gocn It was In 1847 that Krupp Bcored his first real can be paid any man the iron trade. It was go through might have won her. And prime minister of Australia, to in the struggle which the building up of stake, ing that he made a three-pounder muzzle- iife’s happiness was at than this and asserts success, when given to him for his discoveries in the manufac- these works has cost us. The success which now arraigned the further loading gun of steel. At the great following low—the great judge an Important Influence cast London ture of armor plate. The son was thus so splendidly has rewarded our faith, our anxiety, bad through flawless iollow, lonely life he led, am Srten. democracy, and exhibition of 1851 he exhibited a 'solid In the footsteps of his father. and our efforts, was doubtful during twenty-five on Australian cast steel weighing two tons, thus estab- years. sided. read him and loved him. ingot of Both Alfred and Friedrich A. Krupp declined long faces of th< 1 “to ot .bom. lishing the fact that an important firm existed in titles. One was offered to the father by King “Let this example serve Conviction was in the .ho Imbibed bl. hotrod aB an encouragement that of the attor Zl rent Germany capable of turning out samples of excel- William, afterward Emperor William 1., in 1864, to others in difficulties. May it •jurymen, triumph in and humbupa. abn wanted increase the re- prisoner sat some oth r lent workmanship. Thw Essen works were every- and William’s son, the present emperor, renewed spect for the many small great ley for the state. The conditions, to have houses and the un better workhouse, spoken of, and the output watched with the offer to Krupp’s Bon. Neither would accept. despair in his to than the where sorrows which often dwell in them. white and shrunken, nlsce to look The manufacture of weldless eloquence of his what Is today. the closest interest. At the time of his death he was by far the rich- ‘‘The object of work must be mutual welfare: lappy eyes. The bad made Australia railway dissipated under it* steel tires for vehicles was another in- est nian in Germany, and was called “the German the work is blessed, then work is prayer. May wife’s appeal had followed soon , vention which after. Morgan." The Imperial income tax returns all, by the ro from the highest to the lowest amongst us* -seen dissection ' ‘v ‘ Adam smith s». The making of heavy ordnance, which has made showed that in the year before his death he had work charge of theJ’ judge ? with the same earnestness to found and Then came the the of these works famous the world over, a yearly income of between 20,090,000 marks ($4,- hi* Of the multiplication name secure own future success. That’s my great- jury. . « auu the , th <-«Xdmight bare rela- was not than a prominent part of the business. 760,000) and 21,000,000 marks. The second est wish. friends K tbe In consternation - One of the first large orders he got for firearms wealthiest mair in the empire bad an income of "Essen, February, 1873, twenty-five years his charge; . aftef judge listened to ££ 2&» came four years after the London exhibition, when only 6,000,000 marks. tuy assuming charge. appa < ALFRED KRUPP."

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