Krupp
ALFRED, a German metal founder and steel gun manufacturer; born in Essen, Prussia, in 1812. His father founded the manufactory. The manufactory had grown to large proportions before the elder Krupp's son, Alfred. discovered the method of casting steel in very large masses. His fame steel in very large masses.
His fame was made by the production of the enormous steel siege guns with which the Germans did such terrible execution when they invested Paris. Krupp made his first cannon in 1846. In 1864 he declined to accept the letters of nobility offered to him by the King of Prussia.
He was one of the wealthiest men in Germany, and did much for the welfare of his numerous employes. Some of Krupp's processes in the manufacture of steel and the making of cannon were very carefully kept from the knowledge of the outside world. None but employees were admitted to his foundries. The commission appointed by the United States Government to study the question of cannon foundries and armaments tried in vain to get Krupp's permission to enter his works. He died July 1 14, 1887.
The Krupp works supplied most of the guns for and during the World War which the Germans used so effectively .
Here the great guns, with a range of 75 miles, were made that bombarded Paris.
KRUSHEVATZ. a town in Serbia, 90 miles S. E. of Belgrade. During the Austro-German invasion of 1915 the town formed with Kraljevo, Alexsinatz and Nish, the main line of defense of the Serbian army. In October of that year it was taken by the enemy. Pop. about 7,500.
JULIUS, an KRUTTSCHNITT.
American railway official; born in New Orleans in 1854. He studied engineering at Washington and Lee University years he entered railway work as construction engineer. He rose rapidly to various positions, becoming in 1885 assistant general manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific railroad. Four years later he was appointed general manager of that system, and from 1895 to 1904 was general manager of the Southern Pacific railroad. He was also an official of other roads connected with that line. On his retirement as president, he became chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific Co. He was considered one of the most capable railroad operators in the United States.