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* GREAT KRUPP WORKS. The Essen Chamber of Commerce a few days ago issued a report dealing with the present condition of the famous Krupp works which became a joint stock company on June 30. At the present time the establishments owned by the company comprise the steel works at Essen with a firing ground at Meppen; the Krupp Steel Works, formerly F. Asthower & Co. at Annen in Westphalia; the Gruson Works at Buchau, near Magdeburg; the German Ship Building Yard at Kiel; four blast furnaces near Duisburg,' Neuwied, Engers and Rheinhausen. The works at Rheinhausen comprise eight blast furnaces, the production of which, according to the nature of the iron treated, amounts in twenty-four hours to 180 to 230 tons per furnace; a smelting works néar Sayn with machine works and iron foundry; three coal mines, those of Hanover, Hannibal, Salzer and Nauack; and a large number of iron ore mines in Germany, including ten deep-level mines fitted with a complete machine equipment. Moreover the firm of Fried. Krupp has a share in iron ore mines near Bilbao in Northern Spain and it is interested also in a steamship company at Rotterdam. The principal productions of the steel works at Essen are big guns--of which 39,876 had been turned out up to Jan. 1, 1902 - --projectiles, fuses, gun-barrels, armor plates in rolled plates and armor plates* for all the protected portions of warships and also for use in fortifications, railway material, ship building material, machine parts of every kind, steel and iron plates, cylinders, steel for making tools, hard steel, special steel, steel bars, and the. like. In the sixty departments of the cast steel works in activity in 1901, there were in use about 5,300 machine tools and engines, twenty-two rolling machines, 141 steam hammers of 100 to 50,- 000 kilos. and of a total power of 242,775 kilos., sixty-three hy- draulic presses, including two bending presses 'of 7,000 tons and one forging press of 2,000 tons power; 323 vertical boilers; 513 steam engines varying from 2 to 3,500 H. P., and of a total of 43,- | 848 H. P.; 360 electric motors, and 591 cranes, varying in their carrying capacity from 400 to 150,000 kilos., and of a total car- rying capacity of 6,327,900 kilos. During 1902 the total daily average of iron ore taken from the Krupp iron mines amounted to about 1,782 tons, and the total amount of coal raised in 1902 was 1,643,570 tons. The total con- sumption of fuel by the Krupp works, so far as they were sup- plied by the steel works, amounted in 1902 to 843,494 tons of coal, of which 659,121 tons were used by the steel works alone, to 369,201 tons of coke, and to 6,630 tons of briquettes. Reckon- ing the coke and briquettes as coal, the total consumption of fuel by the Krupp works, supplied by Essen, was 1,367,005 tons. The yearly consumption i amount. consumed in Cologne. A newly-built waterworks was taken over early this year, and it will be able to supply soon 1o,- 800 cubic meters of water daily. The gas works at Essen sup- plied in 1902 18,643,500 cubic meters of lighting gas for 2,535 street lamps; in 1902 the consumption of gas by the town of Dussel- dorf amounted to 18,358,200 cubic meters; while that of Breslau was 22,045,500 cubic meters. Moreover, 40,553 gas lights were 'used in the workshops, offices, workmen's houses, and for tech-._ nical putposes, etc. By virtue of its production the gas works of the Krupp steel works ranks ninth among the gas works of the German empire. The electricity department at Essen comprises three engine | Thirty-nine kiloms. | houses with seven departmental stations. of underground cables and 42 kiloms. of cable above ground feed 1,325 arc lamps, 10,580 incandescent lamps and 434 electro-mo- tors. he electricity supplied in 1902 amounted to. 7,004,939 kil- owatt-hours; in 1901 the supply of kilowatt-hours of electricity to Frankfurt-on-Main was 13,600,909, and 3,792,052 in the case of Dusseldorf. : _ For purposes of internal communication and also with the outside world the Essen steel works are served, in addition to other means, by a normal-gauge railway system in direct com- munication with the three stations of the state railway at Essen, the Essen railway station, Essen-Nord and Bergeborbeck; at this moment communication between the steel works and these three railway stations is kept up by about fifty trains a day. The nor- mal-gauge railway has a track of about 65 kiloms. in length, six- teen tender locomotives and 714 cars; moreover, there is a small- gauge railway system with a track of about 48 kiloms. in length, twenty-seven locomotives, and 1,209 cars. _ the telegraph system in the works at Essen has thirty-one stations. During 1902 the telegraphic intercourse between the imperial telegraphic office at Essen and the works amounted to 22,585 messages received and despatched. The telephone system has 399 stations with 407 telephones, and 375 kiloms. of line. _ The firing ground at Meppen is 25 kiloms. long and 4 kiloms. in width. In 1902 there were carried out at this ground 1,002 trials of guns. At the range in the steel works itself there were fired in 1902 in round numbers 13,000 shots, partly for purposes of experiment and partly for testing guns which were ready for delivery. At both ranges 25,200 shots were fired in 1902, and there were used 56,000 kilos. of smokeless powder and 421,000 kilos. of projectiles. _. The total amount of money contributed by the Krupp firm i 1901 in the shape of insurance, aids to saving, and relief of the sick and needy was 3,065,704 marks, or $743,432.25. ~ According to the census of April 1, 1903, the total number of persons employed in the Krupp works amounted to 41,013, of whom 4,046 'were officials. This number was distributed as. fol- laws: At Essen, 22,970; in the Gruson works near Buchan, gOS): MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. of 'water is nearly equal to the. [Aug. 29, in the Germania Ship Building Yard at Kiel, 3, 062; in the coal mines, 6,620; and at the iron mines and. at Meppen, etc, 5,710. From time to time a census of all the families connected with the various Krupp works is taken. The census taken from May 14 to May 19, 1900, showed that the total number of employes, with their wives and children, amounted then to 147,645 persons. . The average daily wage per head in 1900 was M.4 52 pfg,, of $1.12%; in 1899 the average rate of wage was M.4 63 pfg., or $1.14%4. A detailed review of the rise in wages since 1853 is fol. lowed by an interesting statement concerning the average selling price of the most important articles of food in the Krupp works from 1890 to 1902. A comparison of both reviews shows that while the daily rate of wage rose continually until 1900, the price of food increased only slightly, and that for the most part the prices remained stationary, or even fell. After the experience of the last twenty years, it is pointed out that the reduction which has taken place in wages since 1900 may soon be made good if a favorable opportunity presents itself. Seeing that the Krupp firm is now the largest industrial undertaking in Germany, the German press expresses the hope that the management will not limit itself only to general matters in its future reports, but that it will, far as its business interests may permit, go into details, AN ENGLISH BULL. » The fact that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's name does not appear among the signatures to the agreement between the British goy- ernment and the International Mercantile Marine Co. causes' a London correspondent to write the following: "The modesty of J. Pierpont Morgan is unenviable. The agreement in question winds up with a magnificent. display of. some twelve or fourteen signatures, and names every one who is anyone in the great trust. Nowhere is the name of J. Pier- pont Morgan. The hand is the hand of Bruce Ismay, Henry Willing, David Richards and Charles F. Torrey, but the voice is--dash the voice--we know without the obvious -signature," A distinguished surgeon in Trinity college, Dublin, in describ- ing the smallness of microbes to his students, said: 'You can put a handful of them:on the point of a needle." But this latest bull does not appear in an Irish paper, but in the Manchester Guardian. - Turbine-driven vessels seem: to be quite the rage. The Bel- gian government has decided to have one for the Dover-Ostend service. She is to do the trip in 2 hours and 22 minutes.. Of the four fast steamers that the Midland railway has lately. ordered for its Belfast service two are to be fitted with Parsons. turbines. They are intended to be safe, comfortable and_ fast. . They will be 330 ft. long, 42 it. beam and 17% ft. deep. Denny' & Bros., Dumbarton, will build one and Vickers Sons & Maxim will build the other. Of course the Parsons Steam Turbine Co. will supply the engines. With the exception of building four warships for the Swedish government and a few steamers and sailing vessels--none of "any size--the work of the ship building yards of the Gothen-~ burg district was chiefly limited during 1902 to repairs. Proposals for Marine Postal Service Sealed proposals will be received at the Post Ottice at Detroit, Michiga", until 12:00 o'clock noon, Septem- ber 10th, 1903, for the service of a steam! oat and crew, fully equiped and mann+d, tor the Marine Postal Delivery Service on the I'etroit River, fora period of ten years. Full specifications may be seen upon ap- plication to the Postmaster at D+ troit, Michigan. Bids must be accompanied by certified check for $1,000. . Right to seject any ad all proposals is reserved. . Address JAS. J. LARMOUR, Post Office Inspector, 'Proposals for Marine Service,"' Detroit, Mich. 9-3 Steamer for Sale. Steamer "Huntress," 110 ft. long, draws 6 ft. Will make 11 miles'an hour all day. Allowed 210 passengers. Built in 1880. Has . always been in private use and is in the best possible condition. Cost $ 8,000 to build. Will be out of commission Sept. 7th. Ad- rdess Smith, Davis & Co , 200 Main St 9-10 'Seaboard Steel Castings' | A Guarantee of Quality. Open Hearth Steel Castings of the Highest Grade for Locomotive, General Machinery and Shipbuild- ing Work, Subject to U. S. Government, Lloyds, Railroad and Other Highest Requirements. Seaboard Steel Casting Co., Chester, Pa.