KRUPP-TOWN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 September 1907, Page 4

KRUPP-TOWN.

INDUSTRIAL COLONY. Berlin, July 18. The report of the Essen Chamber of Commerce for I'JOO contains some interesting details of the various figures connected with the great Krupp works. The total production (exclusive of private use) from the firm's owu pits was 2,201,272 tons of coal, 751,810 tons of coke, and 23,581 tons of brickets. The total number of employes was 04,354, ! including several otlieials, an increase during the year of nearly 2000. The workmen are settled in 4091 dwellings belonging to the firm, which also owns the following buildings provided for the use of the employes: One hospital, two lazarettes for epidemic diseases, one convalescent home (to be increased to three during l!K)7), one institute for medicinal baths, three almshouses, one workmen's menage with lodgings for 1170 persons and kitchen for feeding about 3000 persons daily, six restaurants, two lodging houses" for about thirty unmarried technical workmen, schools of domestic economy, of technical industry for adults and for girls, one library, one reading room, a savings bank, a dental hospital, etc. The firm paid in old age, accident, and other insurance premiums for its employees a sum of nearly £400,000.