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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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e, connecting with it manybranches, extending its benefits to all partsof the town and to the colonies he hasbuilt for his w^orkmen in the neighbor-hood. Of these stores and of the coloniesmore must be said presently. Althoughrumors have gone through the world ofthe vast extent of these works, it is difficultfrom mere printed statistics to estimatethe impressiveness of this great industrialcentre until one has looked upon it fromsome height, and attempted to wanderthrough and around it. To the general world the name Krupphas almost ceased to be personal; it signi-fies a particular implement of destruction.That it should be combined with All-friede, ancient Teutonic title for the god-man, the bringer of peace, seems whateven a hater of puns might call the ironyof history. On my way from Cologne Iread an account of a trial for murder go-ing on in Essen. It Avas plain that thismurder had produced a profound andpainful sensation in that citj and dis-trict. Such dismay at one violent death
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A KKUPP GUN ON A NAVAL CARRIAGE. 498 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. seemed somewhat droll among a peopleengaged in sending out death-dealing in-struments into every part of the world,but it required only a brief acquaintancewith Essen to perceive that the new Al-fried has brought it as much peace and or-der as the old saint ever did, and thatcrimes of violence are indeed rare enoughto be startling. Moreover, the reputationof the Krupp guns is rather misleading.Two-thirds of the work here are devotedto things belonging to the arts of peace—all the parts of steam-engines, locomo-tives, iron axles, bridges, rails, wheels,tires, switches, springs, shafts for steamers,mint dies, rudders, and parts of all varie-ties of iron machinery, are prepared herefor manufacturers. That is, they are notcombined here: all the iron parts of a lo-comotive may be obtained here, but not alocomotive, although nearly all of thelocomotives and engines used in the worksare made in them. Both Brahma andSiva are

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