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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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a literary purpose.Such a thing has never occurred before,At the close of our first days inspectionthis gentleman recurred to the subject,remarking: You can now readily under-stand why we can not admit visitors. Itis commonly supposed that it is becausewe have secrets; but it would be easy toreserve any processes we might desire toconceal, while opening the works general-ly to inspection, were there no other ob-jection. The real rieason is that our workis of a very responsible kind, most of it ofa fine kind, requiring minute and constantattention from every workman. Someof these men are dealing with delicateweights and measures, the thousandthpart of an inch or grain; it is everywherehead-work and hand-work combined withmachinery; any interruption might causea mistake, a flaw, and who can say withAvliat consequences ? I was conductedthrough each department by its manager,in each case a gentleman of culture, andable to speak fair English. Every day Imet a company of these managers and
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500 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. men of science at dinner, and shall neverforg-et their large hospitality. I may heremention that my request to visit the workswas conveyed by my friend Mr. Kasson,then United States Minister at Berlin.Mr. Krupp replied that although such aconcession had not been made before, suchwas his respect for his Excellency that itwould for once be allowed. It was notgTudgingly tliat I was admitted, )ior withreserve that I Avas treated, but with frank-ness as to explanations, and even with thepainstaking illustrations necessary for oneunfamiliar with gun-making. I once visited the Cyfarthfa Iron-Worksin South Wales in company w^ith Emer-son, who, after gazing upon the luridscene, said, Surely Milton must havedrawn his pandemonium from some suchplace. In these vast and w^eird halls atEssen all the Infernos ever imagined byman—save Shakespeares thrilling re-gion .of thick-ribbed ice—seem collectedand seething together. Fiery Phlegethondarts its flood past ever

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