Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — FACES MANY PERILS [ARTICLE]

FACES MANY PERILS

German Youth, Fleeing War, Has Exciting Time. Adalbert Krause Reaches Texas After Eacaplog- Death at Sea and in Mexico—Gets $3 for Bale of Villa Money. Fort Worth, Tex.—When Adalbert Wiause, eighteen years old, a German youth, left Berlin just before the ■tart of the war, hoping to reach the United States and thus escape military service, he little dreamed of the exciting events he would experience before he attained his goal. Krause is industrially, not militarily,. Inclined, but before reaching this country he faced starvation, was pursued by German officers, was beaten by sailors, nearly shipwrecked, escaped from a ship at Tampico and was attacked and robbed by Mexicans. But Krause never lost hope and finally reached El Paso, a town he never had heard of in Germany, and only a few days ago arrived in Fort Worth, where he wants to become a captain of industry and a naturalized American citizen. _—. ' When Krause left his home in Berlin he first went to Hamburg, where he played hide and seek with the police and other officers and between times tried to get work. Despite rigid economy Krause soon was reduced to eight cents, and he was getting desperate when he obtained a position as mess boy on board a HamburgAmerican line vessel. This ship first took him to Spanish ports and later to T& m P ico > Mex. 0n tke way the vessel encountered severe storms and the crew prepared to abandon the ship. Krause thought his end had come, but the ship weathered the gale. Then the seamen began to treat Krause roughly, sometimes beating him. One night, when the vessel was at Tampico, Krause bade farewell to the ship. He could speak no Spanish, ahd having little funds he met difficulties wherever he turned. -Finally he got work at San Luis Potosi in an oil p|ant, where he could not understand the indifferent and lazy customs of the Mexican laborers. Once he went to learn why some peons failed to bring him water for his boiler from a nearby river. He found the peons sitting on the bank smoking cigarettes in good old leisurely Mexican style. The sight stirred his Teutonic blood and there was a fight. Krause fought with his fists, and being lithe and muscular was getting the better of the argument

when other peons ran up with drawn knives. Krause fled to his engine house, the Mexicans in pursuit. When he bolted the door they tried to break it down. Krause poked a revolver out of a window and threatened to Are if they did not “rausm.it,” which the peons did. But San Luis Potosi is far'from the United States, and so Krause began to work his way toward Juarez, a dangerous, difficult tripr Part of the way Krause went on horseback, bht a soldier took the animal from him and he traveled the rest of the distance on foot. The German youth was delighted when he arrived at Juarez with 160 pesos in Villa currency. This made a big, eye-pleasing wad, and Krause with it. He crossed to El Paso and exchanged it for $3 in American money, which quite took his breath away.