Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
CIVIL WAR DAYS
INMEX|CO TOLD
BY JERSEY FOLK
Newark Engineer, Former En-
plOyer of General Villa, Had
to Abandon Work.
PATERSON MAN AND
HIS BRIDE REFUGEES
Engineer Fuller Made 15o-MiIe
Trip overland-Some High
Prices for Food.

Because of the revolutionary trouh-
les in Mexico several residents OF
this State have been forced to leave
that country. The number includes
William Me6auley. OF 1913 Garrison
street, this city. He is a civil engi-
neer and has been employed on power
dam construction work.
Other New Jersey refugees were
| Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Fuller. of 664
! East Twenty y-ninth street, Paterson.
Both Mr.. McCauley and the Fullers
! had thrilling experiences. They en-
countered many dangers and were
! glad to get back into the United
/ States.
! Mr. Fuller also is civil engineer.
and like Mr. McCauley was a dam
builder. He and his wife, a bride of
few months were forced to make
+ the return on mule back and in
| wagons
/ Mr.. McCauley was engaged as an
engineer on a 230-foot dam which the
: Mexican Northern Power Company
has been building In the River Con-
chos, near Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua.
The Chihuahua district has been the
scene of much fighting in the recent
revolutions, and several small battles
have been fought during the present
uprising on land owned by the power
company.
The first intimation of trouble was
( at the beginning of the battle of Bo-
quilla, when the American engineers
were startled by a fusillade of bullets
as the revolutionists attacked a party
of federals.
Mr.. McCauley said that the Ameri-
cans and other foreigners were "a
whole lot more afraid of a Mexican
who was shooting at somebody else
than one who was shooting at them"
As result when the fighting started
the foreigners Immediately sought
the most convenient If not comforta-
BILE shelter.
Villa An Ex-Laborer.
Many of the Mexican laborers em-
ployed by American companies In
their River Conchos dam left to Join
one of the armies, usually the rebels.
Pancho villa, now the famous rebel
A lead'r, once worked as a common
laborer under Mr.. McCauley. Gen-
eral Villa and other leaders often
; dined at the American camps.
4 Notwithstanding the depredations
77of-~ the revolutionists construction
work by the American company was
continued for three years. During
this time the two Mexican armies
''conflscated' money, automobiles and
anything else useful Recently the
.
possible and the company was COM
pelled to leave the great dam unfin-
ished.
From his experience In Mexico Mr.
McCauley thinks that the only solu-
ton to the Mexican problem is
through interference by the United
States.
Mexico has no fear or respect for
the United States" he says.
| hn Nafxy a,slxp n
Americans have been forced to leave
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty behind them in Mexico, with lit
tie chance of having it restored to
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Fuller, tbs
Paterson refugees, while in Mexico
made their home in Santa Rosa Liza, a
small town $50 miles south of the
Chihuahua line. Mr.. Fuller was en-
gagged in the construction of three
dams for the Mexican Northern Pow
er Company Toronto. Canada, hrm.
Fifteen-Day Trip.
The couple went to Mexico on their
wedding trip last April and renamed
until Secretary Bryan urged all
Americans in the country to leave.
Mrs Fuller started with party OF
Americans two weeks peiore nsr
husband He joined her later In
Eel Paso, Tex The trip out of the
country was made on mule-baclS ands
in wagons it taking the party nj
! teen days to travel $50 miles. Ihey
went direct from Santa Rosa Liza to
the Texas line, and during the trip
avoided all the towns.
! "Mexico is a lively place to be IN
at this time" said Mrs. Fuller. The
experiences we've had in Mexico are
worth millions of dollars to us, but TO
be real truthful we wouldn't give two
cents to go through them again.
1 "Some folks in America put up
their hands in holy horror when
asked to pay what they consider high
prices for foodstuffs. Mexico is the
place where they get prices.
! Just think" she said, Il paid 500
| Mexican money for O pound of but
ter, and it was five years old at that
The butter there comes from Dem
mark and is put up in tins. on the
outside of which was stamped the
date I wonder how some American
| housekeepers would fancy that price1
"And other foodstuffs are equally
as high she went on. For in
stance, l paid seventy-five cents for
an ordinary sized can of condensed
milk. sixty cents for a pound Of
sugar and 81 for a bottle of pickles
Coffee brings 81 a pound. A ten-cent
jar of jam, incidentally the worst I
ever tasted, cost me $3.50 A tin of
cocoa cost me $1.20.
Lemons are cheap at thirty-t1vs
cents apiece"
High prices don't go with meat,
Mrs. Fuller says. 1t Is one of the
cheap articles of food in the COM
/ try. There is no attempt at dressing
it, though. The beeves. she says are
simply killed and skinned and the
carcasses hung in butcher shops.
lperson will go to a butcher shop and
Indicate the part of the beef desired.
and the butcher will chop OH
chunk from somewhere in the gen
eral direction of the section indi-
Gated.
Beef Is Cheap.
zone day the rebels visited Santa
| Rosa La" said Mrs. Fuller "On the
way to the city they had stolen beeves
and upon entering the city sold them
to all the butchers of the city. Shortly
afterward the Constitutionalists were
routed by the Federalists, who raided
the butcher shops and contiscated the
meat.
a0n another occasion the rebels
raided a flour mill In Santa Rosa Lila.
They took dozens of barrels of flour,
which they sold to the grocers
throughout the city
AFTER all the sales had been made
flour from the grocers. Then, as
though to square things, says Mrs.
Fuller, ''they sold it back to tho firm
the rebels went out and stole the
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