The Alaska citizen., 1914-05-11


 become the city magistrate of Fair banks. He was Albert J. Pauli. Mr Pauli has long since become an American. and the exciting incidents in his native city during the trying war times form but one page in his book of memory.
 The most of Mr Paulis active life has been spent under the Stars and Stripes, and on American soil he Eas reared family of children of whom he is more proud than he would be of the title of President of the Republic of France.
 Mir Pauh was born in Paris iu 185S, where he lived until 1877, when he departed for the United states. At the time Of the Franco Prussian War he was a school boy in his native city, and his story of the horrors of that war as felt by tte residents of the city. is intensely interesting.
 When the bombardment of the city began, the people were forced to seek safety in cellars, where they had to live imprisoned for some time. The worst part of the af- fair was the shortage of food that finally resulted The people were forced to eat kind of black bread which was not really bread as We know it. but combination of al- most everything that was obtain able, including sawdust This was eaten with horsemeat Finally an armisticc was agreed upon, and the people of Paris were permitted to go beyond the city for food
 From Paris Mr Paul went direct ly to Menominee. Michigan, where he soon became an active part Of the community For a long time. business was good and the city was prosperous. Mr Pauli prosper cd with the city, He was for long time a bank director and for four years he was county treasurer. Then there came a lull in business and Menominee lost its vitality. So Ar PauIi and his family. in 1900 went west to Aberdeen, Washing- ton. where he entered the real oe- tate business and later became in terested in a salmon oannery In 1904 he went 10 Seattle and enter ed into the salmon cannery busi- ness there. Here he met reyerses md lost his property
 At that time there came 10 Seat tle wonderful stories of Alaska. and the opportunities the Territory pos sessed. and as his business had dis appeared Mr Pauli concluded to come to the new town of Fairbanks and grow up with the country. He pictured Fairbanks as a small min. ing camp, with but a few houses where there were more good jobs than there were men to fill them.
 Coming in by way of Skagway Dawson and the Yukon river, the towns passed en route proved to be of a more or less primitive na- ture and II was with some sur prise that the Pauli family arriv- ed in Fairbanks. on July ,, 1906 10 find this was quite modem little city, important in many ways, including the prices of food.
 The trip had been expensive, and the family purse was getting thin when Mr. and Mrs. Pauli and their four children walked up First ave nue in search of a restaurant. One neal at the restaurant proved to them that they could not live long on the funds they possessed, unless strict economy were practiced. At one dollar meal for each of the family, the little fund would have disappeared like a snowball in mid summer. So they purchased couple of tents that day and started to camp out. After getting the tents up it was found that floors would be necessary, but then they were shocked to learn that they would have to pay at the rate of $1OO a thousand feet for lumber and how to meet this new expense was a serious problem.
 At that time the city was crowd ed with people. and houses were hard to get, but on the second day after arriving here they found a small shack that they obtained at a nominal rental, and though 1t proved small for the family, they managed to make it do.
 But things were looking quite blue, for there was no promise of employment, and it seemed that ii would be but short time until ttey must be in want. The morning of the Fourth of July proved to be blue one for the Pauli family, but MT. and Mrs. Pauli concluded later in the day to go to see the cele-