Iditarod pioneer., 1917-03-17
IMAGINATIVE YOUNG GIRL ACQUIRES FAME IN GOTHAM
 BUT DREAM IS SHATTERED

From miners cabin in the eternal snow wastes of the Koyukuk, m Northern Alaska. to the United States to live in reality among the wonders of a civilization of which gnarled miners told her glamorouS tales in her childhood, is the story concerning Louise Sachen, t9 years old, who has just arrived in New York after SIX weeks trip by dog sled steamship and train, and there she is now, eager to see the high buildings, the wonderful shows" and the marVels which she has heard are to be found In America
 The above is a sample of the stories ap bearing in New York and other Eastern newspapers, accompanied by pictures of the heroine, relative to young glrl who has been much the public eye. She told the New York reporters yarns of the North of the kind they wished to hear, and they made "copy" out of her. The lstores were given such wide publicity that they at tracted the attention of her father in Kan sas City, and he was unromantic enough to shatter her glory by telling the simple truth about her really commonplace career. A New York dispatch of January 30 tells about the curious escapade of the girl as follows:
 Louise Sachen confessed last night that she had bent the truth little here and there in the 30,000 or 10000 words she has told New York in the last week about how Broadway reacted on a mind which had previously received impressions only of the majestic scenery and the primitive human types of the far North and of few ham lets of the hinterand through which she passed on her way from Juneau to New York
 Instead of having lived since childhood among rough but open hearted characters 'n bearskins in the much filmed wild places of Alaska, Louise admitted last night that her impressions of New York were based on the solid background of sixteen years of Kansas City observation and experience. The right way to look at her, she explained yesterday, was as an ordinary Kansas City girl polished by three years of life in Alaska.
 But if what l had to say about New York was good she esked, what did 1t matter if had lived in Kansas City,?
 Had Been in Alaska
 "Louise left her family in Kansas City because she did not like them, and went to Alaska for three years. She returned to Kansas City last year, found she still did not like it, and bolted for New York She wanted to disconnect herself from Kansas City, which she did not like, and to identify herself with Alaska which she did like, so she altered her history slightly when she came here As she added to this little fiction in order to explain it, under the cross examination of interviewers, she built up the gigantic and minutely- finished tale which has filled several New York papers for eight days.
 "The most interesting part of it is how she stumbled into fame. There IS plenty of proof that she did not anticipate the blaze of glory with which she was received. A person who, intending to set of a fire cracker, touched a match to a New Jersey munitions works. could not have been much more surprised than she was to find herself competing with Thomas Lawson and Rae Tanzer for place on front pages.
 Press Agents Pounced on Her
 When she came to this city on Friday before last with S120 and a fair wardrobe she told the hotel clerk she had lived all her life in Alaska and had never seen a real city before The hotel press agent was calling up hotel reporters a few minutes later, but it was busy day and no one paid any attention to the tip. Sunday was dull day, and somebody remembered about the girl from Alaska. She was still at the hotel and ready to be interviewed.
 There was plenty of novelty in her Mid dle Western viewpoint. Her criticism of subways, lap dogs rouging and penclllng, French cooking, theaters, New York men looks, New York women's clothes and Broadway lights were as quaint as if they came from white Eskimo or man from Mars She had plenty of mental energy, and, with expert help, produced brilliant contrasts of crude but true-hearted love making in the Arctic with artificial but thrilling wooing in large city, extempore treetises on the double standard of morals, beauty and health hints, advice on curing blighted affections by retreating to vastness and solitude.
 Figured in the Movies"
 "She was photographed innumerable times She was filmed as a current event for Broadway theater. She was invited to address the University Forum in the Washington Irving high school, Temple Uni versity, Philadelphia and other gatherings of intellectuals. She got an offer of $50 a week to go Into the HloFlts. ieo'eluuS, while she mourned because her father had spoiled everything by revealing the secret of her life in Kensas City, she pointed out stack of letters from all parts of the East and as far south as Chattanooga where an enterprising patent medicine manufacturer named Colson entreated her to take the agency for Colson's Baby Honey in Alaska. "pop Spilled the Beans"
 "'Oh, Pop certainly spilled the beans,' she mourned. He certainly did spill the beans all right. I wrote him to say that l died at the age of ? years if anybody asked him.
 Why, I was planning to wind chain of nuggets around the old man. was I.ong to bring him on as the old miner that I said was my dad I would have got $S5O week if he had kept quiet. That's