New Britain herald., 1926-04-19
ABILITY AS COOK
 RESULTS IN FAME
Many Visitors From State Visit
 Alaskan Culinary Expert

Skagway, Alaska, April 19 Hp-- Many tourists from the States know Mrs. Harriet Pullen of the famous Pullen House, which is 1500 miles as plane flies from ketchikan, at the southeastern tip of Alaska to. Nome, out to the northwest on Der ing Sea.
 All over the world, wherever ling. CT those madmen and others who came rushing to Alaska and the Klondike--- to the eastward, in Can ada--for gold in 1898 and 1899, Mrs. Pullen is loved.
 A handful of women became fa- nous because they swere able to stand beside the sprinkling of men in the uncounted myriad of gold rushers who were hard enough to conquer the north--and of all that bright company the men of the Golden North count Mrs. Pullen the 1 brightest
 Young. comedy, strong Harriet Pullcn was a daughter of q ranchor on Puget Souna in Washington stato She came to Alaska in 1898 with her | four children to go with her husband over the Chilkoot Trail or the equal ! ly terrible White Pass Trail into tho Klondike for gold.
 She lost her husband. Camped on 1 the beach here she had seven dol lars-and four little children.
 The rush was never so mad that men did not eat. and the mother with the four children and seven dollars went to cooking. She cooked so well and withal was so kind and l helpful that those thousands passing l Trail or through Dyea, four miles i from Skagway, and up the Chilkoot Trail called her the Mother of the North. She. prospered and bought out old Cap Moore's boarding house in Skagway.
 The boarding house she developed into pullon House, a twenty-room modern hotel, standing in a land- sCapc garden of several acres split by mountain stream with an is- land and rustic bridges, Canadians opening up their country came with a railroad over White Pass--the White Horse and Yukon.
 The railroad still runs, and Mrs Pullen still prospers because the Whitc-handod Children of the Out. side come taking this fast route to see the sights of the north. Pullor House is reputed to have entertained more distinguished guests than any other hostclry in the north. ...
 Mrs. Pullcn's oldest son was Dan He attended the University of Washington, which tIcn had a pre-. paratorv school, five years. President Rooayvnlt gave him the first appoint ment from Alaska 10 West Point. He became all-Amorican tackle, ant cradratnd among the first five cadets in his class,
 Into inc World war he went as . colonel of engineers. He was press cd into service as q tank command pr. W IT VI HIS Ntlid'il tii 'b thilNN Il' took q German position, hut in fantry following him failed 10 con eolidoto, To hold the position, Fnll"r hastoncd back afoot, reformed tn infantry, led them back and rctoo' the position. Fn died of slcorin sickness. attributed to war service two years ago.
 Royal Tullen graduated from th' university of Washington, playiri guard. and was an officer in in World war. Both brothers wer jci'cd for Eallantry and Genera 'Pcrshirs once exclaimed: "I wish had a regiment Of Pullens."
 Mildred Pullcn graduated at nurses school in New York city Chester Pullcn. student at th' University of Washington, wa drowned at Ke'chikan on his wa hack to the states after a summer q home