Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-09-22 | Page 21 | Sourdoughs use Pullmans in Alaska

SOURDOUGHS USE PULLMANS IN up Even Native Indian Gives Up Price of Beaver Pelt to Ride in Bed ANCHORAOE. Alaska. Sept. 21 Almost Al-most to the Arctic circle, a vestlbuled Pullman train the fartiest north Pullman In the world!, being operated oper-ated over the f lilted State, government govern-ment railroad from Seward and Anchor- y age, on tha coast to Fairbanks aid rienana. In .the Interior. Operation of the Fullman brings the old Alaska of the gold stampede days In direct touch with a new Alaska In which modern methooa of transportation transporta-tion take the place of the old form of "muehlng" over snow -.rails with dog teams or poling boats on wild rivers. Ho'irdourhs have taken kindly to the T'ullm.ine anil even the native Indian will give up the equivalent of a prime beaver for a chance to climb Into the lerth. When this happens, however, the negro porter is beset with uneasiness uneasi-ness lor an Indian in rlos approxlm-Ity approxlm-Ity often Is art experience the average While man citeB not uemre in repeat. Soma of the old-timers who have not seen sleeping care for twenty yeara find It hard to answer the for-malitlea for-malitlea of Pullman travel. tor Instance, In-stance, some grizzled muiher steps aboard at a way station with hiXutch wcks and boots soaking:--wet. For vars tt has been hia tustom -at the roadhouaes to hajsr his "orki on the stove over night. To satlafy hia pa-trona pa-trona the-rtrr has a little wire hung . over heater In the day coach, where ha. "dries out the pedal adornment of ,the paaaengers. n the trail Is a buffet diner, presided pre-sided over by the veterart J. faeey Mr. Honald. who has packed his blanket from the Klo Orsnde to the Yukon. At eating time the row of stools Is always f .lied and before each place a menu announces ths following dishes and I-rlcee: Cantaloupe, 0c. apple aAiira. stewed prunei. ,25c. grape fruit, SRc, egga boiled, shirred or fried. 7Sc: bacon ba-con and egga. corned- beef hanh with poac h ed ea g. 91 .00 ; break fast bacon, $1.0: toast,. 20c: coffee, Yc . s bottle of milk. 2ic; roast pork. l.s; r end moose, mountain sheep, or caribou, IL-0. At first a newcomer revises his ep- fieUte and visions of a htg meal van-sh. van-sh. When he finds, however, that the train brieea sre only 25 per cent hlri-r than in the average Alaska rental S it. he realises that they are reasonable V