The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02

boy were away at another harbor. Tn,
 woman said that they had had only
 flour in the house for over month
 All they possessed was forty dollar!
 worth of fish, which they had gone tC
 barter for food for the long winter be-
 fore them. Rarely does one see a chile grown folks, their footgear was more an apology than otherwise.
 Reaching Main, which is an Eskimo
 settlement managed by Moravian mis-
 sionaries, the correspondent found that they were in no need of assistance, SC ! turned southward again. Each day the weather was becoming worse, and the
 poor "livyeres" were more pitiable in
 their distress There is nothing on the
 coast to make life endurable to any
 civilized being, and one cannot but be
 amazed at the idea of English speaking
 people spending winter there, with
 such little prospect of anything but starvation as their portion. Of civilized 1 beings who have never offended against ! the law, there is probably no class so
 utterly desolate as that which makes
 it's voluntary residence in Labrador. | oiUclld, IiU uOuUl, IldS IeSlUllS Wol Se III the infictions which man can endure, but for pure natural discomfort this
 takes the palm.
 The coast has no civil administration. There are no laws. no police, no offi- cials whatever. During the summer months the customs collector, who works along the shore in his revenue cruiser, has powers as magistrate, and decides the disputes which are al- ways cropping up among the thousands of fishermen located there, but for the rest of the year there is no recognized authority There is not road on the whole coast, nor bridge, nor public work of any kind. For the eight months of winter there is no mail, ex- cept few yetters which are forwarded by way of Quebec, along the north shore of the river St. Lawrence, cour- iers taking them from point to point, but rarely ever proceeding beyond Bat tie Harbor During this period the 'livyeres" travel about by means of dogs and sledges, but their only jour- neys are in quest of game, which is ob- tainable in the form of rabbits, bears and birds.
 There is little or no dishonesty among them, because they have so little to steal, and they all become reduced to the same plane of misery. because if one has pound of flour it is divided among his needy neighbors. The pitt less severity of winter bears most harshly upon the younger people, the children especially being susceptible to and other diseases, in duced by their herding together and their wretched food. Until five years ago the condition of things in this re- spect was very much worse than it is now.
 About that time the English people were aroused to sense of the misery endured by the thousands of New fsher-folk during their so- journ on Labrador and a branch of the mission to deep-sea fishermen was formed on this bleak coast This mis- sion was originally established to work among the North sea fishermen. and when it's we'll organized philanthropy made itself evident on Labrador 1t was m incalculable benefit, to the women md children especially.
 The industry of the coast has ceased ! living for the settlers, the geographi- ,al situation of the territory precludes he prospect of any of the industries being engaged in, and the only alterna- i've seems to be to abandon the coast to he Eskimos.-C .-Correspondence of the New York Times