The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-17

Within a few weeks Miss Emily Mo Coy, known in Bridgeport as trained nurse of the highest qualifications, now attached te the Graduate Nurses club, 246 West avenue, expects to leave Bridgeport for the Pacific coast on the first leg of a journey that will carry her nearly 5000 miles by rail x and water to Pitcairn Island.
 This little island. a. dot of land in the mid-eastern Pacific ocean slightly known even to mariners because of it's great distance from other land is the place of her birth and the scene of one of the great social experiments X ever tried by civilization. For the sake of approximate reference Pitcairn island may be placed @h about 100 miles distant from the farthest land fof the Paumotu archipelago or Society islands, noted for the can nabalfstic traits of it's former inhabit- ants. s
 Miss McCoy's long journey may prove to be in the nature of an in augural trip. For many years Nher father has been the ruler of the 195 Inhabitants of the little island He. has. been chosen by direct election, men and women taking part in the ballottng.
 Inspired with spirit Of social up lift for her people, in the little isl- and she loves with patriotic ardor, 6n0 Q4dllS 10 AOIluS lO L1C41A SA6 h4fOWA- edge she has accumulated during her eight years in Anaerica- She has bought a piano, which she has all ready shipped on the first leg of it's long Journey to the island. and she plans to give the islanders their first enjoyment of music upon modern in lstruments, upon her return
 With her departure, Bridgeport will lose a hand that has ninistered long and faithfully to the i'll: a de- vout and lekding member of the Sew enth Day Adventist church, and per lhaps, potential queen, for though the principle of popular election is firm 1y established, the custom of success sion also is observed, and Miss Mo- Coy may be her fathers successor as I head of her people This possibility Fhas frnpelIed her to study and effort ! among the American people.
 Though Miss McCoy's many ac- quaintances and patients who have nknown her for a period of eight years lfn Bridgeport may be surprised as well people will greatly profit by the re- turn. It will insure for the first time hn 129 years when the island was first settled through mutiny. lust and mur- der, of medical aid to those fmpr1s- or1ed in the fastnesses of rock, bound by thousands of miles of water. In all probability Miss Mccoy will never again see western civilization in which she has studied nursing, medicine and dentistry for the last 15 years without opportunity to return to the land of ber birth
 Her mission here will have been completed and indirectly the death of her mother will have been a bless ing to Pitcairn Island poster9ty even at the cost of years of seff-abnega- ton and an enforced repatriation from her own people by reason of the fanf that 011X Txr touches on the shores of Pitcairn. That vessel is a British warship. the rigid regulations of which preclude carrying women as passengers, which tradition is said never to have been broken.
 Behind the presence of Miss Mccoy in Bridgeport, verified in sParliamen- itary papers c 94S and Cd 754 and 2507." published with R. T. simon's report to the British government tLondon 1910). and the history of Pitcairn Island written by Rosa1ind A. Young. an aunt of Miss Mccoy Pacific Press Publishing Co.-18s41 lies one of the strangest tales of ad- venture and Arcadian simplicity ever lnnTo1ded-
 Today, more than 100 years after colonization approximately 195- souls exist in the insu1ar colony. These are closely fntermarried with only five family names. There is a<ruler, a parliament of seven persons a mis- sion church, a, school. All speak and write the English language fuently. No money is cfrcuIated, men and women over IT have equal rights of franchise. The occupations are farm | tug, teaching domestic science and the manufacture of necessities. In- | toxzcation is unknown and the only i Rznusemeat is change of occupation. l Only four generations have grown i from the founders. Miss Mccoy is or the third generation.
 When her mother diedi in agony | from lack of medical aid, Miss Mc- Coy pledged herself to learn the phy-
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