New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
ALL ABOARD FOR PITCAIRN.

De deprived or one Of it's great and
 growing cities, for the population of
 Bridgeport Is seriously contemplating
 a move to the Island of Pitcairn,
 somewhere in the Pacific And all
 this commotion just when Bridgeport
 is on the verge of expanding and flow
 ing over into New York state and pushing the metropolis of the nation
 out into the Atlantic.
 Let us then examine into this Island
 of Pitcairn and see where the charm
 lies. An! SWe have it right away.
 Money is unnecessary there, and no
 one. has to work. Great! All Con-
 necticut is open to the suggestion. We
 will all go to Pitcairn.
 Miss Emily Mccoy is the cause of all the dissatisfaction in, Bridgeport,
 where people have to work long and
 diligently for a living. She has been telling them about the island where she was born, the island that was set l tied some century or so ago by mutin-:
 ous sailors, and which is now presided | over by her father. This lady has been in the United States for the past fifteen years, studying medicine and dentistry so that she may help her people. She has finished the courses and is now on
 the way back to her island paradise,
 where she will become queen. Here
 are some of the salient features of
 this remarka ble land, as outlined by
 Miss Mccoy:
 'The island is only seven miles in circumference and abounds in high mountain peaks. About 195 persons are now living to old age there. "A stranger visiting the island would find every house open to him. When he left, such a thing as payment would be an insult to the people. have now spent about fifteen years in German possessions, Hawaii, and America and many customs are still strange to me. Why a civilized peo- pie should be compelled to resort to locks and keys to protect property and lives is unbelievable. When I first saw the garments worn by women in bathing in San Francisco I, was shocked at a display that would not be permitted in the so-called uncivil- ized islands of the Pacific
 "Of course 1t seems impossible to believe that an island supplies all the necessities of life without work, but that is almost true of Pitcairn. The fruits and vegetables grow almost and so do chickens; To get meat one only has to take down his gun and kill. Guns and ammunition are SUD- piled yearly by the English cruiser which arrives from Tahiti A few trading vessels bring modern sclothing for which arras root is exchapged. No style in clothing is known, the women wearing loose gowns from the shoul- ders to the feet and the men ordinary clothing as known in this country"
 Courts and jails are unknown insti- tutions in Pitcairn What a blessing And there are slightly less than two hundred persons living on the island. 1 What a shame! The entire world should have such place at it's dis posal. And all these years Pitcairn has lain dormant out there in the Pa cific, undiscovered, unheralded, un- sung. Bridgeport and the state of in general owes a debt of gratitude to Miss Mccoy for mak- ing known it's whereabouts. Every man in the state will not be able to take advantage of the opportunity of fered, but there are many who have grown tired of laboring and accumu- ating money for others to get, and it may be expected that there will be a great exodus of population from this vicinity in the near future. Not that we are disloyal to 'Connecti- cut, or Bridgeport; but with Omar loaf of bread, jug of wine and a maiden fairstitting beside us in the wilderness, well, Pitcairn will be Paradise enOW.
 In parting, all we have to say is that we had great time in Cohnecti- cut, and .sLe will never forget the friends and eneinies that lie in hiding hereabout.. Yet, the commercial in stinct is driving us men of Bridgeport away from the busy mart and we find
 ourselves slowly but surely drifting to- ward the ticket office and asking the man in the window for the shortest route to Pitcairn, in the Pa ,ifc Some day it may happen that ]