The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-04
Daughter of President of the Island Tells of Joy of Re mote Colony on Receiving Cargo of Christmas Re- membranes From Amer ica.

Altr ough John Parker seaman, who arrived in New York the other day told of the loss of ten of the men of Pitcairn Island in a small schooner which they had built to go to Tahiti the nearest island to them, Miss Emily Mccoy of this city, daughter of the president of the island. does not be- lieve the report. Miss Mccoy has had letters from her brother and two of her sisters, since the port Hardy ar rived at the island about the first of February and all of them speak of the leaving of the boat for Tahiti.
 A letter from her father, who had been in Tahiti several months. mailed from tt 1t island told her of the ar rival of the boat there and said that he was planning to return to Pitcairn on the boat about April list. As it takes 28 days to get from Picairn to New York the sailor could have left the island only at the time that the boat was due to sail from Tahiti. He said that the boat was lost about two months ago and Miss Mccoy has had later news telling of it's safe arrival in Tahiti. Nevertheless. she is wor- ried at the report and is anxiously awaiting more news for the island.
 The letters from her brother and sisters tell of the great surprise and joy of the people on the arrival of tho Port Hardy, which left here last Christmas time with large number of supplies for the islanders, donated by interested people in this country. The letters repeat again and again, that the people of Pitcairn feel that all these gifts are almost too much to accept when they have no means ot repaying the donors. They speak of the scarcity of clothing on the {, island While they casually mention the war, of which they have had a few meagre accounts, they talk at length of the schooner which is the chief topic of interest to them. Miss McCoy's father tells her in joking, that she may find them sailing into New York or Bridgeport on it some day.
 Boats have been stopping more reg ular1y at Pitcairn during the last few , months but as most of them that stop are on their way to Australia. the let ters have been carried to that country and mailed from there.
 A wire from London about Pitcairn Island says:
 LOnOOn May l-FOOQ Is scarce
 in England but it is going to
 waste in Pitcairn Island, Great
 Britain's least inhabited q posses
 sion. In fact, life is very pleas
 ant in this solitary island in the
 Pacific where the several hundred
 inhabitants have no one to trou-
 ble them and where they have
 had no mail since the war, al-
 though they know something
 about the great conflict from
 passing steamers.
 A, report received here rom
 the chief magistrate of the
 island. Gerard Robert Bromley
 Christian sayss Plenty to eat
 fruits and vegetables of various
 kinds, oranges going to waste,
 bananas just the same, potatoes,
 pumpkins yams, pineapples,
 beans, maize, all that we need
 along that line. But we only get
 our supplies from passing ships,
 such as flour. clothing, soap, oil
 and other articles for domestic
 use"
 Miss Mccoy says that the repor bears out her letters from home tha there is no scarcity of anything t, eat The report Is slightly wrong, a. MT. Christian is only acting magis trate in the absence of her father il Tahiti.