Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-11-01
UTOPIA IS FOUND;
NATIVES SINLESS
DoolATEp SOUTH sEA ISLAND A
socIALIsTIc COLONY
lakabitants Have Never Tasted In
toxlcants or Used Tobacco
Mo Illness.

New York Found Utopia! The
dreamland where all II bliss is not
q myth after all.
Utopia II Pitcairn island. IN the
South Seas. Ninety-nine persons out
Of one hundred never heard OF Pit
cairn Island. for isolation has kept the
doings Of the little realm out Of the
public prints. But when Emily Nc
Coy, one of the inhabitants, had come
to the United States, received q
diploma as a nurse at Bridgeport,
Conn.,. and prepared to start back
home, Pitcairn's secret was barred In
an interview.
There Is no sin on the island"
said Miss Mccoy. "for the reason that
the only book the inhabitants study
II the Bible. No elopments are OF
record and no violations Of the mar
rage VOW have been known in the
history of the Island. None OF the
inhabitants ever has tasted inton-
cants or no illness.
"Three days of each week every one
who is able-bodied works at building
roads and improving the island. The
next three days are devoted to their
homes. Sunday, after attending
church for three hours. the people
calls or rest.
1.-THE only animals on the island
are several hundred goats, from which
milk is obtained. Everything Is
socialostic, all sharing alike in the
products that are raised. The people
have no money, their motto being
AN for one and one for ALL"
Miss Mccoy Is the daughter Of Mat
thew Mccoy, sometimes called king
of Pitcairn"
Pitcairn lies in the Pacific, midway
between California and Australia. 1t
Is a mountain or rocks 1000 feet high,
with an area of about two miles
square. It's inhabitants number exact
ly 160, including a clergyman and his
wife.
The natives of Pitcairn are the d.
rect descendants of the crew of H. M.
8. Bounty. which, April %, 1889.
mutinied and seized the vessel after
setting the commander, Lieu. William
Bngh, and those of the crew who
wished to 60 with him, adrift in open
boats. The Bounty put In at Pitcairn,
where 1t remained for several months.
Fletcher Christian, leader, and four
teen men then went to Tahiti, where
twelve men and their wives were
taken aboard and the return trip to
Pitcairn was made. The Bounty was
then set on fire and destroyed.
No one except the masters Of sail
ing vessels and steamships set foot
on the island and no one ever stopped
there more than few days until
twenty years ago, when a clergyman
and his wife went from Melbourne on
hearing that the natives OF Pitcairn
were very religious, but without q
minister.
The clergyman on his arrival found
q small hut of branches and straw
built among the trees, which was used
as q school where the mothers of the
children gathered each day and gave
instructions. He was 30 impressed
with the piety Of the natives that he
has never left the island. The result
il that all of the 100 persons know
how to read and write.
The soil of Pitcairn Is volcanic and
fertile, the climate variable and rainy,
with a temperature ranging from 20
to 100 degrees. The people live on
fruit and fish and wild birds. They
do not like beef or pork.
The inhabitants are excellent
painters. The women do the finest OF
needlework, while the men make the
finest of straw hats.
The ambition of the inhabitants at
present is to build schooner large
enough to trade their fruit for cloth
ing with the inhabitants OF other
islands.