Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-25
UTOPIA IS FOUND.
NATIVES S|NLESS
ISOLATED SOUTH SEA ISLAND A
. SoCiALlSTic COLONY
Inhabitants Have Never Tasted In.
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New York Found Utopia, The
dreamland whore all is bliss is not
myth after all.
Utopia is Pitcairn Island. In the
South Seas. Nlnety-nne persons out
OF one hundred never heard of Pit
cairn Island. for isolation has kept the
doings of the little realm out of tho
public prints. But when Emily Ne
Coy, one of the inhabitants. had come
20 the United States, received q
diploma as nurse at Bridgeport,
Conn, and prepared to start back
home, Pitcairn's secret was barred in
an interview.
"There IL no sin on the island"
said Miss Mccoy. "for the reason that
the only book the inhabitants study
Is the Bible. No elopments are OF
record and no violations of the mar
Jiage vow have been known in the
history of the Island. None of the
inhabitants ever has tasted intoxi-
cants or no illness.
"Three days of each week every one
who is able-bodied works at building
roads and improving the island. The
negt three days are devoted to their
homes. Sunday, after attending
church for three hours. the people
calls or rest.
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
all 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 mountain or rocks 1000 feet high.
with an area OF about two miles
square. Its inhabitants nu.uter exact
ly 100. including a clergy man and his
wife.
The natives of Pitcairn are the d.
rect descendants OF the crew of II. NJ.
S. Bounty, which, April %, 1879,
mutinied and seized the vessel after
setting the commander Lieu. William
Bligh, and those of the crew who
wished to so with him. adrift IN open
boats. The Bounty put in at Pitcairn,
where it remained for several months.
Fletcher Christian. leader, and four
teen men then went 10 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 aad no one ever stopped
there more than a few days until |
twenty years ago, when clergyman !
and his wife went from Melbourne on |
hearing that the natives of Pitcairn
were very religious, but without a
minister.
The clergyman on his arrival found |
small hut of branches and straw |
built amcng the trees, which was used |
as a school where the mothers of the
children gathered each day and gave
Instructions. He was so impressed |
with tie piety of the natives that he
has never left the island. The result
is that all Of the 100 persons know
how TO read and write.
The soil of Pitcairn is volcanic and
fertile, the climate variable aud RAINY,
with 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 anest 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.