Show KIN OF MUTINEERS CALL FOR CLOTHING Pitcairn Island Folk Hail Ship to Request A aNEW I By Tb Ib p cUI N Ne l s solo NEW YORK Dec 9 The 9 The island of ot Pitcairn home borne of IGO descendants of ot otI I the mutineers who seized IL M. M S. S I Bounty on April 28 1789 and settled I later on the leland island n needs eds clothing paper pa paper pa- pa per pencils oil soap and nails This prosaic request from a little little- plateau jutting up 2000 f feet t above the Pacific ocean and ln ha having an area rea of t about two miles comes camel in a n. decidedly dh unconventional way from the dw dwellers on the island 1 Captain Griffiths of the tho steamship Port Hardy of ot the Ute Commonwealth Commonwealth Commonwealth Common Common- wealth and Dominion company while midway between California and AUstralla Australia Australia Aus Aus- on June 2 2 sighted about two miles mUes from Pitcairn two whaleboats carrying thirty men women and children children chil ehl dren who shouted to him He lie stopped his vessel and learnd that the inhabitants badly n needed edd d clothing and other necessities The They offered the skipper no money for or the lle simple reason there Is no money on Pitcairn island Captain Griffiths and his crew gave the islanders what clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing Ins the they could spare but was waa unable to supply the women omen and girls who were barefooted The captain said that he ho would gladly carry back on hi ht his steamship which will be at the foot toot of ot pier 10 30 Brooklyn until December r 23 supplies for the islanders The steamship will stop at the Island on her way to Australia The Island Is very rarely visited by steamships and sailing nailing vessels ls Ten Tell months ago for the first time in four years a ship stop stopped d there and the in a inhabitants le- le habitants were told of ot the war r raging ing ingIn in Europe They borrowed an English nag flag from the skipper r and hoisted it over the island Until twenty years year ago the people who are all Seventh Se Day Adventists had no minister In Iii 1896 a a. clergyman and his wife landed on the island to become pastor of ot the flock Hock The work three days dars a w weep lt on Improvement of ot the Island and three da days 8 a week about their homes home Th The Th inhabitants hope some da day to haa have ha havea hacI hac ha c I a sailing vessel large enough to enable them to trade with other islands |