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sent to jail for the crime of barratry. The Mission super- 
intendent accepted the position of agent for Lloyd’s. 
1904. A new doctor’s house was built at Battle Harbour. 
The steam-launch Julia Sheridan had to be sold. She was 
replaced by a ten-horse-power kerosene launch called by 
the same name. An orphanage was built at St. Anthony 
hospital to accommodate fifteen children. A building was 
also added for teaching loom work and general carpentering 
with lathe work, and a teacher engaged. A society for 
writing personally to lonely families, and regularly sending 
them good literature, likely to instruct and help them, was 
successfully organized. 
1905. A doctor was appointed at the request of the 
people on the Canadian Labrador, with headquarters at 
Harrington, near Cape Whittle, on the north side of the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first schooners were built 
at the lumber mill, which is now flourishing and helping 
to maintain some one hundred families. During the sum- 
mer two consulting surgeons from Boston joined the hos- 
pital steamer to help in the work. Through the generosity 
of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, between thirty and forty small 
portable libraries, each containing from fifty to one hun- 
dred books, were distributed along the coast. A fox farm 
was started in the hope of inducing a profitable industry 
in the breeding of the more valuable furs. 
1906. Through the help of friends in Montreal and 
Toronto, a new hospital and a doctor’s house were built at 
Harrington; a second kerosene launch, called the Northern 
Messenger, was given for the work there. New dog-sledges 
and teams were also given by the Montreal Weekly Witness. 
Some new buildings were erected at St. Anthony, including 
