Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Street Life in Canton. [ARTICLE]

Street Life in Canton.

The streets of Canton are divided into sections ol a few blocks each; and each section is shut off from all others by heavy gates, that are closed at 9 o’clock in the evening. The populace is so turbulent that for many centuries the authorities have made it a practice to hold all the people of any section responsit?le for any riot or tumult in that section. The result is that people have got in the habit of regulating affairs in their section without any reference to the powers that be. The electrician of the Canton plant had occasion to see the effect of this in an instance where a store wanted lights, but the wires could not be run, because one man objected to having a hole cut in his house for securing a pole. The man wanting lights informed his neighbors, and a delegation waited on the individual, and soon induced him to withdraw his objection.