The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

meTCnhnb ana tnelr clerks are to be seen stand.
Ing at their door fronts admiring the view afford
ed by the street, Sidewalks are deserted for the
nonce, and oil betokens quiet. AT and shortly
after the welcome sound Of the steam whistle the
avenues assume a different appearance, where
before was stiffness, all now becomes life and &C.
tivity. The stores are thronged with customers
and cash circulates with gratifying rapidity, al.
belt the one who earns 1t may not feel SO jublant
as the receiver. After supper the thoroughiares
are alive with another class who In their evening
dress and well represented by ladies In brilliant
and costly costumes challenges admiration and
attention. These promenaders alike bent on bu
sness and pleasure, greatly increase the revenues
Of the merchants. At this particular time, also
the
HooDLUMs
Well dressed and otherwise, do most,lov to con
gregate on the street corners especially at the In
tersection of Tuscarawasand Market streets, much
to the discomfort Of passersby, and 1t Is frequent
ly well nigh impossible for ladies to break the
ranks of these sweetscented fellows In order to
descend the steps in front of Alexanders clothing
store aud up the opposite side. According TO Off.
cial report, the police force Of Canton has had
very little to do the past year in capturing rogues
and 1t may be said, that their duty In clearing the
sidewalks has also been very slightly attended to-
considering the amount of time at their disposal
This is crying evil, and rises up on every side.
stilllater the streets begin to be deserted by the
above, and although still early, night lights
glimmer in some of the early closing stores. AT 8
p. M, churches and lectures repeople the pave.
ments for short interval followed later by dis.
gorgement of the audience from Schaefer's Opera
House which, by the way is one of the neatest in
this section Of the country. Verging upon ten
o'clock, the light that illuminates the town
clock, ia Cxtnguished, probably so as to conceal
the location of the county jail and lead strangers
to imagine that Canton is merely borough, and
wishes to eConomize on its gas bills. About this
time tho streets are dotted only here and there
with late business men returning home from an
evenings anxious survey over ledgers or belated
with time verstayed with diatOry customer.
Now the scene becomes quiet and still more quiet,
no one on the streets except the night police pri
vate watchmen and an occasional voter, who has
allowed his discretion to forget It's guardianship,
or some unfortunate who nightly seeks police
care, Speaking about police, some how they ap-
pear to be very scarce about the time the clock
bOOms "low twelve" only one city officer having
been seen, and he shortly dlved into the cosy
quarters of the Mayors office. There is every.
thing in a name, and as Canton has the cogno,
men of being quiet and orderly city, 1t stRpds
to reason that the police need not exercise That
vigilance necessary in such wicked places as Lou
isvile and Berlin. Canton Is emphatiCally
quiet and orderly place
Having filed up our day from sunrise to the
witching hour when church yards yawn," and
seen the last straggler headed for home, 1t occur
red to the writer that he better put his pencil on
its natural bracket on the side of the head and
draw this chit chat to Close There are many
people that having eyes, see not" and travel
through the world from place to place to see
something, that could have their desires gratfed
right here at home at any time, for this hasty
sketch but imperfectly hints at the infinite posi-
bilites Foreigners express great surprise that
we should go abroad sightseeing, when we are
so well situated at home, and as time and money
are both objects of value to most of us how cheap
ly can we crafty our thirst for novelties by right
ly viewing what is at our doors. There are hun
dreds Of quiet inland cities in this broad land OF
ours that do not present the beautiful features of
Canton, both morally, physically and socially
Take 1t In any of these aspects and you find
town to be proud of, a people industrious, temper
ate and genial, and municipal government con-
Quoted above the average of corporate bodies
We never yet saw or heard of a city council that
was all brains, and this is no exception hence
the clogs that impede the civil machinery but
take it "by and large" we live pretty comforta-
bly,, and when it is time to take our places with
the unnumbered army who have gone before,
may it be with feeling that we have enjoyed to
the utmost the rational pleasures which God has
so plentifully supplied in and around this COM
munity.