The sun., 1896-10-11
4 0UEER M4TyE CpMMUNITr.
Unpuy and Prosperous without schools
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Unpuy and Prosperous without schools.
Law. TheoioaN, Medicine. or Taxes.
NnRCnoss. Ne. Oct 0.-Rcsdents Of Maine
who look To the New York and Boston parers
for accounts of queer nenple ard strange forms
of government in different pnr,s OF the world
could learn facts worth studying by coming
here The settlements OF Eskimos on the coast
Of Green and have their old men. the tribes of
Africa have their chiefs. and even PENAL COL
nnes recognize the authority OF firearms and
the lash. Hero tho law abiding people feel but
one power the hurrving, umsympathetic cars
which bring everything that comes TO their
homes and take away everything that goes out.
The distance from MilnUcket bridge, which
crosses the West Branch east Of here to Per-
kins's Siding. which is three miles west. is five
miles rs the railroad runs or the crow flies. At
and between these two points are five settle
ments OF new log amt board structures com
prising about forty buildings in all. OF these
one is n railroad station, one Is a small store
two are smi all hotels, one is n sawmill, six are
rood-sized srortinE camps. eight are frame
houses with shingles and clapbOards on them
and the rest are primitive log cabins with splits
for roofing. spotted poles for floors, and
hnughs for bedding. One-half OF the male in
habtants are either guides or umhermen,
partly both, one quarter are mill hands who
saw spool bars and bowels at Perkns's Siding
and the remainder are section hands and other
employees who work for tie Bangor and Aroos-
took Railroad. Though no census was ever
taken Of the place there are about 300 propls
who live here the year round. Among them II re
some Twenty-Five women and nearly forty chill
dren. This Is when the POPULATION is at low
ehb. In July when the West Branch drive
comes down the population swclls To iOOnr 500
and after open season for big game begins it
often reaches ! 900 souls. besides Indians
Having grown without governmental restraint
from one log camp OTIS present proportion in
the most anomalous community On earth. 1t i
not Il town. IL ts not even n plantation. ON the
Old survey man~ i is named Indian Township
NJ. 3, =" CGli"t Ivy III" surveyors to dis'in-
The name OF Norcross signifies nothing. ii was
80 called in or'lrrto locate station for a rail-
road and Post Office for the hunters.
Lhonrh property that c9st S5ooO0o is here
visit the place. The children are horn and
grow up without seeirg the inside or the out
,ine Of n schoo!house; There are not two rods of
bicycle and not twenty rods of cart roads in the
whole township. As the nearest clergyman,
lawyer. and doctor are from thirty to nfty miles
them, When couple want to get married they
take thei bridal tour in hunting up n m mister
is sent ont to a doctor. because no physician
can be coazed TO come and see him and in
than thirty mile before it can rest in
ChrIstian burSing ground. There is
drug, store. IL" dance hall. and no bar -oom
or Other. place where liquor is sold in the town
ship. 1.-two or more men have II dispute which
Loads to n free fight the non-combntants stand
by 10 see fair play without attempting TO inter
fere. In case the defeated party feels himself
wrruged and wants to take tn" matter into
court. he cannot afford To do so, because he
wouli have 70 travel nearly all day by rail be-
fore he could find n nj lristrnte Even the
Game Warleus who arrest men for killing deer
spend more money in taking their prisoners to
court than the fines amount 10 when a COnvic-
ton is secured once in its history, when a
murder was committed near here. a Sheriff
from Dover spent II week in reaching here and
getting back home: The chances are 1t would
take something bigger than murder to bring
him here again.
The person who reads this description OF Nor
cross and thinks the inhabitants are degraded
or immoral will make great mistake. A mail
four times dav brings letters and papers from
everywhere. An entcrnrising and Onsiderate
railroad carries away all the people have to
sell and brings In all they buy. Divine Prov-
dence does tho rest. The men are industrious
and moral. The women are model wives and
e%Ccllent COOKS. The children are bright and
well dressed. II Norcross were formed into
pIanaton or incorporated as a town. the resi-
dents would have to pay municipal. county. and
state taxes. Now they pay no taxes. they do
not vote. and every man is as good as his neigh
Dor. The place Is farer than Utopia. and
swccter than the dream of n Nihilist. 1t has no
counterpart on earth.