The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-09-19
STONE BLIND.
And ro. II. Travel. New Yor.'s na'ls''

wss4k;bo o.6bck tha1hthcr after
noon and Park row and Broadway
were at their busiest says the New
York World. when a medium-sized
man carrying bundle OF Afternoon
papers which must havey weighed at
least fifty pounds left the fcurbstone OF
Pars-roag, opposite tho -&sst- end OF the
postofiice, and started across that
thotoughfare, m ihisI right hand he
held care, and with the cane he felt
the stones ahead of him! = r)it. ~
..It's tho blind mani. shouted a car
driver rs he held up and let the man
pass uMder the noses Of his horses.
.Giyethe' bTml masi; fhdwr cttedk 4
the drivers of several vehicles In cho4 W
rus ahlisin moment every wheel had
stopped and he had a safe road across.
He found Che opposite curve lodged SO
three or four pedestrians, and aimed
to pass.,pdsp ,the,Yest portico -Qf -theT ~
postoficc He was ten feet out OF his
reckoning, but as soon sas he touched
one of tho heavy stone columns with
his caae,Ae altered his course to theT Ia
left and passed along to Broadway
with twcnry men 'unr bUyyar MS neeis:
He stood ron the curb fora momenM
making HIS ears do duty for eyes, iand
had started to cross when a policeman
took 6lhBy fhe ann and es5eotteqf HIN Nm q
who is hep Where is he geinge"
aueried fifty men who saw that he was Z z
blind. n ~. i,sjW
He's all right answered the Off y
cer Few men with good eyesight can
beat him travelling AROUND"
The blind man went straight down ~
Barclay street. which was crowded
even worse than Broadway, and, going
at pace which those who followed
could hardly keep. he, scarcely touched,
elbows with any one for the first = Ia
square On the second he had two.
collisions and had to be led across
Church street He gotl over. the thirdA
with only zone collision anhS that. was
not his. faults altogether and when he
reached the steps Of the ii station he
turn I'D in and went up as quickly rs a -
boy OF 10.r He walked. straight TO the z
ticket window. dropped his ticket I'M u \
the box, and when the train came !.
along he got aboard as handily as the Il
best man in New York. In reply toa %
World representative who took a seat -
beside him. he said Z, ~. Il
my name is Benjamin .Scully and
keep a newsstand in .Tbirty-fifth street. "a ..
have been stone-blind- since i WAS D..
years old, but l play CHECKERS And 49, q
dominoes mind my own Skfnter. s4nd n
can tsayfl asoatj NeM Ifs1 bit.tas "
you see."
'Do you buy your own papers?'
Always i find my way 10 every n
newspaper ton thel Rbw md II feWne
down twicd adaS, fppp$amos ~ iaTW
quaiptance walks With me, but oftener
90 il alone y --e------,S----..
elbow long did it take you to, Learn
the routeo"
F'.A friend went oyer it with me Just = a
once. n the sidewalks are mot torn --------
up or they are not moving, 2. big safe, -
or. machinery across The rGdfte can go 2 q \
over it as well AS; .ah& rhan;i in New
York"
( Have you ever crested. all q the ~ II
streets alone?"
- 1.-TWO hundred times. rtM9 ears tell
me exactly the position OF every team.
and, though II have a6metirnes had Z 10
some close calls. l. haye nexer been -
injured yet That's more than lots of
men WITH good eyesfgM can say for ! .
themseltes,u ~ Fit1 II o F{li II
1t seems almost Incredible that
man stone blind and loaded down pt 1
that can tradel .halffn mile}in thefbusi- y
est thordjghfares Or this gteat city at u
the busiest hours OF the day and escape
being run down or knocked over. but - "A
Mr.. Scully is living proof OF the fact !,
and can be seen on his route every day 70
in the week except Sunday. ~
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