Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-08-27
STONE BLIND.
And Yet He Travels New Works Busics.
street, in safety.

street, in safety.
"l.ook out"
stop that car
Don't run him down"
ii WAS 800 o'clock the other after
noon. and Park row and broadway
were at their busiest. says the New
York World, when medium sized
man carrying ii bundle of afternoon
papers which must have weighed at
least fifty pounds left the curbstone OF
Park row. opposite the west end of the
postoilirc. and started across that
thoroughfare. In his right hand he
held a cane, and with the cane he felt
the stones ahead of him.
Its the blind man." shouted a car
driver as he held up and let the man
pass under the noses OF his horses.
"a'lve the blind man a show cried
the drivers of several vehicles in cho-
rus and in moment every wheel had
stopped and he had safe road across.
tie found the opposite curve, lodged
three or four pedestrians, ANA aimed
to pass under the west portico of tho
postotiice. He was ten feet out of his
reckoning. but AS soon as he touched
one OF the heavy stone columns with
his cane he altered his course to the
left and passed along to Broadway
with twenty men and boys at his heels.
He stood on the curb for moment
making his ears do duty for eyes, and
had started to cross when policeman
took him by the arm and escorted him
over.
"Who is he? Where is lie goingo"
oueried fifty men who saw that he was
blind.
Hes all right" answered the Off
Ger. Few mon 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 a pace which those who followed
could hardly keep, he scarcely touched
elbows with any one for the first
| square. On the second he had two
| collisions and had to be led across
Church street. He got over the third
with only one collision and that was
not his fault altogether, and when he
reached the step, Of the |. station he
turned in and went up as quickly as Il
| boy of 10. He walked straight to the
ticket window, dropped his ticket in
the box, and when the train came
along he got aboard It's handily as the
best man in New York. In reply to Il
World representative who took seat
beside him. he said
! My name is Ben amin Scully and |
keep a newsstand in Thirty-fifth street.
| have been stone-blind since | was 5
years old, but | play checkers and
dominoes, mind my own counter, and
you see"
''DO you buy your own paperso"
always. find my way to every
newspaper on the Row and | come
down twice day Sometimes an ac-
quaiptance walks with me. but of,encr
l go it alone"
''How long did it take you to learn
the route?'
"A friend went over it with me just
once. If the sidewalks are not torn
up or they are not moving a big safe
or machinery across the route l can GO
over it as well as any man in New
York"
Have you ever crossed all the
streets alone?"
1.-Two hundred times My ears tell
me exactly the position of every team
and. though l have sometimes had
some close calls l have never beer
injured yet. That's more than lots O.
men with good eyesight can say fol
themselves
1t seems almost incredible that {
man stone blind. and loaded down a
that san travel half a mile in the bust
est thoroughfares of this great city a
the busiest hours of the day and escape
being run down or knocked over, but
Mr.. Scully is living proof of the fac
and can be seen on his route every da,
in the week except Sunday.