The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-13
TODD MUST GO NOW.
The superintendent of the State
Blind Asylum
MUST MAKE WAY FOR ANOTHER.

a Republican Must Teach the Little
Blind Boys and Girls and All the
Teachers Must SO too TO Provide
Rewards for IhOse Who Dabble in
PoIitics-It's the system We Live
Under.
This morning the state board of chart
ties went into session at the state blind
institute at Kansas City, Kas. 1t will
consider among other things the appoint
ment of a successor to DR.. W. G. Todd.
1t seems to be confidently expected that
the appointment will be made at this
session of the board.
Among the applicants for the position
of superintendent are four from Kan
sas Guy, Kansas, namely, La Pre- Will
liams, who occupied the place prior to
the Populistic regime, VIII T. Walker.
W. W. McCune aud George II. Miller.
However, the present indications are that
the appointment will not come to Kansa 8
City, Kan. 1t was well known that
George II. Miller had been practically
decided upon, but such vigorous fight
was made against him that his nam was
dropped, and on account of this fight it
is said, the chances of the other Kansas
| City, Kan, applicants have become ex-
ceedingly slim. The most of the anu
|
from the famous speech made by w. J.
Buchan at Rosedale IN his state senator
ial campaign against Edwin Taylor in
1892 which was regular magazine of
political powder. It VIII be remem bered
that this speech charged Miller and
others with Doodle and all sorts of polit-
ical chicanery.
DR.. Todd has made a very able super
intendent and although a Populist, no
complaint has been made of his manage
ment of the asylum; but the exigencies
of party politics will compel him to go.
Among other things that Supt Todd
has done. he has invented a type writing
machine for the blind which will proba-
bly, be used in asylums for the blind
throughout the country. This new in
vention is called Todd's improved Edison
Monograph typewriter for the blind
being an adaptation of the Edison ma
chine to the uses of the blind.
This machine differs very little from an
ordinary typewriter in appearance. The
improvement made by Superintendent
Todd is simply change in the operation
of the machine from control by sight to
control by touch by means of keys OF
| aluminium, on which letters are raised.
Rev. Mr.. Todd is working on another i'm
portant invention which he proposes
to bring out as a Kansas product
The blind, in their correspondence
with each other, use a system of pune
tured points in different combina-
tions, representing letters of the
alphabet. For so years they have beer
pricking these points in paper with g
stylus, but now that practical and
speedy point writer has been invented
by Superintendent Todd, the old system
is likely to be done away with soon
This machine consists of light frame
that will reach across u sheet of paper
the whole weighing but two and a half
pOunds-on which three keys travel tina
make the points as fast as the operator
can work his fingers. When the key
have travelled across the page and writ
ten one line lever automatically raise
the points on the paper out of their cell:
and another lever automatically move
the paper into exact pOsition for the mex
! line.