Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18
SELF SUPPORTING BLlND MAN.
A New York Society's Splendid Plan
For Enabling Them to Help
Themselves.

Themselves.
The Society for the improvement
of the Condition Of the Blind that
sometime ago held a meeting at the
Waldorf-Astoria has. opened a work
shop at 147 East Forty-second street,
New York city. There eighteen men
are employed in making brooms and
Gaming chairs. The novice is paid
two dollars week while being taught
the industry and is then put at piece
work, making on the average six
dollars weekly. The men thus EN-
ployed were not able to make any.
thing before given chance by this
society. The shop is in charge OF
William B. Stout, under the direc-
tion Of Eben p Morford, superinten-
dent of the Industrial Home for the
Blind in Brooklyn. The Folty-sec.
ond street shop is kept busy filling
the orders secured by a blind can
vaSser, August Wallaner. The work
turned out at this establishment is
first class and sold at the prevailing
AAieSA AhCI pI4OCS. 1IOtC1 cNllu lc(lOlJ DAO-
prietors may get the best of service
at this establishment.
A rather naive circular, evidently
composed by one of the workers in
the institution is being sent cut. 1t
states that the enterprise is, under
the direction of the New York Asso-
citation for the Blind DIR. Lyman Alb
bot, president; Winifred Holt, secre-
tary, Al East Seventy-eighth street .
Herbert S. Barnes, treasurer, s. Wall
street"
Another quotation from this circu-
lar is.
New brooms sweep clean. We man.
ufacture them. You use them. We
guarantee them. You test them. We
need your patronage, You need our
brooms. Send your order by postal
and it will receive prompt attention.
The object of the shop is to help the
blind to help themselves, by giving
them an honest, practical way of sup
porting themselves.
We agree with Helen Keller that:
There is no law on the statute
books compelling people TO move up
closer on the bench of life to make
room for a blind brother, but there
is divine law written on the hearts
of men constraining them to make a
place for him, not only because he
is unfortunate, but also because it
is his right as human being to share
Gods greatest gift, the privilege of
man to go forth unto his work"
In addition to the workshop the so
ciety has organized a Blindman's
Self improvement Club which meets
at Sixty-four Madison avenue. At
meeting last Monday night Audolf
Hutchinson, the author and Shake
spearian interpreter, was elected the
president The motto of the club is:
Light through work" The object is
the moral and intellectual as
well as the physical improvement of
the members. They relate their ex-
periences and exchange suggestions.
The club has honorary members who
find at the meeting abundant subject
matter for their philanthropic contem-
plation
The good done for the blind by this
society cannot be over estimated. 1t
has performed the herculean task of
getting the public to consider seri-
ously the efforts of the blind to help
themselves. 1t believes that in the
idle hands of the able bodied and
intelligent blind there is the energy
of a Niagara that can be channelled
and put to the worlds use. To &C
complish this subject adequately will,
of course, require a great deal of
money, but the achievement is we'll
worth the outlay 1t is such achieve
ments that spell out the word Civil
zation''