New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
MORE PAPERS FOR BLIND
ZiegIer Magazine in Ne10 Home
zcith Greater Facilities.

The Ziegler Publishing Company for the Blind
has been installed in a new and permanent home
at Nos 3O2 to sos West SD street where the en-
ployes yesterday busy getting the October
number of "The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the
Blind" The second floor, comprising about 70x100
feet will be mainly devoted the work of publica-
ton. under the direction of Walter G. Holmes the
manager. Heretofore the magazine has been pub
lished partly from Hartford. Conn., and partly from
Brooklyn and the quarters will result in a
saving of 81, 900 a year.
This magazine was founded by Mrs Matilda
Ziegler, widow of William ziegler. who equipped
two expeditions to the North Pole and is given by
her free to every blind person in the United States
who read. Mr.. Holmes announced yesterday
that in another month the magazine would be sent
free to the blind of Canada as WELL Hundreds of
requests from blind persons living in Canada have
been received. and wealthy citizen has offered TO
bear the expense of sending the magazines there
The offer declined. and moreover, the Cana
dian government will take them free, IL sent IN
bulk and distribute them without charging postage
These magazines printed in two types. which,
of course, read by the sense of touch. One
edition Of 1900 in printed in New York point type
and edition of $500 in American Braille type
In these types the letters of the alphabet are
made by using dots points, one or a combination
of two of these points making each letter
Six points in two rows of three each are used and
in the New York point type these two rows run
horizontally, and in the American Braille type
vertically.
In printing. a brass plate is indented and is
placed on the press around a cylinder against
which another cylinder with rubber blanket presses
The paper, which has been moistened in a speci-
ally prepared shellao solution. between these
cylinders and takes the impression OF the points
After the paper dries it hardenes to with
stand the pressure of the fingers in reading.
In the September number of the magazine was
map OF New York Harbor. showing to the sense OF
touch the bay, the East and North rivers. the
iCNg inn Of The tint nP
etc. In the October number is map OF the Pa
cifc Ocean, showing San Francisco. with line
from there giving the distance TO Manila and the
Philippines
The table of contents in the October number COM
prises. first. the publishers announcement. fol-
lowed by articles the Japanese and French
Agreement and How to Make Others Love Us
There is n continued article. Master Artists of
the Piano" a story OF a six Weeks Trip to Eu-
rops." and articles BE a Good Listener" THE
Uses of Coal and How Long the Supply in the
United States VIII Last" The East Indians and
a humorous article The Vacation Of Mus
tapha."
Mr.. Holmes said the blind were very fond Of hu-
NOR. and two pages dovted 70 prize jokes
prize Of s. being offered each month for the best.
Five dollars Is also offered each month for the
twenty lines OF poetry. and number of these
tributious are printed. There is also department
OF games that the blind play There are nifty
pages in the magazine, and ten OF them devoted
to current events. a magazine weighs a pound
and half
Mr.. Holmes said that while only about seven
thousand magazines We're sent out, they had fully
ton thousand readers. There were 400 blind chill
dren going to schools for the blind. A few copies
were sent there and TO a number OF homes for the
blind Copies were sent to all libraries for the
blind In this country and 10 about fifty Libraries
abroad. y book printed especially for the blind
costs ten times much an ordinary book
Many blind persons now learning to read Chill
dren learn easiest. owing to the sensiuveness Of
their touch
Mr Holmes added that the Ziegler printing press
FOR the magazine for the blind was the largest OF
It's kind in the world and would print ten thousand
Pages an hour. II takes three hundred mail sacks
To carry the monthly edition