The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-05
BLIND STUDENT
At CORNELL SAYS
WYATT FOR FINISH"
Brooklyn Boy Admitted to
University Doesn't Want
Career Watched.

II any of my friends asks where |
am. don't tell | have gone 20 college.
Wait until get through"
William Everett Moore. a Brooklyn
boy, who has been totally blind since
he was fifteen months old. thus mod
estly implored his mother when shs
left him in ithaca, where he began his
first years course at Cornell University
to-day.
Il want to make good" he added
then will be time enough to crow.
Let all my friends think L have COMO
away somewhere to accept position. +"
Moore, who Is twenty-five years old
was graduated from the New York In
7titute for the Blind last wear, and at
the time It was said by his Instructors
hat he was one OF the brightest boys
that had ever attended that school
Mrs. Moore returned from ithaca
beaming with smiles because of the re-
caption that had been accorded to her
son by President Schurrnan and the
members of the faculty OF Cornell. She
Is very proud OF my boy" as she
refers to him. and while she says |. is
going to he very lonely and quiet about
her Brooklyn home now that he has
gone. she feels that a college course
VIII he of great benefit to her son.
For a time he thought of studying
osteopathy. but now believe he
thinking Of taking up law when he f.
graduated from Cornell" said Mrs
Moore TO al Evening World reporter
lpn
along without him at home. because h.
was the life OF the house. Why, ever
Spot, his fox terrier misses him an
whines nearly all the time"
The Moores live at No. al Monro.
street. Brooklyn. Edward E. Moo,
the head OF the household, In in tn.
dry-goods business.
Although he has never seen baseball
or football. young Moore understand,
the rules OF the games perfectly. He
Is as much Of FAN" his mother SAVE
as her second son. Edward Jr, who
just can't keep away from the Polo
Grounds whom there's anything on"
While was in ithaca" said Mrs.
Moore, Il had to buy all Of the latest
e es "a. OF .t the papers for WIN because
nant. He Is great admirer OF the
Giants and said he would like To he
able 10 attend the games and help the
roofing"
There Is something bother,nr
young Moore more than baseball and
football.
y wanted to vote for Taft" he told
his mother. but now that I'm away
from home / won't get q chance
Moore Is rooming with Charles Will
,, son. another Brooklyn boy, who is go
ing to act as reader for the blind how
Wilson, although only seventeen Year,
old. won n scholarship from the Bows
High School in Brooklyn.
He says he will be able to get around
the university grounds in short while
as well as he can about our home -
continued Mrs. Moore
one OF young Moores best friends is
also blind. He is Walter Hicks, TWEEN
ty-three years old. OF No. 212 Halsey
street, Brooklyn. who ran a bicycle into
Il wagon when fifteen years old and
lost his sight. Moore had the measles
when he was baby and has since been
blind.
He doesn't seem TO mind II much"
his mother said, land, indeed, IL you
could have seen him at the theatre In
Ithaca YOU would not have thought
him blind. He takes much interest in
theatricals and often SAYS that IL II
were not that he Is blind he would like
to be an actor. He plays the piano
very we'll and. now that he is away.
it is going 10 be very quiet for us-very
Cuiet'