The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-29
Sight Restored
 After I5 Years
Little Blind Tailor Describes His Feeling When Vision
 Returns

Baltimore, Nov. 29.-The Little Blind Tailor of Spruce alley saw the sun shine Monday for the first time in more than fifteen years. Yesterday afternoon Louis Haley was dismissed from Franklin Square Hospital, where he had been under treatment for his eyes for several weeks. When he reg istered he was totally blind. When he was discharged yesterday he was told to go home in the ambulance and not to pull the bandages off his eyes for at least twenty-fOur hours.
 But the bent up feelings of more than a decade burst out and as he neared his little home he disturbed the cot ton that was tied around his heao until he could see the bright daylight around him. He was satisfied that hls eyesight had been restored and was content to wait until to-day to come into the full possession of the sight he had lost when little more than a boy.
 in his poorly furnished room telling The World correspondent how his eyesight had been restored to him, John Carey, a nineteen-year-Old ma chinist, sat in the glfmmering light of his home in the other end of Bal timore praying that he also mght see in the very near future. Haley IS thanking Dr. Alexander McConachie, a local eye specialist, for the recovery of his sight. while Carey is praying that the efforts of the same specialist will be successful in his case and restore hs sight to him.
 TELLS HOW TT SEEMS.
 Haley told how it felt to be blind so long and suddenly to realize that he had regained the use of his eyes. "The first thing I remember" he said, was being in St. Andrews or
 phan Asylum, which is run by the Catholic sisters. haven't got any
 people, you know. After I got to be a good-sized kid they sent me over to St. Mary's Industrial Asylum. where they taught me to be a tailor. When I was about twenty-one' was a grad uate tailor, and they sent me out to get a job.
 well, my eyes had always been pretty bad, but I felt that I could
 make a living all right and so l went to work My eyes were bothering me all the time and finally they got so bad. that nobody would have me did bad .work.
 linen it got, so I could not see any l thing at all, except shadows and out lines I went to a lot of doctors, but r they all told me that I had cataracts f on my eyes and that sooner or later l I would be sure to go blind.
 l Finally when my savings were al l gone, a lady got me job at the dool l of the hospital I did not have tt lget up from my seat more than l couple of times day for while, SC I I got along all right, but finally 1t go | so bad I could not tell light from darl | and was about to quit when pr. Nc ] Conachie came along one day. aftel all the other fellows told me that
 might as well give up, and he told m he'd try the only chance there was t cure me- He told me that I nigh never be able to see any more, but i I his work did any good I would b.
 able to see for the rest of my life. l When I went on that operating ta ble I believed that I would never b' able to see again, so you can imag1n' 1 what my feelings were when l got Ill and after while found that my sigh l was as good as it had ever been be fore. l ..All day. long I have been lookini out the window at the sunshine, thank ing God and Dr. McConachie that | can see again. Well, I'm going bacl to tailoring again in few days. Iv
 got a job to start on Monday.
 1T said I never had any people, vel
 that wasn't just the truth for di
 have girl that was engaged to bu when I went blind she got marr1e
 and so I am now all alone. I hay
 never seen her husband nor her kids
 but when I am able to go out alon
 I'm going around and see the whol family just to show them that l ca
 see as good as they can."