The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-22
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS
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NeW x0rk- The SlEnJISSS u1aL paused ct the busy traffic corner of 26th St. and 7th Ave. and asked to be guided across the avenue. "l am on my way" he said, Ito the circulating library. That last P. G Wodehouse book was funny"
 Taunted by the paradox, ! ac- companied the blind man halfway down the blocks to b big loft build- ing bristling with freight carriers truck haulers and ordinary conn merce. Here he took the elevator to tho seventh floor and entered Q neat and roomy office that serves as the country's largest Braille li- brary for people who live in dark ness. My blind friend politely asked for his Wodenhouse novel Gin three Braille volufnes), and promptly got 1t. He departed gratefully.
 But, according to the personnel engaged in this humanitarian en- deavor, few blind people cali per sonally at the huStling offices for reading material. Most of them almost 5000 in number--write in ot telephone for 6 book in Braille. The thick and heavy volumes are mailed to them at the governments ex- pense, for the post office makes free delivery of blind folks literary mat ter. They write In from the nletro- politan area, New Jersey and Con- necticut, the regions served by the circulating library for the blind. Books That Talk
 Among the 5000 sightless persons In these areas, however, are many who have not had Q Braille educa- ton but who have c taste for liter- ature. For these, the mali order huEnAnitarianS in the 26th St. ware- house provide Talking Book records anod, sometimes, the special phono- graph that plays them. Full length volumes are recorded on these Talking Book discs and revolve at the rate of 35 revolutions per min. ute, 6 comfortable pace for the 1ior- nal power of hearing. As in the Hrailie collection, the Talking Book boasts ail assorted caltalog and tho blind can avail themselves o3 the works of Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, the poet Milton and oil chapters of the Bible. one book pei week Is generally recorded on 'thG records In Manhattan and the aver. age cost of 6 master recording al 4i 900. About twelve records suffice for c full-length volume. They art sent through the mails in special cartons.
 For inpecunious blind people photograph machines are loaned out over certain periods, through the charitable efforts of individuals And, lately, the government set aside Q subsidy for the same pur- pose.
 Crates roll out noisily on baEYowl on w. 2Sth St., the trucksters create bedhara In the thoroughfare anc perturhed pedestrians, with keeT vision, dodge in and out of ubstaclei on the pavement. Seven stories Up in the musty warehouse, an efficient star tolls industriously to bring light into c world of darkness where rush and chatter are of nG use, anyway.
 rse Notes From Tin-Pan Alley
 Some Nuggets, Assorted from TiY Pan Alley: An eccentric lot, Sonl Rows denixens seem to have somt strange characteristics of their own
 Lee Wiley, the songstress, wht was last featured. in Q program with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt likes to go on crying jags, walk through Central Park at dawn ailG will entertain nobody but piano players ct her apartment. She i of Cherokee Indian descent and { cousin of the late Will Rogers. Ray Sinatra, @ bandmasters, i Italian but he speaks Yiddish wei enough to have been the late Can tor Rosenblatt's accompanist. Fl made Q tour of Massachusetts syna' gogues.
 Jolly Coburn, another bandmastel believes that he is the only baton. eer graduate of the Naval Academ. at Annapolis.
 Jack Mills, the music publisher VOWS that the first three song hit he bought were played during rain. weather. So he now holds audition on days that at least are cloudy.  CATHODE RAY HARNRssED Ottawa, Ont, (UP)-A new ca