. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . econd son was a clerk in the Goods Department of a Rail-way, on some 13/— or 14/— a week. It was shown further that,owing to failing health, the candidate could no longer earn herlivelihood as a teacher, and as a local Institution promised the sumof £5 a year, a pension of £10 was gTanted from The GardnersTrust. The case was moreover well known to the Vicar of theParish. Second: A quarryman, fifty years old, was earning 30/— aweek. He lost his sight by an explosion, but was able to play theo
. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . econd son was a clerk in the Goods Department of a Rail-way, on some 13/— or 14/— a week. It was shown further that,owing to failing health, the candidate could no longer earn herlivelihood as a teacher, and as a local Institution promised the sumof £5 a year, a pension of £10 was gTanted from The GardnersTrust. The case was moreover well known to the Vicar of theParish. Second: A quarryman, fifty years old, was earning 30/— aweek. He lost his sight by an explosion, but was able to play theorgan on Sundays in Church, for £5 a year. He was not suitedfor any other work or trade. It is admitted that he had a wifeand three gro^vn-up daughters, two of whom lived with theirparents and helped in laundry work. The applicant belonged toa Club, which made him a grant of £19 after his accident. Then,it was shown conclusively, after much correspondence that, whilehis wife and daughters were struggling and doing their best tokeep the home together, a pension would make all the difference. THE BLIND BARBER — INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND, BROOKLYN. This barber has all the work he can do shaving. He does not attempt hair ciittina;. Commission on the Blind. 43 between the feeling that, come what might, they would have ahouse over their lieaJs, and a perpetual struggle to make endsmeet. A pension of £10 secured this desirable result. Third: The last case, was that of a widow aged forty-four,without a child, who had lived by journalism, earning about aguinea a week. Her loss of sight was simply due to overwork inreading and writing. She was the widow of a lieutenant in theArmy, who got into trouble and had been dead some years. Inthis case, after much correspondence with gentlemen and ladiesthoroughly acquainted with the facts, it did not seem to us thatthere was any way of helping a deserving widow, not very old,blind, crippled, and partly paralysed, except by pension
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