Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . THESE BLINDED BRITISH SOLDIERS, HAVING BEEN TRAINED TO ABLIND TRADE, NEED PRACTICAL PAYING WORK. WHAT WILL*YOU DO TO HELP B. FUND GIVE WORK TO THEM? AN APPEAL FOB. Five annual remittances of $40,000for the care of the several soldiers and sailors of Francehave been guaranteed by the financecommittee of the A. B. F. B. Per-manent Blind Relief War Fund. Astatement to this effect was issued to-day by the chairman of the funds lo-cal committee. H. P. Brown, 168 street. The A. B. F. B. Funds


Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . THESE BLINDED BRITISH SOLDIERS, HAVING BEEN TRAINED TO ABLIND TRADE, NEED PRACTICAL PAYING WORK. WHAT WILL*YOU DO TO HELP B. FUND GIVE WORK TO THEM? AN APPEAL FOB. Five annual remittances of $40,000for the care of the several soldiers and sailors of Francehave been guaranteed by the financecommittee of the A. B. F. B. Per-manent Blind Relief War Fund. Astatement to this effect was issued to-day by the chairman of the funds lo-cal committee. H. P. Brown, 168 street. The A. B. F. B. Funds financecommittee consists of Messrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the Na-tional City Bank of New York,Otto , Edmund L. Baylies and GeorgeA. Kessler. This annual 540,000 allow-ance, it is hoped, may be increasedand its term extended to ten or fifteenyears instead of five. George A. Kessler has also donatedhis private residence at 24-26 AvenueRaphael, Paris, as the funds tempora-ry French headquarters. This resi-dence is situated the Bois de Bou-logne. Its large uid beautiful gardenis especially adapted to the needs ofthe blind. As soon as adequate addi-tional funds are collected, a permanent,dwelling, capable of including


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