Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — A Blind Telegraph Operator. [ARTICLE]

A Blind Telegraph Operator.

A friend of mine, who is a telegraph operator, tells me a story of a fellow-operator in a small Connecticut town with whom he had been working on the’ same wire for some time. last week,”; die says, “I was piled up witji business, and was feeling rather cranky, and I just ‘soaked’ him for all I was worth. He never broke and gave O. K. for the message, and I started in to work with another office on the same line, when thisu fellow called me (that is, he broke iff on my sending] aprfwanted me to repeat,lbe Message that I had but a few ippments before sent him. j . “Well, I repeated' it, and when I got through he said: ‘You will please excuse me, but I wrote the first message on the back of a blank, and the boy couldn’t read it (there 4 1 printing on the backs of the blanks); I’ll try and be more careful in the futuie ’ I thought it rather queer that an operator would write a message on the back of a blank, so I asked him how he came to do - , that, and he said: ‘Why, don’t you know? I’m blind. ’ I found that he was really blind. He takes bis messages on with a pen, but employs a boy to read the messages to him that are to be sent. He does as good work as any of his fellow-operat-ors.”—Boston News.