Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — PILGRIMAGE OF THE BLIND [ARTICLE]

PILGRIMAGE OF THE BLIND

New York City Doles Out Cash tc Sightless—Each Unfortunate Receives $49 Every Year. New York. —Five hundred and fortyeight sightless men and women tap ped their way through Misery Lane the other day in their annual pilgrimage to the office of the department oi charities, at the foot of East 26th street, where funds are distributed to the destitute hlind. Each received $49 in cash. In line were old and young, black and white and representatives oi many nations and creeds. There were husbands being led by wives, wives led by husbands, parents in the case of children and others who slowly felt their way alone. The anual distribution of funds has been observed since 1875.