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Show NEW YORK'S BLIND NEWSMAN. Be Is Old, Poor, and with No Certala Prospects. It is a bad thing to be blind; It is won to be blind and poor, and it is still worse to be blind, poor and old. The last is the case of Abraham S. Young, now 75 years of age, who has sold newspapers at Fulton ferry, Kew York city, for nearly half a century tn fact evar since, when a young man, he ABRAHAM 6. l'OUNtt. lest his sight through an explosion. The occupation bu furnished him with the canty means of living from day to day, but no more. Now that he is almost helpless help-less even this slight source of income seemt likely to fail, for business changes at the ferry will necessitate his securing a new stand, something difficult to do in New York city where nearly every other corner has its permanent paper shop, while the streets swarm at publication hours with eager and active newsboys. |