Show aar lualter webb of r the sir leir lort fork centra central quite afflicted STANDARD S r chronicle service NEW YORK may 23 walter webb vice nce president of the new york central gentral A hudson kiver river railroad has been compelled to nork work on account 0 an affection of hia his ey eyes 8 A few days ano ago webb was Bud suddenly denly aly stricken with blindness as he eat at bis deck in in the gran i central depot physicians think that tha trouble was caused by the bursting bure tinn of a email small blood vessel at the base of the brain near where the optic nerves issue from the brain substance and run to crosa cross each other webb started for europe on wednesday to consult the best medical opinion that can be had there it is is not expected that much ca i be done for him beyond 1 sending him to the alpine regions to take a prolonged apt rpt bert t and build up his 1 n I ile tle ransa of mr webbs illness is believed tabe to be overwork at the time that bis his blindness came upon him mr webb sat eat at bis his desk denk in all the heal bealh b and unconcern of the best con man of business in in the city suddenly su he arose an expression that despair alone can give passed over his face lace his hands groped wildly before him hia his body swayed as though hu he were about to fall but lie is did not fall he lie merely stared etar ednith with a blank hopeless stare et areas as if be he was trying to eee see what did not exist his eyes were wide open but there was a look that bad had not been there before it was a look k of yes in which there ia Is n no 0 light he Ile stood that way for a while 0 silent then hesitating as it if unwilling 09 to ts lave have the truth forced upon him asked what was the matter with ith the light 8 meone answered that ill there ere was nothing it the matter that everything was just as it hid been during the entire morning 1 I cannot see I 1 am blind he said then he panic pank back into his a chair hair c and nas was boon soon after taken to his home sir webb is is a brother of dr bew ard webb president of the wagner wager palace car comp company and is a sonin son in law of the late wi william anTl tam vanderbilt lie ife flaa as recently promoted to hia his present position and anti given entire charge of the passenger traffic of the new york central system |