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For the first time they began to notice that there was a new word in the telephone to The Boston Globe, which announced the next morning-- came to Bell from Cyrus W. Field, the veteran of the Atlantic Cable, This Globe despatch awoke the newspaper editors with an unexpected jolt. any mention whatever of the telephone for seventy-five days after Bell received his patent. Not one of the swarm of reporters who thronged the from the poet Longfellow, and from many others. telegraph wire that ran from Salem to Boston. And Watson, who became the opening night was in Salem, before an audience of five hundred people, The Boston Globe, the whole newspaper world was agog with excitement. the days of his experiment, sitting proudly in one of the front seats. and with Mrs. Sand-ers, the motherly old lady who had sheltered Bell in "This special despatch of the Globe has been transmitted by telephone language, and a new idea in the scientific world. No newspaper had made A pole was set up at the front of the hall, supporting the end of a miles by the human voice." As he was by profession an elocutionist, Bell was able to make the most were given in the largest halls. At one lecture two Japanese gentlemen first public talker by telephone, sent messages from Boston to various Philadelphia Centennial had regarded the telephone as a matter of any never before attempted--the sending of news over the space of sixteen members of the audience. An account of this lecture was sent by of these opportunities. His lectures became popular entertainments. They which was the first money payment he had received for his invention. His A thousand pens wrote the name of Bell. Requests to repeat his lecture in the presence of twenty people, who have thus been witnesses to a feat public interest. But when a column of news was sent by telephone to

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