reported favorably, and in a day or so the young man received a letter his invention, as might easily have happened. One by one there arrived found? This arrival of Vail at the critical moment emphasized the fact that that the whole matter appeared to have been previously rehearsed. No were the raw materials out of which a telephone business could be and I want you to run down and see what you think of him." Watson went, said, "there's a young man in Washington who can handle this situation, One morning the indefatigable Hubbard solved the problem. "Watson," he from Hubbard, offering him the position of General Manager, at a salary to help him a number of able men, with all the various abilities that that is essential to the success of an enterprise of this kind." One interests. Here, at last, after four years of the most heroic effort, an organizer; Bell had none; and Sanders was held fast by his leather the enterprise is such that I am willing to trust to it," he wrote, "and I have confidence that we shall establish the harmony and cooperation constructed. But who was to be the builder, and where was he to be Bell was one of the most fortunate of inventors. He was not robbed of the business began. of thirty-five hundred dollars a year. "We rely," Hubbard said, "upon sooner had Bell appeared on the stage than his supporting players, each young man replied, in one of those dignified letters more usual in the your executive ability, your fidelity, and unremitting zeal." The the changing situation required. There was such a focussing of factors Manager in a tiny office in Reade Street, New York, and the building of nineteenth than in the twentieth century. "My faith in the success of week later the young man, Theodore N. Vail, took his seat as General