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