a larger view of the telephone business, and swept off the table all together, on trains and in hotels; and as Hubbard invariably had a pair a comprehensive view of all railways and telegraphs. He was much more by line, he mapped out a method, a policy, a system. He introduced country. Consequently, he had a quality of experience that was immensely telephone, and by the time that he was asked to become its General willing to leave a Government job with a small salary for a telephone in authority over thirty-five hundred postal employees, and was the friends to buy stock, so that in less than two months the first "Bell While in the midst of this bureaucratic house-cleaning he met Hubbard, Telephone Company" was organized, with $450,000 capital and a service of apt, consequently, than other men to develop the idea of a national twelve thousand telephones. telephone system. valuable in straightening out the tangled affairs of the telephone. Line before to establish the telegraph business, Theodore N. Vail left the post office service to establish the telephone business. He had been virtue of this position he was the one man in the United States who had who had just been appointed by President Hayes as the head of a of telephones in his valise, the two men soon became co-enthusiasts. Vail found himself painting brain-pictures of the future of the So, just as Amos Kendall had left the post office service thirty years commission on mail transportation. He and Hubbard were constantly thrown developer of a system that covered every inhabited portion of the schemes for selling out. He persuaded half a dozen of his post office Manager, he had become so confident that, as he said afterwards, he "was job with no salary."