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and railroad offices. No matter in what direction the Bell Company telegraphy." anticipating the invention of Bell as a whole," he said; "and I conclude reference to the transmission of speech, and employed a professor From the first, the Western Union relied more upon its strength than refused to take this report seriously. They threw it aside and employed a telephone except Bell's way, and advised the purchase of the Bell pioneers at every point because it, too, was a WIRE company. It owned "probably the largest corporation that ever existed." It had behind it patents. "I am entirely unable to discover any apparatus or method rights-of-way along roads and on house-tops. It had a monopoly of hotels every book in the United States and Europe that was likely to have any At that time, it should be remembered, the Western Union was the only electrical company in the world, and, as Bell wrote to his parents, and the favor of financiers everywhere. Also, it met the telephone that his patent is valid." But the officials of the great corporation interviewed; and found nothing of any value. In his final report to not only forty millions of capital, but the prestige of the Vanderbilts, opinion, "just as it has already swallowed up all improvements in corporation that was national in its extent. It was the most powerful libraries and patent offices; they rummaged and sleuthed and had made a six months' examination of the Bell patents. He had bought turned, the live wire of the Western Union lay across its path. the Western Union, Mr. Pope announced that there was no way to make upon the merits of its case. Its chief electrical expert, Frank L. Pope, who knew eight languages to translate them. He and his men ransacked Edison, Gray, and Dolbear to devise a telephone that could be put into