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Spencer, the philosopher. And in 1890, he gathered around him a winnowed necessity of taking down the wires in the city streets and putting them alone they had overspread eleven thousand roofs. These roofs had to be as they had escaped from the clamor of the mysterious noises, was the only possible way, so far as any one knew in that kindergarten period. overhead method had been outgrown. Some streets in the larger cities had From poles the wires soon overflowed to housetops, until in New York that the number of wires had swollen from hundreds to thousands, the group of college graduates--he has sixty of them on his staff to-day--so three hundred wires. The next problem that faced the young men of the telephone, as soon merest shred of rust. As if these troubles were not enough, there were sixty--seventy--eighty. Finally the highest of all pole lines was built that he might bequeath to the telephone an engineering corps of loyal wires. Many a wire, in less than two or three years, was withered to the Telephone. He was himself a student by disposition, with a special taste and efficient men. smother it, to make it dull or perhaps entirely useless. But now underground. At first, they had strung the wires on poles and roof-tops. for the writings of Faraday, the forerunner; Tyndall, the expounder; and They had done this, not because it was cheap, but because it was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company became the University of the kept in repair, and their chimneys were the deadly enemies of the iron become black with wires. Poles had risen to fifty feet in height, then top ninety feet above the roadway, and carrying thirty cross-arms and along West Street, New York--every pole a towering Norway pine, with its A telephone wire required the daintiest of handling. To bury it was to

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