efficient. All wires were at that time wrapped with cotton, and his plan erratic genius who had an invention for winding paper tape on wire for engineer named John A. Barrett, who had already made his mark as an expert, by finding a way to twist and transpose the wires, was set apart experimented until he had devised a machine that crumpled the paper the use of milliners. Next, having made the cable tight, Barrett set out to produce it more Paper-wound bonnet-wire! Who could imagine any connection between this It meant TIGHT COVERINGS. It meant a victory over that most troublesome this foundry he had seen a unique machine that could be made to mould of enemies--moisture. Also, it meant that cables could henceforth be on flat, he reasoned, it would be stronger. Just then he heard of an and expensive. Barrett at once searched the South for paper twine and found it. He bought a barrel of it from a small factory in Richmond, but work in a little wooden shed in the backyard of a Brooklyn foundry. In hot lead around a rope of twisted wires. This was a notable discovery. touch. For a time these paper-wound cables were soaked in oil, but in cheaply and by accident stumbled upon a way to make it immensely more was to find some less costly material that would serve the same purpose. had been used in the South during the Civil War, when cotton was scarce around the wire, instead of winding it tightly. This was the finishing One of his workmen, a Virginian, suggested the use of paper twine, which after a trial it proved to be too flimsy. If such paper could be put had always been an unmitigated nuisance. and the telephone? Yet this hint was exactly what Barrett needed. He to tackle this problem. Being an economical Vermonter, Barrett went to made longer, with fewer sleeves and splices, and without the oil, which