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railway mail service had lifted him up to a higher point of view. ways to organize a GRAND TELEPHONIC SYSTEM." of a considerable deal of ridicule, in maintaining that the telephone different cities for the purpose of personal communication, and in other any business future for the telephone except in short-distance service. as many telephones as there are to-day in Cincinnati. It was brave talk and was so stubbornly bent upon doing this that when the Bell Company in those days of iron wire, peg switchboards, and noisy diaphragms. Most "I saw that if the telephone could talk one mile to-day," he said, "it encouraged Charles J. Glidden, of world-tour fame, to build a telephone This was brave talk at that time, when there were not in the whole world a master-effort. He resolved to build a line from Boston to Providence, in arms. In 1879 Vail said, in a letter written to one of his captains: it made a small profit from the start. This success cheered Vail on to would be talking a hundred miles to-morrow." And he persisted, in spite Four months after he had prophesied the "grand telephonic system," he was well placed, as the owners of the Lowell mills lived in Boston, and the earth until 1896, but the keynote of expansion was first sounded by He knew the need of a national system of communication that would be line between Boston and Lowell. This was the first inter-city line. It But Vail was in earnest. His previous experience as the head of the was destined to connect cities and nations as well as individuals. telephone men regarded it as nothing more than talk. They did not see quicker and more direct than either the telegraph or the post office. refused to act, he picked up the risk and set off with it alone. Theodore Vail in the earliest days, when as yet the telephone was a babe "Tell our agents that we have a proposition on foot to connect the