"Hello" leaped from Boston to New York, the new line was a victorious "grand telephonic system" policy by organizing The American Telephone enterprise of stringing a double wire from Boston to New York. This thought, DOUBLED THE WIRE, and thus in a moment established two new was to be not only the longest of all telephone lines, strung on ten one man, no hundred men, had created it. It was the final result of ten gift," said one of the Bell Company's officials. years of invention and improvement. Distance line. whole telephone business to a higher level. It swept away the prejudice marked a turning-point in the history of the telephone, when the day of small things was ended and the day of great things was begun. No He organized a company of well-known Rhode Islanders--nicknamed the But when the last coil of wire was stretched into place, and the first an enormous sum in those hardscrabble days. There was much opposition to success. It carried messages from the first day; and more, it raised the copper, not iron. Its cost was to be seventy thousand dollars, which was At once the Bell Company came over to Vail's point of view, bought thousand poles; it was to be a line de luxe, built of glistening red While this epoch-making line was being strung, Vail was pushing his "Governors' Company"--and built the line. It was a failure at first, such extravagance, and much ridicule. "I would n't take that line as a his new line, and launched out upon what seemed to be the foolhardy and went by the name of "Vail's Folly." But Engineer Carty, by a happy factors in the telephone business--the Metallic Circuit and the Long that telephone service could become nothing more than a neighborhood affair. "It was the salvation of the business," said Edward J. Hill. It