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requiring twenty drays, forty horses, and four hundred men to do the the Hudson Terminal, there are more telephones than in Odessa or Madrid, Merely to operate this system requires an army of more than five ago; but now there are fifty-two exchanges, as the nerve-centres of York than there are in the four countries, France, Belgium, Holland, and eight-hundred-page quarterly, with a circulation of half a million, and record-breaker when the era of telephone expansion arrived. Here the put on desks or hung on walls--an average of one new user for every two more than in the two kingdoms of Greece and Bulgaria combined. unapproachable. Mass together all the telephones of London, Glasgow, a vast fifty-million-dollar system. Incredible as it may seem to from the factory and put in place in New York's homes and offices. More and more were demanded, until to-day there are more telephones in New But as might have been expected, it was New York City that was the Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffleld, Bristol, and Switzerland combined. As a user of telephones New York has risen to be Belfast, and there will even then be barely as many as are carrying the minutes of the business day. work of distribution. There was one shabby little exchange thirty years Literally tons, and hundreds of tons, of telephones were hauled in drays two hundred and fifty-two names; but now it has grown to be an conversations of this one American city. of users leaped from 56,000 in 1900 up to 810,000 in 1908. In a single flood of big business struck with the force of a tidal wave. The number year of sweating and breathless activity, 65,000 new telephones were In 1879 the New York telephone directory was a small card, showing foreigners, it is literally true that in a single building in New York,

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