kingdom of Spain. In an average year they send six million messages. The telephones--nearly as many as the continent of Africa and more than the contracts, give evidence, try lawsuits, make speeches, propose marriage, business offices. It is one of the few types of architecture that may was in the days of Abraham Lincoln. It has enabled us to be more social truly an organ of the social body that by telephone we now enter into Whether the telephone does most to concentrate population, or to scatter due to the fact that its inhabitants may run errands by telephone as fairly be called American. And its efficiency is largely, if not mainly, fairy tales of ancient nations. The skyscraper is ten years younger than families, and has made us members of one great family. It has become so and cooperative. It has literally abolished the isolation of separate well as by elevator. simpler word, has remarkably altered our manner of living from what it it, is a question that has not yet been examined. It is certainly true the telephone. It is now generally seen to be the ideal building for a matter of speech. or John Wanamaker's, have risen as high as the three thousand mark. and twenty telephones and five hundred thousand calls a year; while bewildering extent, as these are the places where many interests meet. merely the Christmas Eve orders that flash into Marshall Field's store, that it has made the skyscraper possible, and thus helped to create The hundred largest hotels in New York City have twenty-one thousand an absolutely new type of city, such as was never imagined even in the In stores and hotels this wire traffic has grown to an almost confer degrees, appeal to voters, and do almost everything else that is Waldorf-Astoria alone tops all residential buildings with eleven hundred