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