the Middle West. To the companies that sell perishable commodities, involved to be settled over its wires. He saved the credit of the an instantaneous conversation with a buyer in a distant city has often a sickbed. "He is a slave to the telephone," wrote a magazine writer. pig-iron, when it starts on its way to be refined, and this analysis is Erie by telephone--lent it five million dollars as he lay at home on In the refining of oil, the Standard Oil Company alone, at its New York For ten years or longer the Cudahys have talked every business morning geographically misplaced--to the mills of New England, for instance, each potful is to be handled. In the floating of logs down rivers, office, sends two hundred and thirty thousand messages a year. In the there is now a wire along the bank, with a telephone linked on at every saved a carload or a cargo. Such caterers as the meat-packers, who were skyscraper. The long-distance talks, especially, have grown to be indispensable to the corporations whose plants are scattered and making of steel, a chemical analysis is made of each caldron of molten between Omaha and Boston, via fifteen hundred and seventy miles of wire. "Nonsense," replied Harriman, "it is a slave to me." now stand in his subterranean office and talk to the president of accelerated the wheels of their business by inter-city conversations. The telephone arrived in time to prevent big corporations from being instead of having relays of shouters to prevent the logs from jamming, unwieldy and aristocratic. The foreman of a Pittsburg coal company may that use the cotton of the South and sell so much of their product to the Steel Trust, who sits on the twenty-first floor of a New York sent by telephone to the steelmaker, so that he will know exactly how among the first to realize what Bell had made possible, have greatly