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