his death the Government has entered the field with a duplicate system, Had this man been made the Telephone-Master of Europe, there would have business-builder of remarkable force and ability, named Henry Cedergren. so that Holland is dotted with thumb-nail systems, no two of which are pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five of telephones and coils of copper wire. telephones than Philadelphia, and three-fourths of them are in the tiny twenty thousand people. Roumania has half as many. Portugal has two It was let alone by the Post Office; and better still, it had a Man, a order. Also, each company is fenced in by law within a six-mile circle, and a war has been begun which grows yearly more costly and absurd. Stockholm the best telephoned city outside of the United States. He under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land Asia, as yet, with her eight hundred and fifty million people, has fewer city engineer has designed his own type of apparatus and had it made to island of Japan. The Japanese were enthusiastic telephonists from the rather a patchwork, that resembles Joseph's coat of many colors. Each small companies in Lisbon and Oporto. Greece, Servia, and Bulgaria have there is unity, but no enterprise. The plant is old-fashioned and too There is one European country, and only one, which has caught the a scanty two thousand apiece. The frozen little isle of Iceland has small. Spain has private companies, which give fairly good service to telephone spirit--Sweden. Here telephony had a free swinging start. thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations. Since alike. In Belgium there has been a government system since 1893, hence been a different story to tell. By his insistent enterprise he made