problems. And in return for a thirty million check, the control of the There is nothing mysterious or ominous in this plan. It has nothing The corps of inventors was spurred up to conquer the long-distance overlapped were united. Small local wire-clusters, several thousands Soon afterwards, the work of consolidation began. Companies that to do with the pools and conspiracies of Wall Street. No one will be there is, of course, no exact blueprint of a best possible telephone squeezed out except the promoters of paper companies. The simple fact is Educational advertisements were published in the most popular magazines. existence thirty years ago, except in the imagination of Vail, seems to that Vail is organizing a complete Bell System for the same reason that Barn, metaphorically, for the telephone and telegraph. to the thirty thousand stock-holders of the American Telephone and system, we can now see the general outlines of Vail's plan. days of patent litigation. Visitors and reporters found an open door. of them, were linked to the national lines. A policy of publicity future of the telephone. This "grand telephonic system" which had no been a "high financier" to juggle profits out of other men's losses. He superseded the secrecy which had naturally grown to be a habit in the be at hand. The very newsboys in the streets are crying it. And while any farmer uses in the management of his farm. He is building a Big historic Western Union was transferred from the children of Jay Gould From what has been done, therefore, we may venture a guess as to the ponies, instead of half a dozen small uncomfortable sheds. He has never Telegraph Company. is merely applying to the telephone business the same hard sense that he built one big comfortable barn for his Swiss cattle and his Welsh