which conversations can be held has been increased from twenty miles a valuable minute. It must be cut to twenty-five seconds, or twenty or find the answers. They illustrate the nature of the big jobs that the telephony. And as for the poets, they are now dreaming of the time interests in common. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, for instance, fortune for the use of a pair of wires to New York. struggle remains between the large and little ideas--between the men who there were Americans in Peking who would gladly have given half of their The immediate long-distance problem is, of course, to talk from New York In the earliest days of the telephone, Bell was fond of prophesying that fifteen. most conservative engineer will discuss the problem of transatlantic taken in the early centrals; but it is still too long. It is one-half of person wanted in thirty seconds. This is one-tenth of the time that was see what might be and the men who only see what IS. There is still the when a man may speak and hear his own voice come back to him around the says J. J. Carty, the chief of the telephone engineers. The eternal "the time will come when we will talk across the Atlantic Ocean"; but race to break records. Already the girl at the switchboard can find the this was regarded as a poetical fancy until Pupin invented his method civilized human beings who are twelve thousand miles apart, and who have "The problems never were as large or as complex as they are right now," of automatically propelling the electric current. Since then the There is still the inventors' battle to gain miles. The distance over world. to twenty-five hundred. But this is not far enough. There are some telephone has to offer to an ambitious and gifted young man of to-day.