It was he who secured gas for Cambridge in 1853, and pure water, and a beard. He was a familiar figure in Washington, and well known among the public men of his day. A versatile and entertaining companion, by turns for years a most restless agitator for improvements in telegraphy and deaf-mutes, the school that drew Bell to Boston in 1871. And he had been Hubbard was by no means a novice. His first step toward capturing familiar to the public mind. He talked telephone by day and by night. publicity. He saw that this new idea of telephoning must be made He buttonholed every influential man who crossed his path. He was a the attention of an indifferent nation was to beat the big drum of telephone to a hostile public. His father had been a judge of the veritable "Ancient Mariner" of the telephone. No possible listener was telephone business. No other citizen had done more for the city of Cambridge than Hubbard. Whenever he travelled, he carried a pair of the magical instruments became a really indispensable factor as the first advance agent of the Massachusetts Supreme Court; and he himself was a lawyer whose practice street-railway to Boston. He had gone through the South in 1860 in had induced the legislature to establish the first public school for the patriotic hope that he might avert the impending Civil War. He or business experience, but he was admirably suited to introduce the the post office. So, as a promoter of schemes for the public good, had been mainly in matters of legislation. He was, in 1876, a man of prosperous and impecunious, and an optimist always, Gardiner Hubbard venerable appearance, with white hair, worn long, and a patriarchal in his valise, and gave demonstrations on trains and in hotels. of enthusiasm rather than of efficiency. He was not a man of wealth