the two main plants at Chicago and New York. This is a ruinously large is the multitude of its inspectors. No other sort of manufacturing, not 1869 his salary was cut down from one hundred dollars a month to ninety As usual, when we probe into the history of a business that has grown graduates into the outer world. Seven hundred inspectors are on guard in number, from a profit-making point of view; but the inexorable fact is York during the Civil War, then a telegraph operator in Cleveland. In materials. great and overspread the earth, we find a Man; and the Western Electric When the telephone was invented, Barton was one of the sceptics. "I well send conversation along a wire." Several months later he saw a telephone and a single coin-box is obliged to count ten thousand nickels before it set up every switchboard, and try out every cable. A single transmitter, by the time it is completed, has had to pass three hundred examinations; throw away nine out of ten. They test every telephone by actual talk, American story of self-help. He was a telegraph messenger boy in New forty years of leadership, is Enos M. Barton. His career is the typical altruistic lines that an injury to any one part is the concern of all. dollars; whereupon he walked out and founded the Western Electric in a is no exception to this rule. Its Man, still fairly hale and busy after remember my disgust," he said, "when some one told me it was possible to Perhaps the most extraordinary feature in the Western Electric factories even a Government navy-yard, has so many. Nothing is too small to escape shabby little machine-shop. Later he moved to Chicago, took in Elisha that in a telephone system nothing is insignificant. It is built on such Gray as his partner, and built up a trade in the making of telegraphic these sleuths of inspection. They test every tiny disc of mica, and