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it carries to-day. It had still too many problems to solve and too Vail was in many respects the appropriate leader for such a preparatory and recently, in 1907, he came back to be the head of the telephone language, and very fond of using it. On all possible occasions he used from infancy to childhood. It was well shaped but not fully grown. Its the language of Pericles in his conversation; and even carried this Boston; a long-pedigreed New Englander, whose ancestors had smelted iron ore in Lynn when Charles the First was King. He was a lawyer by Hudson--John Elbridge Hudson--was the name of the new head of the educated, popularized. And the man who was finally chosen to replace pioneering days were over. It was self-supporting and had a little money But it was of tremendous value to the telephone business at that time to telephone people. He was a man of middle age, born in Lynn and bred in profession and a university professor by temperament. His specialty, as in the bank. But it could not then have carried the load of traffic that central figure in the telephone world. of rare books and old English engravings. He was a master of the Greek much general inertia to overcome. It needed to be conserved, drilled, He gave it tone and prestige. He built up its credit. He kept it clean thirty years before. When Vail said auf wiedersehen to the telephone business, it had passed above all else a scholar, then a lawyer, and somewhat incidentally the a man of affairs, had been marine law; and his hobby was the collection period. have at its head a man of Hudson's intellectual and moral calibre. preference so far as to write his business memoranda in Greek. He was business, and to complete the work of organization that he started

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