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users--that was the Gordian knot; and the man who unquestionably did them to pay instead a percentage of gross receipts. And it was he who of the long-distance traffic. He was then, and is to-day, one of the zealot for the improvement and extension of telephone service. It was he who set the agents free from the ball-and-chain of royalties, allowing most to untie it was Edward J. Hall. Mr. Hall founded the telephone and others too much. It was a very unsatisfactory situation. pleased. This was a simple method, and the most satisfactory for small How to extend the service and at the same time cheapen it to small wires with deadhead calls. It was giving some people too little service cutting to the marrow of a proposition, Hall has at the same time been a RATE system. number. The large user pays more, and the little user pays less. It the business. It was shutting out the small users. It was clogging the "candid friend" of the business, incessantly suggesting, probing, and By this plan, which U. N. Bethell developed to its highest point in New though it were a piano or a diamond sunburst. Such a plan was strangling number of messages per year, and extra for all messages over this "broke the jam," as a lumberman would say, by suggesting the MESSAGE towns and farming regions. But in a great city such a plan grew to be criticising. Keen and dispassionate, with a genius for mercilessly the same yearly price and then used their telephones as often as they statesmen of the telephone. For more than thirty years he has been the which lifted the telephone as high above the mass of the citizens as York, a user of the telephone pays a fixed minimum price for a certain business in Buffalo in 1878, and seven years afterwards became the chief suicidal. In New York, for instance, the price had to be raised to $240,

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