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leviathans that curve across the Atlantic Ocean in four and a half days. thousand girls. Merely to keep their records requires two hundred and most of the others are still alive and busy. Union N. Bethell, now babel of one hundred and eighty thousand conversations an hour, with are awake and at the telephone. Half an hour later there are twice as calls a minute. Between five and six o'clock, two thousand New Yorkers many. Between seven and eight twenty-five thousand people have called By half-past eight it is doubled; by nine it is trebled; by ten it is up twenty-five thousand other people, so that there are as many people And merely to give these girls a cup of tea or coffee at noon, compels multiplied sixfold; and by eleven the roar has become an incredible The myriad wires of this New York system are tingling with talk every the Bell Company to buy yearly six thousand pounds of tea, seventeen talking by wire as there were in the whole city of New York in the and one hundred and forty barrels of sugar. give in any city. And it is as much a world's wonder, to men and fifty new voices clamoring at the exchanges every second. is the utmost degree of service that the telephone has been required to As to the men who built it up: Charles F. Cutler died in 1907, but This is "the peak of the load." It is the topmost pinnacle of talk. It thousand pounds of coffee, forty-eight thousand cans of condensed milk, minute of the day and night. They are most at rest between three and four o'clock in the morning, although even then there are usually ten women of imagination, as the steel mills of Homestead or the turbine these records wears away five hundred and sixty thousand lead pencils. Revolutionary period. Even this is only the dawn of the day's business. thirty-five million sheets of paper a year. Merely to do the writing of