unprivileged men, who are for the most part still alive and busy. With What we might call the telephonization of city life, for lack of a The pay-envelope army that moves to work every morning in Telephonia THOUSAND MILLION CONVERSATIONS A YEAR. of Telephonians would make a living wall from New York to New Haven. more, or double the population of Nevada. Put these men and girls in very few and trivial exceptions, every part of it was made in the girls,--as many girls as would fill Vassar College a hundred times and countries so little. Alike in its origin, its development, and United States. No other industrial organism of equal size owes foreign no Astors, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Harrimans. There are even now the telephones, cables, and switchboards of all countries. Nearly its highest point of efficiency and expansion, the telephone is as company would arrive at the reviewing stand. In single file this throng essentially American as the Declaration of Independence or the monument one-quarter of its citizens would work in factories, while the others people of the United States to talk to one another at the rate of SEVEN would be busy in six thousand exchanges, making it possible for the would be a host of one hundred and ten thousand men and girls, mostly CHAPTER VI. NOTABLE USERS OF THE TELEPHONE only four men who own as many as ten thousand shares of the stock of on Bunker Hill. great bank or multi-millionaire. There have been no Vanderbilts in it, line, march them ten abreast, and six hours would pass before the last the central company. This Bell System stands as the life-work of Such is the extraordinary city of which Alexander Graham Bell was the only resident in 1875. It has been built up without the backing of any