settled several years ago by an overflow of Russian Jews from the East in Orchard Street which has more wires than there are in all the a common meeting place to capitalists and wage-workers. It is so that there are now in the United States seventy thousand holders of Bell exchanges of Egypt. essentially the instrument of all the people, in fact, that we might telephone stock and ten million users of telephone service. There are and the American spirit. and skyscraper and mansion and factory and farm. It is not limited to that the humble immigrants from Southern Europe, before they have been system; and five hundred and forty-four crossing Mason and Dixon's Line. It is the telephone which does most to link together cottage two hundred and sixty-four wires crossing the Mississippi, in the Bell have linked on their small shops to the great wire network of well as the man with a million. It speaks all languages and serves all In a country like ours, where there are eighty nationalities in the public schools, the telephone has a peculiar value as a part of the experts or college graduates. It reaches the man with a nickel as almost point to it as a national emblem, as the trade-mark of democracy helps on the process of assimilation. Such is the push of American life, Side of New York, there are now as many telephones as in the kingdom of intercommunication. In the one community of Brownsville, for example, national digestive apparatus. It prevents the growth of dialects and Greece. And in the swarming East Side itself, there is a single exchange trades. It helps to prevent sectionalism and race feuds. It gives of all manner of men, is perhaps not too much to claim, when we remember here half a dozen years, have acquired the telephone habit and