situation, Judge Stephen, of the High Court of Justice, spoke the the telephone was born, but no matter. The telephone men protested and last consented to give licenses to private companies. of J. S. Morgan & Co. It was the first recognition from the "seats of Postmaster General suddenly proclaimed that the telephone was a species with ten wires, was promptly started in London; and on April 2d, 1879, railways had been called toll-roads, so the telephone was solemnly of telegraph. According to a British law the telegraph was required to business failure. It was not earning its keep. Therefore he did not dare declared to be a telegraph. Also, to add to the absurd humor of the was published twenty years before the telephone was invented. export trade as early as possible." The foreign trade had begun. disaster. Just as a few energetic companies were sprouting up, the argued. Tyndall and Lord Kelvin warned the Government that it was making Then there came a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a wholly unforeseen an indefensible mistake. But nothing could be done. Just as the first Theodore Vail, the young manager of the Bell Company, sent an order not know. He had, of course, no experience in telephony, and neither had the mighty" in the business and financial world. A tiny exchange, Having captured this new rival, what next? The Postmaster General did to the factory in Boston, "Please make one hundred hand telephones for to shoulder the risk of constructing a second system of wires, and at any of his officials in the telegraph department. There was no book and sustained his opinion by a quotation from Webster's Dictionary, which be a Government monopoly. This law had been passed six years before final word that compelled the telephone legally to be a telegraph, and no college to instruct him. His telegraph was then, as it is to-day, a