city engineer has designed his own type of apparatus and had it made to been a different story to tell. By his insistent enterprise he made Stockholm the best telephoned city outside of the United States. He so that Holland is dotted with thumb-nail systems, no two of which are there is unity, but no enterprise. The plant is old-fashioned and too twenty thousand people. Roumania has half as many. Portugal has two pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations. Since and a war has been begun which grows yearly more costly and absurd. small. Spain has private companies, which give fairly good service to small companies in Lisbon and Oporto. Greece, Servia, and Bulgaria have rather a patchwork, that resembles Joseph's coat of many colors. Each alike. In Belgium there has been a government system since 1893, hence order. Also, each company is fenced in by law within a six-mile circle, one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land his death the Government has entered the field with a duplicate system, under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes a scanty two thousand apiece. The frozen little isle of Iceland has business-builder of remarkable force and ability, named Henry Cedergren. It was let alone by the Post Office; and better still, it had a Man, a There is one European country, and only one, which has caught the telephone spirit--Sweden. Here telephony had a free swinging start. island of Japan. The Japanese were enthusiastic telephonists from the telephones than Philadelphia, and three-fourths of them are in the tiny of telephones and coils of copper wire. Had this man been made the Telephone-Master of Europe, there would have Asia, as yet, with her eight hundred and fifty million people, has fewer