working force into an army of high-speed specialists without losing the new type, for which the telephonists of the next generation must adjunct of a telegraphic department. According to the new American plan, never been any cause for jealousy among them. to the other. The post office sends a package; the telegraph sends Elsewhere either the two are widely apart, or the telephone is a mere him either to school or to learn some useful trade. many messages as the combined total of telegrams, letters, and railroad passengers. Each of the three has a distinct field of its own, so that there has TIMES as many telephone calls as telegrams. In the United States, the To make the telephone an annex of the post office or the telegraph has This universal trend toward consolidation has introduced a variety of bird's-eye view of the whole situation,--these are the riddles of the many years to come. How to get the benefits of organization without its messages sent by telephone as by letter; and there are THIRTY-TWO succeeded in putting both telephone and telegraph upon the proper basis. times the net earnings and eight times the wire. And it transmits as telephone has grown to be the big brother of the telegraph. It has six without losing the dash and dare of earlier days, to develop the The fact is that the United States is the first country that has apparatus that makes conversation possible between two separated people. the contents of the package; but the telephone sends nothing. It is an problems that will engage the ablest brains in the telephone world for losses, to become strong without losing quickness, to become systematic the two are not competitive, but complementary. The one is a supplement become absurd. There are now in the whole world very nearly as many