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The History of the Telephone

CHAPTER IX
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The very newsboys in the streets are crying it.

And while there is, of course, no exact blueprint of a best possible telephone system, we can now see the general outlines of Vail's plan.
There is nothing mysterious or ominous in this plan.

It has nothing to do with the pools and conspiracies of Wall Street.

No one will be squeezed out except the promoters of paper companies.

The simple fact is that Vail is organizing a complete Bell System for the same reason that he built one big comfortable barn for his Swiss cattle and his Welsh ponies, instead of half a dozen small uncomfortable sheds.


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