Thayer is a Vermonter who has climbed the ladder of experience from its lower rungs to the top.

He is a typical Yankee--lean, shrewd, tireless, and with a cold-blooded sense of justice that fits him for the leadership of twenty-six thousand people.
So, as we have seen, the telephone as Bell invented it, was merely a brilliant beginning in the development of the art of telephony.

It was an elfin birth--an elusive and delicate sprite that had to be nurtured into maturity.

It was like a soul, for which a body had to be created; and no one knew how to make such a body.

Had it been born in some less energetic country, it might have remained feeble and undeveloped; but not in the United States.