We have about ten million telephones, while Canada, Central America, South America, Great Britain, Europe, Asia, and Africa all combined have only about four million.

In order to make an impressive showing, however, we need not include the backward peoples, for a comparison with the most enlightened nations emphasizes the same point.

Thus New York City has more telephones than six European countries taken together--Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Chicago, with a population of 2,000,000, has more telephones than the whole of France, with a population of 40,000,000.

Philadelphia, with 1,500,000, has more than the Russian Empire, with 166,000,000.