He has forced the telephone business into a postal mould.

The man in a small city must pay as high a rate for a small service, as the man in a large city pays for a large service.

There is a fair degree of efficiency, but no high speed or record-breaking.

The German engineers have not kept in close touch with the progress of telephony in the United States.

They have preferred to devise methods of their own, and so have created a miscellaneous assortment of systems, good, bad, and indifferent.