Greece, Servia, and Bulgaria have a scanty two thousand apiece.

The frozen little isle of Iceland has one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes of telephones and coils of copper wire.
There is one European country, and only one, which has caught the telephone spirit--Sweden.

Here telephony had a free swinging start.
It was let alone by the Post Office; and better still, it had a Man, a business-builder of remarkable force and ability, named Henry Cedergren.
Had this man been made the Telephone-Master of Europe, there would have been a different story to tell.

By his insistent enterprise he made Stockholm the best telephoned city outside of the United States.

He pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations.