It has already been found to be the quickest way of despatching trains.

It will do in five minutes what the telegraph did in ten.

And it has enabled railroads to hire more suitable men for the smaller offices.
In news-gathering, too, much more than in railroading, the day of the telephone has arrived.

The Boston Globe was the first paper to receive news by telephone.

Later came The Washington Star, which had a wire strung to the Capitol, and thereby gained an hour over its competitors.
To-day the evening papers receive most of their news over the wire a la Bell instead of a la Morse.