had induced the legislature to establish the first public school for street-railway to Boston. He had gone through the South in 1860 in or business experience, but he was admirably suited to introduce the Whenever he travelled, he carried a pair of the magical instruments telephone business. deaf-mutes, the school that drew Bell to Boston in 1871. And he had been had been mainly in matters of legislation. He was, in 1876, a man of veritable "Ancient Mariner" of the telephone. No possible listener was the patriotic hope that he might avert the impending Civil War. He the post office. So, as a promoter of schemes for the public good, prosperous and impecunious, and an optimist always, Gardiner Hubbard It was he who secured gas for Cambridge in 1853, and pure water, and a public men of his day. A versatile and entertaining companion, by turns became a really indispensable factor as the first advance agent of the beard. He was a familiar figure in Washington, and well known among the of enthusiasm rather than of efficiency. He was not a man of wealth Massachusetts Supreme Court; and he himself was a lawyer whose practice Hubbard was by no means a novice. His first step toward capturing the attention of an indifferent nation was to beat the big drum of He buttonholed every influential man who crossed his path. He was a venerable appearance, with white hair, worn long, and a patriarchal for years a most restless agitator for improvements in telegraphy and in his valise, and gave demonstrations on trains and in hotels. familiar to the public mind. He talked telephone by day and by night. No other citizen had done more for the city of Cambridge than Hubbard. telephone to a hostile public. His father had been a judge of the publicity. He saw that this new idea of telephoning must be made