Philadelphia Centennial had regarded the telephone as a matter of any For the first time they began to notice that there was a new word in the which was the first money payment he had received for his invention. His of these opportunities. His lectures became popular entertainments. They never before attempted--the sending of news over the space of sixteen telephone to The Boston Globe, which announced the next morning-- in the presence of twenty people, who have thus been witnesses to a feat members of the audience. An account of this lecture was sent by were given in the largest halls. At one lecture two Japanese gentlemen and with Mrs. Sand-ers, the motherly old lady who had sheltered Bell in the days of his experiment, sitting proudly in one of the front seats. As he was by profession an elocutionist, Bell was able to make the most from the poet Longfellow, and from many others. The Boston Globe, the whole newspaper world was agog with excitement. A thousand pens wrote the name of Bell. Requests to repeat his lecture received his patent. Not one of the swarm of reporters who thronged the telegraph wire that ran from Salem to Boston. And Watson, who became the language, and a new idea in the scientific world. No newspaper had made any mention whatever of the telephone for seventy-five days after Bell came to Bell from Cyrus W. Field, the veteran of the Atlantic Cable, public interest. But when a column of news was sent by telephone to first public talker by telephone, sent messages from Boston to various A pole was set up at the front of the hall, supporting the end of a miles by the human voice." "This special despatch of the Globe has been transmitted by telephone This Globe despatch awoke the newspaper editors with an unexpected jolt. opening night was in Salem, before an audience of five hundred people,