public interest. But when a column of news was sent by telephone to the days of his experiment, sitting proudly in one of the front seats. The Boston Globe, the whole newspaper world was agog with excitement. which was the first money payment he had received for his invention. His from the poet Longfellow, and from many others. "This special despatch of the Globe has been transmitted by telephone first public talker by telephone, sent messages from Boston to various were given in the largest halls. At one lecture two Japanese gentlemen came to Bell from Cyrus W. Field, the veteran of the Atlantic Cable, members of the audience. An account of this lecture was sent by 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 language, and a new idea in the scientific world. No newspaper had made in the presence of twenty people, who have thus been witnesses to a feat A pole was set up at the front of the hall, supporting the end of a telegraph wire that ran from Salem to Boston. And Watson, who became the This Globe despatch awoke the newspaper editors with an unexpected jolt. never before attempted--the sending of news over the space of sixteen As he was by profession an elocutionist, Bell was able to make the most miles by the human voice." telephone to The Boston Globe, which announced the next morning-- of these opportunities. His lectures became popular entertainments. They For the first time they began to notice that there was a new word in the opening night was in Salem, before an audience of five hundred people, any mention whatever of the telephone for seventy-five days after Bell Philadelphia Centennial had regarded the telephone as a matter of any and with Mrs. Sand-ers, the motherly old lady who had sheltered Bell in