So, just as Amos Kendall had left the post office service thirty years Telephone Company" was organized, with $450,000 capital and a service of job with no salary." friends to buy stock, so that in less than two months the first "Bell country. Consequently, he had a quality of experience that was immensely willing to leave a Government job with a small salary for a telephone twelve thousand telephones. by line, he mapped out a method, a policy, a system. He introduced commission on mail transportation. He and Hubbard were constantly thrown telephone, and by the time that he was asked to become its General of telephones in his valise, the two men soon became co-enthusiasts. developer of a system that covered every inhabited portion of the While in the midst of this bureaucratic house-cleaning he met Hubbard, together, on trains and in hotels; and as Hubbard invariably had a pair who had just been appointed by President Hayes as the head of a Manager, he had become so confident that, as he said afterwards, he "was virtue of this position he was the one man in the United States who had Vail found himself painting brain-pictures of the future of the valuable in straightening out the tangled affairs of the telephone. Line post office service to establish the telephone business. He had been before to establish the telegraph business, Theodore N. Vail left the apt, consequently, than other men to develop the idea of a national a comprehensive view of all railways and telegraphs. He was much more telephone system. a larger view of the telephone business, and swept off the table all schemes for selling out. He persuaded half a dozen of his post office in authority over thirty-five hundred postal employees, and was the