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politicians. In St. Louis, one of the few cities that charged a exchanges were started, the rate was seldom more than three dollars named Thomas E. Cornish was attacked as though he had suddenly become a everywhere been made too low. Hubbard had set a price of twenty dollars No official would grant him a permit to string wires. His workmen were sufficient price, nine-tenths of the merchants refused to become a month. There were deadheads in abundance, mostly officials and to make a cent." some bulletin of discouragement or defeat. general situation very correctly when he said: "We were all in a state earned a dollar. Even as late as 1880, when the first National Telephone those hopes they were very airy indeed. There was probably not one he might as well expect to lease jew's-harps as telephones. Finally, he public enemy, when he set out to establish the first telephone service. of enthusiastic uncertainty. We were full of hope, yet when we analyzed a year, for the use of two telephones on a private line; and when company that could say it was making a cent, nor even that it EXPECTED or be driven out. When he asked capitalists for money, they replied that subscribers. In Boston, the first pay-station ran three months before it and adventures. In Philadelphia, for instance, a resolute young man Especially in the largest cities, where the Western Union had most was compelled to resort to strategy where argument had failed. He had Convention was held at Niagara Falls, one of the delegates expressed the In the effort to conciliate a hostile public, the telephone rates had received an order from Colonel Thomas Scott, who wanted a wire between arrested. The printing-telegraph men warned him that he must either quit power, the lives of the telephone pioneers were packed with hardships

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