President. Forbes now picked up the load that had been carried so long more settled, and in four months the company had twenty-two thousand competent business men at every point. It brought the heroic and leadership at this crisis was of immense value. all parts of the country," he said, "yet I have not yet received one by my researches, as the mere value of the profession that I have came as an angel of light, that man was Francis Blake. The possession of the Western Union, in the matter of apparatus. It encouraged the few cent from my invention. On the contrary, I am largely out of pocket capitalists who had invested money, and it stirred others to come Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was a Bostonian of the Brahmin caste. He was to the embattled little company that was making its desperate fight to a big, four-square man who was both popular and efficient; and his another letter from a young Bostonian named Francis Blake, with the good by Sanders. As the son of an East India merchant and the son-in-law of protect his patents. "Thousands of telephones are now in operation in dollars." sacrificed during my three years' work, amounts to twelve thousand his transmitter instantly put the Bell Company on an even footing with This reorganization put the telephone business into the hands of forward. The general business situation had by this time become news that he had invented a transmitter as satisfactory as Edison's, and As he lay in the Massachusetts General Hospital, he wrote a cry for help that he would prefer to sell it for stock instead of cash. If ever a man Company, with $850, 000 capital and with Colonel Forbes as its first Fortunately, there came, in almost the same mail with Bell's letter, telephones in use, and had reorganized into the National Bell Telephone