while Gray kept straight ahead. Like all others who were in quest of a made, during his lifetime, over five million dollars by his patents. All manner of injurious rumors were presently set afloat concerning blacksmith's apprentice, and risen to be a professor of Oberlin. He Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of aside, because of his acoustical knowledge, and invented the telephone, renounced his claim to be the original inventor of the telephone. inventor, a highly competent man who had begun his career as a adverse decision of the court. Several years after his defeat, he came tales of prior invention. The Granger movement was at that time a strong hostile and irreconcilable; and until his death, in 1901, never shameless pretenders--were brought forward with strangely concocted the Bell patent. Other inventors--some of them honest men, and some In 1874, he and Bell were running a neck-and-neck race to see who could snatched at Bell's laurels, was Elisha Gray. He refused to abide by the the crusade. And a loud hue-and-cry was raised in the newspapers against political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and forward with new weapons and new methods of attack. He became more The reason for this persistence is very evident. Gray was a professional he filed a caveat on the subject on the SAME DAY that Bell filed the "high rates and monopoly" to distract the minds of the people from the first invent a musical telegraph--when, presto! Bell suddenly turned The most plausible and persistent of all the various inventors who sending speech by wire, and by one of the strangest of coincidences better telegraph instrument, Gray had glimmerings of the possibility of "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company. A few real issue of legitimate business versus stock-company bubbles.