earth, and join them by a second wire. This was the "metallic circuit" systems. But it was inevitable; and in 1883, while the dispute about it the Civil War his father made guns in the city of Cambridge, where young last," said the delighted manager, "we have a perfectly quiet line." This young man, a small, slim youth who was twenty-two years old idea. It meant an appalling increase in the use of wire. It would compel work that he was soon made one of the captains. At thirty years of age and looked younger, was no other than J. J. Carty, now the first of done? Step by step the telephone men were driven back. They were beaten. the rebuild-ing of the switchboards and the invention of new signal years earlier he had timidly asked for a job as operator in the Boston was in full blast, one of the young men quietly slipped it into use on All manner of devices were solemnly tried to hush the wires, and each What Carty has done is known by telephone men in all countries; but the that the only way was to pull up the ends of each wire from the tainted tell the weight of a bell from the sound of it. Moses G. Farmer, the John Joseph was born; and afterwards he made bells for church steeples. exchange, at five dollars a week, and had shown such an aptitude for the electrical inventor, and Howe, the creator of the sewing-machine, were Irish, pure Irish. His father had left Ireland as a boy in 1825. During a new line between Boston and Providence. The effect was magical. "At he became a central figure in the development of the art of telephony. story of Carty himself--who he is, and why--is new. First of all, he is telephone engineers and almost the creator of his profession. Three There was no way to silence these noises. Reluctantly, they agreed He was instinctively a mechanic and proud of his calling. He could one usually proved to be as futile as an incantation. What was to be