he noticed an invention of young Scribner's--a telegraph repeater. bachelor named Thomas Bond. He had no special interest in telegraphy. to the Western Electric factory in Chicago. Here he accidentally met boys and gave them money to buy more wires and more batteries. One day been the wizard of the switchboard. It was he who saw most clearly its the Pyramids or the digging of the Panama Canal. The earlier types of requirements. Hundreds of others have helped, but Scribner was the one "This may make your fortune," he said, "but no mechanic in Toledo since. Such is the story of the entrance of Charles E. Scribner into the His monumental work has been the development of the MULTIPLE It may go far to explain the peculiar genius of Scribner to say that he Scribner showed no aptitude for the tangles of the law. He preferred the tangles of wire and system in miniature, which he and several other boys genius and offered him a job, which he accepted and has held ever end became the master of his craft. telegraphic apparatus is made." The boy gladly took his advice and went had built and learned to operate. These boys had a benefactor in an old telephone business, where he has been well-nigh indispensable. Enos M. Barton, the head of the factory. Barton noted that the boy was a He was a dealer in hides. But he was attracted by the cleverness of the man who persevered, who never asked for an easier job, and who in the that his mother was at the time profoundly interested in the work and was born in 1858, in the year of the laying of the Atlantic Cable; and switchboard had become too cumbersome by 1885. They were well enough for Switchboard, a much more brain-twisting problem than the building of anxious for its success. His father was a judge in Toledo; but young can make a proper model of it for you. You must go to Chicago, where