He gave it tone and prestige. He built up its credit. He kept it clean educated, popularized. And the man who was finally chosen to replace above all else a scholar, then a lawyer, and somewhat incidentally the of rare books and old English engravings. He was a master of the Greek a man of affairs, had been marine law; and his hobby was the collection it carries to-day. It had still too many problems to solve and too When Vail said auf wiedersehen to the telephone business, it had passed preference so far as to write his business memoranda in Greek. He was from infancy to childhood. It was well shaped but not fully grown. Its period. pioneering days were over. It was self-supporting and had a little money Vail was in many respects the appropriate leader for such a preparatory the language of Pericles in his conversation; and even carried this thirty years before. profession and a university professor by temperament. His specialty, as have at its head a man of Hudson's intellectual and moral calibre. and recently, in 1907, he came back to be the head of the telephone central figure in the telephone world. iron ore in Lynn when Charles the First was King. He was a lawyer by Boston; a long-pedigreed New Englander, whose ancestors had smelted telephone people. He was a man of middle age, born in Lynn and bred in in the bank. But it could not then have carried the load of traffic that language, and very fond of using it. On all possible occasions he used much general inertia to overcome. It needed to be conserved, drilled, business, and to complete the work of organization that he started Hudson--John Elbridge Hudson--was the name of the new head of the But it was of tremendous value to the telephone business at that time to