the telephone. It is now generally seen to be the ideal building for business offices. It is one of the few types of architecture that may Waldorf-Astoria alone tops all residential buildings with eleven hundred simpler word, has remarkably altered our manner of living from what it merely the Christmas Eve orders that flash into Marshall Field's store, that it has made the skyscraper possible, and thus helped to create families, and has made us members of one great family. It has become so was in the days of Abraham Lincoln. It has enabled us to be more social and twenty telephones and five hundred thousand calls a year; while it, is a question that has not yet been examined. It is certainly true fairly be called American. And its efficiency is largely, if not mainly, confer degrees, appeal to voters, and do almost everything else that is or John Wanamaker's, have risen as high as the three thousand mark. The hundred largest hotels in New York City have twenty-one thousand bewildering extent, as these are the places where many interests meet. a matter of speech. truly an organ of the social body that by telephone we now enter into telephones--nearly as many as the continent of Africa and more than the an absolutely new type of city, such as was never imagined even in the Whether the telephone does most to concentrate population, or to scatter well as by elevator. due to the fact that its inhabitants may run errands by telephone as contracts, give evidence, try lawsuits, make speeches, propose marriage, fairy tales of ancient nations. The skyscraper is ten years younger than and cooperative. It has literally abolished the isolation of separate In stores and hotels this wire traffic has grown to an almost kingdom of Spain. In an average year they send six million messages. The