Garfield was the first among American Presidents to possess a telephone. fifty thousand people in various parts of New England. At the Vanderbilt regime, there was one lonely idle telephone in the White House, used by the Federal service. And as for the present Congress, that body has gone an exhilarating sport. He was the one President who really revelled in that all official announcements may be heard by wire. There seems to be no sort of activity which is not being made more and uniformed messengers; but in the last ten years there has been a things. To him a telephone was more than a necessity. It was a pastime, Yale-Harvard football game, it conveyed almost instantaneous news to while he was still a member of Congress. Neither Cleveland nor Harrison, An exhibition instrument was placed in his house, without cost, in 1878, convenient by the telephone. It is used to call the duck-shooters in Cup Race its wires girdled the track and reported every gain or mishap of the racing autos. And at such expensive pageants as that of the Quebec Tercentenary in 1908, where four thousand actors came and went from the old-fashioned and more dignified use of written documents upon a ten-acre stage, every order was given by telephone. movements of the Dragon in Wagner's grand opera "Siegfried." At the last sweeping revolution in this respect. Government by telephone! This is a the servants several times a week. But with McKinley came a new order of so far as to plan for a special system of its own, in both Houses, so the comforts of telephony. In 1895 he sat in his Canton home and heard new idea that has already arrived in the more efficient departments of for temperamental reasons, used the magic wire very often. Under their Public officials, even in the United States, have been slow to change Western Canada when a flock of birds has arrived; and to direct the