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Jacobs Hall Part of Trinity's Comprehensive Social Service Plans
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 34, 1010.
ERT REV. GEORGE ALLEN
VI BEECHER, dean ot Trinity
I cathedral, la building great
nupev un win wuin w ur unuv
In the. nrw Oardner Memorial
Parish house and Jacobs hall.
when tha building la finished and occupied.
"It will be a wholesome rendezvous for
young- people socially," says the dean, and
them proceeds to elaborate on tha moaning1
of his taraa characterisation. And hla ex
planation takes In the whole gamut of ad
vanced sociology, as practically applied to
open-faced problems In human, sensible
way. It will be a visiting place, and a
place for the holding of dances and socials
under good auspices; but it will be a home,
too. In Its spacious parlors young women
will be allowed. In fact Invited and urged,
to meet their men acquaintances at any
reasonable hour; but this is a mere In
cident As In the present parish house, but on
greatly enlarged scale, the new parish)
house will have kitchens, dining room,
laundry, rest room, gymnasium, baths, all
free for the use of tha young men and
women who are to be Its special patrons.
On certain dsys and during certain hours
the young women will have the exclusive
use of the bath room and gymuslum; and
It may here be said that old women are
not now barred from the benefits of the
parish house activities, nor will they be
barred from the new Institution. "The
older women who come here now at noon
time are enthusiastic over the provisions,
modest as they are, made for the comfort
of our friends." says the dean.
Talking of how he conceived the Idia.
of the useful and open parish house, to be
devoted especially to boys and girls who
have no homes of their own, and to that
other element made up of working women
who desire a comfortable place to eat their
luncheons and rpend the noon hour, Dean
Beecher said:
"When I was visiting London I was Im
pressed with the great work done along
this line at the Red house of the St. Au
gustine mission, on the East Bide. This
place Is thronged at noon and tn the even
' Ing by young people who have come to
consider It their own for every legitimate
purpose. Eventually, we hope and expect,
the Gardner Memorial parish house and
Jaoobi hall to develop Into that charec
j ter of Institution. Not charity, but self-
help and self-respect, will he the guiding
principle, and education will not be neg
I lected. We will have lectures, readings
, and entertainments and a library on a
' more extensive acale than at present The
I young folks will be encouraged to organize
! parties and socials after tbelr own plans
and will be made to feel, so far as humanly
: possible, that we are not attempting to
patronise them or to proselyte them, but
Just to help them to make life sweeter
; and to elevate virtue, strengthen character
and develop those traits latent tn every
being, which will assure usefulness In ma
turity and honor in old age."
When eompleted the new building, just
above Seventeenth on Dodge, will have a
frontage of ninety feet and will run back'
seventy feet. The present Gardner parish
house will be one unit of the finished bulld
. Ing and Jacobs hall the other.
Between the two buildings It Is the plan
to build a swimming pool, above which
Early St rug-g-les
HE! toy that became a bllllon-
1 I dollar business, in other words,
J . I the telephone, was put on a
vummttrcim oasis D7 conipcuiiun.
The Inventor and his backers,
the men who put up the money
to pay Bell's room rent and to buy the
tools and supplies he needed, tried tn every
way to Impress on the business world the
faot that the 'telephone was a commercial
factor.
Only when the Western Union Telegraph
company found that a few hundreds of its
machines had been replaced by telephone
and announced that tt was going Into the
telephone business did the public appreci
ate the commercial significance of the new
Invention. The financiers awoke, business
brains became interested in the telephone
and In 1879 the man who is today the head
of the telephone industry came out of the
government railway service to act as tts
general manager.
The arrival of Theodore N. Vail at the
critical moment emphasiaed the faot that
Bell was one of the most fortunate ot In
ventors. He was not robbed of hla Inven
tion, aa might easily have happened. One
by one there arrived to help him a number
of able men with all the various abilities
that the changing situation required.
There was not one of these men who
could have done the work of any other.
Each was distinctive and Indispensable.
Bell Invented the telephone; Watson con
structed K and Vail put It on a business
basis. "
The new general manager had, of course,
no experience tn the telephone business.
Neither had any one else. But he, like
Bell, came to his task with surprising fit
ness. He was a member of the Vail family
of (Morrlstown, N. J., which had operated
the Speedwell Iron Works for four or five
generations. Ills grandunole, Stephen, had
built the engines for the Savannah, the
first Amerloan steamship to cross the At
lantic ocean, and his cousin, Alfred, was
the friend and coworker of Morse, the In
ventor of the telegraph.
Inflaenre of Knrlronment.
Morse had lived for several years at
the Vail homestead In Morrlstown, and It
, was here that he had erected his first
telegraph' line, a three-mile circle around
the Iron works, in 1838. He and Alfred
Vail experimented side by side in the mak
ing of the telegraph, and Vail eventually
received a fortune for his share of the
Morse patent
Thus It happened that young Theodore
Vail learned the dramatio story of Morse
k at his mother's knee. As a boy he pktyed
around the first telegraph line and learned
to put messages on the wire. His favorite
' toy was a small telegraphi that he made
for himself. At 21 he went west to try
farming, but soon swung back to teleg
raphy. In a few years he found himself In the
government mall service at Washington.
By 137t he was at the head of his depart
ment which he reorganised. By virtue
of this position he was the one man In
the country who had a comprehensive view
of all railways and telegraphs.
He immediately mapped out a policy,
a system. He swept away all schemes for
selling out He persuaded some of bis
postofflce friends to buy stock and tn leva
than two months organised the first Bell
Telephone company with 8450,000 capital and
a service of 11,000 telephones.
Vail s first step was naturally to stiffen
up the backbone of this tittle company
and to prevent the Western Union from
frightening tt into a surrender. He imme
diately sent a copy of Bell's patent to
every agent with orders to hold the fort
against all opposition.
"We have the only original telephone pat
ents," he wrote. "We have organised and
Introduced the bustnesa and we do not pro
pose to have It taken from us by any
corporation."
To one agent who was showing the white
feather he wrote: "You have too great
an idea of the Western Union. If It was
all uiaaned lu )'ur one city you might
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will be a large school room for classes In
various blanches of study. The architect,
J. Davcy. . states that the building will
probably be ready tor occupancy by next
Thanksgiving day.
The entire building will be a most pleas
ing and Imposing structure. The material
will be of gray brick to harmonise, as far
as possible, with the cathedral stone.
The new Jacobs hall Is being built by
Mrs. Lillian M. Maul tn memory of her
son, John G. Jacobs. This gift of Mrs.
Maul is1 to constitute that part of tha
Gardner Memorial which is to be used for
the industrial and social work of the
parish. This building, together with the
present parish house (formerly tha
Bishop Clarkaon hospital), will be Joined
In one symmetrical front elevation. Tha
main entranoe will open into a spacious
hall with steps leading to left and right
to the Gardiner and Jacobs' halls, respec
tively. With the exception of some alterations
In the front part the Gardner hall will
remain practically as It is now. The
basement is already being used by the
young women and girls who are em
ployed in the down-town store, , as a
place for eating their luncheons, doing,
their 'sewing, their laundry and having
also a fine bathroom fitted up with hot
and cold water. The large west room of
the basement is furnished with a piano,
the gift of Mrs. M. Patrick. The floor
la covered with rug and matting and va
rious articles of furniture glvW by Mrs.
of the Telephone Inventor and His Backers; Found Obstacles on Every Si :le
well fear H, but tt Is represented there by
one man only, end he has propably as
muoh as he can attend to outside of the
telephone. For you to acknowledge that
you cannot compete, with his Influence,
when you make it your special business,
is hardly, the thing. We must organise
companies wtth sufficient vitality to carry
on a flg-ht, as it is simply useless to get a
company started that will succumb to the
first bit of opposition it may encounter."
Next, having encouraged his agents. Vail
proceeded to build up a definite business
policy. He stiffened up the contracts, and
made them good for five years only. He
confined each agent to one place and re
served all rights to connect one city with
another.
He established a department to collect
and protect any new inventions that con
cerned the telephone. He agreed to take
part of the royalties In stock when any
local company preferred to pay Its debts
in this way. And he took steps toward,
standardizing ell telephonic apparatus by
controlling the factories that made It
These various measures were part of
Gossip About
NE day back In 1101. relates the
New York Post a slender man
of medium height walked along
the corridor of the third floor'
of the federal building and
turned in at the room, of the
clerk of the court, Commissioner Shields.
Just as he did so a tall, heavy man started
to come out and the two bumped. As they
rebounded they looked at each other and
stopped short wlh surprised exclamations.
"How are you, Tom?" said the smaller
man.
"Howd'y do, John." said the big man.
"I was glad to hear that you had fol
lowed my example," returned the first
speaker. "All of us country lawyers have
to eome to New York to set up sooner or
later."
"You've got several years the tart of
me, John," replied the tall man, dolefully.
"Tell me how long do you think it will take
a youngster like myself to get started.
get discouraged now and then, and several
times I've made up my mind to give up
the game and go back home."
"Oh, stick It out Tom," was the rejoinder,
"you'll come out all right when people get
to know you." '
The two men who engaged In this banter
were John G. Carlisle of Kentucky and
Thomas B. Reed of Maine. Both former
speakers of the national houxe of repre
sentatives and candidates for the presi
dential nomination at the hands ot the
parties to which they belungrd, they had
retired from public life and were practising
law tn this city. A few minutes later Mr.
Carlisle, seated In Commlosloner Shields'
office, commented thus on his fellow ex
speaker: "Tom Reed was one of our greatest par
liamentary leaders and one of our great
speakers. We democrats used to attack
him for his csar-like actions, but that was
mostly mere partisan neci-sstty. We all
knew from experience that his rulings wrre
in the main not only right, bu necenxary.
Filibustering had been carried to Such an
extreme that the whole legislative system
was endangered. Reed and 1 had many
times talked over together whit steps could
be taken to put a stop to the practice. W e
were in full agreement that something
must be done. When I was speaker I made
him a member of the rules committee, and
we threshed the whole thing out together.
"I entered the senate when he became
i-peaker or I should doubtless have been
on bis rules committee. At the height of
the dlcuk.slon about his arbitrary rulings,
when democratic orators were making Im
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Maul, Mr. and Mrs. Aycrlgg, Miss Butter
field, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Miller, Mrs.
Paul Dungan and Mr. and Mrs. Leigh
Leslie. A nice library of books with
magazines for the use of the girls is one
of the features of this department of the
work that ia now in operation.
There is no air of institutional charity
associated with this work. The girls
bring their own lunch, furnlBh their own
VsU's plan to create a national telephone
system. His central Idea, from the first
was not the mere leasing of the telephones,
but rather to " create a federal company
that would be a permanent partner In the
entire telephone business. Even In that
day of small things, and amid the con
fusion and rough and tumble of pioneering
he worked out the broad policy of today.
It goes far to explain the fact that there
are more telephones In the United (States
than In all other countries combined.
Vail was scarcely seated in the mana
gerial chair before the Western Union
threw all the Bell forces into oonfuslon
by launching thee Edison transmitter. It
was beyond all argument better than any
thing owned by the Bell company, and
subscribers clamored for something Just
as good. This couldn't be had in a 'Jiffy
and ,the ensuing five months were the
darkest days of the telephone's, early his
tory, . The pew general manager had to fight
every inch of the way. Four of his agents,
those In Boston, Worcester, Chicago and
New York, quit and he had to take over
Noted people
passioned protests dally, we met one day
and walked down from the capltol together.
.""See here, John,' he said, 'I don't think
you fellows are treating me Just right.
Last year we. talked this matter of the
rules over and you and I agieed that a
course virtually the same as that, I have
adopted must be pursued If our whole legis
lative system wasn't to go to. rack and
ruin. Now these followers of yours are
making me no end of trouble, and Incident
ally giving me the reputation of being au
arbitrary old tyrant'
" 'Don't you worry about your reputa
tion,' I told him. 'These friends of mine
are going to send your name down through
all history as one of the greatest of the
speakers.' And I was right. We really
endorsed his stand a few years later by
virtually adopting the Reed rules when our
man Crisp became pecker."
Tilekel Novels Cheered Btsjr Men.
It was the custom of the late Chief
Justice Fuller of the United States supreme
court to read himself to sleep nearly every
night, relates the Saturday Evening Post.
He took a book, went to bed early and
read until he slept, whether that was t
o'clock In the evening or $ in the morning.
Nor wss he particular about the books.
Novels, history, criticism, philosophy, es
saysall were one with him; but, as much
as anything, he liked detective stories. The
late Senator A. H. Piatt of Connecticut was
a great reader of detective stories, too, as
are other men whose minds are working
actively many hours a day on great prob
lems. a
The senator and chief Justice met at a
dinner one night. "I understand." said the
chief JuHtlce gravely to Senator Piatt, "that
you read detective stories."
"I do," replied Senator Piatt, with equal
gravity.
"Tell me," continued the chief Justice,
"which do you prefer, the 6 cent kind or
the IS cent kind?"
"Well," said the senator, after mature
deliberation, "I think I prefer the I cent
kind."
"So do I," assented the chief Justice;
"you get quicker action in those."
And this point having been settled they
took up a certain phass of the constitution.
' The Kalsrr's Drlaks. .
Not only what the Gvrmau Emperor
drinks, but how he drinks It is the sub
ject of an article tn the Btraasburger
Post. "WUllam II," says the Post, "is
no Philistine In his manner of drinking,
for whether ha drains a golden cup on
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supplies and. It is rery evident from "the
merry music and song that rings forth
from this department during the noon
hour from 11, to i o'clock each day that
the girls most heartily enjoy it
The chief object aimed at in this de-'
partment Is to give these young girls in
the stores a chance to get out into the
open air during the day and to have a
change of scenery and environment even
their unprofitable exchanges. In the ef
fort to conciliate a hostile publlo the rates
had everywhere been made too low. Hub
bard had set a price of $10 a year for. the
use of a telephone on a private line and
when the exchange started the rate was
seldom more than 83 a month.
There were deadheads In abundance;
mostly officials and politicians. In Buf
falo the opposition was so keen that the
whole service had to be started free of
charge. In St. Louis, one of the few cities
that charged a sufficient price, nine-tenths
of the merchants refused to become sub
scribers. In Boston the first pay station
ran three months before it earned a dol
lar. Especially in the largest cities the lives
of the telephone pioneers were packed with
hardships and adventures. In Philadel
phia, for instance, a resolute, young man
named Thomas E. Cornish was attacked
as though he had suddenly become a pub
lic enemy, when he set out to establish the
first telephone service. . ' ,
No official would grant him a permit to
the banks of the Rhine, or a Roemer In a
Bremen cafe, or a Hungarian crystal
beaker at a hunting box, he acquits him
self equally well, and drinks with frankly
boyish enjoyment. But though he Is no
n pontic ot total abstinence, he is a con
vinced adept of moderation, who never
cared for much alcohol, and has of late
years taken less and ever less." The Post
adds that at the emperor's Potsdam resi
dence, the new palace, strawberry1 liquor
and cider are always affered, and the em
peror, whose favorite beverages these are,
often urges his visitors to partake ot them.
Carlisle's Capacity for Work.
Speaking ot the capacity for quick, al
most intuitive, grasp of subjects, together
with his astonishing capacity for doing
work the mere thought of which would
make most men sick at heart Senator
Bluckburn once said of the late John G.
Caillale:
'Carlisle Is entitled to mighty little credit
for what he has done in the world; In fact,
he is not entitled to half as much as I am.
The little I know I have worked hard for.
I have had to study, dig, grub and toil.
Now, there is Carlisle; he knows about four
times as muclf'as I do, and it has all come
to him without an effort on W9 part. He
has all the wisdom of the ancients and the
moderns, too, rolled together. To say great
things, to say things better than anybody
else could say them, he has but to open his
mouth. That isn't the result of work; he
was born that way."
Kinds Himself Through Pine.
Police Judge McQannon of Cleveland
looked down from his bench the other
morning upon a well dressed man, who was
charged with Intoxication and whose case
was marked "special."
"What's your name?" asked the judge.
"Well, sir, judge. It's funny, but do you
know I've forgotten it altogether?" replied
the man with a smile.
"Maybe a fine of 86 will help you to re
member." said Judge McUannon, and the
court also smiled.
"No, Judge, you've fined a man whose
name I don't even know."
"Well, be a good Samaritan now. and pay
this stranger's fine."
"I've always been stung, when I have es
sayed to do things for folks I did not
know," the prisoner replied.
"Yourre stung now," said the Judge. "I
fined the stranger 85. and now 1 fine you
85 also 810 tn all."
"By George!" exclaimed the prisoner,
"that makes me think; my name Is Brown.
Yes. sir, that's tt. and let me say it Is
worth 810 to find myself, even If I am In
the company of a more or less disreputable
atroneer."
And. stepping up to the clerk's desk, the
man tossed down a 810 bill and walked
away Clsvelacd Leader.
though it be for only one hour. Above
all, it Is the aim to help each girl as far
as possible to' save a little more of her
week's wages and at the same time have
tne privileges of social enjoyment and
pleasures under the most wholesome en
vironment. The Gardner hall will' be used for the
diocesan headquarters, the dean's office
and study, assembly room for the vari
string wires. His workmen were arrested.
The printing telegraph men warned him
that he must either quit or be driven out.
When he asked capitalists for money they
replied that he might as well expect to
lease Jewsharps as telephones.
Strategy Succeeds.
Finally he was compelled to resort to
strategy whore argument had failed. He
had secured an order from Colonel Thomas
Scott, who wanted a wire between his
hcuso and his office. Colonel Scott was
the president of the Pennsylvania railroad
and therefore a man of the highest prestige
in the city.
So as soon as Cornish had put this line
In place be kept his men at work stringing
other lines. When the police interfered he
showed them Colonel Scott's signature and
was let alone. In this way he put fifteen
wires up before the trick was discovered,
and soon afterward, with eight subscribers,
founded the first Philadelphia exchange.
As may bo Imagined, such battling as'
this did not put much money Into the
Nervy Defi
SEE they're talking again about
raising the Maine," said a
woman who has traveled pretty
industriously for a good many
years.' "It makes me think of
one of the funniest and foolish-
est things I ever did.
"Half a dozen of us were in Spain In
lot me see the summer of 1900, when our
tussle with that country was still a burn
ing question over there. We had a courier
who discreetly refrained from translating
when we were called 'Yankee pigs.'
"W spent a good deal of money, and
that was so welcome, that we were treated
very well at most places. We tried to be
pirn, too, ' and I think we succeeded all
right, for the Spaniards thawed perceptibly
and often actually tried to outdo us In cour
tesy. Then we simply laid ourselves out
to show them what a really anlmaoJHVs'
to show thtm what a really lovely animal
a 'Yankee pig could be!'
"Everything went well until one day whan
we had been visiting the tobacco factory
In Madrid, where something like 2,000
cigarette girls are empkyed. We had left
the place Just before the noon hour, and
one of our carriages already had driven
off. The courier had Bone tn It.
"Not all of us had cared to visit the
factory, so there were only Molly and I
in the second vehicle. Our driver was
slow in petting btarted and the first car
riage had clattered off down the, street
and turned a corner before he had per
suaded his horae, which was Inclined to
be even more dilatory than he was, to be
gin a feeble trot
"Just then the stream of girls began
coming out of the factory and we were al
most Immediately in the mlilst, of the gay
colored human current. They were gay In
spirit apparently as well as in color until
they saw us.
"Then, their dark, piquant faces grew
considerably more dark and considerably
less piquant. Many of them had seen us
In the factory and the fact of our being
American) was soon common knowledge.
They gathered around our carriage mak
ing sneering remarks. We did not under
stand the words, but there was no mis
taking the looks which went with them.
"One vicious young Carmen twitched in
solently at my sleeve. Really , things be
gan to look serious. The driver, I am sure,
had been perfectly willing at first to let
us have a dose of discourtesy, but he be
gan to reallre that he would be responsible
If anything happened to us and I saw a
scared look tn his ayes when he turned to
gesticulate wildly.
"As for MuLly aud me well, my head
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ous organizations of the OAthedraJ parish
and diocesan organization. The Jacobs
hall will consist of the following: Base?
mant floor with gymnasium,.' billiard
and pool room, hand-ball court, bowling
alley and play-room; first floor, recep
tion room, parlor and library, to be avail
able for social gatherings and meetings
of clubs, etc. The third floor will consist
of a large auditorium and stage with a
treasury of, the parent company, and the
letters written by Sanders at this time
prove that It was In a hard plight "How
on earth do you expect me to meet a draft
of 8275 without a dollar in the treasury
and with a debt of 830,000 staring us tn tne
face."
This was one of the queries put to Hub
bard by the overburdened Sanders. "Veil's
salary is small enough," he continued tn
a, second letter, "but as to where It Is
coming from I am not so clear. Bradley
Is awfully blue and discouraged. Williams
is tormenting mo for money and my per
sonal credit will not stand everything. I
have advanced the company 82,000 today
rrd Williams must have $3,000 more this
month. His pay day has come and his
capital will not carry him another Inch, if
Bradley throws up his hand I will unfold
to you my last desperate plan."
And if the company had little money it
had less credit. Once, when Vail had
ordered a small bill of goods from a mer
chant in New York, the merchant replied
that the goods were ready and so was the
of Two Girls
stood as still as that old horse did for a
minute. Then It set to galloping In a way
which would have been a noble example
to htm.
"There Is no terror to mo quite like that
I feel when caught in a crowd which is
blundering blindly around under the stress
of some emotion. I found that the cli
max of that particular terror is to bo not
only in such a crowd but the object of
its emotional surge. However what had
been the ruling principle of my conduct
for the weeks Just past was strong enough
to come to the front even then. I smiled
with a sort of playful Intimacy, as If I
said:
" 'Thanks awfully for the Joke! Oh,
but you are the witty ones! We love wit.
we love you. We love everything that's
Spanish. Viva la Espagna!'
"Oh, however they say it. Ugh! The
more I look as if butter wouldn't melt
in my mouth which it wouldn't have just
then, for my heart-was In my mouth and
my heart was uncommonly cold the more
we smiled pacLUcally, the worse they
crowded, the leerler were their faces and
the more untranslatable became their re
marks. "Finally one of those at a little distance
from the carriage stopped, picked a hand
ful of gravel from the roadway and threw
It at us. Immediately a dosen others fol
lowed suit.
"that was too much even for our driver,
who stood up and lashed his horse Into a
gallop as mad as my heart's. The crowd
gave way. It had to. Lurching and
plunging we fled down the street, followed
by a shower of dirt and stones.
"All of a sudden my terror vanished. I
saw red. I was furious, enraged, mad to
retaliate. I don't know why in the world
I didn't shake my flat or throw something,
anything at the crowd.
"What we did was so foolish, so stupid
somehow. And yet It came absolutely
spontaneously from us both. We had little
American flags In our pocketbooks. Fever
ishly extracting them we rose In our places
waved thtm wildly In the air and
screeched;
" 'lU'iiiember the Maine!'
"Yes, liunesily, 1 give you my word both
of us did It with one accord. Of course
the flags wore so tiny our insulters couldn't
see where they were, and our battle cry
means nothing to them.
"But we put all there Is of defiance into
it and when we careened around the cor
ner and lost sight of the crowd we sank
back into our seats with the utter col
lapse of those who have thrown down the
gauntlet and fought over it I was great
aud sv perfectly "fiiollsh." New York Sun.
seating capacity of J0O.
"As to the matter of support of
work. I do not think we will have any
gnewt difficulty." says the dean of TrinKy.
"Annual subscriptions In small sum front
those who dexlre this work to go on ta
greater proportions will be asked. We have
sufficient faUh to believe that Che awm
spirit which has animated those woo havej -
already given, will lead others to do HVwvi
wise. Most of the work to be carried on V
In this new building ta to be done by volun
teer helpers.
"There can be no doubt but that God
hsa some purpo" In the future of Trlnttjr
oathedral In this city. There can be no
doubt but that He has put tt Into the
hewrts of those who have already shown
such an active Interest In the success of
the work In hand, to give their time and1
their money to Increase Its efficiency ami
tts supiiort
"It may he asked: What benefit Is the,
church to derive from a work of this na
ture, which Is carried on along "non-eo
tarlan" lines? It should be remembered
that 'non-sectarian' does not mean 'norv
religious' or 'non-Christian.' It Is to be
definitely .nd distinctly understood ttisufc
the entire work connected with the nsr
building Is biased on Christian principles)'
and Is to be fostered under definite Chris
tian training from beginning to end, - It-!
Is the gift of Christians who love their,
travlor and who desire to have the Influ
ence of Hla holy love Instilled Into ther
hearts of the young people at all time
and everywhere. We offer no apology for
the definite Christian character of the)
work to be carried on In this department
bf the parish life. We shall endeavor to
appeal to ohlldren of all kinds of religious
training and more particularly to the many
who have no tntlnlng whetever, .nd are
growing up In the atmosphere of religious)
Indifference and Immoral tendencies).
""The benefit which the church la to de
rive from such a work depends upon how
much interest and generous support the
church is willing to give to the work.
There will be no response from the youngi
people In this a), toward the church unless
there Is some definite and loving and un
selfish Interest shown in' the young people
and In the things which they most enjoy.
"There can be no question ma to the
practical need of such a work as this par
ish house can and will accomplish. The
faot that a goodly number of the girls
are already using the basement of the
present building is proof of the need of'
such a work. ,
"If there are any who still doubt wo
can simply say what Philip seM to Nh-
thanael when Nathanael asked him: 'Can
any good come out of Naaareth?' Phalli.
salth unto him: 'Come and see.'"
Dean Beecher bIko has In mind the phut
of stsrtlng a school in line with the worlc '
he has been doing, as a voluntary aid to
the Juvenile court for several years. Ho
wouM have In this school the class of"
boys that is sometimes a disturbing ele
ment In regular grade schools the slowv
the mischievous, the nervous, the const l
tutlomU truant In short, an boya that oait
be reached who need a special course ef
treatment In an ungraded school. This
branch of the work, If successfully earned
along, would take the place largely of the
parental schools which have been estab
llshed In a good many Amerloan cities.
tlj), which was 87, By a rr : colnoU
denoe the magnificent bulltll' the New ,
York Telephone company l . ..is today on .
the site of that merchant's stoic. . ;
Month after month the little Bell com-,
pany lived from hand to mouth. . No sal
aries were paid in full. Often for weeks ,
they were not paid at all. In Watson's
note book there are such entries during ,
this period 'as "Lent Bell SO cents," "Lent
Hubbard 20 cents," "Bought one bottle beer
too bad can't have beer every day."
More than once Hubbard would have gone
hungry had not Devonshire the only cleric
shared with him the contents of a dinner
pall.
Temptlnsr Baits.
Each one of the little group was beset
by taunts and temptations. Watson, waa
offered 810,000 for his one-tenth, interest
and hesitated three days before refusing
it Railroad companies offered Vail a salary
that waa higher and ours, If ho would
superintend their mail business. And, as for
Sanders, his folly was the talk of Haver
hill. One Haverhill capitalist. R. J. Hale,
stopped htm on the street end asked;
"Haven't you got a good leather business,
Mr. Sanders?"
"Yes," replied Sanders.
"Well," said Hale, "you had better attend
to It and quit playing on wind instru
ments." Sander's banker, too, became uneasy on
one occasion and requested him to call at
the bank.
"Mr. Sanders,"' he said, "I will bo obliged
to you if you will take that telephone stock
out of the bank and give me In Its place
your note for 830,000. I am expecting tha
examiner here tn a few days and I don't'
want to get caught wtth that stuff In tho
bank."
Then in the very midnight of this depres
sion poor Bell returned from England,
whither he and his bride had gone on their
honeymoon, and announced that he had no
money, that he had failed to establish a
telephone business in England and that ho
must have 11.000 at once to pay his urgent
debts. He was thoroughly discouraged end
sick. As he lay In the Massachusetts Gen
eral hospital he wrote a cry for help to
the embattled little company that was'
making the desperate fight to protect hla
patents.
"Thousands of telephones are now In
operation in all parts of the country," ho
said, "yet I have not yet received 1 cent
from my invention. On the contrary, I am
largely out of pocket by my researches, as
the mere value of the profession that I
have sacrificed during my three years' work
amounts to 812.000."
Fortunately there came a letter In almost
the same mail with Bell's letter, one from
a young Bostonlan named Francis Blake,
with the good news that he had Invented
a transmitter as satisfactory as Edison's
and preferred to sell It for stock rather
t'han for cash. If ever a man came as an
angel of light that man was Francis Blake.
The possession of his trnsmltter put tho
company on en even footing In the matter
of apparatus with the Western Union. It
encouraged capitalists to come forward.
aeneral business had Improved and In
four months tha company had 82,000 tele
phones In use and had reorganised lm
the National Bell Telephone company, with
tM),m capital, and Colonel Forbes as first
president. He was the son of an East Indie
merchant, son-in-law of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, a Bostonlan of the Brahmin
caste, popular and efficient
This reorganisation brought the herolo
and experimental period to an end. From
this time on, though it was attacked by
the Western Union and by rival Inventors,
half starved by cheap rates and crippled
by clumsy apparatus, abused and grum
bled at by an impatient publlo, the com
pany, nevertheless, by the act of making
end selling, had at last been built up Into
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