Photograph by George J. Hare 



A TELEPHONE BUILDING IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK 



It is in such modern structures as this that the great "union stations" of the telephone 

 world are found. Trains of electric impulses are dispatched to all parts of the continent 

 from them. "New York City alone, exclusive of its suburbs, has twice as many telephones as 

 the whole of France, nearly one-half as many as the German Empire, and quite as many as 

 the whole of Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, the Balkan States, Turkey, and 

 Russia combined" (see page 321 ). 



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