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IN ONE MANS LIFE Being Chapters from the Personal y Business Career of THEODORE N. VAIL By Albert Bigelow Paine Author of Mark Twain A Biography Etc. Belt created the telephone and fait created the telephone busintss Publishers HARPER BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXXI IN ONI MANS LWB Copyright, 192 r by Harper Brother Printed In the United States of America TO THAT LOYAL ARMY OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO IN PEACE AND IN WAR STOOD BY THEIR GREAT CAPTAIN KNOWING THAT HE IN TURN STOOD FAITHFULLY BY THEM un wixU . Mtiiiuii Contents I. THE DAY OF THE PIONEERS ....., 3 II. A LITTLE Boy FROM OHIO . . . 7 III. SCHOOLDAYS 10 IV THE FASCINATION OF THE WIRES 14 V, A YOUNG MAN IN NEW YORK , 18 VL A YOUNG MAN GOES WEST 24 VII. THE DIARY COMES TO AN END 33 VIIL BACK TO THE WIRES 36 IX. A NEW WORLD TO CONQUER, 41 X. BUILDING A NEW HOME , 45 XL THE WAY OF THE MAILS 52 XII. REFORMING THE RAILWAY MAILS 58 XIIL SECOND IN COMMAND , . 67 XIV. THE FAST MAIL 72 XV. THEODORE N. VAIL, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT , 79 XVL THE HARD AND DEVIOUS WAY OF OFFICE ... 82 XVII. LAST DAYS OF WASHINGTON . 89 XVIIL THE WORLD HEARS A NEW VOICE ..... 93 XIX. EARLY TELEPHONE FINANCES 98 XX. THE TELEPHONE COMPANY ACQUIRES A MANAGER 107 XXL A DAY OF GREAT BEGINNINGS 113 XXII. BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS ... 123 XXIII. TAKING THE ENEMY INTO CAMP 134 XXIV THE WAY OF PROSPERITY ........ 139 XXV, THEODORE R VAIL OF BOSTON .,..., 146 XXVI. THE DESCENT OF THE CLAIMANT .... 154 XXVII. THE PATH OF THE PIONEER 159 XXVIII. FACTS, FIGURES, AND AN IMPORTANT CHANGE . 167 Contents CHAP. PAGE XXIX. SPEEDWELL FARMS ..., 175 XXX. LONG LINES, AND UNDERGROUND 178 XXXI. THE STRENUOUS MIDDLE YEARS 186 XXXII. QUIET YEARS 197 XXXIII. ARGENTINE VENTURES 205 XXXIV. SPEEDWELL IN ITS GLORY 213 XXXV, YEARS OF SHADOW 218 XXXVL THE RETURN TO POWER 221 XXXVIL THEODORE N. VAIL, PRESIDENT . 231 XXXVIII. PERSONALITY AND POLICIES 236 XXXIX. TAKING OVER THE WESTERN UNION .... 245 XL. SPEEDWELL AND THE HOBBY CLUB 251 XLL TALKING ACROSS THE CONTINENT . . , , 259 XLII. THEODORE VAIL, EDUCATOR ..... 266 XLIII. SPEECH BY WIRELESS , 274 XLIV. THE MASTER OF SPEEDWELL AT HOME .... 284 XLV. THE PERSONAL SIDE 289 XLVI. LAST DAYS OF PEACE . , . . , 303 XLVIL TELEPHONE GOES TO WAR . 309 XL VIII. GOVERNMENT CONTROL ... 317 XLIX. IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE . . . , . 325 L THEODORE N, VAIL, CHAIRMAN 329 LI. THE RETURN OF THE WIRKS 333 LII. THE WESTWARD SLOPE , 33 LIII. WHERE THE WAYS END ,.,.., 346 APPENDIX 349 INDEX , . . 353 ILLUSTRATIONS THEODORE N. VAIL . . EARLY PICTURES PARENTS OF THEODORE N, VAIL ,.,. 30 THE FOUR TELEPHONE PIONEERS 96 THEODORE N VAIL ABOUT 1885 , 140 WILLIAM H. FORBES ABOUT iS8o . 140 FOUR IN HAND, WALNUT AVENUE ..,. 188 THE NoRNV 1887 188 ABOARD THE SPEEDWELL, 1912 . 188 THEODORE N, VAIL IN 1898 222 SPEEDWELL FARMS, 1907 . . , 352 In One Mans Life
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