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Show GROWTH OF THE TELEPHONE. From tho Chicago Tribune. Thirty years ago there were no telephones tele-phones and, consequently, no "halloa girls" to Bcold at. Today there are In use in this country 2,315,000 telephones of All kinds. There are 65,000 'wage-earners 'wage-earners and 15.000 salaried officials and clerks who owe their employment to tho fact that telephones were Invented. Tho 80,000 wage-earning and" salaried employes are paid over $36,000,000 yearly. year-ly. This Is more than was paid in the census year to the men working in the slaughtering and packing business, which Is a largo and old industry. Back of the employees of the telephone tele-phone companies stand the men who made the -1,300,000 miles of wire they have had strung and the other supplies they have had occasion to buy. But for the telephone there would have been less employment for workers In copper and steel. |