Show VAil Of E Ef f FAME AMt CALLED CAllO Bf DEATH 1 L. L Leading i Figure in Electrical I World Succumbs to Heart Attack BALTIMORE BALTIMORE lid aId April 16 Theo 16 Theo Theo- dot dor flore N N. VaiL VaiL chairman of the board bi l directors of the American T Telephone an and T. T Telegraph graPh company and lo long a noted figure in th the telephone and nd tele telegraph t tele l graph world world died thIs thid morning atthe hospital o of Johns Hopkins univ university be became me chairman upon his re retirement re- re as president He suffered from from heart trouble according to his physicians He spent the winter at J el Island off the coast of Georgia an and l a a. week ago when his condition be became r serious erious was Yas ta taken en tb Johns Hopkins Vail Vall was was a pioneer r Ih telephone n and tel telegraph organizations and was known through throughout ll t th the world lie He was born bom In Carroll c county Ohio J July ly 16 1845 1845 and d ted Iri id Princeton and ald Harvard Hanard universities Vail Van married In Mabel I Rutledge S Sanderson San San- an anderson n derson of Bos Boston on in 1907 His home I was listed lIste l officially as Vt 1 Beginning life as a am medical l student Vail soon branched into int general gerier l science science ence ence with witha a particular t bent for electricity elec eleO- He lie He was was a friend of Thomas A. A Edison r Vail first entered the t telephone l business id in 1878 lie II Introduced d the American system m of el electrical street railways in Buen Buenos g Aires In 1866 1896 an and installed tel telephone systems ih iii the principal American cities s. s He H became president e of the American America n Telegraph and Telephone company In 1907 al a a. dif ector In several European Eui opeal l 1 enterprises s. s Burial probably will be at Parsippany Parsippany pany N N. N J r 1 |