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Show ART OF CONVERSATION Eight billion four hundred and twenty seven million conversations were held in this country last year, over the the wires of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, according to its anual report issued lately. The daily average was 26,300,000. The company has stations in 70,000 cities, towns and hamlets, which is 5,000 more than the number of raijroad stations. Altogether there were 7,456,000 telephone tele-phone stations of the company at the end of 1!12. Theodore N Vail, ' president of the company, states that while Europe has nearly twice the first class mail traffic of this country it has only twofifths of the telephone traffic. The net earnings of the company last year were $37,900,000 an increase of $4,600,00. |