Show II Father of Phone System I An interesting sketch of oC a success successful ful life Is contributed to the April American Magazine in the of a short biography of or Theodore N Vail the head of the tIme American Telephone and amid Telegraph company compau written by br William J Boles Dules The following Is an art I excerpt from rom the Theodore N Vail Vall fathom father of the I American Telephone system narrow narrowly ly h escaped being acing a 1 country doctor After Afler finishing his studies at the vil village II huge lage academy be he began to study medi medicine cine with his uncle in Morristown N J Speedwell near V Morristown was the birthplace of the telegraph tele raph and tho Valls wore were associated with Morse In Lu Its development so that thal the time tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph was WM familiar to him from boy boyhood bo boyhood hood He learned the Morse alphabet and aud was for a short time limo engaged in inthe Inthe the time telegraph business Ho lie gave ae up imp U went west wesl to Lo Omaha was tas first with the Union Unton Pacific railway and thon then became a clerk elerk In the rail railway way wa mall moll service and amid in iu giG went to Washington and amid soon was made gen gemi cial eral superintendent of the tIme railway nail rall The rhe telephone industry was then in iii I Its Infancy The Ilie talking 1 was little littie more than a toy to But young oling I Vail Vall had hind always always B lon been interested In hi It Jt I and anti saw big things ahead After five fie years oars ot of government service he lie left Washington to devote his entire time timeto I Ito to the building up of pf the system 8 stem which he lie h believed to be lie pecullar adapted for the rush work worl of o American busi lusi business I ness life lIfo V Ho lie worked unceasingly for nine mine years ears with this Ibis single aim aba in view vie I At 12 ho gave up business for or two cars of European travel Then V he I wont vent to South America Introduced thc the I telephone system In the Argentine re republic public and aud equipped Buenos Duenos Ayres A res with n a system of at street rail railroads railroads I roads ot of o American design from which ho h amassed a comfortable fortune and decided to retire from active I lila life In 1833 1893 he ho took possession of his wonderful farm farum of hundred acres neres at Lyndonville Vermont where he expected to spend the thc rest rent fo his lila life lire In peace pence and quiet All this time ho had kept up his Interest In American telephone affairs retaining a 1 large block of stock and I for tor a portion of the time serving tho the American Telephone and Telegraph company as a n director Early Earl in 1907 Mr Fish the president being 1 not in good health owing to his arduous OUR oHm labors during the tho tl e very or trying pe lIe period of competitive promotion decided to 0 resign and Mr Vail was naked asked to take tale tho the presidency Mr 1 Vail rail was w s born honl In Carrol Carrel coun county count county ty t Ohio on aim July uly 16 15 1815 Ho He has bus the vigor of o many man men alert of 50 40 0 and antI hun haA I always conducted his business upon tho the basis of or fair dealing with tho the pub puh public I lie lic and frank As A n i result I of the tho arrangement entered into with the thc Western Union Tele Telegraph Telegraph graph company Mr Vail Vall mail hopes event eventually I V to place sonic some style stylo of recording machine In the offices of banks cor cori i t J r f 1 y Ii ii or business houses having havinga a large number of telegraph messages to send By B connecting this device delce with the time telephone it il will be possible for a n telephone subscriber to write out omit hum his own telegraph massage and have H Jl instantly reproduced in tho the central of or the telegraph com company company pany pail foi quick q lck transmission any anywhere anywhere where |