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Show linoj of wirc and tho walling, efficient telephone girl do a thouwind times tbe amount of work they did. and In a fraction of tho time formerly consumed. con-sumed. Seventy-five per cent of the business transacted today Is done over th telephone. Those umxlr wires enter en-ter every offlc building In cT--ry city In the land, quiet. Inert apparently, but bavin? behind them the marvel ouh mcxrn nerve centers of commerce com-merce the telephone exchange, which "'ippllea the energy for the transaction transac-tion of all the burlncRa of tbe modern commercial world. Thea. telephone exchanges are the I tnoxt Interesting places In the world. In a great city like New York, the ork la divided among several large exchange, or ceutnil offices. In each one of which am fifty or a hundred girls, trained to the task of answering every call In the shortest teslble time. Probably the great success attained at-tained by American telephony Is due, Hi st to the Inventive genius of Americans, Amer-icans, and second to their peculiarly alert, nenous temperament, which gives the highest possible rapidity In work retjutrln? alertness and speed, rather than muscular strength and en- durance Bennett Chappie, In the I National Magarlno for October. NERVE CENTERS OF A GREAT CITY. Today tbe rumbling coach, the galloping gal-loping horsn, tbe weary errand boy and clerk on foot, the town crier with bis jangling bell are seen no more upon the streets of tbe city. The Guy |