Casson, Herbert Newton, 1869- · Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co. · leaf 334
him to return to the tele-phone business, after twenty years of absence.Vail laughed at the suggestion. Nonsense, he said, Im too old. Im sixty-two years of age. The directors persisted.They spoke of the approaching storm-cloud ofpanic and the need of another strong hand at thewheel until the… … THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE situation. They showed him that the grandtelephonic system which he had planned wasunfinished. He was its architect, and it was un-done. The telephone business was energetic andprosperous. Under the brilhant leadership ofFrederick P. Fish, it had grown by leaps…
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