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He United States, in 1917, on an important governmental mission, had an almost sublime illustration of the extent
to which the telephone had developed on the North American Continent. Sitting at a desk in a large office building in New York, Lord Northcliffe took up two telephone receivers and
placed one at each ear. In the first he heard the surf beating at Coney Island, New York, and in the other he heard, with equal distinctness, the breakers pounding the beach at the
Golden Gate, San Francisco. Certainly this demonstration justified
the statement made a few years before

by another English traveler. "What startles and
frightens the backward European in the United States," said Mr. Arnold Bennett, "is the efficiency and fearful universality of the telephone. To me it was the proudest
achievement and the most poetical achievement of