. Bell telephone magazine . or, on onesuch occasion, half recognizing him,but still a bit uncertain, approachedand asked if Mr. Frost were in theoffice. So deep was his abstractionthat Frost shook his head a somewhat incredulous look,the visitor left. These are the lighter touches, butthey are not the principal story. What that consists of is a clear- cut picture of the organic growth ofa company, a system, and a is a story of a part of Americanlife, of a great technological and busi-ness achievement, and of a contribu-tion to the industrial might of the Na-tion. It
. Bell telephone magazine . or, on onesuch occasion, half recognizing him,but still a bit uncertain, approachedand asked if Mr. Frost were in theoffice. So deep was his abstractionthat Frost shook his head a somewhat incredulous look,the visitor left. These are the lighter touches, butthey are not the principal story. What that consists of is a clear- cut picture of the organic growth ofa company, a system, and a is a story of a part of Americanlife, of a great technological and busi-ness achievement, and of a contribu-tion to the industrial might of the Na-tion. It is a story of small courageousbeginnings, of difficulties met and con-quered, of personal heroism, and ofindividual character in action both inthe office and the field. It is a worthytribute to men and women whodeserve to be long remembered. Thesuccess of our enterprise was won inpart by earlier pioneers who paid forit a much higher price than we up, it is the living tradi-tion of the telephone business in tan-. Befo7-e the curtain rose: the corner of State and Chapel streets. New Haven, in the earlyseventies. The Boardman Building, site of the first commercial exchange, later replacedhe structure to the left. On August i, l8j8, the exchange moved to the upper floor of theBrewster Building. The tower in the rear is that of the old New Haven railroad station 66 Bell Telephone Magazine gible form, a work for the old to pe-ruse and remember, for the young toabsorb and emulate. It is at once amonument and milestone, pointing theway we have come and the way weshall go. For as there were pioneersof old, so are there pioneers today,and so will there be pioneers here- after; and it is our duty and privilegeto honor those who went before as^we ourselves may wish to be honoredby those who shall follow us. It is with this thought in mind thatthe Telephone Pioneers of Connecti-cut have prepared this history of theircompany. From Edinburgh Undoubtedly the longest talk ofthe cen
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