"At the end of a week Professor Morse returned from New York and came to the shop where I was at work, and said he wanted to provide the insulators for putting the wires on the poles upon the plan I had suggested; to which I responded: 'How is that, Professor; I thought you had decided to use Mr. Vail's plan?'

We sold glass insulators by the hundred as patent American teacups, and brackets by the thousand as prepared American kindling-wood.