Chinatown Telephone Operator Harriett Ng

(Original Caption) Chinese telephone users in Chinatown, San Francisco, make eight call a day per telephone, while San Francisco itself, averages four daily, a high average for large cities, according to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Thus, the Chinese from Old China, the second most backward telephone nation, coming to America, where the telephone was born, out talk two to one. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)