Different Phases of Modern Progress - Nikola Tesla

Although still so young a man, Nikola Tesla is beginning to find the honors shower thickly upon him. He has already been made, within the last year, a doctor by Columbia College and an M. A. by Yale, while one of the leading universities of the far West has recently invited him to accept one of its diplomas. A couple of years ago he received the rare order of St. Sava from the King of Serbia, and lately news reached him officially that the Order of the Eagle had been conferred upon him by the Prince of Montenegro, who may be said to represent the race from which, Nikola Tesla springs. His own people are very proud of this young genius, even although he has become an American citizen, and not long ago the unique honor was bestowed upon him by the Serbian Government Department of Posts and Telegraphs of printing a special Nikola Tesla postage stamp. When Mr. Tesla went home to his native land four or five years ago, each of the six morning news-papers in Belgrade stated his arrival the same day with an original poem. The modest inventor applies these manifestations deeply, but he says laughingly to his friends that he "would go home oftener if there was less of it."