Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-05
A NEW CUP DEFENDER.
1t Will he Built in Boston b.! Thomas
w. Lawson. the Financfer.

1t Will he Built in Boston by Thomas
w. Lawson. the Financier.
Another cup defender will he built in adj
di;ion to the contracted for with the
! Herreshoffs by the Belmont syndicate. says
| the New York Journal.
| The new boat, which will compete with
| the Belmont yacht and the Columbia for
| the honor of defend ng the blue ribbon
I o. the seas halls from Boston and it is
said will be buIit by Thomas w. Lawson,
| the wcil-known Boston tinancier, whose in
! terest in copper. pinks and horses has kept
! hun prominently before the public for the
| last three years.
| Boston will be represented in the trial
races next yea, as she was in 1885, 1ssj,
! 1887 and 1898.
! Mr.. Lawson has been consulting New
| York and Boston naval architects, and, 1t
is said he has JUS about made up his mind
to commission e. 3. Crowninshieid, one of
BoS,Ons foremost naval architects, to de-
sign him a cup defender.
According 10 one of Mr. Lawsons friends,
the only question which bothers him AT
present is the selection of a competent man
to run the yacht. Mr.. Lawson adm. IS tina t
he knows little about yachting, although
he owns very handsome s,eam yacht
whose luxurious fittings astonished Marble
head last season.
Mr.. Lawson, outside of his desire to see
! Boston represented in the coming trial
| races. has. it Is said a score to settle with
| the New York and eastern yacht clubs, and
will do everything in his power to make
! his new boat successful.
Like Sir Thomas Upton, he is self
made man, and not being used to defeat
| will spend money like water in order to
carry out his wishes. While Mr.. Lawson
is not a member of the New York or east
ern yacht clubs he belongs to the Hull
Massachusetts Yacht Club, and as such
would have right to enter his boat in
the trial races and then, if successful. to
defend the cup.
No one would welcome a contestant in
| the field more heartily than w. Butler
Duncan, jr., and the members of the new
| cup defender syndicate. Yachtsmen all re-
member Gen Charles J. Paine and J. Nal
| colin Forbes of Boston, whose Puritan.
| Mayflower and Volunteer saved the cup in
| 1855. 1885 and 1887.
! In 1S!H Boston was represented by two
| yachts, the Pilgrim and the Jubilee. and
while the last named boat made gallant
| fight the Vigilant was selected to defend
the cup. In 1895, for the first time in years
Boston was hot represented in the trial
races.
| In 1898 there was some idea of building
a Boston syndicate boat. but it all ended
| in talk and the Columbia and Defender
| fought it out alone.
Thomas W. Lawson first became general
| ly known by paying 100000 for a rare speci-
men of a pink. Since then he has become
factor in the harness horse world. and
at the present tine owns some OF the most
valuable high stepperS on the track.
1t is Mr.. Lawsons intention to take forty
seven head of show horses to Europe
and compete for the blue ribbons the big
exhibitions In England, France, Russia.
Germany and Austria. He believes that
Amer can horses are the finest in the world.
and thinks that winning blue ribbons In
the European shows is the best way of
proving that fact