The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-22
HAVIk : FUN VINE LAWSON.
Stock Broker Offers Copper Magnate
Job as Press Agent.
~ YoTk IeIegraph.)

There was joy in tender hearted Wall
street yesterday when the news was
bruited about that the wind which s
tempered t. the shorn lamb was blow
ing gently toward the chilly city ~
Boston ana tenderly encircling the
trembling form Of Thomas W. Law
son
With noble generosity, coupled with
a keen eye for business, ohn Hickey,
who has written a play and been mary
years a manager, offered to the piak
and yacht and race horse cUltivatOr d
handsome salary and q sure position
where the frosty winds of finance blow
not, where the wicked Standard Oil
magnates cease from troubling and
the weary and somewhat blatant Bos-
tOnese are at rest.
In short, he has offered Lawson A
position as press agent for his meiO-
drama THE Wall Street King" AMI
the munifcent salary of $3.50 a week.
All, how Wall street applauded the
generous act, declaring that in Mr..
Lawson the manager had picked upon
an ideal man. Such a rare combina-
ton Of benevolence and business was
seldom MOTEL by the sOlons of the
street.
SON. said Hickey last night, "but I
feel sure he viii accept my offer. We
| have all heard his walls regarding
losses in Copper. The poor fellow must
be down pretty near to his last cop
per now, and the salary which 1 have
| offered. 500, viii enable him to keep
the wolf from the door and his family
out of the poor house. I know the
salary is twice as large as other press
/ agents get, but what press agent in
all the world has got so many columns
| Of free advertising as Lawson? He
/ certainly is the greatest press agent
alive. My MY how that man has rev.
elled in the favor of the papers!
And then the dramatic instinct IF
/ the mani Not only does he have a
nice, fresh, original story for the press
| each day, but he gets himself de-
/ scribed and pictured in the daily prints
/ as he bends nOnchalantly over the
! ticker and glibly and smilingly counts
/ off another million or two, which he
/ has lost. The man is a marvel as a
/ pUblicist, and if I can get him for my
play, which Lieber & Co. have prom
/ ised to produce in February, I have
| the assurance Of great success from
| the very start. Lawson's my man. He
anything ne says. He is a wonderful
word pTestidigitateur. I must have
/ him"
The friends of Hickey say ne is in
/ deadly earnest. He has watched the
| pyTCtechnic career Of the man who
! says he is defying the power of the
BOOKSELLERS and ROthschilds, and who
( makes many persons believe him, and
/ believes this as a theatrical press
! agent he would outshine the world IA
! nous Tody Hamilton of anyone else
! IT the business.
He was waiting last evening to hear
! from Lawson.
Boston, Dec. 9.-Thomas W. Lawson
said tonight regarding John Hickey S
/ offer of S1C0 a week:
L appreciate the joke, for that is
what I presume it is intended to be
I am not ready. as yet, however, tC
! embark in the theatrical business, as
/ I don't know anything about that oc-
cUpatiOn. Coppers, anyway, are keep
ins me so occupied Just now that
don't see how I could possibly accept
Mr.. Hickey's tender. I shall have tC
stick to coppers."