The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-20
MR. LAWsoN,s BOOK.


 From the publishing house of Win field M. Thompson, Boston. Mass, we l have received a copy of Thomas w. LaWson's much talked of History of the Americas Cup" It is, as is well
 known already, the expression of MT. Lawson's views of his fellow sportsmen
 of the New York Yacht club, and 1t may be stated at the outset that he handles his adVersaries without gloves, attack ing them in words which leave no doubt as that he was and is still exceedingly
 ''riled'' over the refusal of the New
 Workers to let his yacht compete for the cup except upon terms they prescribed. The history of the quarrel is as follows:
 In 1901, when Sir Thomas Lipton came over to the United States to make his second attempt to capture the Ameri-
 ca's cup, MT. Lawson built yacht, the Independence, at his own expense and | offered to defend the cup. The New
 York Yacht club did not treat the Bos-
 tonians with the consideration to which he thought himself entitled. It refused
 to regard the cup races as a free for-all
 contest open to any American who had
 the money to build a yacht. The club demanded that MT. Lawson should con- vey his yacht to the association of yachtsmen which has the custody of the cup. The Bostonians indignantly re- jected this proposal. He had not spent his money in building the Independence
 to add to the glory of Gotham's pluto
 cratic sports. Rather than bend the
 knee to the New Workers, he said, he
 would make firewood of his noble yacht
 The Gothamites declined to modify their terms. The Independence must sail un-
 der their colors and direction or not sail
 at all. The sequel is known of all men. The Independence did not defend the cup; the plutocratic New Workers
 matched their own yacht against Sir
 Thomas Lipton and won. The cup is still on this side of the Atlantic. The cup is now no more. The book is
 unique addition to the history of
 yachting in America, and especially to the annals of the contests for the great cup, which have so greatly interested
 the worlds two greatest nations and excited the attention of the civilized
 world. Besides the page devoted to
 MT. LaWson's onslaught upon the New York Yacht club there is much else of
 general interest to yachtspen.
 MT. Lawson is now having his re- venge, and in his book he mercilessly flays the yachtsmen of Gotham. As says Boston paper: "The Bostonian's reputation heretofore has rested chiefly
 upon his achievements as financier
 and speculator. Now the laurels of au-
 thorship adorn his brow. His pen is dipped in vitriol. We gather from his book that Rome in it's most corrupt pe- 1 riod was as pure as the beautiful snow compared with the yachting society of
 Gotham. MT. Lawson prefaces his at- tack on the gilded sports of New York with interesting philosophical observa-
 tions on the elements which compose American society. From the classes which originally settled America and laid the foundations of the countrys greatness there sprang two others, which the Bostonian describes as a
 democratic aristocracy of wealth and a democratic aristocracy of sports"
 These classes were ''all right" and Mir.
 Lawson expresses the highest admira- 
 ton for them. Later there was evolved
 a mushroom aristocracy," for which
 the Bostonian feels the utmost loathing and contempt If we may take his
 word for 1t, the mushroom aristocra-
 cyl dominates the New York Yacht
 club. MT. Lawson then proceeds to
 roast this "arist ocracy" in language
 that blisters and burns.
 The book is quite stunning" in ap- pearance,-its covers immediately
 white, it's typographical appearance fine and its general appearance impos-
 ing both as to size and quality. It is adorned with fine frontispiece picture of the America cup and with many oth-
 CT illustrations. including one Of MT. Lawson's beautiful yacht Independence, which unfortunately was not allowed to compete for the cup