Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
The Two Copper Magnates Meet
But the Encounter Is a
Bloodless One
NEWSPAPER MEN EXCLUDED
Big Crowd Sees the Two Hostile Trad
ers Greet Each Other Cordially at
a Boston Hotel, But the Later Con.
ference Was Private May Make
Settlement.

son called at the hotel Touraine this
morning to meet Colonel William c..
Greene, of New York. Greene was at
breakfast when Lawson arrived and
the conference was delayed until the
New Yorker finished his meal Lawson
had friend with him when he reach
ed the hotel. When informed that
Greene was In the dining room, Law
son sent in his card. The colonel con-
tinued his meal and sent word to Law
son he would see him as soon as he
had finished eating.
Greene came out Of the dining room
and walked up the corridor with a
friend on either side. When he en-
countered Lawson.
How do you do, Mr.. Lawson" ex-
claimed Greene with smile, as he ex-
tended a hand to greet his financial
adversary
Lawson did not smila, hut without
hesitation grasped the coloneIs hand,
and to the on-lookers the meeting ap-
peared like that of friends.
Greene Immediately asked Lawson
to go up to his room. Lawson said he
would be glad to do so. ana the two
entered the elevator with two friends
Of Greene, and the man who was with
Lawson. They went up. to the room
and shut the. door, excluding newspap-
er men.
The newspaper men shortly after
wards sent note addressed to Law
son asking aim If 1t c ould not be ar
ranged to have representatives of the
press present at the conferenca.
In five minutes written reply was
received from Lawson who said that
he was quite willing taeehave reporters
in the room, but that Greene could
not permit it.
The crowd which had been in the
corridor thinned out while the confer
ence was in progress.
While the conference was still in
session. three inspectors of the police
department entered the hotel. They
said they had heard of the meeting be-
tween Greene and Lawson and had
come to see that no disturbance was
caused by cranks who might be among
the spectators.
AT 2:l5 the conference was still in
session and no statement had been
made regarding the line of discussion.
The Arrival.
Boston, Dec. 16.-Colonel W. G.
Greene, president of the Greene Com
solidated Copper Company, has at last
carried out his advertised threat of
coming to Boston to beard Thomas w.
Lawson in his den. The bad man
from Arizona pulled into town on the
8 o'clock train from New York was
driven at once to the Hotel Touraine,
wrote his name on the register in
bold hand and went at once to his
room. Once in, he locked the door
and retired Immediately.
Newspaper men quickly learned of
Colonel Greene's presence, and he was
awakened several times within an
hour with requests for information as
to why he came. He refused to talk,
and finally gave orders that he was
not to be disturbed under any pretext,
even by Lawson. Then he went to
sleep.
While Green was in dreamland Law
son was in Dreamwold, his summer
home, in Scituate. He went there late
yesterday afternoon, after a busy day
and, like Greene, left orders that he
was not to be disturbed. UP to late
hour he had not been notified Of
Green's arrival in town.
Mr.. Lawson issued some snorting
announcements yesterday. One Of
these, addressed to wall Street." de-
clared "Bill" Greene had been made
"generalissimo of the mudslingers,"
and that after calling him (Lawson) a
variegated assortment of liars, Greene
had proved himself in the same class
by failing to keep the appointment he
made to go to Boston with his three
notched gum"
~ have in my young days been in
places where a revolver was very
necessary thing to have handy, but this
occasion does not call for gun prac
itce," said Colonel Greene in New York
city yesterday morning. 'The whole
basis of these attacks by Mr.. Lawson
is simply stock jobbing. He has sue
ceeded in so far that we were 100000
shares short. But he cannot alter the
intrinsic value of the stock l may
have lost s5,OoO,000 my this breaking
of our stock, but every share of stock
have in the market will be protected
to the fullest.
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