Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

as 1 have already described. He keeps
up his old home at Winchester: his
legal residence is the house in which he
spent his happiest years and in which his
children were born. Although he never
sleeps or takes a meal there. it is always
open. in charge of caretaker and a
staff of servants, and can be occupied
| any day at a moments notice.
He votes In that precinct: he pays taxes
on several thousand dollars worth of
property at Winchester, and on Christmas
day ever year sends ton Of coal. bar
rel of flour and SO in cash to each OF 100
poor families in the village. whose names
are furnished him by the guardians of
the poor and the minister of the Congre-
gatiOnal Church.
From the surrounding heights Dream
void looks like an exposition or a state
fair ground. because of
Like an the many buildings and
their fantastic archi-
AP00A'Ao lecture Dreamwold
Hall. the residence, is a fine specimen of
colonial architecture set in a beautiful
frame of foliage. The central building,
112 feet long. has a high-pitched roof, two
enormous dormer windows. four huge
chimneys and a terrace forty feet wide
stretching out from the front entrance. 1t
| contains the general living rooms, and
| those on the first floor can all be thrown
open. They are deliberately furnished,
but more thought has been given to COM
fort than display, which is not a habit OF
| Mr.. Lawson's.
On the second floor each of the daugh-
tiers and sons has a suite Of rooms
fitted up according to their own taste and
| ideas CT convenience.
Connected by inclosed corridors with
| the central building are two wings OF
smaller dimensions. one on either side,
and each having it's own outside entrance
and piazzas. They are completely de-
| tached and each Is complete in itself.
Both are used for the entertainment OF
house parties, and during the summer
season are always filled, for Mr.. Lawson
| is very hoSpitable and loves to have
| something doing whenever he is at home.
| Dreamwold is most famous for its cat
| tie, and Mr.. Lawson has the largest dairy
IN the state. He milks an average of 200
cows. which are kept in g. model stable
| 22O feet long and $50 feet wide. probably
| the most complete and costly ever erect
ed. The floors are all laid with tiles and
| many fanciful contrvances have been in
troduced. He has twenty-five thorough
bred bulls. One OF them cost him SIC. 900.
He also has NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ram
| in his sheepfold The state board of
health goes through the form of inspect
| ing Mr.. Lawson's dairy annually, and al
| ways gives him certificate testifying to
| its cleanliness and sanitary condition.
which he frames and hangs in the hall
| way. like the license Of the captain Of q
steamboat. He once remarked to a Wis
itor that he valued those testimonials
more than his certificate OF membersh ship
| in the New York Stock Exchange In the
nefghborhood Of the COW stables are i'm
| mense barns to store fodder for winter,
| and storehouses for grain.
The racing stable is 500 feet long, and
includes riding school as big as a city
block covered with tanbark,
Racing where the horses are exer-
GILL cised in winter. His stud is
not SO large Of late as 1t
| used to be, but he still keeps two very
valuable stations and twenty or thirty
brood mares. He has an oval race track
| a mile long, for trotting and running,
and inside the oval is a polo field. His
| carriage houses are large and perfect,
| with harness lofts above them, and ga
rage that will accommodate sixteen auto
| mobiles.
| The poultry department, the sheepfold
and the pigsties are on a similar scale
and from them are shipped many thou
| sand dollars worth of eggs. poultry and
pork. There is veterinary hospital, a
fire department with an electrical engine,
blacksmith shop a wagon shop, carpen-
ter shop and thirty cottages for the fam
| lilies of the superintendent and the farm
| hands
| Mr.. Lawson is always living in the su-
perlative. He insists upon having the
biggest and the best of everything, and
If he that ole hoe
passed him he Is never satisfied until he
RECEIVERS the front place. The biggest
| United States flag that was ever made
floats from the tallest pole in New Eng
land in front Of his house. He calls his
hired men to dinner and to supper by
playing anthems upon a chime Of bells,
which cost him $4,000. and are said to
be duplicates of those in Westminster
Abbey. The bell tower is the most pic
turesque object at Dreamwold. 1t stands
on the highest point Of ground an out
cropping ledge Of rock. It is Of artistic
design. and the framework is covered
with shingles.
Another picturesque object is a repro
arms sixty feet long,
Dutch which pumps water for
uy:1:,, the stable and has a
reservoir inside under the
roof, holding 1 don't know how many
gallons.
Fabulous stories are told of the amount
of money Mr.. Lawson has invested In the
place, but no other experience or posses
sion has ever given him so much salts
faction, or contributed much to the
pleasure of his friends. and everybody
ought to be willing to admit that he could
not have made better of his income
, unless he gave it to the needy and deserv-
ing, where a considerable part of 1t al
ready goes. Whatever may be said OF
Mr.. Lawsons financial transactions. he
has the reputation Of being the kndest-
hearted and the most generous man in
Boston. and is as loyal and devoted to his
friends as he is vindictive and relentless
toward his enemies.
There are other fine places along the
south shore. One of them belongs to
Henry NJ. Whitney a brother of the late
William c. Whitney, who has coal mines
in Nova Scotia. Mr.. Whitney has large