The Washington times., 1917-01-02
LAWSON, OF FRENZIED FINANCE
FAME, lisa YSIDED MAN
Has shade, Lost, and Remade Fortunes With
out Losing His Smile-Has Time
for Many Curious Fads.

could be described in two or three
books.
That is where the white fences are
literally hidden in springtime by pink
crimson and rambler roses, a sight which
many motor from Boston to see, and
within those fences are the fancy
stock, the Conservatives filled with
rare plants, and the asparagus beds
and finally the great, rambling home,
which houses those elephants ana
many other strange fads.
Bronze Statuary One Fad.
Bronze statuary is one fad of his.
Three of his finest pieces are in his
office, at the Holland House, in Sos-
ton. Gerome's depictions of Caesar,
ard Frederick the Great and Wash
ington. The elephants are all about
the office, and the house, and they
range in size from thumb nail pro-
portions to those which are pretty
near the size of q circus animal.
Then there are his books, some or
them special editions printed just for
him. Once some officials of the Ger
man government visited Dreamwold.
He organized a horse show for them,
and in forty-eight hours he wrote anu
had printed a handsome illustrated
book descriptive of the farm, to give
them as souvenirs.
His Odd Extravaganees.
His extravagances furnish anec-
dotes in many a club. There was the
$4,000 he paid for the entire stock
of new variety of carnation, the In
dependence, a yacht he built for $780,
II-000 to defend Americas Cup against
Upton, and which failed of its pur-
pose, and then was broken into bits,
and the time he went to Lexington,
KY, bought a horse for $4,000, bet
$50, 1000 on II, and took so much money
out of the ring that the spectators
nearly went broke"
The few things mentioned tell only
a fraction of the wonders of Dream
void; for down there are also vii
lage of houses for employees, farm
stables and trotting. horse stables,
dog kennels, a pigeon palace" an
old Dutch windmill and a sewage dis
posal plant.
Lost and Remnde Fortunes.
Amid the background of all these
possessions it has been Lawson the
man who has always furnished the
real thrills. Not even John w. Gates
had more ups and downs in specula-
ton than he had, lost fortunes and
remade them SO nonchalantly' and
still had time not only for enough
fads to keep a dozen millionaires In
good health, but to study the philoso-
ply of high finance and to write many
books and magazine articles about it.
arhnn1 q fuvalve
and went to work in Boston, made
SEC, 900 in railroad stock when he was
I sixteen, was cold broke" as he put
it, at seventeen, and began all over
again In'the historic crash of Anal
gamated he told a newspaper man he
had lost 100000.
The man who sets up to be a stock
operator must be prepared to take
smilingly whatever comes his way.
You will observe that 1 smile" he Is
quoted as saving afterward.
A CompanionabIe Millionaire.
In his busy and varied life he also
has found time to invent a substitute
for playing cards. and one of his
books is a baseball guide. THE Krank;
His Language and What 1t Means"
ali CBOllobr anu NSSAoA Ai6
that one must have confidence in one
self to achieve anything. and priding
himself on being "a good enemy" he
is the most companionable millionaire
one would meet on a days journey.
and is never too busy to talk things
over with any one who is interested
in any of the score or more lines of
effort that appeal to him.
With him in Washington is his
daughter, Miss Jean Lawson, known
to her family and friends as Bunny"
Lawson now spends much of his
| time with his other daughter. who
was Miss Dorothy Lawson, and who
married a son of Governor Mccall
Young Mr.. Mccall owns a ranch in
Oregon. and it is to that broad West
ern country that Lawson goes when
things get too pinched" up in New
England.