Show S S SHOW HOW LAWSON BEGAN HIS BUSI BUSINESS BUSINESS BUSINESS NESS CAREER Success His school days were short at the age of 12 he tired of ot study He wanted to get out In the world and an make money His father a physical ph wreck from the wounds and sickness of ot warfare had difficulty in providing for the family and Tom wanted to earn money to give his mother and sis lIs ter more of the comforts of life One day da he ran away from school crossed th the Charles river Into Boston and wandered Into luto that marvelous thoroughfare run running running running ning from roam the old state house straight out to the wharves where men planned great geat enterprises railroads and mines and manufactories and made fortunes over overnight overnight overnight night in daring speculations In stocks and gold sold Other poor boys bo s with nimble wits and lofty lotty ambition had gone into that golden way and had won fortune wh not he Just below the old state house at the tIme corner comer of ot Congress Congre s street a sign hBo Boy Wanted hung lun In a banking house window The truant asked for Cor the place and got it That night when he went home to his mother and told her he had hac gone to work for 3 a week in State street she scolded him and the next morning I she sent him back to school But the boy skipped off oft to o State street again to earn that 3 a week weel His Ills mother when she found he lie was not In school went over to Boston and brought him home He begged and pleaded with her and falling failing f to win heV he bd consent to leave school he asked one of the men from the banking house to plead for him The mother was won over oer and young Tom went back to State street and there he has been ever since His Ills offices today are Just across Con Congress Congress Congress gress street on the neighboring corn err I |