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Show Description of Tom Lawson Most Interesting Article Detailing Law-son's Law-son's Career and his Recent Failure. Amalgamated Copper slock, against which Thomas W. Lawson has waged a bitter campaign. has risen apovc par, touching 1001. It soared to 102 and Wall street said Lawson had been hit a staggering blow llnancially. Months ago Lawson began advising people In full-page advertisements to sell copper short. Several weeks ago he announced the formation of a pool to speculate In copper stocks. lie scut out notices last week to pool subscribers sub-scribers showing a loss of 3(1 per cent, $1,200,000 In metal, and $'J, 100,000 in stocks, since last accounting. Lawson now advises his followers that they may withdraw the balance of their subscriptions. Two mortgages mortgag-es for $2G5,(HX) have been tiled against Lawson's rcsldenco In Roston, and they are supposed to represent part of his losses. Lawson is a Handsome Man. Thomas William Lawson, born forty-live years ago In Cliurlcstown,Mass., the son of a Nova Scotlan carpenter of splendid means. Is a strikingly handsome hand-some man, of clear-cut features and the figure of an athlete, standing over six feet in height, splendidly proportioned. propor-tioned. Vitriolic of pen, dramatic of speech, startling of deed, a olttcr hater, a furious worker, a phenomenal moneymaker, money-maker, a liberal spender, of tremendous tremen-dous energy and wonderful resourcefulness, resource-fulness, Lawson has had a stormier career than that of any financier In modern annals. Thrice ho has "gone broke", only to duplicate tho fabled Phoenix by raising from the ashes of defeat to richer heights. Starting his career by running away from school at 12 years of age to become be-come an errand boy in a broker's office, of-fice, Lawson at Id made a small fortune for-tune in a pool with other olllcc boys, only to drop lb In a squeeze of stocks a few days later. This break cost him $50,841 out of $00,000. Ho spent all bub $4.30 of tho balance in giving a dinner to his friends, and gave the $4.30 to tho waitor as a tip. "I decided to make ttaclean sweep," ho said. lie married at 21, ana is the father of six children. Onco ho bought a new carnation for $30,000, and named lb for his wife, and at another time because be-cause his wife liked the site ho bought some barren, rocky '.and near Scltuate, Mass , and spent $2,000,000 transforming transform-ing lb into a stock farm, naming It "Drcamwold," and making It famous for Its magnificent blooded horses and cattle. Has Made Millions in Day. It has been Lawson's way and lob to make and lose millions of dollars in a single day with tho unconccrnedness of a labotcr who cleans up $1 cutting grass or shoveling snow. lie made his debut in State street, Roston's financial district, seventeen years ago, In a light againsb a store service company, com-pany, being Interested in a rival parent par-ent on the cash carriers used. lie won, smashed the company and reorganized it with himself on thu inside. In lb'.t.! in a, stock camgalgn of the Westinghouse Klcctrio company against the General Elcctriccompany, ho stuffed $2,031,000 In llfty-elght days for himself and his backets. Then ho "plunged" in sugar and "went, broke" for the second time In his career." Next he promoted a "boom town" In Kentucky and lost heavily for himself him-self aud those backing him, Dips Into Copper. Hecomlng interested In Uuttc & Roston Copper Mining company's shares, he bought at 75 cents and "bulled" It to $75. Then ho did aboub tho same thing with stock of tho Roston Ros-ton & Montana company. Tho year 1900 found him tho possessor of $30,-000,000-and about to step Into tho fight which has led to his present straits. , Lawson Interested Henry H. Rogers and other Standard Oil men in tho organization or-ganization of tho Amalgamated Copper Cop-per company, fell out with them In 1IKU and diopped about $10,000,000 In tho great crash which lilt so many Detroit speculators, among them Frank C. Andrews. Lawson vowed vengeance on Rogers and all his friends, and began his famous "Frenzied Finance" stories In u New York magazine as part of his campaign cam-paign of cxposuro and revenge. In cldentaliy he sought to strike his enemies occasionally In stock market. Articles and speculations lit've alike cost him dear. Ills vitriolic language aroused his opponents and made new ones. Whllo ho stung tho Standard Oil and.insuranco company speculators he failed to bring them to their knees. For abuse they returned. When l.o called them thieves and constructive i murderers, heartless, soulless wot-shlpcrs wot-shlpcrs of money, they called him a maniac and called In expert testimony to show that his brain was awry. Now, by their mcchinatlons In the stock market they have hit him a 'body blow that will take all his energy and resourcefulness to sustain. |