I was doing considerable business for a young man, as will be evidenced by my business card of that period:
THOMAS W. LAWSON & CO.,
bankers and brokers.
Dealers in First-class Investment Bonds and Stocks.
Offices: Boston, Providence, New York, and Chicago.
President of the Lawson Manufacturing Company.
President of the McDonald-Lawson Manufacturing Company.
Vice-President of the Briggs Printing Machine Company.
I regularly visited every week my offices in Boston, Providence, and New York. At one time I had a Providence office in the building marked in the cut in the Donohoe story, and the sign over the door was "Thomas W. Lawson & Co."
It was in Providence, during the heyday of the Waldron-Lawson enterprise, that Lawson ... first met "Jack" Roach, whose apparent employment now is selling diamonds on commission to the so-called "sporting element" of New York, but who is acknowledged to be Lawson's personal representative in this city. It was there, too, that he made the acquaintance of