my readers some testimony of a different character, gathered by experts2 in the heat of battle.
THOMAS W. LAWSON AT CLOSE RANGE
An Intimate Talk with the Financier and Fighter
By ARTHUR McEWEN
From the New York American, November 27, 1904.
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, who is making it so interesting for Standard Oil financiers and other able gentlemen that add your money to their corpulent millions while you wait, is himself an interesting man and a very puzzling one to a great many people.
One day last week I spent several hours with him at his rooms in Young's Hotel, and it surely was a stimulating and enjoyable time. Everybody now knows how exceedingly well Mr. Lawson can write, and he talks as he writes—boldly, vividly, audaciously. He thinks out loud, pouring forth a flood of speech, breaking off in the middle of sentences, going into long parentheses, touching on a dozen incidental things by way of