ized, its
criminal methods abandoned, and all records and trace of the indictment
against myself and the others removed from the district attorney's
books, I consented.

This is the history of how I "Lawsonized" the Lamson Store-Service
Company, and if there is anything I have ever done that was good to do
and well worth doing, this was it. I am just as proud of my work here as
of what I did in the General Electric fight upon which I have already
touched. In the Lamson reorganization I was offered all sorts of good
things, but I refused, as I always have in such affairs, to benefit in
any way but the open and fair one where I go into the open market and
stake my money against that of my opponents on my ability to prove I am
right. The facts here are of legal record. Following is the
Donohoe-Rogers version. The mendacity is obvious:

Among the unfortunate Lamson-Service stockholders were
numbered several aggressive people of the old-fashioned
kind, who resented Mr. Lawson's peculiar way of doing
things. These submitted, in 1892, to the grand jury of the
city of New York a sheaf of Lawsonian literature, comprising
his scandalous attacks on the company's securities. The
grand jury indicted Thomas W. Lawson, and Colonel John R.
Fellows, the district attorney, and his assistants, Francis
L. Wellman and Mr. Lindsay, went to Boston to try to have
Lawson extradited. The Governor of Massachusetts came to
Lawson's rescue in the nick of time and declined to honor
the request of the Governor of New York for his extradition;
but for years thereafter the future author of "Frenzied
Finance" made his trips to this money-centre incognito.

THE GRAND RIVERS ENTERPRISE

In 1890 the entire country rang with the fame of Grand
Rivers, and it was Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who pulled
the bell-rope.... The scheme, as may be deduced herefrom,
was a most comprehensive one. The development of the
"marvellous deposit of coal and iron," which had been
discovered upon the property by Mr. Lawson, one day while
seated in his revolving chair in his State Street office,
furnished the basis for the incorporation of the Furnaces
Company. After $2,000,000 had been "expended," the clamor of
the stockholders caused the company actually to build
several furnaces. They were erected and stood idle, with
nothing to feed