undred and fifty dogs, and a building for
training his animals larger than Madison Square Garden. Some
of his horses are worth many thousands of dollars apiece.
Even the experts of the German Government who examined
Dreamwold the other day were amazed at its costliness and
perfection. Within forty-eight hours Mr. Lawson wrote and
published a large illustrated book analyzing his farm and
gave it to his German visitors as a souvenir, after
organizing for them a horse show that overwhelmed them with
surprise.

He built the yacht _Independence_ at a cost of $200,000, and
when it was shut out from the America's Cup race smilingly
threw it on the scrap heap. He established a great racing
stable, and when tired of playing with it, broke it up. He
went to Kentucky, and the day before a great trotting race
bought Boralma for $17,000. His pride was aroused by the
fact that the betting was against his trotter. He gave
$104,000 to a friend to sustain Boralma's reputation in the
betting and won $92,000. And yet he claims that he has never
been seriously interested in betting, and that his winnings
on Boralma were simply an accident.

THAT $30,000 PINK

But it was the purchase of a pink carnation, wonderful in
color and vigor, which had been named by a Boston
experimental florist after Mrs. Lawson, that made Mr.
Lawson's name known all over the world. Thirty thousand
dollars for a pink! The news was spread broadcast, and
printed in the newspapers of all countries as an
illustration of the vulgar extravagance and folly of an
American millionaire.

Mr. Lawson explained that incident while I was with him, and
his explanation threw a new light upon his character. He
bought the flower originally as a matter of sentiment, but
the sum he offered was comparatively small. Mr.
Higginbotham, of Chicago, bid $25,000 for the Lawson Pink.
When he heard this news, Mr. Lawson sat down with a florist
friend and figured out the possibility of the new flower as
a business investment. He closed the matter in a few minutes
by paying $30,000. Some time later on the florist bought
back the right to the Lawson pink for $30,000, and gave Mr.
Lawson, in addition, $15,000 profit, according to agreement.

A curious evidence of this man's astonishing c