The Oregon daily journal., January 17, 1915, Page 40, Image 40

THE OREGON , SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, -SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1915.
BEST BLOOD SOUGHT FOR
BOYHOOD DREAM WAS FOR
CHAMPION STOCK FARM
CROOK COUNTY RANCHES
Several Carloads of Champion" Horses, Cows and Hogs
. : Imported From East and Placed Upon Farms of Cerw
a. tral Oregon.
OTHER BLOODED STOCK IS SOUGHT BY FINANCIER
In Dreamwold; Estate in Massachusetts, Lawson's Dream
Is Come True Visitor Finds Every Appointment Per-'
feet in Detail,. . .;
SAME ENTHUSIASM IS NOW EXPENDED ON OREGON
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TO IMPROVE LIVESTOCK OF OREGON IS THOMAS W. LAWSON'S IDEA
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--By Fred Lockley.
EW of tim are able ta make our
mm boyhood dreams come true. Few
m It. v 1. r .
I"- Con.' and Incldentallv ot Ronton.
. la one of the fortunate few whoso boy-
come realities..
Aa a' boy, and a poor boy at that,
he looked forward and worked toward
the day- that he mlaht own a stock
, farm. He . loved animals, particularly
blooded stocks The time came when he
could add the needed time and money
to bis inclination and Dreamwold was
the result. ' The time, will soon come
wnen s niisDow nancn. on crwacti
river in urooa county anu naisea
ranch, also In Crook county, the for
mer ewnea oy Mr. uwian a son-in-law.
Hal MctTalL and- the lattrr the
son, t)ou?laa, will mean to the livestock-interests
of tho west what
jjrcamwoid means to the Atlantic
coast. -
' Every worth while man has a pur
pose. f Mr. Iiawson's ideal at Dream-
'ivffld hu, 'fllwflVM hrn to hrtter the
ticraea at- lreamwold, Mr. Iawoon'a
Ideal wae. the development of beauty,
atrength and speed. Today Dreamwold
iieu noraes sro noiea ior ineir inieiii
(encea. speed, stylo and endurance.
JJreamwold today noids more Aincii
" can and foreign championships, ii
trotting", running, steeple chalns, show
ana saaaio norHt-s inan any uiner iw
establishments in the world. This
atatemeiit holds good for his cattle,
ahtep, dogs and poultry. The explana
tion la simple. Mr. Iawson has bought
the cream of the blue ribbon takers
wherever shown.
, j TTeea and Stock Imported.
To show what Mr. Lawson Is doing
for-Ot'eefen and the northweBt it Is only
necessary to remember that be has Im
ported from all over Kuropo ami from
his New England Home scores of rare
' trees.! . These are planted on his east
ern Oregon ranches with the object of
. determining the varieties that will do
well. If! eastern Oregon, lie has re-
cently added a large number of cham
pion stallior.x, Perc heron mares. Jack,
Jennets, oows. boars and sows to thoso
he already has in Crook county and
, new on the way to "Rainbow Kanch"
anJ the "Raised L." ranch. In a re
cent Issue of the Breeders' Gazette,
Mr. v Law son in a page advertisement
addressed the breeders of Yorkshire,
Tamworth, Chester White and Duroo
lioga aa follower "I want to buy two
Of the beat unbred sows tit parh of th
1 above breads, none to be related. After
I have located and purchased these
eirnt sows i wian ta uo.ura tn hptv-
ices of eight of the best unrelated
boars. I want the two Yorkshire sows
. servea Dy tne two unrelated Chester
"White boars, the two Chester White
taowa aerved by the two unrelated
'Yorkshire boars, the two Tamworth
owaaerved by the two unrelated
" by the two unrelated Tamworth boars.
jm a. mil uucnuieuiiuK Him M H 1 11 1" ei
perlment because of the necessity of
cross ; breeding which the owners of
champion boars would not ordinarily
favor, the experiment is somewhat dif-
I rti 1 gt ATAlltlAti art A T trust tha taa.
THE STORY
Former Portland Newspaper Man Now Directs the Pan
" American Union After an Active Period in the Diplo
v matic Service' of the United States. j
By
F. L.
THOSE who believe that the days
of romance are over bhould talk
With John Barrett, of Washing-,
ton, D. director of the Pan-American
Union, who was in Portland last
week-.;
Mr. Barrett was born In Graf
ton, "Vt. He comes of . an" old
New England family. That their
roots are firmly planted In New Eng
land la proved by the fact that hij
anceatora on both sides of the fam
ily fought in the War of Independence,
one of them being an officer in the
battle; of Concord. His father and
mother are both college graduates.
'I
They were anxious to have their boy
go to College; but the money was lack
ing. A little thing like that didn't
bother) John Barrett, however. He de
cided to go to college, money or no
money; and picked out Dartmouth col
lege fbr his -alma mater. He taught
ecnool, tutored, was correspondent for
New York and Boston papers, and set
type on the Hanover GaieUe; the local
paper in his college town, and so
worked his way through college. He
came out of college with flying colors.
While he was laying his plans to go
through a law school, he received a
telegram from a college mate In Cali
fornia, which read something like this:
Will j you come to Hopkina academy,
Oakland,' California, as professor of
English; - salary $700 a year and
found. The "found" caught Mr.
Barrett. He wired: "Will Come at
once,' land at once started for Cali
fornia He had never been west of
the Hudson river before, so he en
Joyed !to the full his trip made in a
continent, even if it was made in a
tourist sleeper of the Santa Fe. Ha
an-lveJ in Oakland on Auguat 16, 1889.
and when he took Btock of his fi
: nances, he- found that he had an even
$1 la his . pocket. Four years later,
to a day, he came back over the aame
road, arriving at the same station aa
a gnest of the president of, the road
and In the president's private car.
kMr. Barrett had not been ' at the
academy but a day or two until he
caught the inspiration of the mighty
Pacific Teaching- school seemed
- rather' petty to him in comparison
with . the v work of building up the
;mlghty commerce and development of
' the Pacific, lie resigned his position
in Hopkins academy, went to San
. Francisco and worked on the ' San
i Francisco papers. His work attracted
the attention of ,J. F. :, Halloron. ed-'itor-
of the A a tori an, of' Astoria,! Or.
Air. j-iiirreit was a rree lance, and sc
the offer of a regular position aa ed
ing owners of the above breeds will i
favor me with their assistance. I arc
willing to pay the right price for,thJ
rifht sows and the fair price for the
services of the boars. , I will not pay
an exorbitant price for either.
"As it will be evident that my ex
periment, however-it eventuates, would
probably never be attempted by ex
periment station colleges or other ror
the - betterment - of - the-breed instltu
tlons owing to the great expense of
locating no many different high class
boars and sows and the bringing of
jthem together and l am strongly . of
the opinion that it is to the interest
of all breeders to have the experiment
tried, ! trust the owners of the boars
necessary to jits trial will not withhold"
service becaose of its somewhat un
usual conditions."
In the same ad he seeks to buy the
pest young imported Black Percheron
stallion and 20 of the best young im
ported Black Percheron mares for
brood mares; also the best and biggest
black Jack and 20 of the best and
biggoKt black Jennets.
JCawson's Dreamwold Estate. '
Possibly, a better idea can be had of
what these two Crook county ranches i
mean toward the improvement of' the
livestock interests of the west by a
brief description 6f Mr. Lawson's cast
ern Btock farm "Dreamwold," Two or
three years ago Arnold Lawson, Thom
as W, Lawson's. oldest son, took over
Dreamwold. The following descrip-1
tlon Is from my notes written at that j
time; ..
"home years ago Mr. and Mrs. Law-
son were out driving near Scltuate, a
little village on the Massachusetts
shore not far from Boston. Pointing
to a weatherworn New England farm
house on the hillside of the south
shote, overlooking Massachusetts bay.
Mis. Lawson said, 'What a beautiful
site for a country home!' Mr. Lawson
had always looked forward to the time
when he could have a farm, stocked!
with good animals. 'If you would Uk
to live out here," he said, 'I'll buy that 1
old place and we'll make our home out;
here.' He sent a landscape gardener!
out to look the farm 'over and give
lam a report as to the cost of improve
ment, lie reported that a place sever
al times as large could be bought else
where . for what it would cost to fix 1
this one up. 'Anybody can buy
farrnY Mr. Lawson responded, 'but, it
Isn't? everybody . that can make one, j
and 1 want to make my boyhood
dreams come true on this place.'
"He bought it and several adjacent
farms and gave orders to clear 500
acres of rock strewn hillside and put i
it in bluegrass. It took over 1000 men
and 200 teams all winter to clear the
land- of rocks and get it ready. When
the roads were laid out, trenches were 1
dug nine feet deep and the rocks too
large to be moved were buried in these
trenches. Smaller rocks were placed
on these huge boulders and finally a
heavy dressing of broken rock and
gravel and sand was put on top of
this and thoroughly rolled with a
steam roller, so that the roads at
Dreamwold are like the Roman roads
and will last for a score of centuries.
"Broad and splendidly kept roads
lead all over the farm. Here you will
Bee a sign, 'Homeway.' There a road
is marked "Toil way,' while the road
that leads to the cow barns has its ap
propriate title of 'Bossy-way; There'
OF JOHN BARRETT'S CAREER READS LIKE PAGE FROM SOME RARE VOLUME
i"
itor of the Astorian appealed to him.
In December, 1889, be went to As
toria, f
Mr. Barrett is a natural enthusiast.
If you will look up the old flies of
the Astorian for the winter of '89 and
90, you will find plenty of articles
predicting that Astoria will, some day,
be the New York of the Pacific coast.
The editor of the Seattle Post Intelli
gence, seeing Mr. Barrett's work- in
the Astorian, offered him more sal
ary, so he went to Seattle. The next
man to decide that he needed Mr. Bar
rett's services was Mr. Radabaugh,
proprietor of the Tacoma Ledger. Mr.
Barrett went there at increased salary
to promote interest in the trip around
the world of George Frances Train.
He had not been there long, wh-in
H. W. Scott, of the Oregonlan. tele
graphed him to come to Portland. At
that time the Telegram was a single
sheet, with a few lines of telegraph
to hold the franchise. Its circulation
was less than 1000 copies. Mr. Scott
told Mr. Barrett he was going to im
prove the Telegram for fear some
other paper would come in. He said
that George H. Moffett of St. Paul
was coming out to act as managing
editor and offered Mr. Barrett . the
'"r. 1 ""v'",c i eunur.
Mr. Barrett accented and also took I
charge of the political news of the !
Telegram. !
To promote the interests of the pa
per. Mr. Barrett attended all Demo-
cratic political meetings, organized the
Young Men's Democratic club, and
was soon Identified with the work of
the Democratic party.
A Visit to 'WashlngtoB.
In addition to his political articles.
he wrote articles oil the possibilities
of commerce with the orient. He kept
hammering away on the value of the
oriental trade to Portland, and
editorially that If Cleveland were
elected, the Democrats should aee to
it that Pacific coast men were . an
notated to diplomatic positions in the
oriental possessions, so as to build up
me commerce or Portland and the
Pacific coast It was suggested that
he himself become a candidate for the
position of consul-general to Yoko-
ftama. 'H secured the cooperation Of
all the chambers of commerce of the
coast, as well as the endorsement f
both Democratic and Republican offi
ciate in Oregon, Before his endorse
ments had reached Washington, how
ever, N. W. Mclvor of Iowa, had been
appointed.; Mr. Barrett decided to go
to Washington personally - and : see
hat the chances were of securing
ieircseniauon ior the Pacific coast.
He borrowed the money to go to Wash-
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Scenes at "Dreamwold,", Thomas Lawson's New England country estate.! To p The Lawson Thome at "Dreamwold". Center A coach and
four traversing one of the splendid drives through the place. Bottom Some prize winning , dairy cows.
are
miles of
fence on i
the farm, covered by a profusion
of red rambler , roses. Arnold
Lawson, Mr. Lawson's ' son, who
was walking with me, said;
in answer to my question, Yes, father
is a great lover of beauty. We have 14
miles of crimson rambler roses on the
ington. There he found a number of
Oregon men wanting office, and hav
ing already worked with them along
political lines, he did his best to help
them secure their positions. He saw
President Cleveland "three different-1
times while urging the appointment
of hiB Oregon friends, but did not
mention' his own application.
One day President Cleveland sent
for him to discuss one of the Oregon
appointments. President Cleveland, in
the course of " the talk, said: "Mr.
Barrett, I am looking for some young
man who is not afraid of hard work,
and who wants to make a reputation
for himself, to go as minister to Slar.
to settle the claim of Dr. M. A. Cheek
involving several million dollars, and
also involving some delicate matters
in connection with the interpretation
of our treaties with oriental countries'.
This particular case is one of the roost
important we now have in the orient.
Tou "have received strong endorse
ments from the Pacific coast as consul-general
to Yokohama, but the of
fice was filled when your recommen
dations arrived. Will you accept the
position as minister to Siam? But
first, what do you know about Siam?"
Mr. Barrett : ' couldn't remember
Whether Slam was in Asia or Africa,
but a little thing like this didn't
bother him, so he said: "Mr,
dent, I know all about Siam,"
"Well, what do you . know
Presi-
about
Slam? said Mr. Cleveland.
Mr. Barrett was stumped for a sec
ond, and then said: "Why,' Slam is
I the country that produced the famou
Siamese twins.
'.Mr. Cleveland, with a twinkle In his I
eye, arose gravely and said, as he
shook hands with Mr. Barrett: "Mr.
Barrett, I am happy, indeed, to get
hold of a man with such profound
knowledge and abundant information
about Siam..; As a matter of fact, I
am glad you know nothing about it,
as you will not be prejudiced one way
or the other in regard to the questions
to be settled there."
Mr, Barrettwent to Siam, There he
stayed for four years. At the time
of his appointment, he was 26 years
old, and was the youngest minister
plenipotentiary that the United States
tad ever appointed. While in Siam,
various matters arose requiring inves
tigation in China. Japan, India and
the - Philippines, so Mr. ; Barrett was
sent to look these matters up for the
government. He finally brought; the
Cheek: question to a successful termi
nation through arbitration. Sir Nich
olas Hannen, the British chief justice
for; China and Japan, being selected
to arbitrate the case. His award sup
ported all the contentions of law and
fact made by Mr. Barrett. President
Cleveland wrote a personal letter, con
gratulating Mr. Barrett on the : peace
f ul settlement of the matter, and Jus
tice Field of the supreme court also
wrote him a letter stating that his
handling of the case was worthy of a
lawyer of International experience
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place. I am sorry father is away, he
would enjoy showing you over the
place and telling you about it.'
"Looking up from the bluegrass in
the Dreamwold paddock were some
Kentucky mares, soft-eyed and satin
coated. They trotted up to the fence
and extended their heads toward us
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Union, who was a Portland visitor last week.
During the time that Mr. Barrett j
was In Siam he wrote numerous re
ports on oriental commerce 'to the
state department, as well as to the
commercial organizations of the
United States. After he had been in
Siam four years, the Spanish-American
war. broke out. Upon the declara
tion of war, ; he telegraphed his res
ignation . and i asked, for . an ; appoint
ment in the army to -serve in the
Philippines. , Leaving Bangkok, : the
capital - of Siam. he went to Hong
kong to await orders. Meanwhile the
battle of Manila bay had been fought.
At Hongkong he found cables from the
secretary or - war, . secretary j of tho
navy and secretary of state, as well
to be patted. 'While we have blooded
stock of many varieties here, this is
.really a horse-breeding farm,' con
tinued Arnold Lawson. 'Fayier's the
ory, that as, good- horses can be bred
here as anywhere in the world, has
been confirmed by the fact that the
only horse that ever beat Dream wold's
Photograph by Harria . a- Ewlog.
C.,' director of the Pan-America
as from William R, Hearst. Hearst
had asked the government to recora
mend someone they had confidence in
to report the war for his syndicate of
American and European ; newspapers.
In the past, the government had criti
cized Hearst for wbat they considered
unfair: reports of the trouble in Cuba.
The result was that Mr. Barrett was
recommended by the government as
the; man for the' place. Hearst of
fered a large salary and also- placed
a credit of $100,000 with the Hongkong
Shanghai .bank to buy a dispatch boat.
Barrett arrived - in Manila ten ' days
after the, battle of Manila bay, - an1
.served as correspondent there during
the war. At the close of the war,
Bonnie, who has been shown 45 times
and who has won a blue ribbon every
time he was shown, was his tandem
mate, Dreamwold's Glorious Bonnie
a 4-year-old, born and raised
here at Dreamwold..
'"We have about 2 SO men working
on the farm, 85 of them being em
his plan was to come to Portland to
live, but. he was asked by the gov
ernment to conduct further negotia
tions in the far east.
Late in 1899 he returned to the
United States and made addressee
throughout the country on the trade
possibilities of the Philippine islands
and of the orient. This attracted the
attention of President McKinley, who
offered him the position of minister
to China. Mr. Barrett declined, as he
was anxious to go back to newspaper
work. Again he made a start for
Portland, when President McKinley
asked him to go to Mexico City to
the second -Pan-American conference,
to represent the United States. As
this was" a matter of hut a short tlnb
and would not delay his trip to Port
land long, he went. There he met
some of the biggest nen of South i
American and changed his plans, and
decided to make a trip through South
America as a newspaper correspond
ent, and then to return to Portland.
At this time, however, the St. Louis
exposition commissioners offered him
$15,000 a year and expenses to make
a trip around the world to interest
foreign nations In making an exhibit
at St. Louis. He made this trip In
1902, met many foreign rulers and se
cured the participation of most of th
foreign countries.
Minister to Argentina
Upon his return. President Roose
velt, having decided o appoint a west
ern man to succeed ex-Governor Lord
of Oregon aa minister to the Argen
tine o-epubllc, offered the position to
Mr Barrett. While Mr. Barrett was
in Argentina the Panama revolution
took place, and President Roosevelt
requested Mr. Barrett to go there and
become first minister of the Panama
republic. .He was in charge of the
preliminary negotiations between the
canal zone andv the government of
Panama. At that time, the canal zone
was a plague spot with yellow fever
and other tropical diseases. Mr. Bar
rett was present at the actual be
ginning of work on the Panama canal,
and saw the first shovelful of dirt
removed. This was in 1904. On Aug
ust 15, 1914, just ten years later, he
was aboard the Ancon, the first ves
sel to go through deep water from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. He had beer.
fortunate enough to see the beginning
and the end or this wonderful under
taking. After .a year in Panama, President
Roosevelt asked Mr, Barrett to go to
Colombia. Up to' that time Colombia
had refused to accept any ; United
States minister,' but as Mr, Barrett
lad .shown his friendliness to Latin
America, and had looked after : the
interests of the Colombians , while
minister, to Panama, and -was also a
personal friend of President Reyes of
Colombia.' they . approved of him as
minister. The whole Panama dis
pute would probably, have : teen set
tled by means of the treaty then be
ing negotiated by him If President
ployed In the stables." i
"We walked through the brood-mac::
stables in the service building, a-building
which is over 890 feet long and
beautifully , kept. From there we went
to the show stable which is 300 feet
long and in which a no 50 blooded car
riage horses. In the carriage room
are more" than 40 vehicles, many of
them built after Mr. Lawson's own
plans, among them an exact duplicate
tn .miniature, of tine old Deadwood
stage coach. Small ponies are hitchr-d
to this and whenever; it Is used it cre
ates a decided sensation.
Xadng Stable Complete.
"From the show stable we went to
Ifce racing stable. This building is also
S00 feet long and in it are something
over 100 harness racing horses; No
New England housekeeper keeps her
kitchen more scrupulously clean than
these stables are kept.
"Near the stables is the blacksmith
shop, a very artistic little building
having, as all the other buildings, a
sign to show its se. this being the
sign of a forge. From the blacksmith
shop we went: to the stallion stable
Here, as elsewhere, cups and blue rib
bons are very much in evidence. 'We
are breeding horses for various pur
poses,' said one of the men In answer
to my inquiry. 'Those from 12 to 13
hands high are either saddle or har
ness trap horses; from 14 to 15 hands
they are harness trap horses,, while
the ones that run from IS hands to
IB hands and three inches high are
for gig and light Victoria work. Those
from 15 hands and -three inches up
ward are for'brougham and heavy Vic
toria or coach work.
"We next visited the hospital for
sick or , injured horses, the foaling
stable, and the riding academy, a ste-el
trussed building so arranged that ther
is an earth' floor 200 feet by 130 feet.
One after the other the grooms
brought out some of the famous rac
ers and stallions for our Inspection.
"To my mind, however, the most at
tractive horse on the place is Boralma,
The groom, noticing my interest, said:
'That'a the greatest liorse that ever
looked through a bridle. Boralinu.
won, as a 8-year-old. as a 4jrcar-old
and as a 5-year-oW. lie won 12
straight races against all comers and
holds the world's 4-year-old geldins
record of 2:08 with .John Nolan and
the 6-year-old gelding record of 2:07
with Lord Derby. He is the only horse,
living or dead, that has ever won all
three of the great American stake3,
the Kentucky Futurity, the Massa
chusetts and the Transylvania! We
call-him the Charity Horse for he- has
won over $50,000 on the track, every
cent Qf which has been given to
charity.'
"Dreamwold ia a harmony with no
discordant notes. The general' color
tone is a weather-worn Cape Cod gray,
All of the buildings conform to this
color. New England quality seems to
bo the motto of Dreamwold, and while
beauty and harmony are everywhere
in evidence, yet the underlying im
pression left in your mind is its sub
stantial and solid character.
"Dreamwold is an empire within It
self. It has It own system of water,
piped through every building in the
place, its own electric system, its own
sewerage system, .its own fire depart
ment with engine, hook and ladder
outfit, chemical engine and boae carta.
In Discussing Relations With Latin-America While in
Portland Last Weekj He, Urges Reciprocal Commerce
and Mutual Confidence
Reyes had not gotten Into political
trouble in his own country, caualng
negotiations to be broken off.
Secretary of State Root, in 1956,
made his famous trip to South Amer
ica, and attended the Fan-American
conference at Rio Janeiro. The Inter
national Bureau of the American Re
publics was reorganised and its inter
ests were broadened by taking the '21
American nations into the Pan-American
union. Mr. Barrett was elected
by unanimous vote of these govern
ments as director-general. He took
charge on January 1, 1907.
Andrew Carnegie gave $$50,000,
and the governments in the union
raised - $250,000 with which one
of the most beautiful official
buildings now in use was erected at
Washington, D. C, for the Pan-American
Union. A, staff of over 70 ex
perts in trade. International law and
commercial relations conduct the busi
ness there. A monthly bulletin In
English, Spanish, , Portuguese and
French is published. One gets some
idea of the Importance of the work
when It is realized that there are 162,
000,000 people in the Pan-American
union, of which 92,000,000 are In the
United States, and 1 about 70,000,000
in Latin. America. Of the 12,000,000
square miles of territory, Latin Amer
ica has about 9,000,000. The 21 Amer
ican republics have i a total foreign
commerce of $7,028,000,000, of whJcn
Latin America has $2,810,000,000. The
United States has a trade with Latin
America amounting jto $829,000,000.
If you don't believe in romance,
think of a boy of 16 being sent as
minister to Siam, or of a newspaper
reporter being sent to meet the rul
ers of the world, to Interest them in
exploiting their resources. .
Relations Wlta Bevta America.
In speaking of the present outlook
for trade relations he said:
"The ' United States today ia face
to face in its relations wjth its 20
sister American republics with the
greatest opportunity : and responsibil
ity in its history. That Portland
should share in this combined op
portunity and ; responsibility is my
belief.
' "Portland nas extraordinary -opportunities
as a port and city of the Pa
cific coast, but the greatest opportu
nity is the development of its com
merce upon the Pacific ocean. It has
vast and immeasurable possibilities In
its trade with the orient which should
be sought and developed with all the
energy of which Portland la capable.
"Portland should plan her futurj,
not only to be the metropolis of Ore
gon and one of the leading cities of
"In addition to the show animal,
there is the farm horse stable for lh-
work' horses, heavy necked, broad
fhesttal, splendid animals, weighing
from 1600 to 2000 pounds each.
"In the tower hang the idle bells.
Tiey are duplicates of the Westmin
ster chimes, but since the death, .of
Mrs. Lawson, who was very fond, of
them, they have hung voiceless and
tuneless in memory of her. '
"Like a band of silver the mile rac
track extends around the polo grounds.
"To see Glorious ' Red Cloud and
Glorious Thunder Cloud at the wheel
wun uiorious whirling cloud are
fM. 1.M . . I f t l . I ..V
come-down the track la a sight that ix
Worth going a long way to see. They
l ave, the distinction of being unbeaten
as a park coach four. They cost MV.
Lawson $30,000 and they are the onl
show ring four made up entirely of
stallions. -
"In front of the show stables la a
long etretch of greensward on which
the tandem teams and other show
horses are exercised occasionally. It
is a beautifuf sight to see Glorious
Bonnie s Lass and Vanity Fair.: one
of the show tandem teams, sweeping
by with ,'Glorioua Kelly, the head
groom, on the box. '
"Tha Heat Attractive."
"There Is one building that wins
many a glance of curiosity from visit-
ors to Dreamwold, It Is "The Jiest."
This is built after the manner of an
old New England homestead. It la of
typical Cape Cod gray that blends ao
well with the New England shore' lin.
Around it Is an old fashioned garden
with the primly trimmed hedges and
the- old fashioned flowers that our
grandmothers loved. Dorothy Perkins
roses and ramblers with honcysucki
and mignonette make the air redolent
with perfume. Within the 'Neat'" the
rooms are furnished with old colonlaM
furniture, old tashlonwl desks and fire
places with fire dogs and tonga. Old
colonial silverware and the simple but
substantial sideboards and chairs ' of
the early Massachusetts daya mak
you think that In stepping over tho
threshold you have stepped back
through the years to the days when
Massachusetts was a colony.' Here
Mr. Lawson docs his literary work.
Here,, in his den, he is no longer 'the
financier, but may Indulge his Imag
ination, and be a dreamer and a poet.
His poetry is not expressed in verse.
It is expressed in the beauty of the
Burroundlngs. One does not associ
ate sentiment and imagination with
an operator on Wall street,' yet th
author of 'Frenzied Finance' Is full of
both of these qualities.
"Mr. Lawson has a peisonal charm
and magnetism that have made him a
multitude of friends. He I a reaxlv
talker, quirk witted and resourceful,.-.
good story teller and is full of enthu
siasm about the things that Interest
him while there is a wholesomeness
about him that Is like the sweep of
the wind over the sea or over wide
stretches of prairie. His handclasp M
hearty, his eye is clear and keen ami
he looks at you straightforwardly.
Somehow you know when ymi have
met him that he is fall of enengy and
courage. He is the kind of a mad
you would pick out for a campmate,
for you know he would do his ahare
and could be counted on." -
OF ROMANCE
as Essential Features,
.. '-4
the Pacific coast, but a Pan-American
center of commerce. Portland should
aspire to be regarded as a greaustral
egic center of trade and influence for
the whole western hemisphere. IC
Portland would become a really great.
city, known and respected' throughout"
the world, she must have splendid am
bitions. These ambitions may - seem
almost beyond her reach, but unless
she strives to realize them she wilt
be outstripped by-her forceful rivals
on the Pacific coast and in other part
of the United States.
"Having that love of Portlapd which
comes from my residence of several
yeara here before I entered public life,
I want to urge upon the citizen c of
this city, state and section, a practi
cal realization of the marvelous
change that at this very moment is
being evolved In the relations Of the
United States with its slater republics,
of Latin - America. Recent develop
ments, such as the mediation of Ar
gentina, Brazil and Chile in the Mex
ican question, the united stand taker
by all Latin America with the United
States In protecting their commerce
and Interests against 'the effects- cf
the European war, and the realization
demonstrated by the war that all the
countries of the western hem lap net
are absolutely interdependent, . have
suddenly made the American people
appreciate the vital importance oci I
tlonshtp to the countries of Central
and South America. . v ' ;
"All Asia Is combining for"rgreater
strength and all Europe after - the.
war will probably reorganize Itself on
a new basis of unity interest. It-
therefore behooves the United States
and its 20 sister republics to develop
the same common Interest of, unity v
among nations and Its peoples that titj
United States as an individual nation
has developed among the states whicn
form this great country.
"Now Is a most propitious time - to
get Into the closest touch with al't
Latin America. f
"Possibly still more, let us hope
that Pan-American cooperation as ex
emplified in the present. practical ac
tion of the Pan American union tur
the protection of the interests of the
neutral American nations may yet u en
velop Into a powerful and well mean
ing influence to bring peace to Europe
through the impartial mediation of the
united nations of the' western faemls-phere.-"'-'"
"':,-.; .'
s- "Pan Americanism Is the slogan o(
the hour, and Portland must become
a mighty factor in building up the twi
great essentials of lasting Pan Ameri
canism namely, reciprocal commerce
and mutual confidence." '- ; -.;. . 1.