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Growers' Association " the plans of a fruit- 

 evaporator, on condition that they should 

 be published and furnished free to all ap- 

 plicants. This is simply a fraudulent scheme 

 to secure free advertising, and of which 

 " The Popular Science Monthly " has fallen a 

 victim, unless the matter referred to in its 

 columns was paid matter.* The scheme 

 was tried on the agricultural press of the 

 country last year, but with only partial suc- 

 cess, as the fraud was soon detected and 

 exposed. They now seem to have tackled 

 the periodicals. I inclose a page from the 

 " Farmers' Review " of July 28, 1886, which 

 fully exposes the whole fraud. For any 

 further information which you may desire, 

 I refer you to the " Country Gentleman," 

 "Rural New-Yorker," "Ohio Farmer," or 

 any other reputable agricultural journal. 

 Trusting that the next issue will contain 

 such reference to this pretended association 

 as shall counteract any advantage the par- 

 ties might otherwise derive from the publi- 

 cation in the April issue, and will also put 

 other periodicals on their guard, 

 I remain, very truly, yours, 



0. C. Gibbs, 

 Editor "Farmers' Review." 

 Chicago, March 29, 18S7. 



It appears, from papers which Mr. Gibbs 

 sends with his letter, that the object of the 

 recommendation is to induce parties to write 

 to the address given for the plans and draw- 

 ings promised, when they are informed that 

 another and still better evaporator has been 

 put upon the market, which will be fur- 

 nished them at a price less than the cost of 

 making the "Arnold Evaporator." The 

 pretended society consists of persons inter- 

 ested in the sale of the new evaporator ; 

 and the names of persons of known repute, 

 which are enrolled in its list of members, 

 appear to have been borrowed without the 

 owners' consent. So, if any of our friends 

 have intended to inquire about the " Arnold 

 Evaporator " on the strength of our notice, 

 we only have to say to them, "Don't." To 

 those who may already have been misled by 

 our item we offer our apologies. 



The New York Skin and (Dancer Hospi- 

 tal. The New York Skin and Cancer Hos- 

 pital was incorporated in November, 1882, 

 and now has a city hospital building in East 

 Thirty-fourth Street, at which more than four 



* Nothing of this kind has ever appeared in "The 

 Popular Science Monthly " outside of the regular 

 and avowed advertising pages, under any guise. 

 Editor. 



thousand cases have been treated by a staff 

 of physicians of recognized competence, and 

 a country branch of cottage pavilions at 

 Fordham Heights, near High Bridge; the 

 two properties being valued at about $80,- 

 000. The pavilions of the country branch 

 are projected in recognition of the fact 

 which has been abundantly verified in army 

 practice, that such structures, light, airy, 

 and admitting only a small number of pa- 

 tients at a time, are free from the objections 

 which attach to the solid buildings of city 

 hospitals with their crowds of patients oc- 

 cupying the same quarters year after year. 

 They are much more easily and for a longer 

 time kept free from the infectious qualities 

 likely to attach to a permanent hospital, and 

 the patient is relatively secure from the peril 

 from poisonous influences which he is sure 

 to incur in a city hospital. Being slight and 

 cheap, they can be removed if they finally 

 become infected, and their places supplied 

 by new, clean, and entirely wholesome cot- 

 tages. The estate at Fordham comprises 

 sixteen acres of land in an elevated situa- 

 tion that commands fine views of the Hud- 

 son River and Long Island Sound. It will 

 be occupied with cottages as they are needed, 

 and the means are supplied for building 

 them. Two have been built, and are in 

 use, and four others are under way. The 

 experiences of the past year, we learn from 

 the recently published fourth annual report, 

 have already indicated the wisdom of the 

 new undertaking. "The favorable effects 

 of fresh air, sunshine, quiet, and isolation 

 upon the cancer-patients is shown in the 

 prolongation of life, and in the comfort and 

 helpful care it is possible to administer." 

 Upon the record of what they have accom- 

 plished, the managers of the institution 

 invite gifts for building other cottages, to 

 be named by the giver, costing from $2,000 

 to $5,000 each ; and endowments for beds, 

 of $3,000 during the life of the donor, and 

 $5,000 in perpetuity. The total cost of 

 hospital accommodations for one hundred 

 patients on this plan of building is estimated 

 at $50,000, which, with $50,000 paid for 

 the property, will make the price $1,000 a 

 bed a very small sum, compared with the 

 cost in some other hospitals. The mana- 

 gers are aided in the care of patients by the 

 Ladies' Auxiliary Board, by whose exer- 



