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November  4.  191G, 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
During  the  years  the  promoter  of  the 
Dan  Patch  Railroad  was  holding  out  the 
prospects  of  fabulous  profits  to  those  who 
would  put  their  savings  into  the  Stock  of 
the  company,  wo  repeatedly  advised  our 
people  against  putting  a  cent  into  the 
hazard.  Our  esteemed  contemporary, 
Farm,  Stock  and  Home,  of  Minneapolis, 
right  on  the  ground,  has  this  to  say  of  the 
disaster  to  stockholders  in  the  latest 
issue : 
Another  Warning. 
The  failure  of  the  Dan  Patch  Electric 
Line  carries  another  warning  to  the  small 
investor.  We  all  remember  the  flamboy¬ 
ant  advertisements  of  this  company — 
none  were  ever  seen  in  F.,  S.  &  H.,  how¬ 
ever — offering  certain  profits  to  small  in¬ 
vestors.  It  was  carefully  explained  that 
money  for  the  project  could  be  easily 
raised  in  Wall  Street  but  the  money  kings 
were  not  to  be  allowed  to  reap  the  won¬ 
derful  returns  that  were  to  come  from 
operation  of  the  Dan  Patch  Line.  It  was 
to  be  a  people’s  railroad,  built  and  run  for 
the  profit  of  the  plain  people.  Like  all 
schemes  of  this  kind  it.  took  money  away 
from  individuals  who  could  ill  afford  the 
loss  of  the  small  amounts  invested  (?). 
In  common  with  ull  other  plans  oper¬ 
ated  to  part  the  small  investor  from  bis 
money  the  cost  of  selling  stock  was  ex¬ 
cessive,  probably  out  of  every  dollar 
raised  30  (suits  was  spent  to  get  it. 
The  chance  of  the  stockholders  ever  get¬ 
ting  any  of  their  money  hack  is  remote. 
To  do  so,  the  receiver  must  at  once  begin 
to  make  a  profit  from  operation  sufficient 
to  in  time  pay  off  the.  indebtedness  and 
eventually  restore  the  property  to  the 
stockholders.  In  view  of  the  fact  that 
the  road  never  has  been  profitable  the 
chances  are  against  the  receiver  accom¬ 
plishing  this. 
Failing  here  the  next  chance  for  the 
stockholders  is  the  sale  of  the  property 
for  enough  to  pay  all  the  indebtedness 
and  leave  a  surplus  large  enough  to  pay 
the  shareholders  in  full.  As  the  people 
with  enough  money  to  do  this  have  passed 
the  sucker  stage,  it  looks  as  though  the 
farmers,  school  teachers,  stenographers, 
clerks  and  wage-earners  who  bought  the 
stock  can  frame  their  certificates  as  diplo¬ 
mas  in  t  he  school  of  experience. 
The  sad  part  of  it  is  that  the  lesson 
will  not  be  learned.  The  next  scheme  to 
make  the  people  rich  on  a  ten  or  u  hun¬ 
dred  dollar  investment  will  find  just  as 
many  victims,  possibly  from  among  the 
same  people  who  have  Dan  Fateh  certi¬ 
ficates. 
I  see  you  take  an  interest  in  those  who 
get  unfair  treatment  from  advertisers. 
Therefore,  I  wish  to  state  my  case  to  you 
and  see  if  yon  think  there  can  be  any¬ 
thing  done. 
More  than  a  year  ago  a  company  called 
the  De  King  Mfg.  Co.,  of  Chicago,  ’  rged 
me  to  act  as  agent  for  the  sale  of  a  churn 
of  theirs,  and  to  get  a  sample  I  must  pay 
the  full  retail  price — $0.50.  with  the  un¬ 
derstanding  and  guarantee,  which  I  hold, 
if  the  churn  did  not  do  just  as  repre¬ 
sented  I  could  return  it  and  my  money 
would  he  refunded.  I  sent  for  the  churn 
and  gave  it  a  fair  trial  and  found  I  could 
do  nothing  with  it.  They  said  it  would 
churn  butter  in  MS  minutes.  My  first  try 
was  with  a  farmer  who  had  three  gallons 
of  cream.  I  took  one-half  of  this  and 
churned  one  and  one-half  hours  and  could 
not  get  any  butter.  They  put  the  other 
half  in  their  churn  and  got  good  butter 
in  15  minutes.  1  wrote  the  De  King 
Mfg.  Co.  my  results,  as  other  trials  were 
the  same,  and  told  them  I  would  return 
the  churn,  and  did  so.  For  more  than  a 
month  they  refused  to  receive  the  churn 
from  the  express  office.  They  then  wrote 
me  that  they  took  it  and  would  send  me  a 
check  for  what  the  raw  material  in  this 
would  be  worth  to  them,  but  1  could  never 
get  even  this,  and  for  some  months  now 
they  will  not  answer  or  take  any  notice 
of  my  letters.  If  not  too  much  trouble, 
will  you  please  look  them  up  and  see  if 
you  think  they  are  any  good.  1  presume 
they  are  not.  J.  H.  B. 
Maine. 
We  took  this  complaint  up  with  the 
De  King  Mfg.  Co.,  and  the  firm  replied 
that  the  case  had  been  overlooked  and 
that  check  in  refund  was  being  mailed  to 
the  subscriber.  ,T.  II.  B.  received  check 
for  $3,  instead  of  $0.50,  which  be  paid  for 
the  churn.  SubsqOently  another  dollar 
was  refunded.  The  De  King  Mfg.  Co.  ex¬ 
plain  that  they  made  deduction  for  ex¬ 
press  charges  and  further  deduction  be¬ 
cause  the  churn  was  not  in  the  same  con¬ 
dition  when  it  was  shipped.  Naturally 
after  a  churn  has  been  used  sufficient  for 
a  trial,  it  is  no  longer  a  new  churn.  The 
guarantee  under  which  the  churn  was 
sold,  however,  made  no  provision  for 
these  deductions,  and  we  have  made  de¬ 
mand  for  the  refund  of  the  full  purchase 
price.  This  demand,  however,  has  been 
ignored  by  the  De  King  Co. 
This  churn,  like  all  the  quick-process 
churns,  we  regard  as  wrong  in  principle. 
RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
'They  will  make  butter  to  be  sure,  but 
not  of  as  good  quality  as  the  regular  con¬ 
cussion  churns,  and  our  reports  have 
shown  too  that  they  leave  a  greater 
amount  of  butter  in  the  buttermilk.  For 
25  years  The  It  that.  New-Yorker  lias 
persistently  refused  the  advertising  of  all 
this  class  of  churns.  Furthermore,  we 
have  frequently  printed  the  experiences  of 
practical  butter-makers  with  this  class  of 
churns,  so  that  any  of  our  readers  who 
arc  deceived  by  them  cannot  blame  The 
It.  N.-Y.  for  their  plight. 
I  have  seen  in  your  paper  at  different 
times  warnings  of  frauds  or  crooks  trav¬ 
eling  around  over  the  country,  and  feel  it 
my  duty  to  write  you  about  one  who  ap¬ 
peared  here  in  our  locality  lately.  This 
person  prptends  to  be  in  the  real  estate 
business  and  professes  to  want  to  buy 
farms  for  city  people.  After  asking  a  per¬ 
son  what  he  wants  for  his  place,  says: 
“Oh.  your  place  is  worth  more  than  that ! 
It  is  worth  so  much.”  But  he  wants  $100 
down  before  he  can  do  anything.  And 
then  he  will  bring  a  buyer,  will  not  give 
bis  name  or  address.  Looks  pretty  crooked 
to  me.  j.  h.  s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The  above  sounds  very  much  like  the 
work  of  J.  J.  Looker,  representing  the 
D.  B.  Cornell  Co.,  Great  Barrington, 
Mass.  Looker’s  former  plan  was  to  ask 
for  $20.  but  no  doubt  be  has  caught  the 
spirit  of  the  times  and  raised  his  advance 
payment  to  $100.  Pennsylvania  farmers 
will  do  well  to  he  on  the  lookout  for  this 
rascal,  whether  his  name  proves  to  be 
“Looker”  or  otherwise. 
The  enclosed  literature  has  been  sent 
me  by  a  friend  in  New  York  who  asks  my 
advice.  lie  informs  me  that  their  price  is 
$750  per  acre.  Their  location  at  Wal¬ 
lingford  is  indeed  appropriate — no  doubt 
“Black ie”  Daw  is  somewhere  in  the  back¬ 
ground.  You  will  note  that  this  quarter- 
million-dollar  structure  is  erected  on  a  10- 
acre  bearing  peach  orchard.  I  will  not 
mention  the  effusions  of  their  stock  sales¬ 
man,  except  to  say  that  they  are  daz¬ 
zling.  G.  H. 
New  York. 
The  literature  enclosed  by  the  above 
subscriber  gives  a  financial  statement  of 
the  Connecticut  Orchards  Co.,  of  Nov.  Gth, 
1015.  This  shows  that  the  capital  stock 
had  been  at  that'  time  increased  to  $250,- 
000.  The  amount  of  land  owned  by  the 
company  as  shown  in  the  statement  is  04 
acres.  The  literature  accompanying  con¬ 
tains  the  usual  extravagant  statements  of 
unit  orchard  promoters  as  to  the  large 
profits  in  growing  fruit.  We  have  fre¬ 
quently  advised  our  people  against  invest¬ 
ing  their  savings  in  stock  of  concerns  of 
this  kind,  or  purchasing  small  sections  of 
orchards  promoted  by  development  com¬ 
panies.  The  Connecticut  Orchard  Co.  is 
no  exception  to  the  rule,  and  the  chances 
for  the  success  of  this  enterprise  are  re¬ 
garded  as  slight  by  those  iu  best  position 
to  judge.  We  are  reliably  informed  that 
the  laud  which  this  company  is  endeavor¬ 
ing  to  develop  was  on  the  market  some 
years  ago  at  $10  per  acre.  The  land  is 
described  as  stony  and  too  wet  for  grow¬ 
ing  peaches  without  thorough  drainage, 
while  apples  thrive  well  enough  on  the 
land  in  question. 
The  use  of  the  United  States  mails  has 
been  denied  to  the  Douglas  Advertising 
Agency,  Columbus  and  Shepard,  O. 
Circular  letters  sent,  through  the  mails 
by  W,  I’.  Run  ion,  the  proprietor,  repre¬ 
sented  that  this  agency  would  pay  $5  n 
hundred  for  names  and  addresses  and 
would  give  exclusive  territory  to  persons 
sending  $1.  Lpon  receipt  of  the  $1, 
Rnnioil  immediately  solicited  another  re¬ 
mittance  of  $3  to  cover  the  cost  of  an 
“outfit.” 
Investigation  by  the  Fostoffice  Depart¬ 
ment  showed  Runion  was  not  in  the  bus¬ 
iness  of  dealing  in  names  and  addresses, 
but  it  was  charged  that  his  whole  scheme 
was  to  obtain  money  through  the  sale  of 
a  worthless  outfit,  consisting  of  a  cheap 
fountain  pen  and  other  materials. — Adv. 
Club  Progress. 
Those  alluring  schemes  cannot  be  too 
strongly  condemned  or  too  often  exposed 
to  protect  innocent  gullible  people.  The 
advertisements  apparently  offer  remun¬ 
erative  work,  and  honest,  needy  people 
are  usually  the  victims.  The  Fostoffice 
Department  docs  well  to  run  down  such 
swindlers,  even  though  a  petty  one.  We 
only  wish  the  Post  Office  officials  could 
find  some  way  of  punishing  the  publica¬ 
tions  carrying  such  deceptive  advertising. 
Mtlton  :  “Gibson  doesn’t  seem  to  be 
getting  rich  at  poultry  raising.”  Bilton  : 
“No ;  but  be  says  his  be.ns  have  taken  to 
eating  their  own  eggs,  and  he  has  hopes 
that  they’ll  become  self-supporting.” 
"Snag. Proof" 
One  Buckle 
Arctic, 
heavy  duck 
throughout 
” Redskin ** 
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Lasting  Wear  and  Satisfaction 
What  makes  rubber  arctics,  boots  and  shoes  wear  out? 
Second-hand  rubber  loaded  down  with  compounds  and 
cheap  workmanship  will  wreck  any  pair  of  boots  before 
you  get  your  money’s  worth. 
Every  Lambertville  arctic,  boot  or  shoe 
is  made  of  fresh,  tough  rubber  and  stands 
the  hardest  wear  you  can  give  it. 
Lambertville 
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above,  has  seven  thicknesses  of  pure  rubber  ground 
into  the  heavy  sail  duck,  which  make  it  durable  and 
free  from  cracks  and  leaks.  “Redskin”  is  all  long- 
wearing  red  rubber.  “L“  brand  has  duck  vamp. 
“  Lamco”  is  pure  gum,  ribbed. 
There  is  a  Lambertville  dealer  near  you.  If  you 
don't  locate  him,  write  us  and  we  will  see  that  you 
are  supplied.  Send  for  booklet. 
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