September 9, 1922 
stein’s agent), and am enclosing a card 
Mr. Makely gave me. Mr. Mnkely in¬ 
spected the apple;, pronounced them O. 
K„ and bought them at $4.50 per barrel 
f. o. b. (.5 a sport, and Mr. Sweeney shipped 
them to Goldstein at Philadelphia. When 
they arrived at Philadelphia Goldstein 
refused to pay the draft, so Mr. Sweeney 
turned them over to another house. Car 
144,(MS contained ISO barrels and car 
150,131 contained 200 barrels, and should 
have netted me $1,710, hut instead netted 
back $1,350,03, a loss of $300.07. There 
was no written contract, but am enclos¬ 
ing all the papers in connection with it 
and wonder if it isn’t possible to stop 
such work. h. w. f. 
New York. 
This seems to be a clear case, the 
agent of Lewis D. Goldstein of Philadel¬ 
phia, buying the apples outright, and 
when shipment was made Mr. Goldstein 
refused to stand by the bargain. Gold¬ 
stein asked to be allowed to inspect the 
apples before acceptance, but according 
to the affidavit on file his agent, Makely. 
inspected the apples before he purchased 
them. We have many cases of this kind 
where representatives of produce houses 
purchase produce and after shipment is 
made on one pretext or another seek to 
reduce the price. This is the danger of 
dealing with field representatives of 
dealers or houses having little regard for 
their agreements. 
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Your brilliant and extremely interesting 
paper had at odd introduction to our 
home; it came wrapped around a small 
consignment of fresh eggs from one of 
your two hundred thousand! I found it 
so interesting and so full of useful as 
well as delightful reading matter that I 
really fell in love with it at. first sight. 
When you consider that I read daily the 
best New York papers and then turn jn 
my leisure moments to The R. N.-Y. for 
something out of the ordinary you will 
understand how nicely it fits into my 
literary program. I commend you highly 
for your Rplendid aid to the farmers, 
which is evident in nil your articles. 
New York. w. D. Y. 
Our old friends usa varied means to 
introduce their favorite paper to new 
subscribers. Many have come from a 
sample copy casually presented. It i« 
this voluntary help that has made it 
possible for us to meet the increased ex¬ 
pense of publication during recent year* 
and maintain the character of the paper 
without following the usual custom of 
advancing the price. We appreciate the 
commendation for aid to the farm, hut 
without it there would be little excuse 
for the existence of it as a farm paper. 
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dolfo, St. Cloud, Minn., head of the Pan o n j une 1022. a man came to my 
Motor Company, must serve 10 years in home and represented himself as R. E. 
prison and pay a fino of $4,000 for al- Mason, director of Farmers* _ Standard 
leged use of the mails to defraud. The Carbide Company. 15 West 37th street, 
circuit court of appeals in a decision New York City (of which I am a stock- 
handed down here today upheld the de- holder). He claimed the carbide eom- 
cisiou of Judge K. M. Landis, who sen- panv was buying up all stocks, and in 
fenced Pandolfo. Pandolfo is alleged to three weeks’ time I would received a eer- 
have secured over a million dollars from tilled check by some representative of the 
scores of investors in the motor company, firm. Ue had in his possession my divi- 
—United Press. dend check, which was due me on April 
One get-rich-quick promoter will have 1 vishcd me to buy shares in the 
to take his medicine at least. Usually Beacon Gas Corporation, which he 
such swindlers are able to squirm out of claimed the Farmers Standard C arbide 
.ho pimfehmen, ta M 
technicality of the law. But tins lesson 500 shares at $1 a share, to sell again 
will not cause other promoters of the at $3 a share. On this inducement I took 
Pandolfo t\, <> to desist—not even Pan- $500 worth of shares on installment plan 
, ,, , . . . , , gave him first payment on June b—$oO 
dolfo himself when he is again free to re- caslj an(1 . chcclc f or $200. Then, 
peat the performance. July 8. on his second visit. I gave him 
the balance in check, $250. My husband 
mistrusted the idea of the party being 
We have an account with Charles H. good, and I stopped payment on that 
Steiner which we have been unable to col- check, dated July 3, and then called up 
lect and would like your assistance in the Farmers’ Carbide Company by ’phone and 
matter. Mr. Steiner wrote to us last learned that they had no connection with 
Fall from Moimtaindale. N. Y.. for a this man; that it was a fraud, 
shipment of poultry, which we forwarded When Mr. Mason called on July 3 he 
to him Lv express. A few days later we had with him a man introduced as Mr. 
received another order from him. stating Brown, who took my order for carbide 
that he would par for both lots upon re- and $20 cash for same. Today I received 
c-eipt of the invoice for the second ship- a special delivery letter containing a $20 
ment. Since then we have heard nothing bill, with these lines: "You can order 
from him. We have learned from two carbide from the company"; no signa- 
sources that this man is thoroughly un- ture. It. was mailed iu Poughkeepsie, 
reliable and that he left Motintaindale New York. airs. w. h. 
suddenly kist Fall, leaving no address. 
We have been unable to find any trace of The above story is characteristic of the 
him. L.N.B. Farmers’ Standard Carbide Company’s 
New York. manner of doing business. It is quite the 
Charles Steiner, Mountaindale, N. Y., custom of tlie firm to send checks in pay- 
has received $100,S4 worth of poultry ment of dividends to stockholders and 
without making payment to our subscrib- then for the salesman carrying the divi- 
er, and we have found it impossible to lo- dend check to solicit further subscriptions 
cate him. We refer to the matter, and if 1° the stock of the company, 
any of our readers hear of him or have IQ this case, however, the president 
his present address we will be glad to ar >d manager of the Standard Carbide 
have them send it to us. If he solicits t- ompany alleges that he has no knowl- 
shinments keep this information, so that edge of tbe C’. E. Mason who solicited the 
subscription to tbe stock of the Beacon 
Gas Corporation, nor the man by the 
name of Brown, who took this subscrib¬ 
er’s order for the carbide. 
The Farmers’ Standard Carbide Com¬ 
pany say that every effort is being made 
to locate the party by the name of Mason 
and the party who represented himself as 
Mr. Brown, but after more than a month 
no result has been accomplished. The 
company is uuable to make any explana¬ 
tion as to how its check in favor of this 
subscriber fell into the hands of Mason. 
It is all very mysterious, but we print 
the record of the transaction as it stands. 
If these parties going under the names 
of Mason and Brown attempt to repeat 
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Everyone dreads the thought of 
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The farm or suburban home 
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farm need. It will eliminate the drudgery 
of hand pumping and make possible the 
use of many modern conveniences. 
Some time ago a representative called 
from Superior Art. Association. 367 Pearl 
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.. with pictures 
that they paint. I could not get rid of 
him until I showed him a picture of ray 
youngsters, and he begged to take it 
along. He would show me the proofs, 
and if I liked it I could pay $3.9$ for it, 
and all three will be on one. I did not 
sign a contract, as I would not sign any¬ 
thing for anybody in that line, but here 
I am enclosing you card to show you that 
now they write that it is $3.98 for each 
head (as I have three) ; they are all on 
one picture. Y r ou can see for yourself 
what they would ask of me for same. 
Will you tell me what, to do when thf 
representative calls? It would mean 
$11.96. I signed no contract or anything. 
They just had a small certificate, which 
I am enclosing also, and which I received 
for same. MRS. j. p. 
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Alfred G. Oxley, president and mana¬ 
ger of the Sterling Service Homes Cor¬ 
poration, 1 West 34th Street, New York, 
is held in. $25,000 bail on an indictment 
charging him with defrauding clients of 
the corporation. The corporation is in 
the hands of a receiver. Forty persons 
complained that they had lost $36,000 
through his failure to build “ready cut’’ 
homes for them, and for which they had 
invested their money. 
Last March I sold two cars of apples 
to Lewis D. Goldstein of Philadelphia. 
The apples were in the storage of 
Sweeney Brothers, at Gasport, and Mr. 
Edward Sweeney, acting as my agent, 
sold these apples to Mr. Makely (Gold- 
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