1905. 
465 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The following letter has just reached 
us: 
I had saved up $500 which I was going to 
invest in stocks of a Philadelphia company 
which was offered me by a Philadelphia 
agent, but since reading one of your articles 
I have delayed making the investment. Will 
you please let me know what you think of my 
making the investment? 1 have not very 
much money, and cannot afford to take any 
chances with it. J. o. d. 
New Mexico. 
We seldom advise our friends for or 
against any particular investment. But 
we never hesitate to advise against invest¬ 
ments, in the security of a company that 
you know little or nothing about. We 
have read the prospectus of the company 
referred to by our correspondent; but 
there is not one word in it that gives any 
assurance of the real value of the business 
back of the stock. You send your $500 to 
the promoter and get in return a piece of 
paper saying you are entitled to five shares 
out of five thousand in a company that for 
all you know may not be worth a dollar. 
The agent may tell you that it is valuable, 
and may promise big dividends and assure 
you that the stock will double in value in 
a year, but all you have for it is your 
little piece of paper, and you have no re¬ 
dress if it pays no dividends or if the 
stock (piece of paper) should turn out to 
be not worth thirty cents. If the agent 
thought it would increase in value, and 
pay big dividends, he would not sell it to 
you at par. Our standing advice is to re¬ 
fuse to invest in any company scheme un¬ 
less you positively know that it has real 
value for every dollar of capital stock pro¬ 
vided for in its charter. Tt may not be 
safe then, but anything short of this is 
like buying a pig in a bag. 
Since the publication of our correspond¬ 
ence with W. M. Ostrander, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., in reference to his plan of charg¬ 
ing an advance fee for listing farm prop¬ 
erty for sale, we have had a constant 
flood of letters from subscribers from all 
parts of the country. Most of these let¬ 
ters come from men who have listed their 
property with him, paid the fee, but made 
no sale. No one has reported a direct 
sale, but one man says he knew of one 
sale made for a neighbor of a California 
property. In his letter to us Mr. Ostran¬ 
der says: 
If anyone who has had business dealings 
with me has failed to receive all that he 
paid for I am unaware of the fact. 
Evidently some of his clients could not 
have written him as frankly as they have 
written to us. The letters we receive use 
rather plain and forcible language and 
need to be edited to print; but following 
are a few of the mildest: 
I was very much interested in some letters 
in your recent issue regarding the real estate 
agent. I put $15 in his hands to sell my 
farm over two years ago. and have never 
heard from him except as I write him a stir¬ 
ring letter once In a while to remind him of 
my $15. In spite of any impudence I give 
him he sweetly remarks that he Is doing all 
in his power and sends me a paper or hook 
with a line or two of advertisement. There 
are lots of farmers who are glad he is {retting 
what he deserves. I have never heard of a 
farm he sold yet. w. s. 
Connecticut. 
A business man from Ohio sends this 
information: 
I am pleased to read your show-up of that 
Philadelphia real estate agent. From what 
they tell me, I believe he has got a lot of 
money from people here. A prominent Ohio 
man wrote him for terms. The agent wanted 
$50 for advertising, hut the man didn't bite. 
In a few days he received a telegram telling 
him to send $50 at once, as a customer was 
waiting to buy his farm. It was not sent. 
I have yet to hear of his even trying to sell 
a farm, and we are in a position to hear of 
such things. j. c. >r. 
Following is a letter from a client who 
does not feel that he got all he paid for: 
I just want to relieve my mind a little. 
We did not get anything for our $15 spent 
with the Philadelphia man. who I have read 
something about in your paper. He tried a 
telegram on a near neighbor but it did not 
work. s. b. 
Virginia. 
Here is another: 
I was led to believe by letters received from 
Mr. Ostrander that if I would pay him $25 
he would make sale of my farm soon. I paid 
him the $25, hut as yet I have never had a 
letter from him since paying my money unless 
It was in answer to a letter I wrote him. 
The $2.) was for some advance charge, and 
balance of his commission was to be paid after 
he made the sale of my farm. I have the 
farm, and do not know that he made any 
effort to sell it. I am out $25. I bit at the 
bait. p. f s 
West Virginia. 
Here is just one more: 
I am glad to see that you are taking up the 
Ostrander matter. Some 15 months ago I 
wrote him about some property. I received 
a lengthy reply setting out that he had plans 
for giving special attention to property in 
this section. A few days later, 1 received a 
telegram almost exactly similar to the one 
quoted in The R. N. Y.. I swallowed the 
bait, sent on my $50, and have long since 
charged it up to tuition. I have uot received 
one single inquiry as result of all Ostrander's 
boasted facilities for advertising. 
Missouri. h, b. m. a. 
We have any number of similar letters, 
but this must be sufficient to convince Mr, 
Ostrander that some of his clients do not 
agree entirely with him in the statement 
that they got all they paid for. If Mr. 
Ostrander will show any definite equiva¬ 
lent for this money we will print it prompt¬ 
ly. Just what service did you give these 
four clients, Mr. Ostrander, for their 
money? We do not claim that no service 
was rendered. We don’t know but they 
got more than they paid for. Let us have 
the facts, and we will print them for the 
benefit of all concerned. In the meantime 
we would like to hear direct from anyone 
who has actually made a genuine sale of a 
farm through this agency. 
“ 1 he Business Hen” is yet going out 
every day. There are nearly 200 going 
out in the mail to-day to renewals that 
came in this morning. If yours is not yet 
in, let us have it now, and we will look 
for anyone who receives it to mention it 
to at least one neighbor. Before you 
leave him say that he can have The R. 
N.-Y. 10 weeks for 10 cents, and if he 
renews at end of 10 weeks for a year he 
can have the book free. Can’t you do as 
much as this? We think you will. 
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REKIN DUCKS AND 
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April hatched Ducks, $ 1.50 to ?2.50 each. Duck Eggs 
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Correspondence invited. 
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SQUABS PAY 
Easier, need attention only part of 
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N EGG FACTORY 
must be furnished the proper raw 
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of eggs. The blood from the largest winners at New 
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Box 78, WILLOW BROOK FARM, Berlin, Conn. 
R HODE ISLAND REDS. Great layers. Fine 
table fowls. Eggs from prize winning stock. $1 
persitting. CHARLES KINGSBURY, Barnard, N.Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
90 
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