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“THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 1C 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
It is gratifying to know that the work 
of “Publisher’s Desk’’ is beginning to 
bring results easier than it did when 
first undertaken. Of course, we cannot 
refer here to one case in a hundred 
that is handled. To do so would some 
weeks take up the entire paper; but 
every day now we have the satisfaction 
of closing up one complaint or another 
to the benefit of a subscriber somewhere. 
Scarcely a day passes that we do not 
return a check to some one; but many 
of them arc' closed under circumstances 
that make it impossible to refer to in 
print. Of course, there are some coni' 
plaints that we are unable to settle 
with satisfaction. The cases against 
railroads and express companies are 
especially difficult, because the evidence 
is not always sufficient to convince a 
court, and without it nothing can be 
done. With a business house looking 
for trade it is often possible to effect 
a settlement with less evidence, but the 
fact that they are brought to an ac¬ 
counting has, we think, a good effect, 
even when definite results are not se¬ 
cured. It tends to make them more 
considerate in other cases. Perhaps the 
best effect of all is the growing caution 
of our people in trade transactions and 
investments. We sometimes answer as 
much as fifty inquiries a day as to the 
standing of one house or another. We 
are enlarging and improving our records 
and facilities every day for promptly 
handling these inquiries, and we are 
always glad to have you make use of 
the information. 
Mr. E. G. Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., 
is now appealing to country people for 
support of several schemes that he has 
under way. All of these involve the 
sending of money to him either for in¬ 
vestment or for other purposes. He is 
giving big promises of future benefits 
in return. If you are considering his 
propositions, you will want to know 
whether or not the promises he is now 
making will be made good in the future. 
To reach a conclusion you will need to 
know something of the record of the 
past. For several years past Mr. Lewis 
has induced country people to send him 
money for his United States Fibre Cork 
Company; for his United States People’s 
Bank; and for his publishing company. 
The people who sent money for these 
enterprises got the same kind of prom¬ 
ises that you are getting now; but the 
benefits and profits never materialized. 
Some of them never got anything, and 
have been unable even to get their money 
returned. We have on file now com¬ 
plaints from poor women who sent Mr. 
Lewis money on his promises of great 
profits; and so far we have been unable 
to get the money returned to them. 
With this record of the past, you may 
form your own conclusion of what to 
expect in the future. 
The president of the defunct Outing 
Publishing Company, of Deposit, N. Y., 
is now under indictment for alleged ir¬ 
regularities in the affairs of a bank, also 
defunct, in which he was interested at 
Callicoon, N. Y. You will not find any 
mention of this indictment nor of the 
failures of the company and the bank 
in the cheap papers that are trying to 
sell you wind-inflated stocks and bogus 
securities of their own manufacture. 
received from Adams 
your help, pay for a 
I have just 
press, through _ 
dozen case of eggs shipped 
($6.60) to W. G. Russell, 
plaint to Mr. Russell soon 
he replied that he had no 
Ex- 
30- 
July 11, 1906, 
I made corn- 
after shipment, 
record of the 
receipt of the eggs hut if the express com¬ 
pany could show that he had received them 
he would willingly pay for same. Then I 
went after the express company through 
their agent here, and after going through 
the red tape line, taking about a year, the 
agent said that they delivered a case of 
eggs about the 20th of July that year, and 
that closed their tiles. I had him begin 
again, asking him at different times if he 
had heard from them; the answer being no 
each time. The amount was so small and 
the expense of a suit so great, that they 
can as a rule tire a person out, or he may 
die before settlement can be made. Such 
work by an express company puts me in 
line for a parcels post. I thank you for 
the help you have given me in this matter; 
that and your paper being the best' in the 
world will' make one a life subscriber, and 
I believe it to be a better investment than 
any life insurance. c. n. s. 
New York. 
We give the above letter in full be¬ 
cause it closes an interesting case, and 
shows one result of patient persever¬ 
ance. The shipment was made July 11, 
1906. Complaint was made to us De¬ 
cember 14, 1908, and the remittance re¬ 
ceived by the shipper July 19, 1909, just 
three years after shipment. Our corre¬ 
spondence covered six months, and ran 
into a large volume. There was con¬ 
fusion from the fact that several ship¬ 
ments had been made about the same 
time, and the express company kept com¬ 
ing back with proofs of deliveries, but 
we found that they proved delivery of 
shipments not in dispute. It therefore 
became necessary to get a record of all 
the shipments made, and in that way 
we established the fact that one ship¬ 
ment had not been delivered. On some 
other cases we have worked just as long 
and just as hard and failed to get any 
results from lack of definite proof. But 
think of a system that requires three 
years to record returns for a six-dollar 
shipment! Some day the people of this 
country will change all this. All such 
cases are helping to effect the change, 
otherwise the results would not justify 
the work. 
Ou October 8, last, we shipped the Jack- 
son County Nurseries, Bosky Dell, Illinois, 
one box of cherry trees in exchange for 
raspberry plants. They were to ship us 
the plants at once, but did not do so. After 
waiting for some time, about November 1, 
we wrote them, and not hearing from them, 
we again wrote them on the 11th, asking 
why they did not send the raspberry plants. 
We received a letter from them, saying that 
the trees we sent were not up to the grade 
they were to be, hence would not allow us 
as much as they were to pay ($25), but 
would allow us $16 for them and would 
send the plants along as early as possible 
in the Spring. Although the trees were 
fully up to the grade, we concluded to take 
what they offered to allow us for them, 
and wrote them to that effect. About 
March 1 we again wrote them, remind¬ 
ing them about shipping on the plants: 
they wrote us that they did not have the 
plants, but would send us $16, payment for 
the trees we sent them. We have., never 
received the $16, neither have we heard a 
word from them since, have written to 
them several times, but got no replv. Can 
you not collect: this for us? If you can 
we will appreciate the favor very much. 
New York. l. n. c. 
We are afraid this account is hope¬ 
less. We have an account of another 
New York State nursery grower for $171 
for goods shipped them, to which we 
have been unable to get so much as a 
reply, and our information is that they 
are execution proof and thoroughly un¬ 
reliable. We have had complaints from 
farmers for several years, and except 
in one or two instances have never been 
able to get any redress. We are sur¬ 
prised that they could, at this late date, 
get credit from any house in the trade. 
We guess the time when they can do 
so is passed. 
When F. B. Mills, of Rose Hill, 
N. Y., organized the Consolidated Gin¬ 
seng Company of America, several 
years ago, he fixed an authorized cap¬ 
ital stock of $2,000,000. The property 
consisted of some real estate that is 
valued at $6,585.09, with a mortgage of 
$2,000. Mr. Mills wrote voluminous 
personal letters to countrv people, 
promising enormous future profits, and 
induced many peonl to invest in the 
stocks. The last report on the com¬ 
pany was issued August 2, 1909, from 
Rose Hill, N. Y. It reports that two 
acres of roots were harvested last Fall, 
producing less than 1,000 pounds of 
roots. The total income for the year 
was 6,935.70. The expenses, $8,906.62, 
leaving a loss of $1,386.92 for the year. 
Not very much encouragement in this 
for stockholders of a two-million-dol- 
lar corporation. 
Fox River Power & Light Co., Algon¬ 
quin, HI. 
Our reports are that the concern did 
not locate at the above address, negotia¬ 
tions to locate there having failed to 
materialize. j. j. d. 
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