1078 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
December t'i 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Erie Mfg. Co., 5645 West Lake St., Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 
The Postoffice Department has issued 
fraud orders against them, on the charge 
of using the mail to defraud. E. F. Han¬ 
sel worked the scheme. It was alleged 
that he sent packages of cheap jewelry 
without order and then proceeded to 
collect for it. The jewelry cost $1 for 
144 pieces. He was receiving an average 
of 1,284 pieces of mail a day. 
I keep a number of farmers' papers. None 
suits me as well as The It. N.-Y. The 
“Publisher’s Desk” takes my eye. Not that 
1 ever expect to get personal benefit from 
it, but I like to hear that those fakers and 
schemers who live on the hard earnings of 
us farmers have to disgorge occasionally. 
Michigan. * j. e. 
We are glad that a farmer, who hap¬ 
pens to have no personal wrong to ad¬ 
just, yet has an interest in the just griev¬ 
ances of others. That is the kind of a 
spirit that is death to fakers. 
I have read in The It. N.-Y. of Ilodgson 
& Johnson. They are florists in McKees¬ 
port, and have a greenhouse at Kollenville 
road. They also owe me 850. I have 
written them, but receive no reply, and it 
is now four months since I heard from 
them. j. c. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is from a man in their own 
neighborhood. If their neighbors can¬ 
not collect bills against them, the man 
at a distance has little chance of recov¬ 
ery. Cash in advance is advised in trade 
with them. 
Enclosed find some matter from the Gard¬ 
ner Nursery Company, located at Osage, Iowa. 
They have lots of cheek. I sent them .$10 
some years ago for nursery stock, and all 
I have now to show for it is one natural 
fruit pear tree that never bore a pear yet. 
New York. w. h. o. 
This is the old fake scheme alleging 
to sell nursery stock at nominal cost to 
establish a show orchard for alleged ad¬ 
vertising purposes. The experience of 
growers has been most unsatisfactory. 
The alleged Pearl everbearing straw¬ 
berry is undoubtedly 7 a new name for 
some old fake. 
E. H. Chandler & Co., 288 Washington 
street, New York City; commission mer¬ 
chants. 
We have a protested check from a 
shipper for collection. We were in¬ 
formed at above address that Mr. Chan¬ 
dler was out of business, but responsi¬ 
ble, and that the check would no doubt 
be paid, but we did not find him at 437 
Greene avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y., where 
he was said to reside. Letters addressed 
to him there were not, however, re¬ 
turned, indicating he received our re¬ 
quest for remittance. If Mr. Chandler is 
responsible, he ought to come forward 
and redeem his discredited check. 
Have you had any complaints against one 
C. E. Gauss, of New York, and 430 Amity 
street. Flushing, L. I., who buys breeding 
stock and sends worthless drafts in pay¬ 
ment? j. s. c. 
New Jersey. 
The above inquiry came in July last. 
Mr. Gauss sent the complainant two 
checks of $10 each on May 14, and 19 
respectively. Both went to protest. 
On complaint, he promised to call and 
make good, but has not done so, and 
now neglects to reply to letters. We do 
not want any more of the R. N.-Y. fam¬ 
ily to contribute to his peculiar methods 
of settling accounts. Put him jn the 
N. G. list. 
I must tell you about one of my neighbors 
who has been shipping poultry to Phila¬ 
delphia for a number of years. I.ast Winter 
he lost $319, and| when he looked the man 
up he found he had no rating and was 
worth nothing. And this neighbor takes 
The R. N.-Y., and could have found out 
as to the man's rating. s. a. s. 
Virginia. 
We are sorry to know that any mem¬ 
ber of The R. N.-Y. family lost $319 
by shipping to irresponsible parties. 
Sometimes this will happen no matter 
how careful one may be. We often lose 
accounts ourselves when creditors seem 
to be all right. Credit is one of the 
most difficult problems for business 
houses generally. If some one would 
find a way to do a credit business and 
avoid losses, he would have a -fortune at 
once. At present one can only get what 
information he can, and then use his 
best judgment. The R. N.-Y. records 
are at the disposal of its subscribers. 
They are not an absolute protection, but 
they are a big help, and will usually be 
a protection. 
What do you know about the Cleopatra 
Mining Company, Limited, with headquar¬ 
ters at 1328 Broadway, New York? Har¬ 
per’s Weekly of November 6 has a whole 
page telling of the wonderful profits made 
bv investing in the Cleopatra Company. 
Illinois. ,t. M. 
Harper’s Weekly ought to be ashamed 
of itself. This is a Canada corporation 
with headquarters in Montreal, with 
authorized capitalization of $2,000,090. 
It was originaly organized to exploit a 
gold mining proposition, but the scheme 
never resulted in any returns to the 
original investors. Recently the presi¬ 
dent, Mr. Banned Sawyer, purchased 
some land in the Cobalt silver mining 
district of Canada, and he claims to have 
transferred these lands to the above 
company, but the exact nature of the 
transaction seems not to be generally 
known. In July last Mr. Sawyer offered 
some of the stock for eight cents on the 
dollar for the alleged purpose of rais¬ 
ing funds to develop the mines, but 
more recently it has been reported that 
he opened a place in New York city to 
promote the sale of stock, at from 30 to 
40 cents on the dollar, though it is 
offered on the Montreal Mining Ex¬ 
change at 10 to 11 cents. Mr. Sawyer’s 
enterprises in the past have not brought 
any riches to investors; and our advice 
to farmers is to decline to furnish the 
capital for his future enterprises—even 
if they had any assurance that the money 
would ever be used to develop mining 
properties. 
I inclose leaflets from a circular issued 
by Everybody’s Corporation, Chicago, 111. 
I’lease let me know wliat you think my 
chances would be of getting an income of 
$220 a year from a $10 investment, and 
how soon. t. a. h. 
Minnesota. 
From the nature of the above inquiry 
we do not think that the inquirer is en¬ 
tirely serious in any intentions of invest¬ 
ing $10 or any other amount in this 
proposition, ‘but we have had several 
inquiries about the concern, which seems 
to be a sort of insurance scheme. One 
Robert B. Armstrong is attempting to 
organize the scheme. Mr. Armstrong 
had a brief connection with a strong 
and reliable company in New York City; 
and was also connected for a brief time 
with a Philadelphia house, from both of 
which he resigned by request. Later he 
undertook to organize a company in Chi¬ 
cago, but a license to do business was 
first denied him, and has finally been 
granted in only five of the less import¬ 
ant States. Everybody’s Corporation is 
a still different undertaking; but insur¬ 
ance men do not take it seriously, and 
the only recommendations we could 
suggest would be to leave it entirely 
alone. We would not expect any man 
ever to see a penny return in any shape 
from an investment in it. 
1 wish you could stir up the Howell Con¬ 
densed Milk & Cream Co., Jersey City, N. 
J., so that they would pay the farmers for 
their milk, as they agreed to do, on the 
20th of each month. We have not yet 
received our checks for October milk, and 
the last of the September checks was not 
received! until November 13. In answer to 
the complaint and demand made through 
the Grange, Mr. Geo. M. Howell sent word 
that he would meet a committee of pro¬ 
ducers on the 18th inst. lie then changed 
to the 20th, and again to the 23d, but has 
not been here yet. The Grange appointed 
t he committee; but, of course, has had no 
interview. We would be pleased to have 
your suggestion as to how to enforce pay¬ 
ment. PRODUCEIt. 
New York. 
The above complaint is from Alle¬ 
gany County. We have had other com¬ 
plaints of the same nature from other 
sections, and report comes from another 
place in the same county that farmers 
have become dissatisfied with the delays 
in settlements, and have discontinued 
deliveries. For the last month we have 
been quietly laboring with this firm to 
induce them to meet these milk bills 
when due. They have a good financial 
rating and they assure us that they are 
abundantly able to meet their obligations, 
but have given no definite assurances 
that the accounts would be paid when 
due. Mr. Howell makes the excuse that 
he is obliged to give three months’ credit 
on his bills, and that if they do not do 
it, other dealers will. This only shows 
the laxity allowed in the trade. So long 
as the farmer can be held up for his 
money, it is easy to extend long credit 
to retailers, but the consumer gets no 
such credit. The producer is not only 
furnishing the milk at a starvation price, 
but is obliged by this arrangement to 
furnish the capital for those who handle 
it, and who get more for delivering it 
to the consumer than the farmer gets 
for producing it and delivering it to 
New York. On their contract they have 
50 days milk before they agree to pay 
anything, but they seem to feel no obli¬ 
gation to pay until they get ready. We 
are glad to see the Grange take up mat¬ 
ters of this kind. It can do no better 
work. 
We can give no better suggestions 
than the plan acted upon by the neigh¬ 
boring station at Elm Valley. If any 
company does not habitually pay its bills 
when they agree, the' 7 stop delivering 
milk, and place the accounts for collec¬ 
tion. That is what business men in other 
lines would do. We refrained from a 
public discussion of this matter as long 
as we had any hope that the abuse would 
be corrected; but we have been unable 
to secure any definite assurances. Con¬ 
ditions for the producer are hard enough 
when he gets the little the milk barons 
promise him. When payments are habi¬ 
tually deferred, with their attendant oc¬ 
casional losses, -the situation becomes 
intolerable. j. j. d. 
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