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THE; RURAE NEW-YORKER 
December 18, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Can you give me any information as to 
the responsibility of the Coast Canal Co., 
Camden, N. J.? Give me any information 
you can. The party selling the stock is 
to be back again in a week. R. F. s. 
New Jersey. 
The company has just been organized 
with authority to issue $500,000 capital 
stock. It is claimed that 100 shares have 
been issued but no business done. You 
might as well buy stock in a snow bank. 
Last September I shipped tiO baskets of 
peaches to Williams & Granite, 2016 First 
Ave., Ilarlem Market, N. Y. They sent 
postal card saying that the peaches sold foi 
85 cents per basket which would leave me 
a total of .$12.50. That is the last I heard 
from them. I cannot get any answer to my 
letters. Will you look into it for me? 
New York. a h. m. 
We have not been able to collect this 
account; we can only advise others not 
to ship them, until they get the cash in 
advance. 
Here is another Lake Alfred Development 
Co., Bartow, Fla., booklet. How they 
come. Suckers must be born every minute 
and none die. C. J. 
New York. 
Don't be one of the suckers. Land in 
this section costs from $2 to $5 tier acre. 
Don’t send them any money on install¬ 
ment plan or any other. If you want 
land in this section of Florida, go and 
look at it, and you will save a lot of 
money, after paying the cost of the trip. 
I received your check. Please accept my 
thanks. F. T. 
New York. 
This is from a Long Island farmer 
who has been shipping Lima beans to 
New York and Philadelphia markets. 
The express charges to Philadelphia 
cost more than the net returns for the 
beans; but in addition to this the ex¬ 
press company delivered from one to 
three bags • short on every shipment. 
The evidence in this case was conclusive 
from their own receipts; and they set¬ 
tled promptly for the shortage. 
The American Express Go. are now 
to pay Mr. C. H. Sweene-’, of Waterloo, 
Iowa, $675 with interest since September 
1. 1906, for injury to a Poland China 
sow in transit from Milwaukee. The 
sow died from the injuries, and Mr. 
Sweeney sued for damages. The judg¬ 
ment has been confirmed by the Supreme 
Court, and judgment must now be paid. 
The sow was six months old. had been a 
prize winner, and Mr. Sweeney had re¬ 
fused an offer of $1,000 for her. The 
express company pays including interest 
about $1.60 per pound for the animal. 
After a while these express companies 
may learn that shippers have some rights 
which they will do well to respect. 
Yours with check received for claim 
against United Slates Express Co. for eggs 
broken iu transit, for which' accept my 
thanks. It was not so much the value 
of eggs that I cared for. but after placing 
a value on them at the time I wanted afi 
accounting. In reference as to how I based 
my value on same, will say they were 
White Plymouth Itock eggs for setting pur¬ 
poses, for which Mitchell & Co. paid me 
$6 per 100. but I am satisfied as it stands, 
because the satisfaction of making them 
do what is right was worth a whole lot. 
Again thanking you and wishing your pa¬ 
per lots of success. I have been a sub¬ 
scriber for 18 years. H. w. s. 
New Jersey. 
This was for a shipment of eggs lost 
last March. We took it up last July. 
First, they said they delivered it just as 
they got it. Then they claimed it might 
have been damaged before they received 
it. Settlement was refused on these 
grounds several times. \\ c finally 
proved that the eggs were all right when 
received, and damaged when delivered 
We did not know-they were setting eggs, 
and accepted the market quotation at the 
time of shipment. By the way, this Uni¬ 
ted States Express Company is the hard¬ 
est of the whole bunch to get any set¬ 
tlement from. Its president is Thomas 
C. Platt, whom the farmers of the State 
of New York sent to the United States 
Senate, where he used his influence to 
deny them the privilege of parcels post. 
Last December I shipped a case of 30 
dozen ogrgs to Abraham Ettingex\ 246o 
Seventh Avenue, New York City, for which 
I received a check of $15. I had shipped 
to him before, and had written in advance 
about these eggs, and he told me to send 
on all I had. The check had not been 
endorsed, and I never noticed the mistake 
until I presented it at the bank. Of course 
I returned it to him to sign and he waited 
quite a while before sending me the money, 
and when it did finally come it was for $9. 
He said my eggs were bad, and he was so 
glad he happened to be fortunate enough 
to send an unsigned check. I can give you 
names of several people in this place that 
he used in the same way. He owes me $f>, 
and I thought you might be able to collect it. 
New York. A. a. ii. 
We asked Mr. Ettinger for an ex¬ 
planation of this rather unusual proceed¬ 
ing, and he repeats the story about find¬ 
ing rotten eggs after the check was 
sent. He would like us to believe that 
he paid for eggs without examining 
them. We prefer to believe that he sent 
the check without signing it expecting 
to get another shipment in the meantime 
and return what he pleased for all. He 
says we can sue him for the balance if 
we want it. We will not sue Mr. Et¬ 
tinger for $6, but if his methods of do¬ 
ing business appeal to shippers of eggs, 
we do him the favor of making his 
methods known. Perhaps his smartness 
would recommend itself to people with 
rotten eggs—if he were within throw¬ 
ing distance. 
I thank you for the settlement of my 
claim with G. II. Lewis and the American 
Express Company. Had it not been for 
you I guess I would have been up against 
it. as 1 could get no reply until you started 
for it. I am sending two subscriptions for 
a year each. c. a. h. 
New l'ork. 
The above was one of our most stub¬ 
born cases. The farmer sent a coop of 
chickens to a commission house in New 
York, September 8, 1908. It seems that 
the address was obliterated and Mr. 
Lewis paid the express company $10.37 
for them. No return was made the 
farmer. We took it up with Mr. Lewis 
and the express company about one year 
ago, and have been at it ever since. Sev¬ 
eral times they wrote that the case was 
closed; but we kept at it until we got 
the $10.37. The correspondence would 
make a book. The two new subscriptions 
sent in recognition of the service is a 
form of appreciation that we like. 
Collier’s Weekly pays its respects to 
E. G. Lewis and his Woman’s League 
in its December 4th issue. In brief 
they say that Mr. Lewis misrepresents 
the case when he claims cooperation and 
responsibility by Collier’s and other pa¬ 
pers that simply allow Mr. Lewis to act 
as a subscription agent for them. Inas¬ 
much as they accepted Mr. Lewis’s ad¬ 
vertising they make it clear that Mr. 
Lewis alone is responsible for the ful¬ 
fillment of his promises to the women 
who do the work and send him the 
money. Collier’s thinks the scheme of 
building a small club house in towns of 
10,000 people is feasible; but it says: 
But Mr. Lewis; having the promoter's tem¬ 
perament to an unsafe degree, goes beyond 
this and makes extravagant statements and 
promises of a correspondence university, 
tin orphan asylum, and various other ad¬ 
juncts which cannot reasonably be expected 
to materalize. We believe that all the 
women who enter his organization with any 
greater expectation than to secure a small 
clubhouse for their towns will suffer un¬ 
happy disappointment. Mr. Lewis has so¬ 
licited and received large sums of money 
from the public; in these schemes, those 
who sent money to Mr. Lewis have not only 
failed to receive the profits which Mr. Lewis 
led them to expect, but have also been un¬ 
able. in many instances, to get back from 
Him their original investments. Finally, the 
women who work for and earn a club-house 
from Mr. Lewis should in every case see to 
it that: the title to the property is taken 
in the name of tlie local women who have 
built it. Any other system is unfair to the 
women who do the work. 
When Collier’s and some other good 
publications accepted Mr. Lewis's adver¬ 
tising, we knew that they were courting 
trouble. No intelligent person could 
read the sensational advertisements, 
printed in the form of a contributed ar¬ 
ticle, without knowing that Lewis was 
promising more than he could or would 
perform. His past record was sufficient 
assurance that he would not. Making 
big and extravagant promises is the stock 
in trade of all fakers. Lewis did it be¬ 
fore and got the money. His victims of 
six years ago are now trying to get it 
back. No doubt expecting the old ex¬ 
perience was forgotten, he is now mak¬ 
ing bigger promises, which Collier's vir¬ 
tually admits is a fake, and which some 
of the other publishers who carried the 
advertising have already admitted to be 
a fake. What Lewis wants is to get cir¬ 
culation for his cheap papers for the 
purpose of getting money from country 
people to use for the promoting of his 
schemes. He has bank schemes; land 
schemes; building schemes; publishing 
schemes; traction schemes; patent stop¬ 
per schemes; and goodness only knows 
how many other schemes. There are 
stocks, and shares, and bonds and cer¬ 
tificates in great confusion. There is a 
promise of a fortune in any of them, 
and better things than a fortune in some 
of them. You simply send money to 
Mr. Lewis; and you get the paper cer¬ 
tificates in return. We yet have several 
of the certificates from victims of six 
years ago; we are getting a little of the 
money back for them now; but we could 
earn it as easily as we get it from Mr. 
Lewis. With all the money going to 
Mr. Lewis from country people on his 
various schemes, there is a clever bit of 
humor in the last few lines quoted 
above. You may as well advise a livery¬ 
man to keep his whip because the fellow 
borrowing the team cannot be trusted 
to return the whole rig. The women 
are to furnish the money to build the 
clubhouse, and also furnish the lot on 
which it is to be built; but the whole 
thing becomes the property of a com¬ 
pany controlled by Lewis. But what of 
it? The few clubhouses actually built 
for the effect of the thing, will, at best, 
be trifling in comparison to the money 
sent Lewis on other schemes, j. j. d. 
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