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the: rural new-yorkek 
May 20, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
At last wo have our pay in full (.$9.34) 
for the ease of eggs shipped .1. W. "Maloney 
Co. last July, which we placed in your 
hands to trace up after we had done our 
best. The It. N.-Y. is the best all-round 
farm paper that I ever read. In apprecia¬ 
tion of your unselfish efforts in giving us 
a square deal, I enclose one dollar for 
which please send The R. N.-Y. for one 
year to our neighbor. f. c. b. 
New York. 
It is pleasant to receive such tokens 
of appreciation as the above. It makes 
one feel that" the work is not in vain. 
But the greatest pleasure conies from 
being able to direct the forces and 
po\vcr put into our hands by subscribers 
to compel some of the welchers to hand 
out the cash. 
You speak of the fakes in mining stock, 
but the same principle applies to other 
fake enterprises. See the inclosed letter 
from the United Motors Co., 2 West 33d 
Street, New York. You can buy stock for 
the privilege of buying tires. It may be 
all right, but it has the Lewis earmarks. 
Pennsylvania. w. h. r. 
“Lewis earmarks,” is good. Look for 
these earmarks; you will always find 
them on the fakes. What a beautiful 
theory! Buy stock in the company, and 
then buy its products to pay yourself 
dividends, and incidentally to pay divi¬ 
dends to others. In this case there is 
five millions of stock, and on their own 
statement less than $400,000 of actual 
assets. So that for every dollar you put 
in you get about eight cents worth of 
these assets, and 42 cents worth of 
prospects or wind. 
Can you tell me anything about .T. A. 
Bennett & Sons Co., of Gouverneur, N. Y.. 
dealers and makers of incubators and 
brooders? On March 23, 1911, 1 sent them 
an order for an incubator and brooder 
lamp, with P. o. order for $8.25. 1 have 
never received them and they never have 
written me. They drew the money March 
25. I have demanded the return of my 
money ; if they were on the level they 
would have answered my letters. If they 
are doing crooked business the public ought 
to know it. u. f. pc 
Connecticut. 
On April G my man, Wm. Beible, sent a 
money order to .7. A. Bennett & Sons Co., 
Gouverneur, N. Y„ for $5 for a brooder, 
and has not received the brooder, has writ¬ 
ten twice, but has received no reply and 
no notification of its being shipped.' Are 
they responsible parties? c. w. w. 
New \ T ork. 
We were obliged to warn subscribers 
some years ago against sending money 
to this concern, and above letters indi¬ 
cate the necessity of repeating the ad¬ 
vice. We have written J. A. Bennett 
fr Son several times in the interest of 
these subscribers, but our letters have 
been ignored also. Complaint should be 
made to the Post Master General, 
Washington, D. C. 
The total approved claims against the 
Carnegie Trust Company of New York City 
is only $6,158,000, while the schedule of 
assets shows $10,023,000. There is a 
“nigger in the woodpile” somewhere if there 
is a shrinkage of nearly $4,000,000. In 
fact, I think there will not only be enough 
to pay depositors, but quite a dividend to 
stockholders. The only explanation would 
seem to be an effort to scare*depositors to 
get them to sell out at 50 cents on the dol¬ 
lar or more. j. g. 
New Y*o rk. 
This Carnegie Trust Co. affair has - 
grown to be a scandal not only to the 
city of New York but also to the whole 
State Banking Department. City offi¬ 
cials are involved in its collapse, and 
one of them is under indictment. The 
[Banking Department of the State per¬ 
mitted it to receive money from un¬ 
suspecting depositors long after well in¬ 
formed banking circles knew it to be 
unsound. Now the assets are in the 
hands of the Department, and depositors 
are kept in ignorance of the condition 
of its affairs while speculators, ap¬ 
parently well advised, offer them 50 
per cent for their claims. What is a 
Banking Department for anyway? 
One by one the papers and magazines 
that sell stock or other securities to sub¬ 
scribers come to grief or pass over to 
other control. The Circle Magazine 
went out of existence entirely. Mvrick’s 
Cushman relics shunted to the West six 
months in advance of financial collapse. 
His Good Housekeeping has since 
passed’to other hands, and now “Hamp¬ 
ton’s,” which was to be the great ex¬ 
ponent of independence has, it is re¬ 
ported, gone over in combination with 
“Columbian Magazine.” What has be¬ 
come of the millions of stock of these 
shifting enterprises is not made clear 
in the reports given out. But the 
country stockholders will understand 
from the reports just about how much 
consideration has been given their in¬ 
terests. We wonder how many of 
them got detailed reports showing the 
price paid for the property in which they 
are part owners. 
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy 
was filed May 2 against White, Von 
Glahn & Co., New York City, by two 
creditors in claims amounting to $24,- 
700. It is an old house, and has been 
in good standing, but its departure of 
selling stock to customers and country 
investors generally was a timely indi¬ 
cation of financial difficulties. When 
any house or concern resorts to the ex¬ 
pedient of asking its customers to fur¬ 
nish the cash to finance it, you can 
safely conclude that the proposition 
needs investigation. 
Your letter of March 29 as well as check 
from N. Y. C. & II. It. It. It. to hand. It 
was a great surprise to rue, and I thank you 
very much for the interest you have taken 
in this matter for me, as I was positive 
that this was a total loss, and particularly 
so when it was found that the barrel was 
misbilled. The railroad agent here gave 
me to understand as much, and gave me 
quite a laugh when I told him that you had 
taken up the matter and were trying to get 
a settlement. However, I shall show him 
the check and laugh also. A. D. h. 
Connecticut. 
March 23, 1910, a barrel of clothing 
was sent to Mr. Stone from New York 
to Cannon Station. The barrel was 
marked castings by the agent here, who 
delivered it to the 33rd Street Station 
of the New York Central R. R. instead 
of the New York, New Haven & Hart¬ 
ford R. R. The shipment was lost and 
tracer sent out for it, but shipper re¬ 
ceived no definite advice from the rail¬ 
road and sent the claim -to us. The 
clothing was valued at $55. We have 
been following it up for nearly a year. 
One excuse for not paying the claim was 
the error in marking the hox castings 
instead of clothing. Finally, as the 
barrel could not be located, the company 
requested itemized bill of the goods and 
their value. This was sent on several 
different occasions, and at last check for 
$50 was sent in settlement, which we 
accepted. The adjustment took just 
about a full year. 
I wish to thank you for your efforts to¬ 
ward getting my check from T. C. Teague, 
of Philadelphia. 1 received my check for 
$8.55 in payment for huckleberries shipped 
July 16. 1910, last week. T. C. Teague is 
now doing business in West Philadelphia 
I understand. I am the only one as yet 
in this section he has paid. J. j. B. 
Delaware. 
We had a hard scramble for that 
$8.55. On July 16, 1910, the farmer sent 
T. C. Teague, 3020 Market street, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., five crates of huckle¬ 
berries. Acknowledgment was made 
promptly. It was, however, three weeks 
before check for $8.55 was received, and 
as Mr. Teague’s checks to some other 
parties in this section had been pro¬ 
tested, the shipper sent his check to the 
Philadelphia bank on which it was 
drawn for payment, but payment was re¬ 
fused because of insufficient cash to 
cover the amount. The account was sent 
to us in August, but we were unable to 
get any reply from Mr. Teague. We 
finally placed the account in the hands 
of our attorney, who, after repeated 
attempts to collect, reported that the 
only recourse was a suit, but we could 
hardly advise a suit for an $8 claim. 
The whole matter was then placed in 
the hands of a Post Office inspector, 
and after some months Mr. Teague was 
induced to send a check for $8.55 to 
cover. We think the P.ost Office in¬ 
spector deserves more credit in this case 
than The R. N.-Y.. and we" gladly ac¬ 
knowledge his services in the case. 
Recently I bought a horse in a New York 
City stable. I got with it a written guar¬ 
antee that the horse was free and clear 
from all encumbrances, and if not satisfac¬ 
tory it would be exchanged for another: 
also money refunded if not as represente'd. 
It was pavement-sore, but represented not 
to be lame after driving a short time. I 
doctored her feet a week, but she is yet 
very lame and unable to work. Can you 
determine for me if the people are respon¬ 
sible and will stand by the agreement? I 
do not want to go to the expense of send 
ing her back if I can derive no benefit. 
New York. m. u. 
There is no use to come back on a 
New York horse stable, except one or ; 
two of the larger reliable concerns, 
handling high-priced horses. They will 
guarantee anything; but. few of them 
have any responsibility and it is seldom 
that you can find the man who sold you. 
Go hack and they will tell you he is not 
there. If you do take such a horse back, 
and get another, thev will make you put 
up more new money than the new horse 
is worth, and probably stick you worse 
than before. If you buy horses in these 
stables, you must put up your money on 
your own judgment, and keep your 
hands on the horse until you get out of 
the street. If they offer to drive him 
to the ferry, they will probably exchange 
him for another. If you do not have 
confidence in your own judgment of a 
horse, don’t buy from these stables. T 
doubt if one of them could tell the truth 
about a horse, even if it served him bet¬ 
ter than the fiction. j. j. d. 
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When you’re ready to consider it, get infor¬ 
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