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THE R.UR-A.1^ REW-YORKER 
June 3,' 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Don’t be surprised if you do not find 
answers in this Department to inquiries 
sent in without your name. They go 
into the waste basket. If you do not 
wish to give your name in confidence 
in connection with a question, you can 
not expect us to discuss it in public. 
Please let me know through your paper 
what you think of the Manhattan Properties 
Company as an investment and oblige 
New York. a subsckiber. 
We think you would better learn to 
make distinctions between investments, 
speculations, and swindles. Don’t think 
you are making a good investment un¬ 
less you can sell your purchase again 
for as much as you paid for it. You 
cannot do it in this case. 
It is a great pleasure to have the express 
company take up the claim at your request 
after they had refused for a whole year to 
pay any attention to me. Yesterday the 
claim agent had me sign the papers and 
has promised to have check in full for the 
claim in a few days. He wanted to know 
if I would not now pull off The It. N.-Y. 
You don't know how much good it has done 
me. It is the feeling of the little boy going 
to school with a big brother who will see 
that he gets fair play and no abuse. 
New York. F. X. W. 
Excuse me, but I ought to know. I 
have very distinct recollections of the 
little boy, and of the big brother with 
a strong and willing arm, too. If The 
R. N.-Y. exercises any such function 
on behalf of its friends, it hats no apolo¬ 
gies to make for the use of its powers. 
Charles Goddard, Fayetteville, West Va., 
owes me $50 for work done on his claim 
in Arizona. Will you try to get it for me? 
Arizona. J. R. s. 
We have tried, but Mr. Goddard does 
not respond. The bill is for work done 
on a mining claim, and as it represents 
good hard work, one would expect that 
Mr. Goddard would come forward with 
the cash. We do not like to see a man 
ignore an honest bill; and when people 
are not sensitive of their obligations, 
we think their neighbors owe it to the 
public to exert what influence they can. 
If Mr. Goddard claimed inability to pay, 
we would not trouble him further than 
to verify such a claim for immunity, 
but he makes no such excuse. 
I have been offered some stock in the William 
Galloway Co., Waterloo, la. I have been offered 
preferred stock at $100 a share, and $25 worth 
of common stock free, at Cper cent in¬ 
terest on the dollar preferred stock. The 
money that I would put in this is at the 
present time getting four per cent. Could 
you kindly advise me whether this would 
be all right or not, and safe? G. M. R. 
New York. 
It is not the kind of an investment 
we would recommend to farmers. It 
may turn out all right, and it may not. 
The company is capitalized for $3,- 
500,000, and its statement shows net 
assets far less than half a million. The 
method of marketing it has been to say 
the least romantic. To make a good 
and safe investment in a stock or bond 
you should be able to sell it again in the 
open market for about what it cost you. 
If you apply this test to the stock in 
question we think you will conclude to 
leave your money where it is. 
Do you think j’ou are clever enough 
to come to New York and hold your 
own with a lot of land promoters? 
Listen. Last week, an out-of-town 
client arranged for the exchange of 
some property for lots in the suburbs 
of New Brunswick, N. J., proposing to 
pay $350 cash. An appraisal of the 
property was tendered. This client 
wisely turned the matter over to a 
shrewd attorney of experience. The 
promoters proposed to meet him at the 
depot at 8 o’clock in the morning and 
take him direct to the grounds. He 
preferred to make his own time; and 
arranged to meet them at 12 noon. In 
the meantime he called on the ap¬ 
praisers and looked up their standing, 
which was first class. They confirmed 
the appraisal. They went further. “We 
will take the property at the price,” 
they told him. He felt good. Many 
attorneys would be satisfied and go no 
further. But he went to the county 
books and looked up the records of the 
property. It was all right. All seemed 
satisfactory. An inexperienced or less 
persistent attorney would have gone no 
further. But he went to see the prop¬ 
erty. There it was, but it did not seem 
to correspond with the county records. 
He inquired further. The company 
once owned the lots, but they had been 
sold. Seven miles from town, he found 
the lots to be his—in a swamp. The 
business men in the neighborhood 
told him he was a different type from 
the usual run of suckers who came 
there to see the lots after they had been 
bought. He found that the marshes 
sold for $3 per acre. You may not run 
into this particular scheme, but if you 
want to test your skill with men working 
their own game, you may find many 
opportunities. 
Hugh II. .Taneway of Plainfield, and 
George J. Kirstein, officers of tbe United 
Contractors Corporation of Jersey City, sur¬ 
rendered themselves in the Hudson County 
Quarter Sessions Court. Jersey City, yester¬ 
day, on an indictment returned by the Hud¬ 
son County Grand Jury charging them and 
other members of the company's executive 
committee with conspiracy. They are ac¬ 
cused in connection with the guaranteeing 
of bonds of the Terra Marine Company. 
Janeway was released in $3,000 and Kir¬ 
stein in $5,000 bonds. Janeway was vice- 
president and Kirstein secretary of the 
United Contractors Corporation, which fin¬ 
anced the Terra Marine Inn at Huguenot 
Park, Staten Island. The others w'ho have 
been indicted are Lawrence It. Kerr, treas¬ 
urer; Winfield E. Hinsdale, president, and 
Frank D. Ames. George B. Stewart of 
Huguenot Park, Staten Island, is under ar¬ 
rest charged with conspiracy in the same 
case. lie is not an officer of the company, 
but is credited with being the principal in 
the alleged scheme of high financing. With 
the Warrant was a copy of an indictment 
dated May 6, in which Stewart is named 
with others as being party to a conspiracy 
to cheat Apolinc Grossenbacher of Jersey 
City out of $500 by selling her a first mort¬ 
gage real estate gold bond of the Terra 
Marine Company. When Stewart got to 
police headquarters Lieutenant Deevy on the 
desk recognized him as a man whose pic¬ 
ture is in the rogues’ gallery. Stewart was 
indicted for getting money on false repre- 
sentations in 1899 when he was exploiting 
the Mercantile Manufacturing Association. 
It is claimed that the United Contractors 
Corporation guaranteed first mortgage real 
estate bonds of the Terra Marine Company 
far beyond the actual value of the com¬ 
pany’s assets, consisting of real estate and 
the Terra Marine Inn at Huguenot Park. It 
is alleged that although $1,050,000 of bonds 
were sold the value of the plant was less 
than $500,000. The companies are now in 
bankruptcy.—Daily Paper. 
The victims of similar First Mort¬ 
gage Guaranteed Gold Bond schemes, at 
St. Louis, may find consolation in the 
reflection that they are not the only dupes 
of this kind of frenzied finance. But 
these New York chaps are not up to date. 
They ought to publish a paper to promote 
their schemes; and when arrested de¬ 
nounce the officials; dclare that their 
business was assassinated; and ask 
Congress to reimburse them for mil¬ 
lions that they would have made if 
permitted to continue as they were do¬ 
ing. E. G. Lewis ought to set up a 
correspondence course for the education 
of these crude operators. 
In June, 1910, The Circle Pub. Co. in¬ 
vited the subscribers to their magazine to 
invest in the stock of the company. By 
way of inducement they offered three shares 
of common with each 10 shares of preferred 
stock purchased. The bait seemed good. 
I bit. Not having received my certificate I 
wrote them in November and later got a 
reply that they were sorry but the company 
failed in August. Now they invite the 
stockholders to send more money. If you 
have the time I wish you would tell us- 
if it is worth putting in 15 per cent more 
on the old investment. e. h. b. 
New York. 
The proposition contained in the lit¬ 
erature accompanying the above is that 
you send 15 per cent of the original 
investment for new stock in a new 
company and you will get extra stock 
to the full amount of your first pur¬ 
chase. This is an old scheme. It 
comes up almost as often as the fail¬ 
ures. It is based on the knowledge of 
human nature that one will usually 
risk good money to recover what is al¬ 
ready lost. In the first place any con¬ 
cern selling stock in June of a company 
that failed in August before the stock 
was issued, must have lied to make the 
sale. What assurance have you that 
they will not lie again ? The old stock 
is not worth anything; and no one will 
give you anything of value for it. If 
they offer you other stock in exchange 
for it, then the other stock is without 
value. What they really do is to offer 
you stock in a new company for the 
new money you send them. You were 
stuck on their game once. That was 
their fault. If they stick you again, it 
will be your fault. 
It gives me pleasure to inform you that 
I think your paper is by long odds the 
best farmer’s periodical, and I doubt that 
it has a superior in any form. The manner 
in which you consider the interests of your 
subscribers, in reading matter, treatment 
of queries, exposure of frauds, advertise¬ 
ments accepted, and aid given in collecting 
debts, not only deserves the highest com¬ 
mendation, but should be emulated by pub¬ 
lishers generally. May your growth and 
influence extend until it reaches the farthest 
corners of our land, and may no thought 
of greater emolument, place or power cause 
you to swerve from the path you seem to 
have blazed. r. h. j. 
Virginia. 
The expression of sentiment of this 
kind makes us feel that after all the 
work is not in vain. Those who con¬ 
sider the publishing business simply as 
a money-making business would never 
follow the lead of The R. N.-Y. Sen¬ 
timent and ideals come high in the 
publishing business in both mental and 
cash balances; but there is some com¬ 
pensation in letters like the above and 
we manage to keep heads over water 
financially besides. j. j. d. 
stock. 
Daisy Dairy Feed 
Sterling Chick Feed 
Gregson’s Calf Meal 
Sterling Stock Feed 
Boss (Horse) Feed 
Sterling Scratch Feed, 
^Feeds that never disappoint. 
Try them. At dealers. If yours , 
can’t supply you, write us. 
The Great Western Cereal Co./ 
MAKERS OF QUALITY FEEDS 
CHICAGO, XXX. 
the 0 rf 
loo/c 
KIND 
r^f Y GUARANTEED TO 
■i JL I KEEP FLIES AWAY 
This Guaranteed Fly 
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milk output 10 to 20 
per cent, by saving cows 
energy wasted in fighting 
flies will make your horses 
quiet and easy to manage 
by stopping irritating, 
strength wasting, fly fighting. 
If used according to directions 
WE ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE NO-FLY 
to keep flies away—not to blister—to kill lice 
anywhere—not to # iniure animals if they lick it—will not 
taint milk. Practical farmers everywhere indorse NO-FLY 
because it does its work. 
If your dealer does not sell NO-FLY, s»nd ns bis name 
tnd $1.00 for large can of NO-FLY and Sprayer. Honey 
refunded if it doesn't do all we claim. Active men wantad. 
W. D. CARPENTER CO., Dept. 6 Syracuse, N. ¥. 
Bickmores 
Harness and Saddle Galls 
Great hot weather remedy for galls, sore 
shoulders, wire cuts, sores. A healing, cur¬ 
ing salve in use 18 years; standard remedy 
with horsemen. Cures while horse works. Sold 
by dealers ; money back if it fails. Send 5c 
(for postage and packing) and get sample 
and 84-page valuable horse book. 
Blckmore Call Cure Company 
Box 282 Old Town, Maine 
NEWTON’S HEAVE 
COUCH, DISTEMPER I IDE* 
AND INDIGESTION vURL 
The firstor second $1.00 can cures Heaves. The third 
can is guaranteed to cure 
The Standard Veterinary Remedy. 
Slakes the Horse Strong and Willing to Work. 
CURES HEAVES BY CORRECTING THE CAUSE 
which Is Indigestion. Send for booklet “Horse Troub¬ 
les.'’ Explains fully about the Wind, Throat, Stomach 
and Blood. Newton’sissaf ef or colt, adultor mare in foal 
A GRAND CONDITIONER AND WORM EXPELLER 
#1.00 a can nt dealers, or express prepaid 
THE NEWTON REMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio 
You Can’t Cut Out ^thorough^Yim^ 
INE 
will clean them off permanently, and yon 
work the horse same timo. Does not 
blister or remove the hair. $2.00 per 
bottle, delivered. Book 4 IE free. 
ABSORBINE, JR., liniment for 
mankind, reduces Varicose Veins. Rup¬ 
tured Muscles or Ligaments, Enlarged 
Before After Glands, Goitres, Wens, Cysts. Allays 
pain quickly. Price $1.00 and $2.00 a bot¬ 
tle at druggists or delivered. Will tell you more 
if you write. Manufactured only by 
W.F.Young. P.D.F., 88 Temple St.,Springfield,Mass. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Trial 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60, Cuba, N-Y. 
MORE MONEY 
GIVES 
MORE SATISFACTION. 
NO STOCK CAN THRIVE IF PESTERED 
WITH LICE,TICKS.MITES, FLEAS, 
SCAB,MANGE, AND OTHER SKIN' 
DISEASES. 
TO CLEAN OUT THESE 
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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES/ 
CLEANSE, PURIFY, AND / 
DEODORIZE.USE 
Kreso 
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BETTER THAN OTHERS,BECAUSE.IT IS 
STANDARDIZED, 
UNIFORM.DEPENDABLE. EFFICIENT. ONE 
GALLON OF KRESO DIP NO.I MAKES 60 
TO 100 GALLONS OF SOLUTION(DEPENDING 
UPON WHAT USE IS TO BE MADE OF IT.) 
A REAL NECESSITY ABOUT 
H0RSES.CATTLE,SHEEP,SWINE, 
DOGS, GOATS AND POULTRY. 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 
WRITE FOR FREE CIRCULARS. ASK FOR LEAFLET 
DESCRIBING A NEW CEMENT HOG WALLOW, IF YOU 
ARE INTERESTED. 
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PARKE,DAVIS 8tC0j 
W w DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL 
INDUSTRY. 
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AND UP- 
WARD 
AMERICAN 
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This Offer Is No Catch! 
It is a solid, fair 
square proposition to 
furnish a brand new, well 
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cream separator complete, 
subject to a long trial and 
fully guaranteed, for 
S15.95. It skims one IIK 1 
quart of milk perc^W k 
minute, warm or cold -.j. A * 
makes heavy or light creamuR* -■Kj’?"' *j 
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any higher priced machine. Designed for small 
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families. Different from this picture, which 
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in anti-friction bearings and are thoroughly 
protected. Before you decide on a cream 
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catalog. Address, 
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COW COMFORT 
Means additional profit. Simplo 
durable, easily locked. Fouler 
Steel Stanchions cannot bo 
opened by the cattle. Top and bot¬ 
tom chains permit freo head move¬ 
ment, standing or lying down, yet 
keep cattle lined up and clean. 
Write for new booklet showing 
model stables. 
Foster Steel Stanchion Co., 
906 Ins. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
f-ni| fut q* p IMPROVED 
UKUI’IDO WARRINER 
STANCHION 
“ My bam that was 
BURNED 
was fitted with Crumb’s 
Warriner Stanchions. If it 
had not been for the ease with 
which these fasteners wero 
opened I should have lost my 
cows,” writes Mr. Everett 
Gains, Bemardstown, Mass. 
_ Booklet Free. 
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ROBERTSON'S OTIATN 
HANGING STANCHIONS 
“I have used them for more 
than TWENTY YE.4U9, and they 
have given the very beat of salis- 
faction in every wav,” writes 
Justus II. Cooley, M.D., Plainfield 
Sanitarium, Plainfield, N. J. 
Thirty da vs* trial on application 
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Wash. St., X'oreatville, Conn. 
