THE RUR-A.!* REW-YORKER 
August 12, 
830 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
There is one sure and easy way to 
stop monopoly. Repeal the laws that 
permit one corporation to hold the stock 
of another. As it is now we enact 
the laws making the combination pos¬ 
sible, and then pass other laws and 
employ a legal dtepartment to curtail the 
effect. It is like inviting the village 
boys into your orchard, and then hir¬ 
ing some of their members to keep the 
rest from eating apples. It seems im¬ 
possible that grown men should insti¬ 
tute, much less tolerate, such practices. 
And yet our national records are full of 
the testimony. 
The Burrell Syndicate of 118 East 28th 
Street. New York, claims to sell pictures, 
art subjects, etc., on a commission for its 
members only; membership fee is .$10 per 
year. I am thinking of joining above syn¬ 
dicate, but do not feel quite safe. Can you 
give me any information regarding it? 
Virginia. a. p. g. 
You are paying $10 a year for the 
privilege of allowing this concern to 
handle your goods. We cannot advise 
our people to invest any money in mem¬ 
berships of any kind. We do not know 
just what this scheme is, but we have 
had experience with many other similar 
propositions in regard to membership 
schemes, and we have never found one 
that we could recommend. Our advice 
would be to have nothing whatever to 
do with it. 
Dr. Ferdinand Hartmann, head of the 
Hartmann Medical Institute, of No. 281 
East 14th Street, who pleaded guilty to an 
indictment charging him with using the 
mails in a scheme to defraud, was sen¬ 
tenced yesterday by Judge Archbald, of 
the United States Circuit Court, to one 
year and three mouths in the Federal prison 
at Atlanta and a fine of $100.—City Paper. 
This is the third case of the fake 
medical institutions which has been re¬ 
cently rounded up by the Post Office 
authorities. 
Judge Archbald in the Circuit Court yes¬ 
terday sentenced William II. Kudolpb, man¬ 
ager of the Collins Medical Institute, to 
serve two years in the Federal penitentiary 
in Atlanta and to pay a fine of $500, for 
using the mails to defraud. Dr. Samuel F. 
Ilyndman, medical head of the so-called 
institute, got a like sentence, and Julius 
Jelisk, a salaried employee, was sentenced 
to the penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island 
for a year. The three men also will share 
the costs of the trial, amounting to $2,619. 
The authorities charged the institute sold 
worthless drugs to more than 20,000 out-of- 
town patients each year.—Daily Paper. 
We have had frequent occasion to 
warn our people against these fake 
institutions in the past. The postal 
authorities cannot apprehend them un¬ 
til the scheme is developed and the peo¬ 
ple defrauded; but the papers could 
warn the people in advance. The Postal 
Department is certainly rounding the 
crooks up in good shape. 
In April and May, 1908, I shipped three 
carloads of hay to 8. M. Hall, of Washing¬ 
ton, l’a., and have never received one cent 
in return. I did not send draft with hill 
of lading, as he was advertising in a very 
prominent farm paper, to which I wrote 
regarding his reliability before sending the 
shipment. Their answer seemed to justify 
the shipping of the hay. I have exhausted 
all other sources known to me, and the farm 
papers in which I saw the advertisement 
are not disposed to do anything. I wish 
you would take this matter up for me. 
Ohio. F. w. D. 
We were unable to locate Mr. Hall at 
Washington, Pa., but ascertained that 
he was now located at Pittsburg. We 
were unable to get in touch with him 
and our attorney could not get any¬ 
thing from him. The farm paper re¬ 
ferred to guaranteed its advertisers, 
and it is only charitable to suppose it 
was deceived in considering Mr. Hall 
reliable and a responsible party to 
whom to send shipment. It ought to 
make good. 
When a promoter tells you no one 
person will be allowed to subscribe for 
more than a limited amount of stock, be¬ 
cause he wants to distribute it widely so 
as to get the influence of as many stock¬ 
holders as possible to bring patronage 
to the company, if you do not do the 
wiser thing and throw the tempting bait 
into the fire, ask him to point to a 
single concern that has been organized 
on that cooperative alluring basis that 
ever- succeeded. To put it in the lan¬ 
guage of the Financial World: 
“It is a strange coincidence that most 
publicly exploited ventures of this co¬ 
operative idea have all gone under. The 
reasons for this failure were that the 
promoters behind them were no longer 
interested in their projects after finish¬ 
ing selling stock.” 
The argument itself if rightly under¬ 
stood would deter anyone from mak¬ 
ing such an investment. We can tell 
you of numerous concerns promoted on 
this basis that have gone to smash. We 
cannot tell you of one succeeded. 
It becomes mv painful duty to tell you 
that the Quinn-Campbell Conservatory of 
Music is no longer affiliated with the Amer¬ 
ican Woman’s League or People's Univer¬ 
sity. This became effective midnight Sat¬ 
urday, June 10. 
It is needless for me to say that the ne¬ 
cessity of giving you this notice is very 
distressing. After canvassing every avenue, 
it was decided by your Board of Managers 
that the income of the League had reached 
a point so low that it would be impossible 
for it to boar the expense necessary to 
continue the Quinn-Campbell Conservatory 
of Music as an affiliated institution. To 
state to you that this decision on the part 
of the Board of Managers was a great blow 
to me and to the Conservatory but faintly 
expresses it. 
QUINN-CAMPBELL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Over a year ago the Women's College of 
Scientific Dressmaking affiliated with the 
American Woman's League of St. Louis, 
and per terms of contract, we were to give 
all League students who desired, a complete 
course in dressmaking without charge. On 
the other hand, the American Woman’s 
League were to make monthly settlements 
with us for work so rendered. We regret 
to advise that the League is over four 
months behind in payments, and you can 
imagine what it is for a dressmaking school 
to give instructions to 3,000 pupils for four 
months without receiving any pay. We can 
stand this no longer. 
WOMEN’S COLLEGE OF SCIENTIFIC DRESS¬ 
MAKING. 
La Crosse, Wis. 
The above extracts from two letters 
in our possession will convey some 
information to the women of the Lewis 
sucker list that they have not been able 
to learn through his paper. In addition 
to this it may be news to many that 
the Root School of Bee Culture, 
Medina, O., withdrew from the arrange¬ 
ment some months back after satisfying 
themselves of conditions, and that Prof. 
Brooks, Craig, Conn, and others, de¬ 
manded the withdrawal of their names 
from the Lewis catalogues and litera¬ 
ture. With such evidence scrupulously 
suppressed, Mr. Lewis tells his dupes 
that the League is not in debt, and that 
Senator Burton misrepresented it when 
he said on Lewis’ own statements made 
from one time to another that it must 
be about $2, OCX), 000 behind. Of course 
no one can tell what the exact financial 
status of the League is any more than 
they can tell about the other Lewis en¬ 
terprises. His own lawyer recently 
stated in court that the first Lewis con¬ 
cern owed the second, the second owed 
the third, and the third owed the first in 
an endless chain; that accountants had 
worked months on the task of unravel¬ 
ing the tangle, and gave up for want of 
funds. At the beginning of the League, 
Lewis promised that strict accounts 
would be kept, and report made from 
time to time. At frequent intervals 
since he has said that a statement was 
being prepared by accountants and that 
it would be furnished. Then he got so 
far as to say that monthly thereafter a 
report would be furnished; but no 
definite report is yet made. This time 
last year he was borrowing money from 
women on debenture notes, promising 
to pay off all the debts of all his con¬ 
cerns with the proceeds. He frequently 
announced that nearly enough had been 
taken to pay the debts, and those who 
wanted this wonderfully popular invest¬ 
ment must come in with the cash quick. 
It is said he got about $220,000 in cash 
on the scheme, but the money was spent 
in current expenses, and no debts paid. 
After the wonderful promises of $26,- 
000,000 of endowments, and $3,800,000 
annual income, we find him in this state 
where he cannot pay for the music les¬ 
sons or the dressmaking instructions. 
And yet he tells you that he is care 
free and happy, and that the League is 
more promising than ever before. But 
at the close of every harangue he never 
forgets the appeal for more cash, just 
as he has done continuously for 10 or 
15 years. Money is a necessity for 
Lewis. His lavish expenditure of it is 
little less than a subtle form of bribery. 
Everyone in touch with him knows how 
and where he got it, and it is said they 
bleed him unmercifully of your money, 
not his own. We cannot find that he 
ever earned a dollar in a legitimate 
business. His pride and his genius is in 
his ability to borrow it on a system 
that the Grand Jury has just denomi¬ 
nated as fraud. 
placed a mortgage of $8,000 on his farm 
and home, and the $16,000 was sent on 
to Haggins. Later he wrote them that 
he had won, and to meet him in Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo., and get their money. Mr. 
Moran was in Kansas City in response 
to the call, but not finding Haggins, re¬ 
ported his predicament to the local com¬ 
mercial club. 
It is hard to do much with men of the 
Moran type. When a man is willing to 
take from another what does not be¬ 
long to him, he has not great claim to 
sympathy of honest people when he dis¬ 
covers that he was swindled. The 
schemer did to him what he was willing 
to do to some one else. In most of 
the swindles that come to our atten¬ 
tion we can sympathize with the vic¬ 
tims. But this case is not one of them. 
Subscribers who read “Roach’s Finan¬ 
cial Facts” and found it hard to accept 
our advice and leave stock in the Amer¬ 
ican Tanning Company alone, as well 
as those who actually made the invest¬ 
ment, will be interested to know that the 
Government arrested four promoters of 
the scheme last week on a charge of 
fraud. The men arrested were Adam 
Hoch, E. S. Robinson, who is known 
also as H. R. Raymond and is said to 
be a brother of “Peanuts” Robinson, 
now serving a term in a Federal prison; 
G. H. Smith and F. C. Canfield. Hoch 
was held in $10,000 bail, Robinson in 
$7,500 and Smith and Canfield in $2,500 
each. H. W. Parker is also wanted, but 
the inspectors say he took alarm early 
in the investigation and went to Europe, 
where he has since remained. The pos¬ 
tal inspectors say that Henry N. Roach 
died on October 8, 1908; and that 
Parker and Robinson incorporated his 
name after he was dead. It is alleged 
that the prisoners profited more than 
$1,000,000 through the sale of worthless 
stocks. "'Trough the aid of “sucker 
lists” it is claimed that $430,000 was re¬ 
ceived for the Tanning Company stock, 
and the inspectors have been unable to 
find that any of it went elsewhere than 
into the promoters’ pockets. We know 
that many of our people who were at¬ 
tracted to the scheme took our advice 
and kept their money. We also know 
that some were so impressed with the 
prospects of getting-rich-quick that they 
went against our advice. We are sorry 
for these, but we hope the lesson will be 
worth all it cost. J. J. D. 
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