1911. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
927 
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. 
Trying to Swipe the Proceeds. 
When the old U. S. Bank was closed 
by a receiver E. G. Lewis got hold of 
the stock held by his dupes and got 
about $1,500,000 of the assets of the 
bank. He gave the dupes trustee notes 
and stock of the Lewis Pub. Co. in 
exchange, and seven years after these 
people are now trying to get their 
money on these worthless papers. Now 
Lewis is trying to turn the same trick 
on these and other victims of his 
numerous schemes, with the receivership 
recently appointed for all his concerns. 
He worked the trustee note scheme 
through Harry L. Cramer. He is trying 
to work this scheme through John H. 
Williams. 
Here is the decree of the U. S. Court 
by Judges Dyer and McPherson: 
It is further ordered, adjudged and de¬ 
creed that each of the said named corpora¬ 
tions [The University Heights Realty & 
Development Co., People’s Savings Trust 
Co., U. S. Fibre Stopper Co., Development 
& Investment Co. and the Lewis Publishing 
Co.], their agents, attorneys, trustees, em¬ 
ployees and representatives, and each of the 
said defendants, Edward G. Lewis, Edward 
G. Lewis, trustee; L. B. Tebbetts, John W. 
Lewis, Mrs. Mabel G. Lewis and John H. 
Williams, their agents, trustees, employees, 
servants and representatives and attorneys, 
are hereby commanded to turn over and de¬ 
liver forthwith to the receiver of this 
court any and all books and accounts, notes, 
mortgages, deeds of trust, papers, choses 
in action, monies, checks, drafts, and all 
evidences of debt owned, held possessed or 
controlled by said defendants or either of 
them named in this decree, and in any way 
pertaining to or belonging to any of said 
corporations, or either of said defendants 
named in this decree. 
It is further ordered, adjudged and de¬ 
creed that the said defendants, the Uni¬ 
versity Heights Realty and Development 
Company, the People’s Savings Trust Com¬ 
pany, the Development and Investment 
Company, the Lewis Publishing Company, 
the United States Fibre Stopper Company, 
the People’s Savings Trust Company, trus¬ 
tee ; E. G. Lewis, E. G. Lewis, trustee; 
Lewis B. Tebbetts. John W. Lewis, Mrs. 
Mabel G. Lewis, John IT. Williams, their 
agents, trustees, attorneys, servants, em¬ 
ployees and representatives, be and are 
hereby enjoined and restrained from dis¬ 
posing of any of the property, monies, 
papers, effects, or intermeddling with same, 
of any kind or description, or in any way 
interfering with the possession of the re¬ 
ceiver of this court or preventing it from 
discharging its duty. 
In another part of the decree all real 
estate and property of every kind 
wherever located was ordered to be 
deeded over to the receiver by the above 
defendants. 
We said that decree wiped out Wil¬ 
liams and restrained him and Lewis.. 
We, of course, referred to the assets and 
any possible real service to the creditors. 
Lewis says it is a lie. There is the 
decree word for word. Decide for your¬ 
self. As usual in his frantic rage at 
The R. N.-Y., for showing up his 
schemes, he proves his real purpose. 
While he controlled the assets Lewis 
put up the pretense that he was using 
them for the benefit of creditors, but 
now that the assets are out of his hands 
and he and his agents are restrained 
from interfering with them in any way 
he proves what we said from the start, 
that his reorganization scheme was only 
another link in the endless chain of 
fraud by which he. hopes to control 
the evidences of debt and fraud against 
him, and by which he now expects to 
get and keep the money coming from 
the receiver just as he did in the de¬ 
funct bank case. 
Let every creditor understand this: 
Claud D. Hall and his associate, Judge 
King, are the atttorneys of all the cred¬ 
itors, in this receivership action. They 
represent all the creditors, and it is their 
duty to see that all the claims are pro¬ 
tected. For this service the court makes 
them an allowance, and this comes out 
of the proceeds before it is distributed 
to creditors. Hence it is useless for the 
creditors to pay other attorneys per¬ 
sonally when their interests are already 
looked after and paid for. For this 
reason we have advised creditors to 
send their claim to Mr. Hall direct 
or through us. Those who do so get 
their proceeds in full. Those who em¬ 
ploy other attorneys will get their divi¬ 
dends less attorneys’ fees. 
Under the reorganization agreement 
there is no limit to what Williams and 
Lewis may charge for their own and 
their attorneys’ services. 
By endorsing the papers over to the 
reorganization the depositors have trans¬ 
ferred their title to the papers and the 
reorganization committee may keep the 
proceeds for five years and charge attor¬ 
neys’ fees, etc., during that time and at 
the end of five years give back to the 
depositor whatever the committee sees 
fit in the way of a certificate of stock or 
Other piece of paper. 
If the papers are recalled by sending 
an order for them To Mr. Hall, the 
creditor will get the whole of the divi¬ 
dend as soon as it is paid by the re¬ 
ceiver. Do you want what is due you 
direct from the receiver* or would you 
prefer to pay attorneys’ fees and wait 
five years and then take any old note or 
certificate offered you? 
We do not believe a single person who 
understands the terms of the reorganiza¬ 
tion would permit his papers to remain 
with that committee a single minute. 
Don’t go by us. Take this reorganiza¬ 
tion agreement to a local attorney and 
consult him. The reorganization ob¬ 
tained many of the securities by means 
of fraudulent representations of Lewis, 
and without consideration. An order to 
return them through Mr. Hall is all that 
is required to secure their return. In 
order to get your money it is necessary 
for you to prove your claim in these 
various cases. The attorney for the com¬ 
plainants, Mr. Hall, can look after this', 
and you get your money promptly when 
paid, by the receiver without fees. If 
Lewis and Williams were honest with 
creditors they would tell them so. In 
holding on to the securities after the 
assets have passed out of their hands, 
and they are enjoined from interference 
of any kind, they clearly show their 
selfish intentions to get hold of the 
money that ought to go direct to the 
creditors. The trick worked beautifully 
seven years ago. The creditors have 
received nothing since. If they leave 
these securities with Lewis now, in 
seven years more they will probably have 
another scheme to keep them out of 
their money. * 
™ n .,. man take a knave’s advice. 
But idiots only are cozen’d twice. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—At a meeting at Williams 
Grove, Pa., August 30, of the Interstate 
Grangers, resolutions were adopted indors¬ 
ing the Lewis bill providing for the govern¬ 
ment to buy up and eliminate all express 
companies doing business in this country. 
Federal officers have been investigating 
the Lehigh Valley train wreck of August 
25 near Manchester, N. Y.. in which 29 
persons were killed and many injured. Le¬ 
high claim attorneys state that the disaster 
would probably cost the company almost 
$750,000. 
Sigmund H. Rosenblatt, Moses H. Rosen¬ 
blatt and Max Hesslein, doing business 
under the firm name of Sigmund H. Rosen¬ 
blatt & Co., are the plaintiffs in an action 
against James Phillips, Jr., and Walter G. 
Newman for $500,000, according to a notice 
filed in the Nassau County Clerk’s oflioo at 
Mineola, L. I„ August 30. Phillips is presi¬ 
dent of the Nevada Consolidated Company, 
vice-president of the Tennesse Copper Com¬ 
pany and a director of the Boston and 
Montana Copper Company. Newman is 
president of the Union Copper Mines Com¬ 
pany of North Carolina. The papers say 
that the plaintiffs invested largely in the 
stock of the Union Copper mine, buying 
it from Phillips and Newman on their rep¬ 
resentation that the mine was paying well. 
After they got possession of the stock, they 
allege, they found that the property was not 
what it was represented to be. 
The slag pile of the Argo smelter, Den¬ 
ver, Col., built in the early days by the late 
United States Senator Hill, was recently 
sold for $30,000. The buyers quarreled 
and it was testified in court that the 
smelters are paying $5 to $10 a ton for 
the slag. Several witnesses testified that 
the 100,000 tons of slag is worth $1,000,000. 
The Argo smelter, long since abandoned by 
Senator Hill’s heirs, was profitable, but 
the ancient process it used in reducing ores 
failed to recover the values. The slag pile 
contains gold, silver and copper. 
Laurens D. Prior, the president of the 
Greenwich Cold Storage Company, the first 
company to be prosecuted under the Bren¬ 
nan bill, waived examination in the Tombs 
police court, New York, August 3, both for 
himself, prosecuted as an individual, and 
for the corporation, prosecuted as such. 
Inspectors Roche and Scharff of the State 
Board of Health, submitted affidavits that 
on August 19 they visited the Greenwich 
cold storage house at 402 Greenwich street, 
and there found 56 barrels of sardines 
which did not have the date of receipt on 
them. They warned Prior, as to the law in 
this regard, the affidavit states, and re¬ 
turned three days later. The sardines were 
still unmarked. Tw*b days later, when they 
went back again, they found the sardines 
had been sent to another cold storage 
house, they said. Thomas A. Brennan, the 
Assemblyman who fathered the new bill, 
was in court acting as a Special Assistant 
Attorney General. 
Attorney General Carmody of New York 
has advised the State Tax Commission that 
moneys on deposit in postal savings banks 
are subject to taxation. In an opinion on 
this question the Attorney General says that 
while it may well be urged that the same 
consideration which prompted the Legisla¬ 
ture by the enactment of the provision to 
exempt savings bank deposits from tax, ap¬ 
plies with equal force to deposits in postal 
sayings banks, he is nevertheless of the 
opinion that it does not extend or apply to 
this character of deposits. The Attorney 
General says further that the State tax 
law. which exempts from taxation the de¬ 
posits in any bank for savings which are 
due depositors, was intended to apply only 
to savings banks as they were provided for 
in the State banking law. 
The motor car will be sidetracked in 
favor of the Missouri mule on the occasion 
of President Taft’s visit to the State fair 
at Sedalia on September 30. It is pro¬ 
posed to have the President taken about the 
fair grounds in a carriage drawn by eight 
of the finest mules to be found in Missouri. 
All other vehicles in the procession are 
also to l)e drawn by mules. Missouri claims 
to be the home of the best mules on earth. 
There is a serious outbreak of typhoid 
fever in New York City. Dr. Allen and the 
Bureau of Municipal Research hold that the 
typhoid epidemic is duo to lax milk inspec¬ 
tion by the Board of Health staff, and it 
was stated that reports show that more 
inspections have been made in the months 
of October, November and December than in 
July, August and September, the hot Sum¬ 
mer months. Last year there were 2.000 
fewer inspections in che latter months than 
in the former, it was stated. The number 
of typhoid cases in the first week in August 
this year wei'e more than double those in 
previous years. 
Starvation awaits the community of 400 
natives on the desolate shore of Baffin 
Land during the approaching Winter unless 
the supplies now lying at Okak, having 
been landed from the disabled auxiliary 
steam vessel Burleigh, are forwarded to 
their destination. Unless means of trans¬ 
port are quickly arranged at St. Johns, 
Newfoundland, it will be impossible to 
reach the missionary post before the close 
of navigation. The Rev. E. J. Peck, English 
Church missionary, arrived at St. Johns by 
the Labrador mail steamer to charter a 
steamer to transfer the stores from Okak 
to Lake Ilabor. Baffin Land, a distance of 
nearly 500 miles. No stores have been 
taken to the post since 1909, when only 
two years’ supply was landed there by the 
young missionaries Bilby and Fleming. 
Failure this year to replenish the exhausted 
stock might mean starvation to those de¬ 
pending on the mission. 
A trail of the Black Hand the detective 
Joseph Petrosino followed before he met 
his death in Palermo, Sicily, in March, 
1909, at the hands of some of the desperate 
Italian criminals whom he was then seeking 
across the seas, culminated in the arrest of 
Giuseppi Castabile, of No. 136 Chrystie 
street, New York, who had a formidable 
bomb in his possession when the detectives 
caught him in Prince street September 5. 
According to Inspector Hughes, in charge 
of the detective bureau of Headquarters, 
Castabile has been implicated in several re¬ 
cent bomb outrages on the lower East Side, 
and is the head and master spirit of an or¬ 
ganized gang of Black Handers, whose sole 
employment has been to exact tribute from 
small Italian merchants by the dreaded 
Black Hand letter threatening death and 
annihilation of the families of the recipients 
unless they paid a price within a stated 
time. Several names of other Italians, sup¬ 
posed to be members of the gang, and other 
important data were found on Castabile 
when searched at Police Headquarters, In¬ 
spector Hughes said. Other arrests may 
follow. 
Horse Creek, Wyoming, reported Septem¬ 
ber 5 a storm which has left hail four feet 
deep over a wide area of country. At the 
foot of Round Top Mountain it was 25 feet 
deep. Crops are destroyed for a radius of 
20 miles and much stock killed. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Fearing the loss 
of a large amount of their crops, which 
they were unable to harvest owing to the 
heavy rains of the previous week, the to¬ 
bacco growers of Portland, Conn., peti¬ 
tioned the Board of Education successfully 
August 31 to have the opening of the 
schools postponed for one week. The season 
of tobacco harvest in this section is ex¬ 
ceedingly short, and every hour counts. The 
crops ripened rapidly under the influence 
of the warm rain, but neither picking nor 
stringing can be done while the leaves are 
wet. The children are almost indispensable 
in the harvest, as they do the work more 
effectively and at less expense than adults. 
Tobacco is the chief agricultural product 
in this particular section of the Connecticut 
Valley, and consequently the farmers were 
in a quandary until the Board of Education 
voted to postpone the opening of school. 
A meeting of the Dairymen’s League was 
held at Newburg, N. Y., August 31. The 
membership of the Dairymen’s League is 
based on the number of milk-producing cows 
owned by the members. Those owners who 
attended this session were the president, 
John Y. Gerow, of Washingtonville; Warren 
D. Haggerty, vice-president, of Sussex, N. 
J.; Albert Manning, secretary, Otisville. N. 
Y.; D. M. O’Connor, of East Greenwich, 
Washington County; Andrew Haight, Mill- 
brook, Dutchess County; W. H. Danehy, 
Canastota ; L. B. Young, of Greene, N. Y.; 
D. H. Slitcrm, of Margaretville, N. Y.; 
Oscar Bailey, of Brewster, N. Y.; Frank 
(Sherman, of Copake, N. Y.; Wallace Stever, 
of Mellenville, N. Y.; L. M. Hardin, of 
Sussex, N. J.; F. D. Kershaw, of Onon¬ 
daga County, and N. T. Hartnett, of Cort¬ 
land, N. Y. The Dairymen’s League repre¬ 
sents five States—New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecti¬ 
cut—and its members produce most of the 
milk used by the consumers in those re¬ 
spective States. The territory covered by 
the league embraces about 15 or 20 coun¬ 
ties in New York State, including Orange, 
Dutchess, Sullivan and Ulster; in New Jer¬ 
sey. Sussex and Warren counties; in Con¬ 
necticut, Fairfield and Litchfield counties; 
in Massachusetts, Sheffield County ; in Penn¬ 
sylvania, Wayne, Bradford and Wyoming 
counties. A committee to investigate the 
proposition of the New York promoters, of¬ 
fering to handle milk on a cooperative basis, 
was appointed. The committee consists of 
President John Y. Gerow, Oscar Bailey, of 
Brewster, N. Y.; D. II. Sliterm, of Margaret¬ 
ville, N. Y.; I,. M. Hardin and Albert Man¬ 
ning, of Otisville, N. Y., and the league’s 
vice-president, W. D. Haggerty, ex-officio. 
John Cavanaugh, a Connecticut farmer, 
decided September 4 to take his family to 
the Grange Fair at Haddam Neck in style. 
He owns 10 yoke of oxen himself, and by 
borrowing from his neighbors collected 48 
yoke, or 96 oxen. With these attached to a 
gayly decorated car he made the trip, cov¬ 
ering the distance of about 20 miles in 
five hours. The services of 12 drivers were 
needed to guide the animals. On his arrival 
at the fair grounds Cavanaugh found that 
he and his cattle attracted more attention 
than any other exhibit. Cavanaugh’s family 
of nine youngsters enjoyed the trip vei’y 
much. His wife said afterward that the 
only disagreeable feature was the dust 
kicked up by the animals. 
DIARY OF FARM WORK. 
A Baker Describes His Day. 
I get up at 4 a. m.; start fire for crullers 
and doughnuts, make piecrust, get up from 
cellar pie fruits for filling, then prepare 
everything for crullers and doughnuts. At 
5 o’clock call bakers and drivers; the 
latter hitch wagons while I take account 
of what they take. The baker makes pie, 
crullers and doughnuts, I helping him oc¬ 
casionally. At 6.30 is breakfast; wagons 
leave at 7. We make bread, dough and 
sponge for noon dough; make cake till 
about 11 o’clock.; start a new fire, make 
noon rye and bun dough. Setting tins, go 
to dinner at 12.30; then work at bread 
till 6 or 6.30. Between time, wjgon has 
to be reloaded. Supper at 7 o’clock; some¬ 
times I have to sit at desk for an hour or 
so with my wife to do some writing, but go 
to bed after, as I am tired. This is not 
only in Summer, but the year around, for 
the last six years. j. s. 
New Jersey. 
Getting a Market Load in Indiana. 
Friday, August 25.—Arose at dawn. The 
usual preliminaries of firing, feeding and 
milking were attended to without any great 
haste, as the weather threatened a continu¬ 
ation of yesterday’s all-day rain. Late in 
the morning I went to picking apples; pre¬ 
paring for the following day’s market, and 
at the same time saving out the best speci¬ 
mens for the State Fair and the apple show. 
The Wealthy is an apple that I would not 
like to part with, and at the same time I 
think it is the most disappointing variety 
that I have when it comes to hunting per¬ 
fect specimens for the show table. If they 
are picked early they are not sufficiently 
colored; if they hang till they take on the 
full color the birds ruin many of them, 
wasps or other insects puncture the skin or 
they crack around the stem in showery 
weather. The apple picking was finished by 
noon. After dinner I went to picking Belle 
of Georgia and Champion peaches. Neither 
has reached the usual size on account of 
the dry weather, but the Champion is per¬ 
fectly free this year, while in other seasons 
it has not been sufficiently so for canning. 
After peaches came the Lombard plums. 
Then came supper and evening efiores. 
Later I went back with a lantern to finish 
getting the load ready for an early morning 
start to the city, 10 miles away. This 
work done, found the wagon loaded with 
half a dozen bushels of apples, half a dozen 
baskets of peaches and plums, and half a 
dozen well-fed Plymouth Rock fries, for 
which I expect to receive all the consumer’s 
dollar; but not many of her dollars, as ap¬ 
ples are retailing on the streets of Indian¬ 
apolis at 20 cents per peck, and my peaches 
are too small to fetch big prices. Every¬ 
thing in readiness, my pillow takes Its bur¬ 
den at 9.14, with the alarm set for 3 a. m. 
Indiana. jj. 
On a Nova Scotia Fruit Farm, 
On August 28 I woke up in a hotel 15 
milos from home. There being three or four 
days before Gravensteins would be fit to 
pick. I went off into the centre of Nova 
Scotia to look for a Summer camp by the 
side of some lake. The country was monot¬ 
onous and very rough ; could not find any 
spot within 60 miles and concluded that was 
too far. Will try the Bay of Fundy. When 
I got home I found my man, $27 and board 
by the year, and two men at $1.50 and 
board, had started on the Gravensteins. 
They picked from trees 27 barrels and off 
the ground about 13. Those off the ground 
fetch 30 cents at the evaporator, to mem¬ 
bers of our association, but none is being 
taken from outsiders; 40 cents for Kings, 
Ribstons and Blenheim drops. Drops should 
be a fair large size. I average up about 
12 barrels per man per day. This year I 
expect to get 15 barrels per day picked. We 
get up at 5.30 and step rt 5.30 in Summer 
and at 6 o’clock and 5 o'; ck in Winter, 
doing chores for three horses and one cow, 
two pigs and no hens, after 3 or 5.30 as the 
case may be. 
The fashion here was clean cultivation 
round the tr^g-J, with cover crop in July, 
but a strip :.ix to eight feet wide near th<5 
trees a-l cultivated one way in the middle 
is becoming very popular. It saves one-half 
the work, and much the most irritating half. 
I use 1.200 pounds of slag to the acre (cost 
$16 per ton for cash). and no potash. My 
crops on about 10 acres at start to 20 at 
present time, are. from 1902 79 barrels, 211 
barrels, 331 barrels. 210 barrels. 426 bar¬ 
rels, 600 barrels, 590 barrels. 700 barrels, 
500 barrels, and this year 1,200 barrels Tn 
1.200 barrels T expect 50 barrels of de¬ 
formed and misshapen apples, due to aphis; 
one barrel of wormy apples and 1.200 single 
apples with a scab the size of a pinhead. I 
sprayed with three pounds arsenate of lead 
to 40 gallons lime and sulphur, used power 
sprayer and 4.000 gallons of spray. After 
that I thinned heavily. Barrels cost us 25 
cents, but late buyers are paving 30 and 
begging for them at that. Buyers from 
Germany and South Africa are here' also 
buyers from Ontario. The South African 
trade is becoming quite important, say 15,- 
000 barrels of extra grade. Our United Co¬ 
operative Companies (W. S. B. Chute of 
Berwick, manager), had a man in Manitoba 
who sold 16,000 barrels of Gravensteins in 
three weeks. Prices for l’s and 2’s 80 per 
cent. No. 1 and 20 per cent. No. 2, range 
from $1.50 to $2 per barrel, with a tendency 
to rise. I expect to net $1.90 to $2 tree 
run after paying for picking, packing and 
barrels, for all varieties. The scales bal¬ 
ance at that just now. Anent reciprocity I 
believe in free trade, Llovd George trade 
unions, arbitration, and honest workman¬ 
ship ; also loving your neighbors, especially 
when they don’t live too close. 
Nova Scotia. john buchanan. 
Vegetable Growers' Convention _On 
September 19-23 the Vegetable Growers’ 
Association of America will hold a conven¬ 
tion and vegetable show at the building of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 360 
Massachusetts avenue, Boston. This will 
be a most interesting meeting. Exhibits 
should be sent, charges prepaid, to H. F. 
Hall. Horticultural Hall, Boston. II. F. 
Tompson, Seekonk, Mass., is chairman of 
the membership committee of this associa¬ 
tion. 
