1911. 
989 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Why not publish a list of the E. G. Lewis 
schemes and companies he promoted? The 
people who have been caught with one 
scheme would be interested to know of 
others and the list would serve to show 
the scheming activity of the man. 
Pennsylvania. a victim. 
We would not feel justified in at¬ 
tempting a complete list. St. Louis 
daily papers, the Financial World of 
New York, and the Censor Magazine 
of St. Louis have already published lists 
more or less complete. In some of the 
mail order schemes he seemed to have 
only an indirect interest. The follow¬ 
ing list is nearly if not quite complete: 
Diamond Sales Co. 
Watch Sales Co. 
Cathartic Medicine Co. 
Anti-Skeet Co. 
Pug Chalk Co. 
Anti-Fly Co. 
Corroco Tablets Co. 
The Corona Co. 
Dr. Flott’s Cold Crackers. 
Hunyadt Salts Co. 
Diamond Candy Co. 
Hygienic Remedy Co. 
Sarsaparilla Blood Medicine. 
Walk-Easy Co. 
Anti-Cavity Co. 
Progressive Watch Co. 
Mail Order Pub. Co. 
National Installment Co. 
Lewis Addressing Machine Co. 
Coin Controller Co. 
Mail Dealers’ Protective Ass’n. 
Woman's Farm .Journal Co. 
Journal of Agriculture. 
Woman’s Magazine. 
Allen Steam Trap Co. 
University Heights Realty & Develop¬ 
ment Co. 
Richarz Press Room Co. 
Controller Co. of America. 
World’s Fair Contest Co. 
California Vineyards Co. 
Laguna Chico Plantation. 
Lewis Pub. Co. 
U. S. Fibre Stopper Co. 
People’s United States Bank. 
People's Trust Co. 
International Language-Schools. 
Art Pottery Co. 
Hygienic Remedy Co. 
Woman’s National Daily. 
St. Louis Star Pub. Co. 
St. Louis Subway Co. 
American Woman’s League. 
Development & Investment Co. 
Readers’ J‘ool. 
Builders’ Fund. 
Success Magazine Endowment. 
The Founders Chapter. 
Men's University League. 
Chemical Frieze Co. 
Clave Art Co. 
Faultless Suspender Co. 
Art Museum Society. 
Camp Lewis Co. 
Bachelor Pneumatic Tube Co. 
Pacific Trading Co. 
Ozark Herb Co. 
Telephone Controller Co. 
The Debenture Scheme. 
Moffett-West Drug Co. 
Endless Chain Scheme and Lottery 
Edwards Publishing Co. 
Claire Art Co. . 
Publishers Reorganization Committee 
Depositors Agreement. 
Woman’s Republic. 
Practically all of these except the 
League are now defunct, or out of his 
control. Several of them are in the 
hands of the receiver recently appointed 
by the court. But since the receiver 
took over his concerns, he has proposed 
two more companies: The University 
Heights Pub. Co. and the Regent Com¬ 
pany. He is, however, under indict¬ 
ment by a Federal Grand Jury charged 
with fraud in four of the above 
schemes, and it is not likely that he will 
venture promises extravagant enough to 
induce many people to part with their 
money. 
It is only fair to say that the candy 
company has been regarded as legiti¬ 
mate business but failed, and that the 
endless chain scheme was not classed as 
a lottery by the Post Office Department 
at the time Lewis started it. The 
World’s Fair contest was, however, 
started later, and was a lottery pure 
and simple. Even Lewis now admits 
as much. The R. N.-Y. and other 
papers were solicited to go into it at 
the time as it contained a scheme to in¬ 
crease subscriptions. We, of course, 
turned it down with a smile and a bang. 
But on Lewis’s own testimony it took 
about $200,000 out of the pockets of 
the people, and about one-half that was 
profit to him. 
Of course it is impossible to tell now 
just how much money he has collected 
from the people on shady schemes. It 
is variously estimated from $8,000,000 to 
$10,000,000. It is practically all lost to 
the people who sent it to him. Much of 
it was sent him from seven to 10 years 
ago, and practically no interest or divi¬ 
dend has been paid on it. Many of the 
victims are dead, and others have given 
up hope of return. At first it was 
thought that the mortgage notes would 
be good, but it is now found that many 
of the notes are not secured at all, and 
in some cases the mortgages Were nearly 
five times the original purchase price of 
the land. In other cases mortgage notes 
were sold, and after the money was re¬ 
ceived, promissory notes were issued in¬ 
stead of the secured notes. Stock was 
sold under the promise that a IS per 
III tc 
cent dividend was about to be declared, 
and that it would pay 100 per cent 
within the year. Members of the 
League were promised extravagant and 
numerous benefits, and millions of en¬ 
dowments, one alone of which was to 
furnish an annual payment of $20 to $30 
for life. In lieu of this one $20 10-year 
worthless debenture notes have now 
been substituted. Instead of the mil¬ 
lions of promised endowments the 
League is, on his own published admis¬ 
sion, hopelessly in debt. The corre¬ 
spondence schools have refused lessons 
because previous service was not paid 
for and papers of his list have refused 
to fill subscriptions for the same rea¬ 
son. 
Yet with all this record, Lewis goes 
right on and organizes two new com¬ 
panies, and appeals to the people to put 
their money into one of them in the 
hopes of making profits out of enter¬ 
prises which he has already abandoned 
because he had operated them at a 
loss. If any person wants to part with 
money to such enterprises, we have no 
protest to make, but we want our people 
to know the facts. 
LET CITY PROMOTERS FINANCE THEIR 
SCHEME. 
At this time we are receiving many 
inquiries about the United Stores As¬ 
sociation. This is a corporation organ¬ 
ized under the laws of the State of 
New York with an authorized capital of 
one million dollars. Its purpose seems 
to be to organize city consumers into 
an association, and also to organize a 
system of retail stores or agencies 
throughout the city. The company pro¬ 
poses to furnish the goods at whole¬ 
sale to those retailers, and they propose 
to turn the trade of the organized con¬ 
sumers into these local stores. The 
stores are to pay the company a per¬ 
centage on the sales made to the organ¬ 
ized consumers, and the company is to 
pay a portion of this percentage back 
to the consumers, who are given cer¬ 
tificates with each purchase. This, as 
we understand it, is the plan of the 
company. It is called cooperation. 
Since the company began develop¬ 
ments it has been proposed to interest 
producers in the proposition, and the 
Grange organizations throughout the 
country have been especially solicited. 
The Pennsylvania State Grange has ap¬ 
parently given some encouragement to 
the proposition, and our information is 
that the members of the Grange in 
Pennsylvania have actually or tenta¬ 
tively subscribed for a portion of the 
stock. We do not know what the pro¬ 
position may yet develop, but up to the 
present time there is no development 
that would justify producers in falling 
over themselves to purchase stock. The 
scheme for organizing consumers is 
along lines that have been adopted in 
the past by fake concerns, and which 
have invariably brought disappointment 
and loss to those who invested in them. 
The organization of local dealers is 
perhaps more practical and if developed 
may have some promises of success in it. 
But whatever may develop in the or¬ 
ganization of this plan in New York 
City, we see no encouragement for the 
producer in attempting to finance it 
with his cash. The place for the farmer 
to begin cooperation is at home, and 
the way to begin is to go about it him¬ 
self, for himself, and not contribute his 
means to the furtherance of outside 
propositions, which, while they may 
have some remote elements of coopera¬ 
tion in them, could not in the true 
sense of the word be called cooperative 
enterprises. Our advice to the con¬ 
sumer is to let the New York City pro¬ 
moters finance their own organization 
of city consumers and dealers. Farmers 
may successfully develop a market in 
local towns. Farmers’ organizations 
might successfully develop markets in 
large cities by going at it in a small 
way and increasing with experience. 
They cannot hope to go into partnership 
with promoters in an undeveloped 
scheme and capture the whole city all 
at once. Let the producers organize 
themselves at home into associations 
for the packing and grading of ship¬ 
ments of produce, and keep their capi¬ 
tal home for that purpose. If they can 
then find a _ market for such products 
with the United Stores Association and 
have provisions for getting their money 
for it, all right. If not, they can sell 
in any market and to any people who 
will pay them the most money for it. 
They can even go to the extent of send¬ 
ing a representative to city markets to 
look after the sale of their goods, and 
if necessary, as the trade develops, they 
can even provide a store house for the 
handling of such goods where they 
NEW-YORKER 
can ship in bulk in carloads. It would 
be a great advantage to a concern in 
the cities to be able to advertise graded 
goods fresh from the farms through 
such a producers’ organization, and the 
farmers would get the benefit of better 
prices, and the elimination of transient 
freight rates and commission merchants 
and other middlemen. The demand 
to lessen the expense between producer 
and consumer is almost universal. The 
R. N.-Y. has done its part to create this 
demand. Any cooperation that promises 
this result will receive its hearty en¬ 
dorsement, but it will not help the 
cause to rush wildly into an unde¬ 
veloped proposition that has many of 
the elements of a speculative venture 
in it. 
Let the city promoters develop their 
own end of it, and let the farmers or¬ 
ganize among themselves and be pre¬ 
pared to supply the graded goods when 
wanted. If later a closer compact 
would seem practical and wise, it can 
be effected. If not, other sources of 
output are open to them. Country pro¬ 
ducers cannot afford to furnish the 
money to finance big commercial 
schemes because they happen to have a 
dilution or an illusion of cooperative 
features in them. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The offices of Jared Flagg, 
Jr., whose most recent enterprise has been 
a brokerage business paying its customers 
one per cent, a week, were raided Septem¬ 
ber 23 at New York by post office in¬ 
spectors with the assistance of United 
States deputy marshals and Central Office 
detectives. There were eight arrests. Flagg 
was one of the prisoners. Daniel N. Mor¬ 
gan of Bridgeport, Conn., a Connecticut 
State Senator, Treasurer of the United 
States under the Cleveland administration, 
and more recently vice-president of the 
Electric Gas Company of America, was an¬ 
other. F. Tennyson Neely, twice bankrupt 
book publisher; Alvin M. Higgins, a lawyer 
at 200 Broadway, and Edward L. Schiller, 
Joshua Brown, Henry A. Jackson and the 
Rev. James T. Schock completed the list. 
The warrant on which Flagg was arrested 
charges specifically that on or about Sep¬ 
tember 9 of this year he devised a scheme 
to defraud Bertha L. Bentley of 133 East 
South street, Corry, Pa., and others by 
falsely representing that all moneys sent 
to him would be used to purchase stocks 
on the New York Stock Exchange and the 
Consolidated Exchange for the benefit of 
the investor. The warrants for the others 
arrested charged them with conspiring to 
defraud in the same scheme. 
Fire starting on the fourth floor of the 
old Tiffany Building at 11-15 Union Square, 
New York, September 23, ate out the two 
top stories of the structure and did con¬ 
siderable damage to the three lower floors. 
It was a spectacular blaze and the loss is 
estimated at $100,000. 
Thirteen persons were killed, ten in¬ 
stantly and nine others were seriously in¬ 
jured at Neenah, Wis., September 24, when 
a Northwestern passenger train, northbound, 
struck a hay rack filled with Menaslia 
merrymakers at a grade crossing. 
The most violent earthquake yet experi¬ 
enced in Valdez, Alaska, occurred Septem¬ 
ber 21. The oscillations were northwest 
and southeast and their duration covered 
52 seconds. Valdez is built of wood, with 
no building more than two stories high, 
and no damage was done. The cable at 
Sitka was severed. 
Suits to oust the four men members of 
the town council of Hunnewell, Kan., were 
filed in the Supreme Court at Topeka, 
September 26, by Attorney-General Dawson. 
The suits are the outcome of the long¬ 
standing feud between the council men and 
the woman mayor, Mrs. Ella Wilson, who 
was elected last Spring. She appealed 
for state aid. The four councilman are 
F. J. Lander, president; B. Weir. J. F. 
Richardson and J. O. Ellis. The at¬ 
torney-general charges the quartet with 
wilful misconduct, failure to meet as a 
council, meeting in a hotel bedroom to 
embarrass tbe mayor, failure to notify the 
mayor of the place of meeting, meeting in 
secret, passing a pretended ord'nance with¬ 
out giving the mayor a chance to be pres¬ 
ent, failure to confirm appointments for 
pure ugliness failure to provide a tax 
levy and failure to co-operate with the 
mayor in suppressing crime. Some of the 
people of Hunnewell are supporting the 
councilmen in the fight they are making. 
United States Government authorities 
from New York made a raid on the Chinese 
colony in Newark, N. J., September 26, 
making four arrests and confiscating about 
$6,000 worth of crude and smuggled opium. 
The previous day a customs inspector on 
a Pennsylvania ferryboat arrested a China¬ 
man in whose possession was found 12 
cans of the poppy paste worth about $1,200. 
Alien excursionists, traveling from this 
country to Bermuda, must continue to pay 
the head tax of $4 upon their return to 
the United States, irrespective of the num¬ 
ber of years they have resided in America. 
Replying to a protest from the Bermuda- 
Atlantic Steamship Company, the commis¬ 
sioner-general of immigration, Mr. Keefe, 
announced that no change could be made 
in the existing regulations except by con¬ 
gressional enactment. The steamship com¬ 
pany asked that the same rules which gov¬ 
ern the American-Canadian routes be ap¬ 
plied to the Bermuda traffic. This would 
be impossible, Mr. Keefe said, because the 
law specifically exempted Canada, Cuba, 
Mexico and Newfoundland from the head 
tax. Mr. Keefe added that he had recom¬ 
mended to Congress last year that the head 
tax be not levied against citizens of Ber¬ 
muda. Some of the larger merchants of 
Bermuda come to New York three or four 
times a year to buy goods, and they are 
taxed $4 for the privilege of landing on 
each occasion. They regard the tax as an 
unnecessary hardship, inasmuch as they 
come to New York to trade. A large num¬ 
ber of West India merchants also come 
to New York every year on business. They, 
too, spent a good deal of money here; 
nevertheless, they are subject to the alien 
tax. 
William Pullen was arrested at Mont¬ 
clair, N. J., September 26, foY obtaining 
money under false pretenses. He had vic¬ 
timized many suburban residents by spray¬ 
ing shade trees with a substance which he 
said killed blight and increased growth. 
Before Puller was arrested the Montclair 
Shade Tree Commission secured a sample 
of the material with which he sprayed the 
trees, and a chemist who analyzed‘it said 
that it was composed of water and mud, 
and had none of the properties claimed 
for it. Pullen, it is said, received from 
$5 to $8 a tree for spraying his dope, and 
collected hundreds of dollars in the vicinity. 
The man’s claim that his compound was 
effectual in destroying the blight that has 
affected chestnut trees attracted the atten¬ 
tion of the Shade Tree Commission be¬ 
cause the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington has tried in vain to find a 
remedy that would save these trees. 
Thirty-five cases of violation of the pure- 
food law were brought before Justices 
Deuel. Mayo and O’Keefe in the Court of 
Special Sessions at New York, Septem¬ 
ber 25 by inspectors of fhe Board of 
Health. Assistant District-Attorney Stie- 
fel was the prosecutor. There were 12 
convictions and fines ranging from $5 to 
$250 imposed and paid. Some of the 
others accused were acquitted and some 
cases were adjourned. The items on the 
list of impure edibles presented by the 
health inspectors ranged from white'whis¬ 
key to candy kisses and included soup, eggs 
meats, fowls, fruit, milk and cream and 
peanut bars. 
Agriculture of West Virginia University has 
arranged to run a special agricultural‘train 
over the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Railway from Huntington .to Ronceverte 
and Durbin, during the week of October 
-3 to 28. There will be exhibits of prod¬ 
ucts and appliances and lectures by a num¬ 
ber of well-known experts. 
Grain will be purchased by weight rather 
than by the bushel by the dealers in north¬ 
ern Ohio after January 1, 1912. The North¬ 
western Ohio Grain Dealers’ Association has 
decided to take the action. The United 
States and England alone of the 24 prin¬ 
cipal commercial countries adhere to the 
bushel standard in grain transactions, it 
was said by the speakers. Because of an 
abnormally large amount of moisture in 
the corn in this region of the State, it 
was said that that cereal will not bo mar¬ 
ketable this year before November 1. 
Thursday, September 21, 5 a. m.. finds 
me feeding Prince, the family horse, and 
carrying a basketful of corn to the pigs 
while my wife looks after the chickens. We 
have a new addition to our chicken yard 
in the way of two young Ancona roosters 
A friend of ours sent us the roosters be¬ 
cause they were purebred stock and “It 
looked like a shame to kill and eat them” 
Now, can anyone suggest what we are to do 
with two purebred Ancona roosters in a 
yard of White Wyandottes? It does look 
like a shame to send them to the skillet 
they are so pretty and graceful, but wliat 
kind of an “animal” will we get if we 
cross them? Has anyone tried it? I under¬ 
stand this variety is noted for its laving 
qualities. This is the day we take Betsy 
the brood sow, off to market. She has 
raised us two litters of pigs and we are 
going to keep one of them for breeding pur¬ 
poses This sow cost $2.50 as a small pig. 
Her first litter of four pigs sold for $5 
apiece. To-day I am offered $5 each for 
her second litter of four. She brought $15 
on the market this morning. I have kept 
her just two years; total revenue, $55. I 
figure the net profit at $35, and still con¬ 
tend that this is better than chickens. Re¬ 
turning from market, I look at my watch 
and find that I still have three hours be¬ 
fore noon. An ax and shovel are brought 
out and I figure that I have time to dig 
out a couple of three-year-old defective 
peach trees before dinner. A high wind 
split one of these trees right down the 
trunk last Fall. A three-eighths inch hole 
was bored through the trunk just below the 
forks and a bolt inserted, with washers on 
each end White lead was put in the split 
and the bolt drawn up tightly. The tree 
never overcame the injury. The other tree 
naa a dead heart, wood and outside bark 
a ’ iv . e - , H its leaves early and the 
shot-hole beetle finished it. I shall reset 
t \ e , m , 1 this Fall. The big railroad shop's 
whistle blows the noou hour and the tools 
are carried to the shed and I go to dinner. 
After dinner an hour’s rest is enjoyed in 
the lawn swing under the big tulip tree on 
the front lawn. I admire this tree every 
time I sit under its spreading branches. It 
had a hard time in babyhood and vouth, 
being bitten by stray cattle and hacked at 
by tdephone Bnemeii, and finally threatened 
with death by the former owner because it 
shaded a few square feet of corn ground. 
To-day $500 would not buy it. So much 
for a tree. The noon siesta over, the 
pruning shears are brought out and I again 
cut back raspberry canes, as some of the 
branches are getting so long they touch the 
tbP J U tm a a an W i n soon , take ™ot. I work at 
tnis till «>..y 0 p. m., when a neighbor passes 
l le road, and we spend a pleasant 
half hour in social chat. Wife then re¬ 
minds me that she wants the chicken house 
cleaned out, so I go to it, hauling the 
manure in a wheelbarrow and scattering 
along the strawberry rows. I finish just in 
time to hear ‘Supper,” and pause a few 
minutes to examine some bloom on our Fall¬ 
bearing strawberry bed. After supper I 
saunter out and lift some bee hives from the 
back to see how heavy they are. Wife does 
up the supper dishes and we sit in the 
swing till bedtime. s. h. burton. 
So. Indiana. 
uw!u S u> me snort supply and al 
normally high prices of raw hides, the pric 
ranging around 13 cents per pound. 
. T h .p Long Island Railroad states that il 
iaT.eV 1Ppartm o?i duriD " A «?Uist handle 
13.316 tons, or 887 carloads of freight be: 
pes, potatoes, cabbage and other garde 
truck shipped to western markets froi 
the Island During the first half of Sei 
teraber 1,537 carloads were shipped to Ne 1 
l ork t lty, viz.: 709 cars potatoes, 424 ci 
cumbers, 88 cauliflowers, 88 cabbage, 3 
apples, -2 tomatoes, six pears, three ca: 
rots, two turnips, and one each cranberries 
watermelons, beets and onions. 
