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fHE KUKAb NEW-YORKER 
November 4, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The Federal Grand Jury is now in¬ 
vestigating the various promotions of 
mining enterprises started within re¬ 
cent years under the name of Julian 
Hawthorne, the writer, a son of Na¬ 
thaniel Hawthorne. The chain of en¬ 
terprises that will be investigated with 
a view to indictments for using the 
mails in schemes to defraud investors 
was said to include the Julian Haw¬ 
thorne Company, the Hawthorne Silver 
and Iron Mines, Limited, the United 
Mining Company, the Tamagami-Cobalt 
Mining Company, the Montreal-James, 
the Elk Lake Cohalt and the Mclntyre- 
Porcupine Companies, all near the Co¬ 
balt district in Canada. Besides these 
companies there was the Continental 
Syndicate, which was organized to sell 
stock in some or all of the companies. 
The Hawthorne Silver and Iron Mines 
Limited had a capitalization of $15,- 
000,000, and the head promoter, one 
Albert Freeman, is credited with the 
statement that Mr. Hawthorne had 
been the means of selling $1,000,000 
worth of stock, at a net profit of $500,- 
000 to the company. It is alleged that 
Mr. Hawthorne is no longer connected 
with it, but that his present location is 
unknown. The names of other promin¬ 
ent men were associated with the com¬ 
panies, and it is claimed that large 
blocks of the stocks were sold Govern¬ 
ment clerks and .employes on the 
strength of these names. It is said also 
that friends of Secretary Root discov¬ 
ered that they had a “gold brick” in a 
large investment of the stock, and com¬ 
plaints multiplied in the hands of the 
Post Office officials. Indictments are 
expected to follow the inquiry. 
Several times during the past year 
or two we have cautioned our people 
against this stock, and we hope our peo¬ 
ple have escaped the allurements of Mr. 
Hawthorne and his associates. It was 
a bad use Julian Hawthorne made of 
the name of his illustrious father. 
Herbert .T. Woods, who ran the Co-opera¬ 
tive Music Publishers’ Association at No. 
32 Union Square, which was to bring 
quick fame to unrecognized composers, 
pleaded guilty yesterday to an indictment 
charging him with using the mails to de¬ 
fraud. Judge Hough permitted him to 
go free until January, when the charge 
will be definitely dismissed if Woods ful¬ 
fills his promise to restore to his victims 
the $1,000 which he obtained from them 
by fraud.—Daily Paper. 
The 'above is good news. These 
music fakers are a class of petty swind¬ 
lers. They advertise for new musical 
compositions. The composition is sent 
in, and hack comes a flattering letter 
praising the music and promising fame 
and wealth for the author. The schemer 
will undertake the publication and 
arrange for a royalty to you on the 
sale. But there is always a remittance 
to go to him first. That remittance is 
the whole thing. The R. N.-Y. has 
been showing up this game for years; 
we are glad to know that the Post Office 
Department is now closing them up. 
In your issue of October 14 A. II. R„ of 
New York, makes inquiry as to the finan¬ 
cial standing of Dairy Products Co. of New 
York, and your answer is one that does 
not give much encouragement to the 
patrons of above concern. 1 have been 
doing business with the Dairy Products 
Company for almost three years. They 
are square, hard-working, conservative men, 
aud worthy of the confidence of every and 
any farmers selling them milk. The heavy 
surplus of milk produced by dairy farm¬ 
ers the past Winter aud Summer has been 
very embarrassing to creamery men, and 
at some times handled with groat loss. I 
am sure as editors of such a journal you 
can readily realize and sum up the situa¬ 
tion for yourself. Usually men who make 
such inquiries are those who ship least 
milk or anything else. Some time since 
I asked lor' a rating on a city man. lie 
had a rat In" of $200,000. He never had 
$10,000 in his life, and I lost $1,875 with 
this man of fairly high rating. I would 
like you to give this concern a better rating 
in your paper, for I assure you they are 
deserving of same. f. 
This company seems to have been or¬ 
ganized in 1909 on authorized capital¬ 
ization of $150,000. They claimed that 
they succeeded to the business of the 
Dairy Product Co. of New Jersey, 
capitalized at $575,000 and organized 
in 1904 as the Creamery Products Co. 
of New York, with capitalization of 
$10,000. This capitalization was later 
increased to $5,000,000. A chain of 
country creameries in New York and 
Vermont were taken over on this 
scheme, and city places opened under 
the title of Thorndale Farms. The 
company got into financial straits, and 
it was said that a compromise with 
creditors was effected, and the com¬ 
pany reorganized. 
When the present company took over 
the business they refused to go into any 
detail, and the date of transfer and 
property transferred is not definitely 
1 uown. The president of the present 
company was at one time a vice-presi¬ 
dent of the old company. A recent 
statement by the president of the com¬ 
pany shows net assets above capital 
stock of about $117,(XXI, the actual lia¬ 
bilities being about $232,500; but among 
the assets are such items as accounts, 
machinery, horses, wagons, bottles, and 
equities in 28 creamery plants, and the 
statement gives their estimated value, 
so that without an actual appraisal it 
would be mere guess work to estimate 
the actual net assets. The annual busi¬ 
ness is said to be $1,500,000, which 
would indicate that if they settled with 
producers promptly in 60 days they 
would owe the producers nearly $200,- 
000 as a carrying account. A chattel 
mortgage for $40,000 on the creameries 
in Delaware and Chenango Counties 
to John J. Jackson was recently re¬ 
newed. During 1909 they were reported 
behind the contract agreement in settle¬ 
ment with producers, and we had de¬ 
lay in collecting for a patron. During 
the past season we have complaints of 
delay in settlements. 
As the above correspondent intimates, 
one cannot always go by ratings. One 
often loses when the ratings are good. 
One may die under a doctor’s care, but 
we do not dispense with doctors on 
that account. You must get the best 
information obtainable, and then trust 
or refuse to trust as a result. One 
thing is certain; producers have lost 
too much money in the past through 
credits to individuals and companies 
who take their milk. These producers 
are entitled to definite information as 
to the standing and ability to pay of 
concerns who apply for credit, and they 
are entitled to their money when it is 
due. The returns to the small shipper 
are quite as important to him as the 
larger proceeds are to the big pro¬ 
ducers. It is-not only the privilege hut 
the duty of both to know the respon¬ 
sibility of the house to whom they ex¬ 
tend credit. _ J. J- D- 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Cornered Through a Fake Association. 
As a sample of the confidence dope 
E. G. Lewis has been pouring out to 
the Committee of Expenditures of the 
Post Office Department, we recommend 
the following from Number 22 Listen: 
Early in the publication of the Winner 
Magazine it carried a great amount of wbat 
was calk'd trust advertising; that was years 
ago; an enormous amount of advertising 
was run in the magazine to send a quantity 
of merchandise, which the recipient would 
sell and return the money, and then receive 
a premium, like the Larkin soap business 
is operated. But it was carried on in per¬ 
fumes and a great variety of things—novel¬ 
ties of all sorts. 
It received that name because many ad¬ 
vertisements were headed “We trust you’’; 
that is, they sent on merchandise to the 
person on their own say so and then de¬ 
pended on the honesty of the person. The 
advertisers found that there had grown up in 
the country a large body of systematic rob¬ 
bers : that is, people who would answer every 
single one of these advertisements that 
would appear in all the magazines, and that 
was the last you would hear of them after 
they got the merchandise. The advertisers, 
in talking with me, asked me if I could 
not devise some means of getting at the 
bottom of that. 
I devised this plan. I told them if all 
the mail order advertisers would send to 
me a card of all the dead beats or robbers 
they had of that sort Iwould show them 
all up alphabetically and by States, 
and then we would see if the same person 
was doing business with 20. 30, 40 or 50 
different concerns—and they were all com¬ 
plaining against them—and we would pre¬ 
sent those facts to that gentleman and he 
probably would let go. So they did that. 
They sent me thousands and thousands or 
names'of people of that sort, and in running 
it down I found it was a systematic business ; 
that there were probably two or three thou¬ 
sands of these men aud women throughout 
the country making a business of that. 
When we got the analysis of that person’s 
operations we would just inclose it in a 
letter to that gentleman and say : “We find 
that on such, dates you ordered goods from 
such concerns,” and then give him the 
whole list of his transactions for a whole 
year, the total amount; say, $00.50. As a 
general proposition, $60.50 came back and 
that was the end of that man. and that 
broke it up. That was simply the depart¬ 
ment of the paper to break up these dead¬ 
beats who were defrauding the mail order 
advertisers. 
Our arrangement with the advertiser was 
that in return for our collecting these ac¬ 
counts, if we did collect any of them, they 
would spend at least half of that money 
with us in additional advertising. 
How sweet of Mr. Lewis. Here 
were lily white and simon pure adver¬ 
tisers virtually at the mercy of the 
Lewis’s dead beat subscribers. The 
situation was revolting to his delicate 
sense of virtue. So he organized a de¬ 
partment of his paper to stop the rob¬ 
bery of his high-class, honest advertis¬ 
ers by his dead beat subscribers. Cer¬ 
tainly that must be a work of cure and 
simple justice. 
All pure fiction. 
Now let us look at the facts. Those 
“T-Trust-You” advertisers were as com¬ 
plete a gang of petty swindlers and 
cunning blackmailers as ever captured 
a dishonest dollar. They made such 
papers as Lewis published possible. The 
mail order papers made their schemes 
successful, so that one faker plays 
into the hands of the other. These 
“I-Trust-You” advertisers are particu¬ 
larly contemptible because they impose 
on women and children. They are 
too petty to interest even disabled 
men. No honest paper would accept 
the advertising at any price. The 
scheme is to get up some little novelty 
or toilet article or anything of trifling 
cost, none of which would find a market 
on its merit. The scheme is based on 
the theory that neighbors will pay 25 
cents to a poor woman or enterprising 
child for an article without regard to 
its real value. Usually a doz^n or so 
of the packages are sent the woman or 
child, and the recipient is to sell them 
to neighbors, and retur all the money 
collected to the advertiser. They prom¬ 
ise that, when the money is received, 
they will send a valuable premium in 
payment of the services. This premium 
is a doll, a ball, or other toy or trinket. 
Sometimes the premium is sent. Often 
times it is not. When the country 
woman or child orders the goods, re¬ 
turns the money and gets the trinket, 
the matter ends. The inference that 
claims amount to $60.50 is challenged. 
The amount seldom, if ever, exceeds 
$1 to $3, and the victim, conscious of 
the swindle, usually sent the money and 
quit. But often the goods were shipped 
on a mere inquiry without an order. 
Sometimes only a part of the goods can 
be sold. Again, none of them can be 
sold. Sometimes the packages are dam¬ 
aged. Often they are returned and 
lost or no credit given for them by the 
advertiser. They may be returned 
without any marks to show who re¬ 
turned them. In such cases the woman 
or child returns for what was sold, if 
any, but declines to pay for the rest. 
Then begins a series of letters to col¬ 
lect; first mild enough, then threaten¬ 
ing and finally abusive. In cases where 
the goods are sent without order or 
consent, the form of forcing payment 
for them is a pure form of blackmail. 
In some States these petty swindlers 
have been prosecuted. But with all the 
threatening letters of the advertiser 
some of the victims refused ro send the 
money which they did not and could not 
collect. It is quite possible that some 
of these had stuff from two or more 
of the concerns; because they all have 
sucker lists, and often send the stuff 
without an order. At best they were 
only agents and there was no reason 
why they should send their own money. 
They refuse to give up. 
Now here is where Mr. Lewis came 
in with his “Mail Order Protective As¬ 
sociation,” not as a published feature 
of his paper, but without the readers 
knowing that the collecting scheme was 
a department of the paper. The adver¬ 
tiser failed in his attempt to browbeat 
the woman or child. Previously that 
ended it. They expect a certain per¬ 
centage of failure to collect. But now 
Mr. Lewis steps in; and begins the 
threatening and annoying process all 
over again on a new line. Fie knew 
how to play on the fears of women and 
children; prosecution, exposure and simi¬ 
lar threats have their effect on country 
people and the remittance followed. Par¬ 
ents do not like to have their children 
subjected to such treatment, and to end 
the annoyance finally sent the money. 
There is the plain, unvarnished truth. 
Such are the high class advertisers! 
guaranteed by Lewis. Such poor coun¬ 
try women and ambitious children are 
the dead heats who are accused of de¬ 
frauding the Lewis lily white, innocent, 
helpless mail order advertisers. 
Thin, Feeble 
and Under-Fed 
people need more coal, 
clothes and doctors 
than the strong, robust 
and hearty. 
Scntt’s Emulsion 
saves coal bills, tailors' 
bills and doctors' bills. 
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11-55 
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They fit any pole or shaft- 
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North East, Pa. 
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Run by 3 H. P. 
Husk 25 bushels 
an hour. 
Price on application. 
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Claverack, N. Y. 
A Reliable Water Supply System 
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