THE Bture.-A.lb NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 
86 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Have you any readers who ever tried 
any of Dr. Bradford's remedies, and with 
what success? L. a. r. 
Wisconsin. 
We hope not. This is an anti-fat rem¬ 
edy. The principle in these remedies is 
to poison the system and cause indiges¬ 
tion and non-assimilation. The patient,- 
of course, loses flesh, but the remedy is 
worse than the disease. If in need of 
medical treatment consult a local physi¬ 
cian. Do not endanger your health and 
life with nostrums. 
I shipped a coop of 24 chickens to Ilnnce 
Bros., N. Y., on November 21, 1910, which 
they claim they never received. After a 
good deal of correspondence the U. S. Ex¬ 
press Co. agreed to settle, but it is over a 
msnth ago and I have heard nothing. Can 
you hurry this matter up? About January 
14 wo received an empty coop showing it 
had been re-shipped but no tag indicating 
who had returned it. J. b. l. 
New York. 
Hance Bros, put in claim but made 
little progress, and subscriber referred 
it to us. We took it up, and the Express 
Co. adjusted the -claim with the shipper 
in July. The commission house followed 
this matter up from December, and we 
worked on it from April. We recognize 
the fact that there are many details be¬ 
fore adjustment can be made of these 
claims, but eight months’ time is beyond 
all reason. 
What do you know about the scheme to 
raise cats for their skins as outlined on the 
inclosed clipping? A number in this vicin¬ 
ity arc buying shares. l. w. b. 
New York. 
E. G. Lewis was never outdone until 
this scheme was proposed. If the Gov¬ 
ernment does not “assassinate’’ the 
scheme Lewis must take a back seat. 
You get a million cats. Each will have 12 
kittens a year. The 12,000,000 skins will 
bring a revenue of $10,000 a day. The 
skinning will cost less than $1,000 a day, 
so you have a net profit of $9,000 a day. 
How much for feed of cats? Why, dear 
sir, that is all cared for. Just start a 
rat ranch. Rats multiply four times as 
fast as cats, so that each cat will feast 
on four rats a day. How much to feed 
rats? Why, sir, nothing. The rats will 
live on skinned carcasses of cats! A 
share of stock will be reserved for a 
limited time. Come quick with your 
cash if you want it. E. G. Lewis, go 
back and* sit down. 
The following story is contributed 
by a farmer: 
About August first I left the State of Vir¬ 
ginia and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the 
purpose of locatiug on a good farm, in 
my efforts to locate a suitable farm, I 
dropped into a local real estate office and 
explained what I wanted. An agent showed 
me bis list and talked farms for some time, 
lie then changed the subject and told me 
I could make the price of a good farm be¬ 
tween that time and Spring. I had inti¬ 
mated that I wished to locate in the follow¬ 
ing Spring. He said it would only be neces¬ 
sary for me to invest a few dollars in his 
business and become his partner. He had 
several hundred thousand dollars of farms 
for sale and had customers ready to buy, 
but having no partner in the office, he was 
unable to get out to take the customers to 
the farms. I admit that I was willing to 
make a little money, and the opportunity 
to do so appealed to me. but it looked like 
too much of a snap and I concluded to fol¬ 
low the matter out I made an excuse and 
got away, but sent my brother the next day 
to discuss the matter further. Iu the 
meantime I began to investigate his refer¬ 
ences. Two of those references we looked 
up. The druggist could scarcely remember 
him at all. The -other was an advertising 
agent and spoke more ducouraging of the 
affair. Following this I received two differ¬ 
ent letters giving me instances to show 
how he was losing a $200 fee which was 
absolutely sure if he was only able to get 
out and show the property, and enclosed 
with the letter a form of contract by which 
I was to pay $500 for the interest. $100 in 
cash and $400 I was to pay iu commission 
or other forms of property. The intima¬ 
tion was that the $400 was to be paid from 
the profits, but of course the contract would 
hold me if there were no profits. He fol¬ 
lowed the letters with a further call, and 
as we made an excuse that the rent of the 
office was too high he proposed that we 
might close the office and remove the busi¬ 
ness to his living rooms. This gave me 
a pretty definite clue as to what was likely 
to happen after he got possession of my 
money. His rooms were on the third floor 
of a tenement house. It was a short time 
after that I found his offices vacated, and 
his advertisement disappeared from the 
daily paper. I have my $500. but his evi¬ 
dent scheme was to get possession of it for 
an interest in hot air. 
It is an old trick to sell an interest in 
a worthless business for cash under one 
pretense or another. Usually the busi¬ 
ness is heavily in debt, and the new 
partner gets one old bill after another 
which, of course, must be paid. To in¬ 
spire confidence, a bargain is often en¬ 
tered into on the side, guaranteeing the 
return of the money paid for the' part¬ 
nership. After a given time, of course, 
the guarantee is worthless. 
Shelton C. Burr and Eugene II. Burr, 
the two enterprising young shoe clerks who 
came here from Kansas about five years 
ago and as company promoters had swin¬ 
dled the public out of about $5,000,000, 
pleaded guilty yesterday in the United 
States District Court to fraudulent use of 
the mails, and were sentenced each to 12 
months on Blackwell's Island. The offices 
of the Burr Brothers were raided on 
November 20, 1910, in the grand round-up 
of mail stock swindlers ordered by Post¬ 
master-General Hitchcock. These mail 
stock swindlers kept a “sucker list,” which 
they exchanged with one another or sold 
to new entrants in the field. 
In the course of their career the Burrs 
launched about 30 corporations with “au¬ 
thorized” capital aggregating about $50.- 
000,000 par. Most of the “securities” 
were sold at 25 cents a share. It is esti¬ 
mated that the public in less than five 
years contributed more than $5,000,000 in 
hard cash and got nothing back but some 
gaudy, worthless paper. They worked 
through three different corporations, the , 
Burr Brothers, the Burr Brothers, Incor¬ 
porated, which was a sort of holding com¬ 
pany, and the New Amsterdam Securities 
Company. There were twenty-three of the 
gold and gem concerns and six oil com¬ 
panies. 
They started for New York first by way 
of Kansas, where they did a little stock 
swindling, and their first office here was 
a very modest affair. The money came in 
so rapidly, however, as the result of the 
literature with which they flooded the mails, 
that they were soon ensconced in an elabo¬ 
rate suit of offices, where 35 typewriters 
were kept busy acknowledging the receipt 
of cash.—City paper. 
The above summary reminds us that 
we cautioned our people against some 
of the concerns promoted by these peo¬ 
ple two or three years ago; and we ac¬ 
tually had letters from some of our 
subscribers abusing us for our pains, and 
telling us of the wonderful investments 
•they had in the concerns, and of their 
entire confidence in them and in the 
promoters. Indeed, it is a rare thing 
to expose a big swindling scheme with¬ 
out receiving a protest from some one 
who has invested in it, and who has be¬ 
come infatuated with the promoters and 
hysterical over visions of future wealth. 
It is only just, however, to say that our 
regular readers scent the fraud in these 
propositions, and it is seldom that any 
of them get caught now in the general 
promotion schemes. The Post Office 
Department is cleaning up this gang of 
swindlers in good shape. Many of them 
are already doing time in Federal pris-; 
ons, and others/conscious of their guilt, 
are trembling in cringing fear or hyster¬ 
ical bravado under Federal indictments. 
I see in the Modern Miller. December 23, 
page 19. the D. L. Marshall Milling Co. 
is bankrupt. You advised subscribers not 
to invest in it about a year or so ago. 
Ohio. J- w. 
Yes, they had a beautiful cooperative 
scheme, and they came pretty near get¬ 
ting some New York State farmers into 
it. But it didn’t take the farmers long 
to size up the situation after we had a 
chance to analyze some of their litera¬ 
ture, addressed to dealers, and show up 
their double dealing and the hollow pre¬ 
tenses of their representations to farm¬ 
ers. 
Do you know anything about the Mary 
L. Poultry Stock Food Co.. Sidney, Ohio ? | 
An ageut went through here leaving a pail 
of poultry food and promised to send within 
10 days a setting of eggs from blooded 
stock, charges paid. He would take from 
five to 15 hens. I let him have six. Some 
got their eggs, getting not over three chicks 
from same, some not any. several others 
got no eggs at all. I wrote and received 
an answer that eggs would reach us August 
1. 1 waited and getting nothing, wrote 
asking for $3, the price of the hens, which 
they were fully worth, but can get no an¬ 
swer. Can you do anything for me? 
Ohio. MRS. E. L. 
We have written this firm repeatedly 
urging them to make an adjustment, but | 
have had absolutely no reply. They cau¬ 
tion her and the R. N.-Y. to be careful 
of speech. For our part we confess that 
we are extremely careful. The thmgs 
we would like to say would not look 
good in cold type; but our good people 
may be able to get our meaning, though 
we follow their advice of careful speech. 
In our issue of May 20, 1911, we had 
the following report: 
At last we have our pay in full ($9.34) 
for the case of eggs shipped J. W. Meloney 
Co. last July, which we placed in your 
hands to trace up after we had done our 
best. F. c. b. 
New York. 
This shipment was directed to J. W. 
Meloney Company but never reached 
them, and the settlement was not made 
by that company but by the express 
company which failed in making the de¬ 
livery, and, of course, J. W. Meloney 
Company are justified in a complaint 
that as the matter stands it is not fair 
to them. We had no such intention but 
simply overlooked a statement that the 
collection was made from the express 
company. Above everything else we 
wish to avoid an injustice to anyone, and 
are glad to exonerate J. W. Meloney 
Company from any responsibility for 
the annoyance caused this shipper. 
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