February 17. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
You will pleas© And enclosed voucher for 
$1.85 in settlement of claim against the 
Bush Terminal Company. 1 know it is 
only through your persistent effort that you 
have received this claim for me. h. s. l. 
Connecticut. 
This was a damage charge for ship¬ 
ment of furniture on February 8, 1910. 
We have been working on it since 
March, 1911, and the subscriber had 
previously used every effort to get ad¬ 
justment. A two-year job. 
Will you see what you can do with the 
United States Express Company for me? I 
have a claim against them for a case of 
eggs which they never delivered to Win. 
Lichtenfels, of your city. This was October 
24, 1910, and the eggs were worth $15. If 
. you can make them pay you. you will do 
mo a kindness. I had a nice trade for my 
eggs, but I had to give it up. I had too 
much trouble over the shipments, e. h. b. 
New Jersey. 
Settlement made after much corre¬ 
spondence February 1, 1912. 
On September 15, 1910, shipper prepaid 
my tool box to me to the amount of $1.00 
in accordance with the receipt from the 
Wells Fargo Express Company. When I 
received the box I was obliged to pay the 
United States Express Company $1.22. So 
you see this was paid for at both ends, and 
I have been obliged to reimburse the party 
for prepaying and am out just that much. 
Can you collect this? w. b. e. 
New Jersey. 
We followed this claim up for months, 
and on February 2 the United States 
Express Compairy sent us the refund of 
$1.32. 
I have received a settlement from the 
Southern Express Company of $20 in pay¬ 
ment for the watch lost in transit over a 
year ago. If it had not been for your help 
and persistency 1 certainly never would 
have gotten a cent. They tried all kinds 
of schemes to get rid of paying. Thank you 
again for your interest in the matter. 
Massachusetts. h. e. b. 
Three watches were shipped to a party 
in Florida in September, 1910, but when 
the package was delivered one watch was 
missing. Our subscriber worked on it 
six months before coming to us for 
help, ajnd it has taken pretty nearly a 
year to get the claim allowed. 
Under date of December 7 and S, 1910, 
two coops of purebred White Leghorn hens 
were shipped from Sherburne, N. Y., to 
Flemington, N. J. Each coop was valued 
at $40. One coop was received in bad or¬ 
der, and instead of containing the line 
White Leghorn chickens, there were 19 
scrub Leghorn hens, live Bose Comb Leg¬ 
horns and one Uoudan. I learned later 
there was a smash-up on the road, and it 
looked as if the express company gathered 
up any old thing to till the coop. The 
other coop was never delivered. I can't 
hear one word from the United States Ex¬ 
press Company. Will you write them con¬ 
cerning the matter? J. h. E. 
New Jersey. 
The express company persented us 
with a check for $40 on January 29 in 
settlement of this claim. 
Just got that claim of $8.80 of the 
Southern Express Co. and looking over the 
letter see how you handled the case, which 
I think was the main cause of their com¬ 
ing across with the stuff. To get some¬ 
thing out of the Southern Express Company 
means something. Thank you, as we think 
your prestige is great. M. & s. 
Florida. 
Shipments of eggs were sent this sub¬ 
scriber, of which 163 were broken. The 
damage at the lowest estimate amounted 
to $8.80. As the subscriber could get 
no adjustment we took it up in Decem¬ 
ber, 1910. After getting the express 
company in line for adjustment we were 
delayed in getting affidavit as to the 
damage from the shipper, so that we 
cannot hold the express company alto¬ 
gether responsible, although the adjust¬ 
ment should have been made to the sub¬ 
scriber without appeal to us. 
Yours of the 10th with check from Adams 
Express Co. in settlement of claim in full 
received. The eggs were shipped August 27 
to Cretin & McGovern, Hoboken, N". J. They 
informed me the next week that they had 
not received the eggs. The agent started 
tracer, but got no response from express 
company. Then we put in claim, but got 
no response from that. Afterwards turned 
claim over to The K. N.-Y. for collection, 
and the Adams people suddenly began to 
realize that they should attend to the 
claim. Your people are certainly doing the 
farmers a kindness in looking after their 
interests. > t>. F. a. 
New Y'ork. 
The above batch of settled claims 
would indicate that it hastens the ex¬ 
press companies to have an investigation 
of their work going on in Washington. 
We give this batch all together to show 
the effect of wholesome respect for the 
Interstate Commerce Commission dem¬ 
onstrated in these settlements at this 
time. The R. N.-Y. could not afford to 
follow claims for two years for $1.32. 
Nor could we afford to follow any one of 
them for a single complainant; but a 
loss of this kind by one shipper is the 
concern of every shipper; and without 
such work the public would not have 
the information and there would be 
nothing for our Interstate Commerce 
Commission to do. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
What do you know about the Foote Farm 
Laboratories? h. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
You will find reference to it on page 
1198. They ask $10 for a soil-testing out¬ 
fit. Prof. Hopkins of Illinois says it is 
worthless, and that the man who buys 
it wastes both his time and money. 
The Globe Association of Chicago, 
Ill., is still sending out its advertising 
promising $70 a month to advertising 
managers to represent them, and leading 
people to think they will get 100 pounds 
of sugar for $1.75. But they will not 
sell you sugar for that price, and they 
simply allow agents the privilege of col¬ 
lecting money from their neighbors on 
commission. The proprietor was tried 
last year for alleged fraudulent use of 
the mails, but escaped conviction. Some 
promoters are very skillful in avoiding 
the letter of the law, while violating 
its spirit. But the best protection is to 
avoid extravagant propositions. 
From Central New York we get re¬ 
ports of a clever swindle worked at 
auction sales. The trick seems to be for 
one schemer to bid in property at the 
auction and later offer his note for it. 
This is refused. The security offered by 
the other schemer is also refused, as he 
is a stranger. The cash is then paid, 
and the owner receiving the cash is re¬ 
quested to sign the rejected note on the 
back as a form of receipt for the money. 
The conspirators then go off with the 
note and the property. The note is dis¬ 
counted in the local bank; and when it 
becomes due in 60 or 90 days the farmer 
is notified and is forced to pay, as it 
bears his indorsement, and has passed 
into the hands of innocent parties. 
In 1902 J was induced by a friend now 
dead to invest $150 in the San Jos<» Co., 
which was at the time promoting the sale 
of lands in the Isle of I’ines. Italpli J. 
Bodmer was treasurer of the company with 
offices at 7 West 22nd street. New York 
City. I recently learned that he lives now 
at Mount Vernon, N. Y. 1 wrote him there. 
The letter did not come back, but he did 
not reply. I have been unable to get any 
information about the company or the land. 
Can you get it for me? H. S. S, 
Connecticut. 
We do not seem to be able to do much 
for this investor. Mr. Bodmer does not 
reply to our inquiries, but we have his 
letter to this investor acknowledging the 
$150; and stating he would be entitled 
to 10 acres of land in the Isle of Pines 
when the surveys are completed. If he 
could be induced to make any reply he 
would probably say that the land is not 
yet surveyed. It probably never will be. 
Ilarvey W. Corbett, who, with John A. 
Qualey. was an organizer and promoter of 
the Asbestos-Magnesia Company and other 
ill-starred ventures, and Mrs. Ellen Dunlop 
Hopkins, who also was interested with 
them, are being sued by Lloyd Lowndes, a 
director of the Uitz Company, for $21,420 
which they induced him to invest In the 
Qualey-Cofbett promotions, and of which 
Lowndes says the defendants misrepresented 
its value and business prospects. The com¬ 
plaint is proctically the same as was made 
some time back against the same parties by 
the widow of the late eminent surgeon, Dr. 
W. T. Bull, on th(> charge that they had got 
$35,000 of her money by false representa¬ 
tions.—Daily Paper. 
Corbett and Qualey are accused of 
falsely representing the business of mak¬ 
ing plaster, cement, asbestos and mag¬ 
nesia under a secret process in a factory 
in New Jersey. It seems that Mrs. Dun¬ 
lop introduces the prospective investors 
and the promoters do the rest, but the 
introduction is made under the most 
flattering auspices. 
Despite vour warnings I got caught in 
the Howe and Currier Florida land deal; 
parties who claimed to have been in the 
part of Florida where the Howe & Currier 
land is advised me to buy, so I contracted 
for 10 acres on the installment plan. After 
I had paid $70 my father and some other 
persons went to look at Howe & Currier’s 
lands with view of buying, but they said 
it was no good and advised me to stop 
paying any more installments, which I did 
at once. Now Howe & Currier declared 
my equity forfeited. Is there any show for 
me to get my $70 refunded? As they have 
placed tlie land on sale again, I thought I 
might with your help get my money back. 
Missouri. h. m. h. 
This Missouri subscriber’s experience 
is only a duplicate of all others we have 
heard about who have blindly invested 
in Florida lands on the strength of the 
representations made by land pro¬ 
moters. We have been endeavoring for 
several months to get some adjustment 
for this subscriber from Messrs. Howe 
& Currier without success. The junior 
member of the firm, Mr. Geo. H. Cur¬ 
rier, a Chicago publisher, advises us 
that he is withdrawing from the firm, 
but for what reason he does not state. 
This subscriber’s experience illustrates 
once more the unwisdom of investing 
in Florida or other lands without hav¬ 
ing some definite information as to the 
value of the lands and the surrounding 
conditions. Land boomers can make 
the most worthless swamp or sand hill 
look like the most fertile and valuable 
land on earth—on paper. j. j. d. 
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