343 
March 9, 
THH) RURAh NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Please note the inclosed advertisement. 
I think you reported that John Craig, of 
Cornell, had withdrawn from the Home 
Correspondence School of Springfield, Mass. 
Am I correct? g. w. h. 
New York. 
Prof. Craig advised us in November 
last that he notified the Home Corre¬ 
spondence that the connection with the 
Lewis schemes must cease or that he 
must withdraw immediately from any 
association with the school. 
Mr. Metcalf, the president of the 
school, had written us that his position 
was precisely the same as that of the 
other schools which had suspended les¬ 
sons because Lewis did not pay for the 
service as per agreement. At the same 
time he expressed the hope that the 
Lewis scheme would be reopened later 
on, and Lewis announced in his own 
paper with Mr. Metcalf’s consent that 
the lessons might be continued in the 
meantime to the Lewis pupils on pay¬ 
ment by them of a reduced fee for each 
lesson. We thought such an arrange¬ 
ment inconsistent with Prof. Craig’s de¬ 
mand and we assumed that he with¬ 
drew in accordance with his ultimatum 
to the school. Later, however, other pro¬ 
tests were made by other teachers and 
colleges, and the Home Correspondence 
School withdrew from the Lewis affilia¬ 
tions entirely, and Mr. Metcalf says that 
Prof. Craig did not withdraw, but con¬ 
tinues his connection with the school. 
As a matter of fact there is something 
to explain about these correspondence 
lessons anyway. Prof. Craig admits 
that he does not personally examine the 
papers of correspondence students, but 
that this work is done by assistants and 
students at Cornell. So that the corre¬ 
spondence lessons are not examined by 
Prof. Craig as the correspondent student 
may infer from the advertisements, but 
by assistants or other students like him¬ 
self, though he says the examining stu¬ 
dents are requested to report difficult 
questions, and the student has the privil¬ 
ege of writing him direct. This leads 
up to the question of the divided time 
of Prof. Craig. We assume he is being 
paid by Cornell University for his time. 
If so, how can he serve the Home 
Correspondence School? We have good 
authority for the assertion that he can¬ 
not serve two masters. Either Prof. 
Craig does not do as much for the corre¬ 
spondence school as the advertisements 
and catalogues seem to intimate, or he 
denies Cornell a full measure of service. 
The people who pay Cornell bills as well 
as the boys who pay for correspondence 
lessons have a right to know just how 
much work or time Prof. Craig devotes 
to each. We will gladly give him or the 
Home Correspondence School space to 
make the explanation. 
Send me Ilind-Sights or “Rogues’ Gal¬ 
lery” book. c. s. h. 
Ohio. 
That is a new baptism for the little 
book. It is not exactly a gallery of 
rogues, but a symposium of roguery. 
It, however, puts the mark on the 
schemer and in that way puts him in 
the rogues' gallery. 
I hold 214 shares of the Washburn Realty 
and Trust Company, par value $5 per share. 
The company is incorporated under the laws 
of the State of Massachusetts, capital one 
million. They paid dividends one year. I 
can find no sale for the stock. Can it be 
redeemed? Please look it up for me. 
. Massachusetts. G. E. h. 
Those in charge of this concern say 
they are unable to give any definite in¬ 
formation. It is paying no dividends 
and the stock has no market value. It 
seems to be an account that can safely 
be charged up to profit and loss. 
Do the Gaylor-Keifer Realty Co., Mar¬ 
quette Building, Chicago, Ill., keep their 
contracts for lands in New Mexico? What 
can you tell me about them? n. s. 
Illinois. 
Our information is that they held an 
option on some land at Las Vegas, New 
Mexico, which cost them $1 per acre, 
and that they sold the land at from $17 
to $25 per acre, and had the land deeded 
when paid for from the Las Vegas Land 
Grant direct to the purchaser. We have 
had the most pitiable complaints from 
people who entered into contracts with 
them, and while they promise redress, 
no relief is given. Once more we sug¬ 
gest that the only safe way to buy land 
is to examine it first, and avoid the 
land promoter as you would a pest. 
But if anyone enjoys paying a promoter 
in New Mexico $25 per acre for land 
worth $1, or if you think enough 
of the promoter in the Florida Ever¬ 
glades to pay him $40 per acre for 
swamp lands that costs him only $2 an 
acre, why go ahead and enjoy yourself. 
The crime is, of course, that poor peo¬ 
ple do these things who do not have the 
information to do better. If I had my 
way about it, the publishers who con 
spire with the promoters to rob the peo- 
pel and cause them misfortune by re¬ 
moval of families to such places, woulc 
go to thg penitentiary. Even then the 
punishment would fall short of the 
crime. 
E. G. Lewis must stand trial on the in¬ 
dictment charging him with use of the mail 
to defraud. The case will be set for trial 
on the conclusion of a civil trial now under 
way. Judge Amidon, of South Dakota, has 
been assigned to try Lewis, and last week 
overruled a demurrer to the Lewis indict¬ 
ment and further ruled that residents of 
St. Louis and St. Louis County should be 
excluded from the jury panel. The state¬ 
ment of two of the Grand Jury men who 
returned the indictment against Lewis 
seemed to convince the court that the diffi¬ 
culty of getting an impartial jury would be 
lessened by drawing the jury panel from 
other parts of the State.—St. Louis Dis¬ 
patch. 
This trial will probably consume sev¬ 
eral weeks’ time. Every precaution seems 
to have been taken to secure an impar¬ 
tial jury and a fair trial. Several judges 
of the United States District Court have 
had other Lewis cases before them, and 
it seems for this reason that Judge 
Amidon, who has had no previous part 
in the Lewis affairs has been selected 
for this case. The selection of a jury 
panel outside of the city and county of 
St. Louis, removed from local influences 
and prejudices, seems equally in the in 
terest of justice and a fair trial. 
The Lewis suits against Post Office 
Inspectors Fulton and Stice have been 
discontinued on nonsuit. The Lewis 
libel suit against Judge Goodwin was 
nonsuited about a year ago; and the 
libel suit against the Post-Dispatch, 
which was tried by a court and jury re¬ 
moved from local influences, resulted in 
a verdict for the publishers. The crim¬ 
inal trial will probably soon be under 
way, and we must await the result with¬ 
out further discussion in the meantime. 
We bought a 2Vi horse power marine en¬ 
gine from the Detroit Engine Co., Detroit, 
Mich., to. be in first class running order as 
you see in the letter I am inclosing. The 
engine did not run a half hour during sev¬ 
eral days’ attempt to make it go. We sent 
it back. They now send me a bill of ,$36.32 
for repairs after guaranteeing it for five 
years. We offered to let them keep 10 per 
•cent of the money if they would keep the 
engine and return the 90 per cent; but this 
they refuse to do. What can we do about 
lt7 v • • H - J- 
Virginia. 
Before this engine was ordered the 
company wrote as follows: 
If after you have had our engine 30 days 
you are not fully convinced that it is the 
best engine you ever saw or heard of, and 
if you are not fully satisfied with it, ship 
it back and we will instantly refund every 
cent you paid for it, and you are the sole 
judge. 
Again this: 
When the engine goes out it will also go 
to you under the terms of a guarantee which 
absolutely insures you satisfaction, other¬ 
wise the return of your money. 
The company refused to accept the 
return of the engine, and refund the 
purchase price on the ground that it 
had not been returned in 30 days. Some 
time back we once ran an advertisement 
for this company, but we had several 
complaints and discontinued the adver¬ 
tising, and refused to renew it even after 
the complaints were adjusted. After this 
they returned money to several farmers 
who complained, and assured us they 
would do so in every case. They refuse 
in this case, alleging the reasons as 
stated. 
I want to find out about the Diamond 
Core Drilling Co., 15 Broad street, New 
York City. I have been offered stock at a 
very low price by a friend of mine. The 
company is said to operate a number of 
mines in Mexico, which it is claimed are 
very valuable, and will pay very big divi¬ 
dends in a short time. lie has’ sold quite 
a number of shares around here, and says 
it is a sure thing. c. r. 
Connecticut. 
Connecticut is gaining an enviable 
reputation as an easy field for pro¬ 
moters. Some of them claim that they 
can sell more worthless paper certificates 
in Connecticut than anywhere else in 
the world, not excepting Wall Street. 
There is little to find out about mines of 
this kind in Mexico. Read what is said 
about mining promotion in “Hind- 
Sights.” We have records of millions 
of dollars lost in these mines. We have 
no record of a case where the investor 
ever made a dollar in mines promoted in 
this way. If you take our advice you 
will let the other fellow have the “sure 
thing.” There is no information that we 
have been able to find that would justify 
the investment of a penny in this propo¬ 
sition. j. j. d. 
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