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THE RURAL. NEW'YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On August 23. 1911. Mr. Daly of the 
produce firm of Schroeder & Daly, Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis., inspected my peach crop in the 
orchard and complimented me on the crop, 
lie entered into a written contract with 
me to take the peaches at a fixed price 
specified in the contract. He took a part 
of the crop at the price, but later when 
the market price broke, he refused to 
accept further shipments, alleging then that 
the fruit was not according to contract. 
1 was then obliged to ship to other houses, 
and received the highest prices at the time 
of shipment, showing that the fruit was 
all right. But aside from this he bought 
the fruit on his own inspection. The fruit 
that they refused was sold on their ac¬ 
count and the difference is $071.80. This 
they owe me on the contract. I have writ¬ 
ten them, but they pay no attention. Can 
you to collect it for me? J. w. s. 
Michigan. 
This concern has a good financial rat¬ 
ing, but we have been unable to get a 
word out of them on this subject. We 
have their contract before us. It binds 
the grower to sell and Schroeder & 
Daly to buy at the price stated. If 
prices had advanced they would have 
been in a position to force the deliv¬ 
eries, and they would have profited by 
the advance while the grower would 
not have profited a cent; but when the 
price dropped, they flunked on the con¬ 
tract. They probably take the chance 
of the theory that a Michigan farmer 
will not go to Wisconsin to enforce a 
contract in the courts. That makes it 
very comfortable for the fruit specu¬ 
lators. They find a fine orchard of 
fruit and having a good rating are able 
to contract for it. If the price goes up 
they make the advance. If the price 
falls, they ignore the contract and re¬ 
fuse the fruit. Heads I win; tails you 
lose. But it is pure nonsense to allow 
such concerns to get away with a case 
of this kind. The contract is all right. 
It can be enforced, and if the farmer 
will bring suit, he will undoubtedly re¬ 
cover. Usually we do not advise farm¬ 
ers to rush into court. We are more 
apt to discourage it. But there are 
times when one needs to fight for a 
principle and a right, and we think this 
such a time and such a case. As a mat¬ 
ter of fact, producers should have or¬ 
ganizations to handle cases of the kind. 
An injury of this kind to one producer 
is an injury to all producers. 
The attempt to reorganize Hampton’s 
Magazine has failed. The June issue 
was ready for the press; but no money 
was there to pay for paper, presswork 
and postage. The 24,000 suckers refused 
to bite again, and so the reorganizers 
decided to quit. The Broadway Mag¬ 
azine had been published by some influ¬ 
ential political and financial interests of 
New York for some years up to about 
seven years ago. Then it was bought 
up by Ben B. Hampton and published 
under his name. Large blocks of stock 
were sold to subscribers, but even this 
revenue did not furnish capital enough 
to keep it going. Then a combination 
was made with Columbian Magazine, 
which had also been conducting a stock 
selling campaign, under the pretense of 
paying 16 per cent dividends. The new 
company was called the Columbian- 
Sterling Pub. Co., and a new stock sell¬ 
ing scheme was inaugurated by Frank 
Orff, who brought his St. Louis experi¬ 
ence into the scheme. Stock was sold 
again in sufficient amounts to make the 
total investments $2,687,000. The Post 
Office authorities then got after the 
promoters. Some of them were in¬ 
dicted, and it is said that $250,000 of the 
collections has never been accounted 
for. The concern failed, and the reor¬ 
ganization was then attempted. The 
old victims were requested to send 10 
per cent of their former losses to revive 
the business. They expected $250,000. 
They got $87,000. That amount being 
now used up, they quit. If they got 
the balance they may have lasted six 
months longer. Speaker Champ Clark 
invested $4,000 in the stock, but wisely 
refused to bit the second time. 
The newspapers are now telling the 
story. There is no longer any danger 
of a libel suit, nor of offending any busi¬ 
ness interest. But the people have lost 
their $2,687,000. The R. N.-Y. readers 
had the information from the start, and 
from time to time as the scheme pro¬ 
gressed. Most of them thanked us, and 
saved their money. Some of them said we 
were jealous as publishers, and in sym¬ 
pathy with Wall Street because the 
schemers said they refused to let Wall 
Street in on the deal, reserving it all 
for the common people. Some others 
admitted we were honest in the advice, 
but thought we did not know what we 
were talking about. The lesson may 
be of value to others who are being 
tempted to put their money into get- 
rich-quick publishing schemes. 
On Dee. 19th last I sent a check for 
$175.25 to the Phillips Gasoline Engine and 
Motor Co., Franklin and Indiana Sts.. Chi¬ 
cago. Ill. He acknowledges the receipt of 
check Dec. 14th. I have not heard from 
him since. I thought you might be able 
to get the money back for me. 
New York. s. H. M. 
This complaint from a New York 
farmer reached us now more than a 
year ago, and we have been endeavoring 
ever since to get a refund of this sub¬ 
scriber’s money without success. Our 
attorneys have induced the Phillips Gas¬ 
oline Engine and Motor Co. to refund 
$50 of the amount. This leaves $125.25 
with interest since December, 1910, still 
due. Recently the Phillips Engine has 
been advertised over an individual 
name, which is the plan usually resorted 
to by engine concerns wishing to escape 
the odium of past transactions. We 
don’t know whether that is the object 
in this particular case or not, but other 
farmers who are in the market for en¬ 
gines are entitled to the information on 
which to base their own conclusions. 
I am enclosing you an advertisement 
from the Evening Telegram. I purchased 
from the Cable Express Co. on May 25 one 
brown horse for $75, to be shipped to Jos. 
B. Gould, Newfoundland, N. J., delivered 
free with collar, halter, and blanket. I 
paid them for the horse and on Tuesday, 
the 28th, ’phoned them the horse had not 
arrived. They ’phoned back that the horse 
had taken a hemorrhage and for me to 
come down and select another horse in 
place of the brown one, and then they 
tried to make me take any old thing, but 
finally I selected a gray horse as better than 
none. Now _ I received a letter from them 
that the railroad company could not take 
the horse, and for me to send a man down 
and go on cars with it. I am in such a 
position that it is impossible for me to 
do so. Will you kindly advise me if I 
can in any way recover my money or dam¬ 
ages from them, or will you do me the 
favor as a subscriber and ’phone them and 
tell them to deliver my horse as they 
agreed. By so doing you will confer a favor 
on me. j. B , 0 . 
New Jersey. 
It seems that in spite of all our warn¬ 
ing some of our subscribers are yet be¬ 
coming victims of these “gyps” of the 
New York horse trade. We have had 
many complaints against the Cable Ex¬ 
press Co. If the farmer is sharp 
enough to pick out a good horse, the 
horse “gyps” make some excuse, after 
they get the money, and refuse to de¬ 
liver it, and then the farmer can take 
a worthless skate as a substitute or get 
nothing at all. It would save him need¬ 
less expense to refuse the diseased and 
disabled animals offered him. We can 
do nothing. Criminal prosecution is the 
only recourse, and results there are not 
certain. 
Officials of the Equitable Loan and 
Investment Company of Texas, formerly 
of Arizona, were recently arrested in 
Utah. They were charged with de¬ 
frauding farmers of the State out of 
about $50,000. The scheme was to offer 
to loan money on real estate at a low 
rate of interest. The applicant for a 
loan was obliged to pay in advance for 
the cost of examination. The loan was 
never made, and the excuse of the of¬ 
ficials always was that it had not been 
reached. Once again we have the old 
bait—a big promise for the future in 
exchange for cash down. We want our 
people to spot this trick. Beware of 
the stranger who comes with promises 
and wants cash. 
I have a bill against A. Richardson, G5 
Gansevoort St., New York, for 12 barrels of 
apples sent him in the Fall of 1910. His 
plea has been hard luck, and promises are 
all 1 have been able to get I received 
$2.o0 per barrel for apples shipped other 
parties at that time. It will be a great 
favor if you can collect it. q. E. p 
New York. 
Inclosed find a letter from A. Richardson 
for a shipment of cauliflower sent him Oc¬ 
tober 28, 1910. I have become tired wait¬ 
ing for him to pay for this consignment 
sent him. He sent me a statement that 
they sold but no check to balance the ac- 
count. I will place it in your hands for 
collection. ^ 
Long Island. 
I shipped to A. Richardson, G5 Ganse¬ 
voort St.. New York, on December 19, 1911, 
lo hampers of Kieffer pears and four ham¬ 
pers of apples. He said in a letter the 
pears were black, hut I know they were 
oSrt ' K ‘. f ' ause I shipped some of them over 
“-0 niiles and they arrived in first-class 
condition. Richardson acknowledged that 
he sold the apples at 75 cents per hamper, 
but. he has not sent me the money for them 
W nting to him seems to do no good Can 
you help me in this matter? a. G. v a 
New Jersey. 
All we have succeeded in getting from 
Mr. Richardson is excuses, pleas of ill¬ 
ness, hard luck; failure to receive goods 
from the South, or too hot, too cold, or 
some similar excuse. He is at the same 
time soliciting shipments. 
The New Jersey subscriber received 
an adjustment of his claim and writes us 
as follows: 
Received Post Ofllce money order from A. 
Richardson on Monday, April 8, for 50 
cents in payment for my December 19 ship- 
June 15, 
ment. His statement is freight, $1 ; cari¬ 
ng*'. $1.20; commission, 30 cents; total. 
$2.50; balance from apples, 50 cents, which 
he mailed. The hampers alone cost $2, be¬ 
sides picking, carting to railroad, etc. Well, 
I have had enough. "Experience is a hard 
schoolmaster but fools will learn from no 
other.” A. g. v. A. 
New Jersey. 
A commission merchant receiving 
goods to sell on commission and neglect¬ 
ing to return for them is subject to 
criminal prosecution; and if any of our 
shippers will undertake to make the 
complaint, and furnish the evidence. 
The R. N.-Y. will attend to the prose¬ 
cution. It is time something was done 
to correct these abuses. 
I wish to ask you as to the reliability of 
the Bismarck Consolidated Mines Company, 
Deadwood, South Dakota. Inclosed find 
notice sent to their stockholders. R. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is one of the speculative mining 
concerns. The notice or circular re¬ 
ferred to is nothing but a lot of empty 
words. Of course they want more 
money. We could never encourage any¬ 
one to put money into such risks on the 
start. We would discourage a second 
temptation. 
In the complaint of J. E. W., Texas, 
whose letter appears in Publisher’s 
Desk of May 11, with reference to three 
pens of Houdan fowls purchased of E. 
F. McAvoy, Cambridge, N. Y., for 
which he paid $165, one of the consid¬ 
erations on this transaction was that 
Mr. McAvoy promised to make this 
subscriber a member of the Houdan 
Club and settled the dues for one year. 
If the subscriber has been made a mem¬ 
ber of the Houdan Club he has no evi¬ 
dence of it. For ourselves we do not 
know of the existence of a club by this 
name, and Houdan breeders to whom 
we have appealed for information re¬ 
garding it are of the opinion that it is 
an organization composed only of Mc¬ 
Avoy himself. 
In this connection the record of the 
American Houdan Club and the Amer¬ 
ican Poultry Association is illuminat¬ 
ing, as shown by the following report 
which appeared in American Poultry 
World for January, 1911: 
McAvoy is not a member of the Ameri¬ 
can Poultry Asociation ; otherwise he would 
have been expelled from membership at the 
annual meeting lwld in St. Louis last August. 
He has claimed for some time to be the 
secretary of a Houdan Club, but if he is 
secretary of such a club, his club is not 
associated with the American Poultry Asso¬ 
ciation. nor is it known to have a repre¬ 
sentative membership among Houdan breed¬ 
ers. McAvoy’s misconduct has been long- 
continued and to-day is widely known. It 
Is clear that he believes the public has a 
short memory—either this or he is judging 
other men by his own standards. He seems 
to proceed on the theory that the Ameri¬ 
can people can be gulled repeatedly and will 
come back smilingly, time and time again, 
asking for more. A few poultry papers 
are continuing to accept McAvoy’s adver¬ 
tisements, despite the official and widely 
published action of the American Poultry 
Association. Their doing so shows either 
a surprising lack of information, or small 
regard for the rights and interests of their 
subscribers. 
It appears from this that McAvoy is 
not a member of the American Houdan 
Club, which is the only Houdan Club 
of which we have any record, and that 
he is not permitted to exhibit birds in 
any poultry show conducted under the 
auspices of the American Poultry As¬ 
sociation. j. j. D. 
Sales are scarce at the present time. 
Hay is selling for $20 a ton; corn, $1 a 
bushel; potatoes, $1; eggs. 17; butter, 
dairy, 25 cents: butter fat, 30 cents. Not 
much silage used here. w. c. t. 
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