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THE HURAb NEW-YORKER 
July 6, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I would like to ask you to take up this 
claim for me and see if you can get an 
adjustment from the Boston and Maine 
Railroad. I delivered four barrels of crab 
apples to them on September 20. They 
were not delivered to the commission house 
until September 30, and when opened were 
in a rotten condition and only fit to be 
dumped. My loss is .$16.60. Can you help 
me? F. n. D. 
Vermont. 
After some delay we were able to 
get settlement in full for this sub¬ 
scriber. The loss was caused by the 
long time in transit, for which there 
seemed to be no legitimate excuse. The 
commission house, Charles Weber, Jr., 
was very helpful in assisting us to get 
the adjustment. 
A resident of a country village writes 
us complaining of the conduct of the 
post office, and requesting us to cor¬ 
rect the alleged abuse, but he does not 
even sign his name as evidence of good 
faith. Needless to say we could not 
take up such a complaint if we would; 
we would not if we could. Anonymous 
letters go into the waste basket. No 
other use can possibly be made of 
them. A paper has no power except 
what its readers and friends give it. 
Without their backing it is no more 
than a sheet of wrapping paper. We 
can direct your energies and speak your 
sentiments; but if we were to repeat 
the words of people who would not 
stand out and be counted in the test, 
we would be as silly as a parrot repeat¬ 
ing the words of its trainer. 
We sent 30 dozen fancy white eggs on 
May 27 to Sampson I. Miller, 641 East 5th 
street, New York, for which he does not re¬ 
turn or even reply to our inquiries regard¬ 
ing the same. We shipped to him against 
our own better judgment because he paid 
more than anyone else, so we sent one case 
at a time, thinking he would pay to get 
more. Would you try to hustle him up a 
little, and we shall ship him no more? 
New York. H. d. t. 
It is usually the case that concerns 
quoting prices above the market have 
no financial responsibility, and after 
they have received the goods they pay 
whatever price they choose, or do not 
pay for them at all. We have other 
complaints against this party, and are 
printing the subscriber’s letter merely 
for the sole purpose of saving others 
from a like experience. It is alw r ays 
a hazardous undertaking to attempt to 
beat crooks at their own game. 
The reason now why Dr. Brooks should 
get out of the Home Correspondence School 
of Springfield, Mass., is that the people who 
take the correspondence courses think that 
Dr. Brooks examines the papers, and he 
does not. The papers are examined by the 
boys of his classes. That makes the whole 
thing a deception on the boy who takes the 
lessons and pays for them, thinking that 
he is getting the benefit of instruction 
from Dr. Brooks. He ought to get out of it. 
Massachusetts. B. 
The above is as near as I can repeat 
from memory the language of a man 
thoroughly familiar with the situation. 
Every person who gives the subject a 
moment’s thought must know that Dr. 
Brooks and other teachers of the agri¬ 
cultural schools could not and do not 
give up their time to these correspond¬ 
ence lessons. It is not disputed that the 
papers are generally examined by the 
students in their classes; but the adver¬ 
tising leads anyone to infer that the 
work was done by the teachers of these 
classes. The teachers should make such 
schools tell the truth in their advertise¬ 
ment and catalogues, or withdraw the 
authority to use their names in any way. 
Our agricultural schools should not be 
used as the means of working any de¬ 
ception. 
Charged with conspiracy to use the mails 
to defraud, four officers of the International 
Dumber and Development Company were 
arrested recently in Philadelphia. They were 
held in $5,000 bail. They are Al¬ 
bert G. Stuart, director of the company; 
Charles B. McMahon, secretary and treas¬ 
urer; Alfred Wanamaker, attorney for the 
corporation, and William H. Armstrong, Jr., 
a director. Postal inspectors said that 
John R. Markley and Isaiah Miller, officials 
of the company arrested in Chicago, were 
each held in $10,000 hail. The company 
is said to have sold $6,500,000 of stock 
to about 15,000 investors all over the coun¬ 
try.—Daily Paper. 
This is one of the concerns that our 
people were warned against some time 
back. Like the Lewis swindles, these 
promoters actually bought some land— 
288.000 acres in Mexico for $180,000, 
and, like Lewis, sold it to their own 
company for $600,000. This is on the 
authority of the post office inspectors, 
who say further that persons on the 
inside got $500,000 out of the concern 
for salary and expense. The affairs of 
the company were involved with the of¬ 
ficers’ personal affairs, but the business 
was apparently run by the officers for 
the officers, and what dividends were 
paid came out of the moneys paid in 
for stock, with the purpose, of course, 
of inducing further remittances. It 
would seem that the people ought to get 
on to this dodge after a while. 
Find letter enclosed from George Livings¬ 
ton Richards, 15 Houghton street, Aldwych, 
London. W. 0.. formerly of Boston, Mass., 
New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., Paris, 
France, and promoter of the Richards Pub. 
Co., and the Automatic Addressing Machine 
Co. Do you remember him? w. a. e. 
Nebraska. 
Remember Mr. Richards! While 
scheming and grafting, and swindling 
and faking and lying are forcing their 
disagreeable presence on us we could 
not forget George Livingston Richards. 
In pure gall and egotistical effrontery 
he is a twin brother to E. G. Lewis. In 
fact Lewis seems to have taken lessons 
from Richards, and improved on his 
master. When Richards was selling 
stock in his concerns of millions of 
authorized issue, and publishing a paper 
to win the confidence of the members of 
his sucker list he got into correspond¬ 
ence with an old couple resident in 
the State of Virginia, past 70 years 
of age, who had saved $3,100 during 
their lifetime, and were husbanding it 
for their last days. They wroie Rich¬ 
ards all about it. He reminded them 
how little they could expect from it 
in earning from a savings bank, and 
advised them to send it to him, promis¬ 
ing an early dividend and regular divi¬ 
dends thereafter, making them inde¬ 
pendent and secure for the rest of their 
days. When they complained that the 
dividends didn't come, some one wrote 
them that Mr. Richards was in Eng¬ 
land. This was repeated several times 
and finally the letters were not an¬ 
swered at all. When the schemes flat¬ 
tened out Richards found the English 
climate more suited to his health and 
to his comfort. It must be that his 
plunder is running low. He needs more 
funds; but working sucker lists is not 
permitted under English law. So Mr. 
Richards now writes his old victims 
that he has a new scheme and will give 
them stock in it for the full amount of 
their old losses, if they will send him 
one dollar more for every dollar he 
swindled them out of some years ago. 
Mr. Richards may as well go back and 
sit down in London. His pupil Lewis 
needs all the second-bait-sucker money 
now afloat in America, and even he has 
the competition of several other pupils 
of his own, like the Circle Magazine, 
Hampton’s Magazine and Success 
Magazine, etc. We ought at least to 
have a tariff on promotion enterprises. 
How can our home schemers stand the 
cost of violating postal laws, if foreign 
competition is to be free to swindlers 
of the George Livingston Richards type ? 
Marjorie Hamilton Cunningham and her 
husband, Walter C. Cunningham, beauty 
doctors and advertisers of an obesity cure, 
were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at 
Denver, Colo., June 6, on the charge of 
fraudulently using the mails. The evidence 
against them was obtained by post office 
inspectors of Denver and Washington. 
More than a score of witnesses were sum¬ 
moned before the jury from all parts of 
the country to make charges against the 
Marjorie Hamilton Company—principally 
women who wanted to reduce their weight. 
The defendants, it is alleged, sent out 2,500 
letters a day throughout the country, ad¬ 
vertising the obesity cure for $15. If the 
would-be patient was not responsive the 
price was cut to $1. It is said that the 
company was making at least $500.000.— 
Printers Ink. 
The boast has been printed on the 
letterhead of the above concern “No 
Man Bosses Me,’’ and while we have 
have had some correspondence with 
“Marjorie” over complaints received 
from subscribers, we had not been 
aware that she had taken over a life 
partner as either boss or bosses. A 
reader from Ohio sent this concern 
$5 for treatment on a guarantee that 
the money would be refunded if the 
treatment did not prove beneficial, but 
letters asking this concern to live up 
to its agreement were entirely ignored. 
Of course, Marjorie Hamilton was very 
much surprised when we brought the 
matter to her attention. The money 
was then promptly refunded, with due 
apologies, and it might be considered 
a peculiar coincidence that a large ad¬ 
vertising order for the Marjorie Hamil¬ 
ton business reached us through an 
advertising agency in the next mail. 
Needless to say the order was promptly 
returned. These fake advertisers are 
unable to get it into their heads that a 
publisher will refuse any advertisement, 
no matter how fraudulent, provided he 
is sure of being paid for the service. 
Some of them are getting the lessons, 
and new light will come to the rest of 
them. Neither dishonest advertisers 
nor the papers which publish them will 
ever succeed in this country again. 
Their days are numbered. j. j. d. 
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" INDSH1ELDS (brass) $9.50—Were $40. 
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XEW MOTORS, 15 horse-power, $95. Regular price $250. 
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30 a 3.10.00 
SO x 8)6.13.75 
321 8%.16.00 
84 18 fA.$15.75 
30x4‘ . 16.75 
32x4 . 17.75 
33x4 . 18.25 
34x4 .$18.75 
35x4 . 19.25 
34x4 y 3 . 24.00 
35x4l£ . 25.00 
All other sizes proportionately low 
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