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“THE RUE WE NEW-YORKER 
September 7, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I paid $11.30 to the Empire Furniture 
Company, Syracuse, N. Y., for red stamps 
which were for an extra premium. A man 
came around with the books showing pic¬ 
tures of nice furniture, that I could get 
as soon as my book was full, for the pur¬ 
pose of introducing the stamps so they 
could place them in the stores. I wanted 
to surprise my husband and so bought 
stamps of the man each week. My book is 
now about full and the agent has not called 
for some time. There are lots of people 
here who have been taken iu; some poor 
widows who could not afford to lose the 
money. Do you know anything about this 
firm? Mits. G. w. B. 
New York. 
We were unable to locate this firm, 
but the Chief of Police of Syracuse tells 
us they had an office there some time 
ago, but went out of business six or 
eight months ago. It is unwise to put 
any faith in these agents who promise 
to give you something for nothing. 
August 14. 1911, I had shipped by ex¬ 
press from Carman, Del., to Stroudsburg, 
l*a., three baskets of extra fine peaches. 
Two baskets arrived that evening in O. K. 
condition and were delivered by United 
States Express Company to my parsonage. 
The next day in the afternoon the other 
basket was delivered by Wells Fargo Ex¬ 
press Company, all soft and bruised and 
more than half the peaches were gone, 
showing every evidence of hard usage. I 
put in my claim weeks ago, and no re¬ 
sponse. Last August, 1910, the very same 
thing happened, only then the one basket 
delivered by Wells Fargo was all wrapped 
in paper and tied up. I wanted to take 
the paper off to see what condition the 
fruit was in, but the delivery man would 
not allow it. We accepted under protest 
and paid for them. They, too, were soft 
and more than half gone. These goods were 
delivered to Adams Express Co. and they 
ought to settle this claim. Go for them. 
Pennsylvania. a. m. v. 
This is a state of affairs that_ ought 
to be adjusted but no attention is paid 
to our claim, as it is arbitrarily declined. 
Complaints are frequent that fruit ship¬ 
ments of this kind are received with 
every evidence that some one has en¬ 
joyed half the contents en route. 
^ It may seem like wearing the subject 
threadbare to refer again to the opera¬ 
tions of real estate, stock and bond 
selling schemes, but in view of the 
money that has been lost through real 
estate swindles and the new schemes 
that are cropping up every day to sep¬ 
arate the unsuspecting from his or her 
savings, we do not think the subject 
is likely to be overdone. • Real estate is 
the most staple form of investment, and 
because of this fact the professional 
promoter finds it the most alluring ve¬ 
hicle for his get-rich-quick schemes. In 
the minds of those not familiar with 
the tricks of the modern real estate pro¬ 
moter, a real estate bond or mortgage 
is as good as the note of the United 
States Treasury. So they once were, 
but that was before the time of the in¬ 
vention of the debenture bond, which 
amounts to simply a promissory note 
of the real estate company issuing it, 
and before real estate operators learned 
how to issue mortgages through friendly 
trust companies or banking institutions 
for many times more than the property 
is worth. We have seen how E. G. 
Lewis bought a certain piece of real 
estate for $114,000 and later sold it to 
the University Heights Realty and De¬ 
velopment Company the same day for 
$537,788.16, and then issued a mortgage 
through his People’s Savings Trust 
Company for $537,788, and sold notes 
against this mortgage as gilt-edge se¬ 
curity. The New York Central Realty 
Company, the collapse of which was 
noted in these columns last Winter, 
seems to have adopted Lewis’ methods, 
from the following summary of the op¬ 
erations of the company, reported in 
the daily press: 
After an investigation of 10 months on 
the part of the postoffice inspectors, bench 
warrants were issued by Judge Ilolt for the 
arrest of William H. Cooper, Claude J. Van 
Slyke, James A. Robinson and Ernest Sharp, 
ali former officers of the defunct New York 
Central Realty Company. They were in¬ 
dicted on July 26 by the federal grand jury 
on a charge of using the mails to defraud 
in the real estate bonds issued by their 
company. 
The investigation was conducted by In¬ 
spector II. A. Barber, under the direction 
of W. A. Dickson, inspector in charge. This 
was said to be the twentieth real estate 
company of similar nature that has come 
under the ban of the postoffice authorities 
within the year. Large business interests 
brought great pressure to bear on the fed¬ 
eral authorities both here and in Washing¬ 
ton to prevent the indictment of one of 
the four men. The New York Central 
Realty Company advertised its bonds in the 
financial sections of well known magazines, 
besides publishing a monthly magazine of 
its own called the “Six Per Cent Expon¬ 
ent,” described in a motto at the top of 
the first page as being “devoted to the 
interests of the small investor in general 
and the New York Central Realty Company 
in particular.” 
Henry A. Barber, Postoffice Inspector, 
who has been in charge of collecting the 
evidence against the company officials, made 
the following statement: 
“This is the most far-reaching conspir¬ 
acy of its kind in my memory in the Post- 
office Department, and I believe it is the 
biggest that ever has come in the scope 
of the duties of the United States Attorney 
in this district. Not only are the amounts 
of money involved enormous, but the fact 
that as many as 800 persons, many of them 
of the ,class who will suffer hardship 
through the loss of their investments, were 
swindled, is remarkable in itself.” 
In explaining the operations of the de¬ 
fendants, the indictment says that in 1909 
the Realty Company acquired land in Rye, 
N. Y., known as the Rycsdale Acres. Title 
to the property first was taken by the 
Tuckahoe Lime and Lumber Company, a 
subsidiary of the New York Central Realty, 
by a payment of $10,000 in money, $5,000 
in realty bonds and a mortgage of $150,000. 
The land then was turned over to the 
Realty Company, and in consequence of the 
purchase through a subsidiary a profit of 
$200,000 was voted to Cooper. The prop¬ 
erty then was carried as a $1,000,000 asset, 
it is alleged. In 1909, it is charged, the 
corporation got titles to land in the Hacken¬ 
sack meadows for $1,500, on which after¬ 
ward a mortgage of $350,000 to secure the 
bond issue was made by the Windsor Trust 
Company. That mortgage, however, was 
withdrawn at the time Cooper resigned as 
president. There remained land in Wood- 
fern, N. J., valued, it is said, at $35,000, 
but which carried a mortgage of $498,000; 
60 lots in Elmsford, N. Y., and a few in 
Stephenson and Westchester Parks, N. Y. 
—the only legitimate property, the indict¬ 
ment reads, of the company and valued at 
less than $50,000—37 acres in Woodridge, 
N. J., and 21 acres in Ridgewood, N. J. The 
two latter holdings also were mortgaged 
to the hilt. 
I corresponded with Mr. W. M. Cable of 
Constantia, Oswego Co., New York, re¬ 
garding a Guernsey cow, and ordered him 
to prepare one for shipment, and I would 
go to Buffalo and draw the money and 
send him. In the meantime I received a 
letter from Hiram Kinne, stating that 
Mr. Cable was obliged to go away and 
had turned matters over to him, as he was 
Mr. Cable’s partner, so I sent him $75 
for a cow. I have not got cow or money 
back yet and it appears that Mr. Kinne 
has left Constantia and his whereabouts 
are not known, so I have written Mr. 
Cable several times regarding the matter 
and get no reply. Mr. Cable acknowledged 
to me that Mr. Kinne was in business 
with him at the time. It is true I sent 
my money to Mr. Kinne but I was in a 
hurry for the cow and thought if I waited 
until Mr. Cable got home before sending 
the money I would be obliged to wait too 
long. Do you suppose you could help me 
to get my money back? s. m. s. 
New York. 
This is not the first cattle transac¬ 
tion that we have found Mr. Hiram 
Kinne connected with. Mr. Kinne for¬ 
merly operated from Syracuse. We 
have printed the history of his other 
deals, and if he continues his operations 
in this line he bids fair to outdo F. E. 
Dawley in the course of time. From 
the subscriber’s statement it would seem 
that W. M. Cable is entirely responsi¬ 
ble for his money. We have written Mr. 
Cable several times in the subscriber’s 
behalf, but we get no reply to our let¬ 
ters. We trust that some of his neigh¬ 
bors who read the above subscriber’s 
letter may bring him to a better realiza¬ 
tion of his moral responsibility than we 
have been able to do. 
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Double galvanized. Stock' 1 ' 
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725 BROADWAY, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Its Own Power Plant 
A Hay 
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This sensational Money-Making 
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Comes completely and fully equipped. En¬ 
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Send us your name and address on a postal 
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T HERE is always a ready market at a good price 
for baled hay. It occupies only about one-fifth 
the space of loose hay. It can be handled easily. 
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farmers are making hay the big cash crop of their farms, & 
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the only presses on the market today which fill the need 
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ineat and smooth in appearance. The bale chamber is 
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(Incorporated) 
Chicago USA 
IHC Service Bureau 
The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of 
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send them to IHC Service Bureau, Harvester Build¬ 
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