1130 
November 2, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Subscribers have reported unadjusted 
claims against the following houses on 
acount of produce shipped to them: 
Louis Steinberg, 175 East Fourth street, 
New York. 
J. Reuss, 1487 Amsterdam avenue, New 
York. 
Baeigalupi, Pattarini & Co., 122 Warren 
street, New York. 
We tried to collect these claims but 
the parties had moved and left no ad¬ 
dress, so we are obliged to tell the sub¬ 
scribers to charge the loss up to ex¬ 
perience. This confirms our advice to 
our people to make no shipments with¬ 
out first having definite information as 
to the responsibility of the concern. 
Your letter received with niorfey order 
for $6.08 in payment for my claim against 
the United States Express Company for 
shortage on shipment of fowls, sent over 
their line on November 23, 1909. 1 tried 
to get pay through the agent here for over 
a year and failed. 1 thank you very much, 
as'i see you will not take pay. w. k. w. 
New York. 
There were nine fowls short on this 
shipment when delivered to the com¬ 
mission house, and the express company 
claimed the loss occurred because of 
shrinkage in weight of the fowls. They 
would not admit a shortage for a long 
time. The commission house helped us 
as much as they could. Our first letter 
was written January 25, 1911. Adjust¬ 
ment was made March 12, 1912. Two 
years and four months and we spent 
34 cents in postage. 
I want to tell you I appreciate the fact 
that there is such a good, clean, reliable 
farm paper as The R. N.-Y., and espe¬ 
cially do 1 appreciate the “Publisher’s 
Desk.” Keep on in the good work. 
New Hampshire. h. c. w. 
The Rural New-Yorker deserves no 
more credit for this work than the pens, 
and inks and presses that are instru¬ 
ments of it. It is the decent, honest 
sentiment of the people that does the 
work. The paper is simply the means 
of expressing their sentiments and their 
willingness to expose roguery and sup¬ 
port honesty and decency. If it had not 
been for this purpose on the part of the 
farmers of the country. The R. N.-Y. 
could, not have followed this work six 
months. The fact that we can keep it 
up is simply a demonstration that, in 
this country, honest people are more 
numerous than crooks. 
Will you lielp me out of my difficulties? 
On April 16 I shipped live veals to B. W. 
Otis & Co. through the American Express 
Company. One-was lost, which was valued 
at $8.50, and 1 cannot get adjustment. 
Way 6 I sent two veals to E. S. Alpaugh 
& Co. by the American Express Company 
and one of those was lost. It was vrortli 
$8.76, according to what they paid for 
the other. May 15. I shipped five veals to 
Alpaugh & Co. and one was lost out of 
that shipment. It weighed 82 pounds and 
they paid 11 cents per pound for the 
others, so I am out $9.02. w. e. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
We followed these up . with the 
American Express Company and settle¬ 
ment for the last one has just been re¬ 
ported. This was a clear case of loss 
in transit, and as the records were 
straight we secured the adjustment 
promptly, although four months . seems 
too long to establish a clear case of 
responsibility of this kind. 
About two months ago I answered an 
advertisement in a St. I-ouis paper which 
said . parties wanted some one who was 
reliable and could buy $500 worth of 
goods to take an agency which would 
prove to be very profitable. I answered 
it. ' The party was C. A. Notman. who 
claimed that he owned $10,000 stock in the 
Alliance Stove & Mfg. Co. of Alliance, 
Ohio;-that the-company was making gas 
stoves and gas fuel savers, of the latter 
6,000 a day, on which he got five cents 
royalty on each, but which having been 
in his wife’s name was willed to the 
children when she died, and which would 
not be accessible for 15 years, as the 
children are all small. He also claimed 
that he got a salary of $5,000 a year. He 
said their agents in New York and Phila¬ 
delphia were selling 75 fuel savers a day. 
They had been introduced in all Eastern 
and Southern towns, but not in the West. 
He said the company was incorporated for 
$50,000, but with surplus had a capital 
of 90-odd thousand now, and that their 
president is also president of the First Na¬ 
tional Bank of Alliance. I wrote to their 
- president and addressed it to the president 
of the First National Bank and asked them 
to telegraph me at my expense if quanti¬ 
ties manufactured and sold by agents was 
all right. After several days I got an 
answer-from him personally, not as presi¬ 
dent of the bank, nor on the bank’s letter 
head, saying ■ Notman was agent of the 
distribution of—territory for fuel savers 
manufactured. by the, Alliance Stove Mfg. 
Co., wishing me success if I took hold of 
it. .etc.* Believing it to be a country town 
and that the lack of “form” meant nothing, 
1 listened to his promise, agreeing to stay 
six weeks, give demonstrations in depart¬ 
ment stores, instruct agents, pay all ad¬ 
vertising, send me 10,000 * circulars, come 
back any time business lagged and help 
push it along, because the company wanted 
to sell the goods. I was to pay $1.75 each 
for the heaters and sell them at $3.50, of 
which the agent got $1. me 75 cents and 
the company $1.75, and he was to work 
the sales up to 150 or more per week be¬ 
fore leaving. They also had another man 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
going around helping agents out where 
necessary. 
Well, after I paid the money into bank 
and got the goods Notman said he had a 
bad toothache and wanted to go to a 
dentist, and I haven't seen him since. I 
have shown it to many agents, and on ac¬ 
count of the price find it impossible to 
get them to take hold of it, besides I doubt 
if it is a gas saver. I have sold four out 
of 300 I bought. I have written them a 
number of times for circulars or cuts, 
asked them to take back the heaters. They 
say I bought of .Notman and not of the 
company, that they had nothing to do 
with me and recently won't answer my 
letters. They tell me to go to Notman, 
as though a confidence man would let his 
victim find out where he was hiding. Not¬ 
man tells me A. S. Armstrong, besides 
being president of the Alliance Stove & 
Mfg. Co. is president of the First National 
Bank and is in the real estate business. 
Can you do. anything toward getting me 
my money back? subscriber. 
St. Louis, Mb. 
The promise as usual vanished after 
the smooth-tongued agent got the sub¬ 
scriber’s money in his possession—just 
as the agent himself disappeared on the 
pretext of a toothache. This sort of 
a rascal ought to have a heartache after 
taking advantage of the credulity of an 
old man past 60 years of age in this 
sort of a scheme. Mr. A. S. Armstrong, 
the president of the Alliance Stove & 
Mfg. Co., who is also represented as 
president of the First National Bank 
of Alliance, O., denies any connection 
with the deal, alleging the transaction 
was entirely between Mr. Notman and 
the subscriber. Even being president of 
a bank doesn’t relieve Mr. Armstrong 
from his moral responsibility for what 
amounts to the robbery of this old man 
so long as he permits the agent, Mr. 
Notman to continue his nefarious work. 
We hope the next subscriber ap¬ 
proached by the said Notman will give 
him a better reason for a hurried de¬ 
parture than a fake “toothache.” 
I am enclosing express receipt for one 
pig shipped some time ago to West Pea¬ 
body, Mass., from Cincinnatus, N. Y. The 
pig was dead when delivered, and I think 
it must have been exposed to the cold too 
much during a shift somewhere en route. 
The United States Express Company deny 
responsibility. I hope you may be able to 
collect same for me. f. c. w. 
New York. 
The pig was carefully packed in a 
suitable box with plenty of food and 
instructions as to watering. The evi¬ 
dence shows it was in good physical con¬ 
dition when received, and even when 
transferred to the American Express 
Company. From the fact that the pig 
was dead when it arrived at its destina¬ 
tion there is no other reasonable con¬ 
clusion than that the cause of death was 
due to some carelessness or inattention 
on the part of the American Express 
Company. The claim has been posi¬ 
tively declined. The shipper would un¬ 
questionably get redress in any court of 
equity, but evidently the United States 
Express Company and the American 
Express Company are willing to take 
this small advantage of an isolated 
shipper simply because they know the 
farmer cannot afford to go to the an¬ 
noyance and expense of a lawsuit on 
account of a $10 pig. 
Permit me to express appreciation of 
your “Publisher’s Desk,” a department 
which, no doubt, does not receive the recog¬ 
nition that its value merits. My recent 
experience with J. A. Bennett & Sons of 
Gouverneur. N. Y., convinces me that your 
good work is of great benefit. Not until I 
had threatened to inform the postal au¬ 
thorities did I get an acknowledgment that 
my order and money had been received. 
The brooder 1 received was not as repre¬ 
sented in the concern’s advertisement, and 
I should have returned it. as it was 
practically a wreck—due to being shipped 
without any. protection to prevent dam¬ 
age—and it arrived days after my chickens 
had passed the stage where heat was a 
necessity. I fear your readers do not 
realize that you are making a sacrifice 
in order to save them from loss, and that 
you are shutting yourself off from sources 
of profit that would add greatly to your 
material welfare and that make up the 
bulk of the gains of publications that do 
not discriminate between the honest and 
the crooked. w. r. m. 
Massachusetts. -" - 
In .some respects we regard the above 
as one of the strongest letters-that we 
have received on the work of this de¬ 
partment. It shows an appreciation of 
the difficulty of this kind of work. It 
is not so much the loss of revenue from 
questionable concerns. If we cannot 
run a paper .without that, it will not 
matter much to anyone else if the paper 
is not run. Papers that conspire with 
fake advertisers to rob the public would 
better not be published. If such papers 
were cut off, however, the list would be 
materially reduced. Even the better 
papers that grant them the favor of 
silence help the plunder indirectly; but 
they save themselves trouble and ex¬ 
pense. We have one convincing argu¬ 
ment that the work is appreciated by 
farmers generally. They not only send 
in their own renewals, but they send in 
the subscriptions of their neighbors. 
This is the sort of recognition that has 
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