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THE RURAL NEW-70WKER 
November 16, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Subscribers report unadjusted claims 
against the following: Schofler & 
Bradsky, 337 East 108th street, N. Y.; 
M. Schechner, 240 East 102nd St., N. Y. 
We are unable to get any response 
to inquiries and letters are returned 
with the information that they have 
moved and left no address. Other ef¬ 
forts to locate them have been unsuc¬ 
cessful and their present whereabouts 
are unknown. They are likely to show 
up again at some other address. 
The Veterinary Science Association, Lon¬ 
don, Canada, offered me a very good 
(sounding) position. I will thank you very 
much if you can give me any particulars 
concerning the association, as to whether 
they are all right, or not very reliable. 
New York. g. a. 
The Veterinary Science proposition 
always sounds good and appears very 
liberal until the Association once gets 
possession of the prospective customer’s 
money, and then their liberality and 
position offers quickly vanish. You 
have left an opportunity to help them 
fake your neighbors. This concern has 
been referred to frequently in these 
columns, but from the number of in¬ 
quiries received of late, it would indi¬ 
cate that further warning is unnecessary. 
Will you give me some information as to 
the standing of the Consolidated Copper 
Creek Mining Co., Kansas City, Mo., and 
the American Gold Placer Mining Co., 
Cheyenne, Wyo. ? I have an old man 80 
years of age living with me who has stock 
in both of these concerns and he cannot 
hear anything from them regarding the 
shares he has. Please let me know through 
“Publisher's Desk” if these parties are 
any good. M. a. 
Florida. 
American Gold Placer Mining Co. is 
reported to be practically out of busi¬ 
ness. It has been looked upon as more 
of a stock-selling enterprise than other¬ 
wise. Consolidated Copper Creek Min¬ 
ing Co. are reported to have practically 
suspended operations, and it is said that 
it will require a great amount of money 
to make a successful undertaking of it. 
At any rate the prospect for this old 
man ever seeing a cent of the money 
he invested in the concerns is remote. 
Last week, William Huggins, of Ros- 
coe, Sullivan County, N. Y., was found 
guilty of using the mail to defraud, and 
was sentenced in the United States Cir¬ 
cuit Court in New York City, to 18 
months in the Federal prison at Atlanta, 
Ga. Sentence on his wife and son, who 
were included in the indictment was 
suspended. Huggins swindled farmers 
out of eggs and other produce. Several 
complaints came to The R. N.-Y. more 
than a year ago, and when it was found 
that creditors had no redress, the pub¬ 
lic was repeatedly warned through this 
department. Our records in the case 
we later turned over to the authorities, 
and no doubt helped make up the case 
against Huggins. Postoffice Inspector 
M. C. Duryea, who had the case in 
charge and caused the arrest, is a native 
of' Sullivan County, so that while one 
of its citizens scandalizes the com¬ 
munity another reflects credit on it 
through honest and efficient service. 
Will yon tell me if you know anything 
about the Herbert A. Weeks Co., of 24 East 
28th St., New Y'ork City? Some time ago 
they had an advertisement in the German 
Journal in the shape of a puzzle, to figure 
out how many feet there were in a large 
space of land. One of the hired men 
answered, and to-day received the enclosed 
papers, one of them a certificate of $200 as 
part payment on a piece of land contain¬ 
ing 10 plots of 20 by 100. lie is to send 
$6 now and pay $3 per month till the bal¬ 
ance of $90 is paid. Now this person is 
not a rich man, getting $45 per month, but 
he is inclined to think he ought to take this 
up, so he can some day secure this plot of 
land. I would not like to see this man 
lose any money, so I would very much like 
to have you advise me in this matter. This 
man cannot read English. j. a. 
The above scheme is a slight varia¬ 
tion from the ones usually employed 
by this sort of land promoters. The 
fake puzzle scheme has, of course, been 
used by schemers of one sort or another 
for 20 years back. The publisher of 
a mail order sheet was the first to make 
use of this scheme, and latterly adver¬ 
tisers of cheap pianos made the scheme 
even more notorious. But no matter by 
whom this scheme is employed, it is 
always for the purpose of deception, to 
make the prospective customer believe 
that he is going to get something for 
nothing. Stripped of all puzzle mystery, 
this Herbert A. Weeks Company is try¬ 
ing to sell this farm hand a plot of 
ground for $90, which probably is not 
worth one-half this amount, and are 
taking this puzzle scheme route to try 
to make this foreigner, who is not even 
able to read the English language, be¬ 
lieve that the property is worth $300. 
Whenever something for nothing is of¬ 
fered, it is a pretty safe plan to look 
for the African in the woodpile. 
I have your letter with check for the 
two crates, which I borrowed from my 
neighbor, and which were lost by the 
American Express Company. I am well 
pleased; you did splendidly. My father 
said I would get tired out and I surely 
would. It is more than a year now and 
they would not answer my letters, so I am 
doubly thankful to you. I ship quite a 
lot of eggs, etc., and find your paper very 
useful. If I can’t do anything for you, 
maybe I can pass it along and help some 
one. c. e. d. 
New York. 
Here is a case where a shipper for¬ 
warded goods and prepaid charges for 
the crates to be returned. They were 
lost en route, and although he entered 
claim promptly, a year passed and no 
attention was given his letters. He 
sent the claim to us and we took it up 
at once, with the result that in two 
months (14 months after the shipment 
was made) check was sent for the value 
of the crates and the express charges. 
In the meantime the subscriber had re¬ 
imbursed his neighbor from whom he 
borrowed the crates. It should be just 
as easy for the express companies to 
make adjustment in two months for the 
shipper as it is for them to do so when 
we take up the claim. 
Some time ago, about September 1. I vis¬ 
ited relatives in Ontario, Canada, and while 
there learned that an agent of the Whiting 
Nursery Co. was at that time operat¬ 
ing in the vicinity of Grimsby, which is the 
best fruit growing section in Ontario. This 
agent was selling plum trees at 83 cents 
each, some of the varieties being inferior 
to those offered by local nurserymen at 
35 cents each. A cousin of mine "bit” on 
the glowing accounts of this smooth¬ 
tongued rascal, who, by the way, was trav¬ 
eling in a motor car. Isn't this a repre¬ 
sentative of the Whiting Nursery Co., of 
New York fame, exposed in The Rural 
New-Yokker some time ago? f. h. 
New York. 
Undoubtedly this is the same Whiting 
who has gained an unsavory reputation 
throughout New York State. He prob¬ 
ably finds Canadian territory more com¬ 
fortable, as well as profitable, in which 
to tell big stories of his “wonderful new 
varieties.” He escapes the embarrass¬ 
ment of having to face the record of 
his past transactions so frequently, as 
The R. N.-Y. naturally has fewer 
readers across the Canadian border than 
on this side. It is said “If you give 
a dog rope enough, he will hang him¬ 
self,” and we predict if Mr. Whiting 
repeats his Western New York per¬ 
formances in Canada, that the Canadian 
laws will not be so lenient with him as 
he found those of New York State. 
The newspapers of the smaller towns 
throughout the country are frequently so¬ 
licited to insert reading advertisements for 
the Philadelphia School for Nurses, located 
at 2219 Chestnut street Philadelphia, and 
as it poses as a beneficent and charitable 
institution these advertisements are in¬ 
serted free of charge. It is advisable that 
the public should know that the young 
women who enter this school as pupils 
are sent out after having had the most 
meagre instruction from incompetent in¬ 
structors, to nurse in private families for 
money, 80 per cent of which is returned 
to the school treasury. They receive no 
bedside instruction nor are they under the 
direction of skilled, competent teachers. 
The graduates of this school are not 
accepted by the American National Red 
Cross Society, nor the Nursing Corps of 
the Army and Navy ; they are not admitted 
to the Directory for Nurses connected with 
the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, nor 
are they recognized by the Pennsylvania 
State Board of Examiners for Registration 
of Nurses. I have given you this informa¬ 
tion for the reason that poor and ambitious 
young women, attracted by the advantages 
set forth in the free advertisements in¬ 
serted in the newspapers all over the coun¬ 
try, with great effort travel long distances 
to attend this school, in the hope of be¬ 
coming trained nurses, only to find after 
entering that they are giving their time 
and work to an institution which does not 
educate and equip them for the profession 
of nursing. william s. higbee, m. d. 
President of the Pennsylvania State 
Board of Examiners for Registration 
of Nurses. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
We have had previous complaint and 
criticism of this school, but good friends 
in whom we had the utmost confidence 
had been induced to contribute to its 
support, as it appealed to charitable in¬ 
stincts, and while the complaints were 
sincere, and apparently merited, we 
hesitated to condemn hastily a fault 
where the purpose seemed good. We 
know, however, that men often use 
good means for their own purposes to 
a bad end. The above caution comes 
from one in authority and it comes 
after examination and reports of health 
and charities authorities of the city of 
Philadelphia and the State of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. It is a healthy sign when men 
in places of authority expose imposi¬ 
tions on the public through the public 
press. Whether from a material, ethical 
or moral standpoint, no greater service 
can be rendered the people. 
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