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April 19, 
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We wish to remind subscribers again 
to give full post office address and sign 
full name when writing to this or other 
departments of the paper. We cannot 
give attention to anonymous communi¬ 
cations. Subscribers’ names will not be 
published without their consent, but to 
insure attention we must have the name 
and address of every correspondent on 
file. 
Still another of the publishing com¬ 
panies that sell stocks and notes to 
subscribers is in financial difficulties. 
This time it is the Every Where Pub¬ 
lishing Company. In a printed circular 
to stockholders it is said that the only 
way to keep the business going is for 
stockholders to put up more money. 
We have more sympathy than criticism 
for this publication; but candor com¬ 
pels us to say that he who takes his 
present loss philosophically and re¬ 
frains from further investment, will 
be wiser than he who risks new money 
in a vain effort to regain what is al¬ 
ready lost. 
The District Attorney of Staten 
Island, Richmond Borough, New York 
City, is trying to find out what there 
is to the Manhattan Mutual Realty 
Company, promoted by one John Lin¬ 
ton. All we know yet is that Linton 
has outstripped all his promotion com¬ 
petitors in the art of making promises. 
The original Miller promised 520 per 
cent. Later he spent some time in the 
State Penitentiary at Sing Sing. Then 
came E. G. Lewis with a promise of 
3,000 per cent, which some of his Con¬ 
gressional friends think was not dis¬ 
honest but visionary. It was all the 
same to the investigators; but Lewis 
has not served any time—yet, though he 
is still under indictment. Linton went 
these promoters better by promising 
42,200 per cent. Did he get any money 
on such a promise? Bless your inno¬ 
cence, yes, lots of it. He had a sort 
of endless chain scheme of home build¬ 
ing. It was designed for poor people 
who wanted to save to own a home, 
and the savings were to go to Linton. 
They did, and stayed there. The Dis¬ 
trict Attorney has not yet found any 
assets, and protested checks remained 
unpaid. The company was supposed to 
have land holdings on Staten Island, 
where homes were to be built, but no 
traces of the land has been found. Lin¬ 
ton was indicted and placed under bond 
for trial. 
In August and September, 1011, I sent 
J. B. Murdoch & Co. a shipment of Asters 
valued at $20.83. They sent me a check 
in November but it went to protest and 
I have been unable to get settlement. 
Ohio. E. s. 
Murdoch & Company wrote they were 
unable to settle, as collections were 
simply rotten, but that they would mqke 
adjustment on November 1, 1912. They 
failed to do so, but later sent a $5 
remittance, and as we could get nothing 
more from them, we turned it over to 
our attorney, who finally made the col¬ 
lection. Other shippers of flowers re¬ 
port they were unable to get adjust¬ 
ment without legal action and the infer¬ 
ence is that it will be wise to get certi¬ 
fied check in advance for shipments to 
Murdoch & Company. 
A strong young man of 16, city bred, 
but with an ambition to learn the practi¬ 
cal side of farming, asks us to help 
locate him on a good practical dairy 
farm after June first for the Summer. 
He wants to engage with a good dairy¬ 
man but is not only willing but anxious 
to take his part and hold up his own 
end. He has already had some experi¬ 
ence. He is just the stamp of boy we 
like to help and will be glad to put him 
in touch with a dairyman who needs 
his services. 
We have a new and novel plan for ad¬ 
vertising the Highlands of Patchogue, Long 
Island, one of the best residential suburban 
properties in the vicinity of New York, and 
are presenting it to the prominent business 
men of the greater city for their approval. 
We have secured the cooperation of a num¬ 
ber of well known men on this plan and 
will extend the same offer to you. 
COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT COItPOHATION. 
New York. 
A young man called in response to 
the returned card after receipt of the 
above letter. His first remark was that 
I was satisfactory as a “well-known 
man” and had been awarded two lots. 
I told him all right, I accepted the lots 
and would accept the deeds. I thought 
it was real nice of him and said so. I 
was real glad that the use of my name 
was so valuable to him, and profitable to 
me. The young man seemed quite em¬ 
barrassed with so easy a subject, but 
finally stammered that of course I 
was to reimburse them for improve¬ 
ments. This would be $140. This was 
the trick I was looking for, and I 
gave him a mild lecture on fake 
schemes. He lamely admitted that the 
letter did not square with his proposi¬ 
tion. The lots are 50 miles out of 
New York and woyld be dear at half 
the price. 
After our reference to the E. A. 
Strout Larm Agency, 47 West 34th 
street, New York City, in the issue of. 
January 18, Mr. A. A. Matheson, man¬ 
ager of the agency, came to our office 
awd said that the attorney had acted 
without his knowledge or consent and 
without authority in refusing to further 
consider the complaint of Mr. James 
Ellison of Pennsburg, Pa., the com¬ 
plaint being that the Strout Agency 
sold him a $2,000 farm for $3,000 and 
put the $1,000 in their pockets as a 
commission. The Strout catalogue and 
the Strout agent represented that the 
seller paid the commission. Mr. Mathe¬ 
son placed the blame of the transaction 
on W. W. Leister, his agent at Quaker- 
town, while Leister placed all the blame 
on the agency. 
Mr. Matheson admitted to us that this 
and several other transactions com¬ 
plained of by farmers were not right, 
and he promised to adjust them all. In 
the meantime the agent, Leister, made a 
plea to be allowed an interview with 
us so that he could show that the blame 
was all chargeable to the agency. Mr. 
Matheson discouraged this interview 
and went on the same day to Penn¬ 
sylvania with the alleged purpose of ad¬ 
justing the several complaints of farm¬ 
ers in the neighborhood of Quakertown. 
It seems, however, that the fruits of 
his mission were an adjustment of his 
differences with agent Leister and not 
with the complaining farmers. The re¬ 
sult was that Leister, and his associ¬ 
ate Mollenhauer patched up their dif¬ 
ferences with Strout and were again 
taken into the employment of the 
Strout Agency. An adjustment with 
the farmers was still promised. The 
adjustments, however, seemed to be 
taking the form of new schemes, which 
were no better than the old transactions, 
and they were told very plainly that 
The R. N.-Y. would not stand for any 
dealings of the kind. After waiting two 
weeks for the adjustments that were 
promised in 10 days, we asked Mr. 
Matheson for a prompt adjustment of 
the complaints. He then repudiated his 
promises to return the overcharges. 
Mr. Matheson played for time. He evi¬ 
dently wanted to fix up with the agent 
Leister before Leister has a chance to 
explain the Strout Agency methods in a 
personal interview, but Leister had al¬ 
ready written us rather fully on the 
subject and we have his letters. 
In the meantime the Strout Agency 
did adjust the complaint of Mr. Ellison. 
They previously adjusted four similar 
complaints of our subscribers aggregat¬ 
ing $2,410. Mr. Ellison’s case made the 
fifth, and a total amount of $3,410. In 
adjusting these complaints they have 
given substantial proof of admission 
of guilt in these cases, hut now refuse 
any redress to several other similar 
complaints. Our attorneys will now 
look into the law with care and if 
there is a legal responsibility the cases 
will he pushed in court. In the mean¬ 
time we propose to tell the story of the 
different complaints in detail. In this 
recital we ask readers to keep in 
mind that newspapers and magazines 
and Government officials have been 
urging the back-to-the-land movement. 
Clerks and mechanics, past middle age, 
who have worked and saved all of their 
lives to lay up $3,000 or $4,000 for old 
age, are influenced to go to the country 
and invest in a farm. These people 
have no knowledge of farm values, and 
an agency is able to capitalize the back- 
to-the-farm movement and practically 
rob these people of a large percentage, 
and sometimes of the whole amount of 
their life savings. Whether the agency 
takes a thousand dollar commission for 
selling a two thousand dollar farm 
legally or illegally, every farmer knows 
that the agency in such cases gets some¬ 
thing that does not belong to it, and 
we mistake the temper of the American 
farmer if such a business can be con¬ 
tinued with his knowledge and consent. 
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