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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 4, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Herbert Myrick, of Springfield, pub¬ 
lisher of the Orange Judd Northwest 
Farmstead, and James M. Cunningham, 
circulation manager, were fined $1,000 
each by Judge Morton in the United 
States District Court for conspiracy to 
defraud the Government in an attempt 
to secure second-class mailing privileges 
for the publication. Both were convicted 
on two indictments, based on two at¬ 
tempts to secure second-class privileges. 
It was charged that false statements re¬ 
garding the circulation were made to the 
postal authorities.—Daily Paper. 
All students of papers agree that the 
character of them has improved greatly 
during the past 25 years. The Post 
Office Department under the Federal laws 
has done much to discourage fake publi¬ 
cations ; but this seems to be its first 
conviction of a publisher on a charge of 
false circulation statements verified to 
the Department. 
Miss Gertrude Barker, scarcely out of 
her teens, spent the greater part of yes¬ 
terday before Judge Ray in the United 
States Court telling how Harry W. Par¬ 
ker, now pronounced a fugitive from jus¬ 
tice in England, made $68,000 in one 
month selling stock in the American 
Tanning Company, which the Govern¬ 
ment authorities say was a swindle that 
cost investors $1,000,000. The young 
woman was testifying in the case of 
Adam Hock and Eugene Robinson, alias 
Henry R. Raymond, going into details 
as to the management of the stock selling 
end of the company, of which she was 
bookkeeper and cashier. 
“The stock was sold as fast as it could 
be printed,” she said. 
She was called upon to identify the 
stubs of numerous stock books to show 
how swiftly the money came into the 
office. She told the court where the 
money taken in by her and her assistants 
went. After the bubble burst Parker 
went to Liverpool. It is said he is there 
now engaged in business.—Daily Paper. 
When this stock was being sold, we 
did our best to keep our people out of 
it; but we had several readers who dis¬ 
puted our judgment at the time. Whether 
these prudently took our advice or not 
we have no way of knowing. It is safe 
to say, however, that few, if any, of our 
people lost their money in this get-rich- 
quick scheme. 
I bought a horse from ,T. Fred Fisher 
& Son, Quakertown, Pa., for $212.50. I 
noticed the horse puffed a little, but Mr. 
Fisher said it was a little cold, and that 
the horse had to be all right or I could 
bring him back and get my money. We 
took the horse home and the following 
morning he was taken sick. I got a vet¬ 
erinarian immediately who treated him, 
and we worked day and night, but in six 
days he died. Another valuable horse 
contracted the disease and died in two 
<lays. Another horse caught the conta¬ 
gion (veterinarian called it acute influ¬ 
enza) and is recovering slowly. When 
the second horse was sick the dealer came 
to my place and said it was his duty to 
do something, but when we approached 
him he would do nothing. I have been 
to great expense and damage and the 
State veterinarian ordered me to disin¬ 
fect my stables and not put horses in for 
some time. There ought to be some re¬ 
dress under what lie offered to do. Can 
you do anything for me? w. D. S. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have written this J. Fred Fisher 
& Son several letters but they reply to 
none of our letters. The only chance of 
redress in such a case is to bring suit. 
Fortified by the testimony of the veteri¬ 
nary a plaintiff ought to secure a sub¬ 
stantial judgment in such a case. Then 
if the horse dealer is responsible, you can 
collect on the judgment; but it is well 
to settle the question of his responsibility 
before going to the expense of a suit. 
On May 14 I sent to Mr. Thos. C. 
Gould, of Newburgh, $21 for a tire, as 
per enclosed advertisement, and on the 
13th of May Mr. W. G. McKelvie sent 
Mr. Gould $26.15 for a tire and tube, 
and we only have a lot of promises. I 
reported the matter to the Post Office De¬ 
partment at Washington on or about the 
10th of June and have sent all of Mr. 
Gould’s letters to them. As far as I 
know they have not done anything. They 
wrote me they had sent my letters to the 
inspector of that district. Now we have 
tried several times to find out if Mr. 
Gould has a stock of auto supplies at 249 
Broadway, Newburgh, but so far have 
not succeeded in finding out. Could you 
give us the address of someone at New¬ 
burgh that could tell us? We do not 
want to make the run to Newburgh if 
Mr. Gould has only a post office address 
there. If the post office inspectors have 
not done anything I believe Mr. Gould’s 
methods of business should be published 
so as to prevent his swindling others as 
he has us. Mr. Gould wrote us several 
times promising to send the tires on a 
certain date, but that is all it has 
amounted to. The reason that the en¬ 
closed advertisement is addressed to Mr. 
Reed is I got Mr. Reed to write Mr. 
Gould for tire prices because he would 
not answer me. W. J. W. 
New York. 
I have another matter I would like 
you to take up for me if you feel so dis¬ 
posed. It is this. Some time last Spring 
I received advertising matter through 
the mail from Thos C. Gould of New¬ 
burgh, N. Y., offering to sell automobile 
tires. On May 7 I sent him $47.50 (by 
check). On June 14 he wrote me that 
he would ship the tires by prepaid ex¬ 
press in about a week. I have not yet 
received the tires and can get no further 
reply from him. What can I do, or can 
you do anything for me? T. A. B. 
New Y’ork. 
We learn that Mr. Gould is- proprietor 
or manager of a garage at the address 
given in Newburgh, and from there sends 
out glaring circulars quoting prices far 
below those of dealers generally, and rep¬ 
resenting the tires as high class. Mr. 
Gould gives the Columbus Trust Com¬ 
pany and the “Daily News,” of New¬ 
burgh. as reference. If these houses per¬ 
mit the use of their names in the future 
farmers will be justified in concluding 
that they approve Mr. Gould’s action in 
holding the customer's money for sev¬ 
eral months and then after prodding by 
Tiie R. N.-Y., sending inferior tires. 
After receipt of the tires W .J. W. 
writes as follows: 
In regard to the Thos. C. Gould tire 
matter, something caused him to ship 
Mr. McKelvie and myself a tire on the 
14th. I think the tire is a fake and I 
have no use for it now, as I bought one 
in its place, but I believe it would be 
better to keep the tire than to send it 
back, as something is better than noth¬ 
ing. I have tried to get the money back 
since the first, and when I sent the order 
asked him not to accept it unless lie could 
ship by return express. When I re¬ 
ceived the tire I tried to exchange it for 
a 32x3%. It is a 32x4. Mr. Charles 
Dorsey, vulcanizer of Geneva, and W. 
W. MeCarroll, Franklin agent at Geneva, 
both said it was a wildcat tire and would 
not exchange it even if I paid a differ¬ 
ence. w. J. w. 
New York. 
Evidently the dealers in automobile ac¬ 
cessories with “horse-gyp” propensities 
are not confined to New York City. 
Thirteen letters are alleged to have 
been found hidden in the socks of Charles 
Moscovitz, a clerk in the third division 
of the main post office, following his ar¬ 
rest to-day by inspectors. He is charged 
with stealing from the mails. Moscovitz, 
who lives at No. 926 East 180th Street, 
was arraigned before United States Com¬ 
missioner Hitchcock and held in $1,500 
bail. The prisoner was arrested while 
at work by Inspectors Jacobs and James. 
The inspectors say they found letters 
addressed to Power and to the American 
Machinist in the prisoner’s socks. Mos¬ 
covitz receives $1,200 salary.—Evening 
Telegram. 
The Post Office Department employs a 
great army of clerks. Probably not to 
exceed one in a thousand is dishonest; 
but it would be too much to expect that 
the Department would escape dishonest 
men entirely. A force of skilled detec¬ 
tives are also employed to look up com¬ 
plaints and weed out the dishonest men 
in the mail service. When a thief does 
get into the service, he makes havoc with 
mail matter for a time. Sometimes they 
attack the mail of one house alone, but 
select one which receives money remit¬ 
tances. During the past year The R. 
N.-Y. mail was attacked for a time. It 
was evident that letters were grabbed 
hurriedly and indiscriminately, so that 
sometimes the mail thief got checks or 
money orders that he could not use. He 
sometimes took correspondence with no 
remittance of any kind, but in all he got 
considerable cash besides. We had a 
similar experience some 20 years ago, 
and none since, so that the abuse is not 
very prevalent. Newspaper mail is sub¬ 
ject to attack, as publishers are con¬ 
stantly receiving mail remittances. The 
cash loss is seldom serious; because the 
detective soon spots the offender and ar¬ 
rests follow. The most serious phase of 
the trouble is that the subscriber natural¬ 
ly holds the publisher to blame for care¬ 
lessness or neglect; and not understand¬ 
ing the cause of the trouble, is annoyed 
at the publisher for his failure to credit 
his remittance. In our own brief ex¬ 
perience, however, we found our peo¬ 
ple most considerate and painstaking in 
requests for information to help detect the 
offender. One detection and jail sentence 
for a thief has a wholesome effect on the 
force, and it is considerable time before 
there are complaints of other thefts. 
J. J. D. 
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O N the spreaderless farm the thought of the great 
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