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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
March 25, 1912, I shipped W. F. 
James & Co., New York, six crates of 
beaus and only received returns for five. 
I paid expressage on six. Will you take 
up the matter with the Southern Express 
Company and see what you can do for 
me? w. M. M. 
Florida. 
Payment for this lost crate was made 
on April 29, 1913. 
I am a subscriber to your paper. I 
like the way you get after the frauds. I 
have a little matter with the Wells-Fargo 
Express for two coops of poultry shipped 
October, 1912. Return expressage was 
paid on the coops, but they never reached 
my station. They are worth $1.75. Can 
you help me? E. C. H. 
New York. 
The check for the coops came August 
22, 1913, but it took considerable corre¬ 
spondence to get it. 
I shipped six barrels of apples to New 
Y T ork last September, but only five wei’e 
delivered. The Catskill Steamboat Com¬ 
pany said they would take it up, but they 
have not done a thing. Iv ill you try to 
collect it? The apples were worth $2 a 
barrel. w. H. a. 
New York. 
Settlement w ? as made in July of this 
year. We were somewhat handicapped 
in our investigation by the failure to 
produce the receipt. It is timely to cau¬ 
tion shippers to be sure to procure a re¬ 
ceipt for each and every shipment made. 
In case of loss or damage the receipt is 
your best evidence. 
I am enclosing correspondence with 
Mr. F. Shannon, manager for B. Kusch, 
1073 Park Avenue, care King’s Court 
Market, New York. We have shipped 
them eggs to the amount of $39.27 and 
cannot collect for same. c. p. F. 
New York. 
We are advised that F. Shannon 
merely rented store space in Mr. Kusch’s 
building and Mr. Kusch made out checks 
for Mr. Shannon as a matter of accom¬ 
modation. He further states that Mr. 
Shannon had no responsibility and in 
fact was “broke.” This leaves the in¬ 
quirer without any redress. Mr. Shan¬ 
non is out of business and working for 
some one else, and barely makes a living. 
This only emphasizes our continual ad¬ 
vice to look carefully into the standing 
of firms to whom you intend making ship¬ 
ments. 
I am not well posted in stock manipu¬ 
lations. but some few days ago a sales¬ 
man called and left a prospectus of a cat 
farm company, with instructions to keep 
it quiet. This aroused my curiosity. 
This proposition looked so good to rue 
that I am about to invest, as a number 
of others are doing. Some one tells me 
of such a farm in Vermont and that stock 
is very valuable. Another tells of a 
skunk farm that has paid great dividends. 
I would like your opinion. j. q. s. 
California. 
This company is called the Southern 
California Cat Farm, Ltd. The proposi¬ 
tion is to breed cats for their fur. The 
cats will be fed on rats, which will be 
fed on the carcasses of the skinned cats. 
A company is to be formed and stock sold 
to the credulous. It seems hardly possible 
that such stock could find any buyers out¬ 
side of an insane asylum. 
Do you know anything as to the re¬ 
liability of II. G. King, automobile 
broker, 213-217 West 125th Street, New 
York City? He agreed to lay down a 
Ford runabout in Fort Myers for $279 
with full description. It was to be thor¬ 
oughly tested and in good running order. 
It has cost me $58 already having it 
overhauled, and he shipped it without 
paying the freight, which cost me $79.50. 
He now says he did not want to hold my 
order up and sent a better car, and this 
is his excuse for not sending back the 
$79.50. I am a poor man and it took about 
all the surplus money I had. I am an 
old man, and my wife and I are living 
eight miles in the country. We thought 
we could use the machine to haul our 
truck to market. Can you help me any? 
Florida. j. t. b. 
Mr. King makes rather a lame excuse 
for his failure to prepay the freight on 
the shipment as agreed. In the mean¬ 
time, however, we have induced him to 
refund the freight charges of $79.50, but 
the subscriber reports that the car is not 
in running condition as represented, and 
that the local machinist estimates that it 
will require an expenditure of at least 
$100 to put the automobile in running 
shape. This is not the first complaint 
we have received from our subscribers 
regarding Mr. King, but on previous com¬ 
plaints, after considerable persuasion, he 
has made satisfactory adjustments. The 
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experience of this Florida subscriber only 
confirms the experience of others which 
we have on file regarding second-hand 
automobile dealers in this city. The loss 
on the transaction no doubt means a 
great deal to a man advanced in years as 
this subscriber seems to be. 
I had a funny experience some weeks 
ago. Two men drove up with a nice 
team and insisted on giving me a foun¬ 
tain pen and three years’ subscription to 
three farm papers, all for love. I would 
have to pay postage and that was all. 
I began to ask questions, and their state¬ 
ments were that they agreed with their 
advertisers to have a certain number of 
subscriptions and they took this method 
of getting them. They depended entirely 
on their advertising for their money. I 
told them I was not looking for some¬ 
thing for nothing, and that I considered 
farm papers that had to resort to such 
methods and that carried the class of ad¬ 
vertising they did, were not worthy to 
use to -kindle fires. I told them I took 
The R. N.-Y., and while they were wise 
enough not to knock you, they did not 
wait any longer. It was a new one on 
me. c. J. B. 
Maine. 
This is not by any means a new trick. 
Two years ago the agents of a boastful 
chain of papers were put off the grounds 
of State fairs in Ohio and Michigan for 
working this game. The scheme is a 
cheat on the subscriber, a cheat on the 
advertiser and a cheat on the government. 
Under the law such papers are not en¬ 
titled to mailage at the pound rate. One_ 
publisher has recently been convicted and 
fined for attempting to secure second- 
class postage rates for such subscriptions. 
It is a. cheat on the advertiser because 
the legitimate advertiser is assured that 
the subscriptions are genuine before he 
pays his money for the space. Of course 
the fake and fraudulent advertisers are 
satisfied ‘with this kind of circulation. 
The greatest cheat is on the reader. In 
the first place the payment required is 
usually much more than the cost of post¬ 
age. Again, when the publisher gets all 
his revenue from the advertiser, the ad¬ 
vertiser naturally gets all the considera¬ 
tion. Such papers get some legitimate 
advertising, but not enough to pay all 
the expense of publication. To make up 
the difference and a profit, deceptive and 
fraudulent advertising is received, and 
the subscriber is in danger of paying 
rather dearly for his free paper. One 
such reader ’may escape, but taking the 
readers as a whole they must make up 
the cost of publication to these fake ad¬ 
vertisers. Otherwise they would stop us¬ 
ing this particular paper, and it would 
go out of existence. A paper for nothing 
is under such circumstances about the 
most expensive luxury you can have 
around the house. 
Judge Sulzberger yesterday sharply 
scored Alexander M. Bonislawski, also 
known as A. M. Bonis, a real estate 
agent on Arch Street, near Thirteenth. 
Bonislawski sold a farm property for 
Richard Rhoda for $2,600, or $200 more 
than the price fixed upon by the owner. 
The defendant claimed that he detained 
the $200 and his commission as per 
agreement. 
Rhoda brought civjl and criminal ac¬ 
tions against the real estate man, and 
the latter has made restitution in the 
sum of $190 and costs, and Rhoda asked 
the court to permit the dropping of the 
bill of indictment, in which the defendant 
is charged with embezzlement by agent. 
But Judge Sulzberger wanted to know 
the details of the transaction. Bonislaw¬ 
ski claimed the trouble was entirely a 
“dispute over commissions.” 
The court, however, took the view that 
the defendant, instead of acting for his 
client in the transaction, acted against 
him, and said that if the matter had come 
before the court on a petition to revoke 
Bonislawski’s license as a real estate 
agent, such a petition would have been 
granted. Judge Sulzberger finally per¬ 
mitted the submission of the bill of in¬ 
dictment for a verdict of not guilty, but 
warned Bonislawski that should he be 
brought into court again on a similar 
charge he might not get off so easy.— 
Philadelphia Record. 
One of the subscribers who send us the 
above clipping suggests that the hint of 
the court in this case may apply to some 
other agents who make a practice of sell¬ 
ing farms for all they can get above the 
owner’s price. Some agents are very 
skillful in arranging objectionable 
schemes, so that what they do comes 
technically within the law. They are 
well advised legally, and while they get 
the money it is done in such a way that 
they escape the consequences. Unfortu¬ 
nately the owner knowingly or unknow¬ 
ingly often plays into his hands in mak¬ 
ing agreements with him that enable him 
to cheat the buyer. j. j. n. 
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