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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 25. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Tour correspondent, J. Y. M., page 
1054, says he bought a farm for $1,450 
through the Strout Agency. He did. He 
bought it through me, after having seen 
it previously with the North Seituate 
agent of the company. He made an ini¬ 
tial payment to the owner of $100, not 
as a commission but to bind the bargain. 
He also received a copy of the signed 
contract and list of personal property to 
go with the farm. At the time of clos¬ 
ing title $100 commission was paid the 
agent, according to the contract with the 
owner. Considering the fact that he and 
his mother spent a week as guests of the 
North Seituate agent, the commission 
cannot be called excessive. Besides, on 
one occasion I lost a whole day five miles 
from home on an appointment which he 
failed to keep. After making the con¬ 
tract I took him over the farm and 
showed him the bounds, and pointed out 
the lane find told him the owner had a 
lease of it. He was shown the records 
of the lease before he completed the deal, 
and expressed himself as satisfied. He 
accepted the plan to guarantee the title 
and expressed himself as fully satisfied. 
The lien has since been satisfied. He 
did not wait to learn of this lien till 
passing deed as he claims, nor did he de¬ 
mand a search of title. The records were 
open to him. Never at any time was 
any suggestion made to J. Y. M. that 
he had thrown up the deal as he claims. 
As to the removal of personal property 
the old owner still has a mortgage on the 
place, and if he removed anything un¬ 
lawfully J. Y. M. has ample redress. He 
has lately listed his farm with this 
agency for $2,000, showing what he 
thinks he got for his money. Nor was 
he told fabulous tales of what the place 
was worth. He has never made any 
complaint to me or to my knowledge to 
the Strout Company. j. c. HOPKINS, 
Agent for E. A. Strout Farm Agency. 
The R. N.-Y. believes in giving every 
man a chance to be heard in his own de¬ 
fense. The above letter is a condensed 
expression of Mr. Hopkins’ letter to us, 
in which he goes into great detail in re¬ 
gard to the incidents of the deal, and the 
denial of statements by J. Y. M.; but as 
we yet understand it, there is no denial 
that the purchaser did not know of the 
defect of title at the time the purchase 
contract was signed. This alone would 
justify the buyer in refusing title, and 
he would be entitled to sue to recover any 
damage he sustained because of the fail¬ 
ure of the owner to give him a good title. 
There is however, one thing we wish 
to make clear. The Strout Company had 
many agents located all over the Eastern 
territory. Some of these were just as 
honorable and as conscientious men as 
can be found in any calling. Some of 
them apparently never understood the full 
nature of the Strout contract, and others 
got out of it as soon as they could after 
becoming familiar with the line of work 
they were expected to do. An agent’s 
argument is usually more or less colored 
by the enthusiasm to close a deal and to 
earn his commission; but this is true of 
other transactions as well as selling of 
real estate. The remedy must be for the 
buyer to inform himself before making 
the deal. Of course, this does not excuse 
an agent for misrepresentation and fraud. 
The verdict in our test case showed that 
the jury believed the farmer was over¬ 
reached in the signing of the contract, in 
that case. The Strout literature clearly 
indicates a willingness to deceive both 
seller and buyer, yet we know agents 
who had been in their system, and who 
would not knowingly take advantage of 
a customer. 
Inclosed find one dollar to renew my 
subscription to The It. N.-Y. Let me 
tell you why it pays to be a subscriber 
to this great farm paper. July 1, 1913, 
I shipped to New York 40 chickens. All 
were dead when they arrived there. I 
placed my claim for them with the local 
agent at once. I waited a reasonable 
length of time, but no reply from them. 
I then wrote the claim agent of the Ex¬ 
press Company at New York three let¬ 
ters—still no reply. September 22 I 
wrote him again, saying that if they did 
not settle the bill in full and at once, I 
should place the claim in the hands of 
The Rural New-Yorker for collection. 
In just four days (Sept. 26) I received 
check, payment in full for all I asked. 
This one item will pay my subscription 
for several years and still have some left. 
New York. E. A. s. 
We assume that our good friend E. A. 
S. offers his experience as a suggestion 
of the service The R. N.-Y. is able to 
render farmers generally, rather than the 
individual benefit to himself. Many farm¬ 
ers will never have an experience of this 
kind, and consequently will never bene¬ 
fit just this way, but every farmer, we 
think, shares in the effect of a service that 
compels recognition of the just rights of 
any one farmer, no matter how large 
or small that claim might be. It is the 
source of some satisfaction to secure jus¬ 
tice for an individual farmer, but this 
would be a helpless task if it were not 
• for the good effect of bringing large out¬ 
side concerns to realize that farmers have 
the means of demanding recognition of 
their rightful claims. 
Walter F. McEntire, one-time vice- 
E resident and manager of the Colorado 
^easing & Milling Company of Arizona, 
was arrested in a suit filed in the Su¬ 
preme Court by Jesse S. Young of Chi¬ 
cago, who charges fraud and deceit 
against McEntire, who has an office at 
40 Wall Street, New York. Young al¬ 
leged in his complaint that in 1904, Mc¬ 
Entire offered him 7,000 shares of stock 
in the Colorado company for $1,050. It 
is alleged the defendant represented the 
estate of the corporation to be $945,000 
and paying a dividend of 5 to 10 per cent 
monthly. Young said McEntire told him 
the company owned the Dexter Gold 
Mine in the Cripple Creek District. Re¬ 
lying on the statements of McEntire, the 
plaintiff bought the stock offered to him 
for $1,050. Subsequently, said Young, 
he learned that the representations made 
by the mining man were false. When 
accused of making fraudulent representa¬ 
tions McEntire admitted it, Young al¬ 
leged, and promised to return the money 
paid for the stock, which, however, he 
failed to do.—Daily News. 
If Mr. Y'oung’s story is true, and we 
do not doubt it, he must be gullible to 
the last degree. Think of buying stock 
for 15 cents a share, that paid 5 to 10 
per cent monthly. * As long as people 
believe such stories, they are sure to 
lose money. 
I sold eggs to Paul Beehtner, Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis., to the amount of $106, and 
have never been able to get anything but 
promises. He is alderman at large at a 
salary of $1,000 per annum. He runs 
this grocery store and has a 20-acre egg 
farm at Waukesha, Wis. Do you care to 
try this fellow? F. A. 
Wisconsin. 
This account was a year old when it 
came to us; and we were unable to get 
any response from Mr. Beehtner. Our 
attorney had no better success. Advice 
comes to us that there has been consid¬ 
erable complaint because of failure to 
pay bills for goods sent him, and the 
attorney reported that he was execution 
proof and makes no effort to meet his 
obligations. 
I shipped the United Food Stores, 
Troy, N. Y., two veals on January 22, 
weighing 113 and 95 pounds respectively, 
for which they had previously quoted 12 
to 14 cents a pound. I have received no 
acknowledgment of the receipt of the 
veals and they have failed to make any 
adjustment. Do you know' them? 
New York. e. h. r. 
We w'ere unable to get any response 
from the United Food Stores and turned 
the account over to our attorney, who 
finally received check in settlement after 
making allowance for freight. Suit wms 
recommended, but we closed the account 
on this basis for reasons of credit. 
• 
We had a letter from M. Blumstein, 25 
Rector Street, New’ York, in regard to 
eggs, so we sent him two crates—60 doz¬ 
en at 35 cents per dozen, making $21. 
We sent them July 20 and have not 
heard a w T ord since. G. P. G. 
New Y r ork. 
On July 24 I sent to M. Blumstein, 25 
Rector St., New York, a crate of fancy 
white eggs. This man w’rote for ship¬ 
ments saying he would pay 35 cents per 
dozen. I have received no reply of any 
kind. I did* not wish to make any trou¬ 
ble if this w T as an honest mistake, but as 
there has been ample time for some reply 
I judge this to be a swindle and merits 
exposure. m. e. d. 
New York. 
M. Blumstein, 25 Rector St., New 
York offered me 35 cents per dozen for 
eggs, and I skipped him 30 dozen and 
have not heard from him. I had the ex¬ 
press company trace it and he got it all 
right. Have written him tw'o letters but 
they come back unopened. Will you look 
him up? e. D. H. 
New York. 
Our representative called at the ad¬ 
dress and found that Mr. Blumstein had 
sold the business to an Italian. This 
party claimed Mr. Blumstein called there 
in the evening occasionally, but as the 
Italian could speak very little English 
we could not learn anything definite. Our 
attorney is trying to locate Mr. Blum¬ 
stein. Mr.- Blumstein does not seem to 
have a license to do a produce commis¬ 
sion business in the State of New York, 
and w r e W’ouhl like very much to have 
evidence of his attempt to solicit con¬ 
signments to be sold on commission. 
J. J. l). 
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