1910. 
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the face of the note with interest. It is fused with one excuse or another, but 
seen that the bank reported no dispute 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
More About That Lewis Note. 
The Free Press-Record of Waverly, 
N. Y., recently reprinted an article from 
The R. N.-Y. showing that E. G- Lewis 
of St. Louis, Mo., defaulted on two notes, 
held by parties at North Tarry town, N.Y. 
In reply to this, Mr. Lewis sends the 
Free Press-Record a long letter, the only 
pertinent part of which is the following: 
The facts in the case are that full pay¬ 
ment of the note to both these parties 
in North Tarrytown was offered more than 
a year ago, together with interest. I 
found that their trustee notes were no 
longer in their hands, but were in the 
hands of a notary or lawyer in that town 
who demanded in addition to the amount 
of the notes, a considerable “rake-off." This 
I refused to pay, but tendered the full 
payment of the notes and interest, and it is 
due solely to this party (hat these women 
never received their money. 
Mr. Lewis must be hard pressed for 
an apology and defense when he resorts 
to such a plain and deliberate falsehood. 
He evidently hopes by an apparently 
frank and definite falsification to turn 
away the wrath of honest people who 
have resented his treatment of poor 
women. The notary to whom he refers 
is Postmaster Johnston, of North Tarry- 
town, N. Y., and no man in the town 
stands higher in the community. He took 
this matter up solely in the interest of 
these poor women. He never asked any 
“rake-off” or fee of any kind from Mr. 
Lewis, or from anyone else for his 
services. On the contrary, he has spent 
his own time and funds in an effort to 
get the money for these women without 
any thought of ever getting back ex¬ 
pense he has incurred. His word is suf¬ 
ficient, but in this case we have before 
us the written documents to show that 
Mr. Lewis deliberately lied in the above 
statement, which he has repeated to 
others in private letters. The papers be¬ 
fore us show that Mrs. Dinsdale’s note 
for $100 was deposited in the Tarrytown 
National Bank. The note was forwarded 
to the St. Louis County Bank, and it was 
presented at the office of the Lewis Pub¬ 
lishing Company, January 11 , 1909, and 
payment demanded for its face value 
and interest to date. Payment was re¬ 
fused, and the note was duly protested 
on that date by William H. Roth, notary 
public. The protest fee was $4 in this 
case alone. 
As to the Orton note for $508, Mrs. 
Orton wrote Lewis on February 2 , 1910, 
as follows: 
Dear Mr. Lewis: I am a widow with 
two sons and am keeping a few boarders 
and doing other small things in an en¬ 
deavor to get along. During the past year 
on account of sickness I have been com¬ 
pelled to borrow money which must now 
be paid. I am. therefore, in great need 
of the money due me on your five per cent 
note for .$508 with interest from July 1, 
1907. 
During 1904 and 1905, when I had a 
small restaurant, I put into your business 
every dollar that I could raise, sending 
you'$25 at a time and including $100 of 
insurance money which I received upon the 
death of my dear mother. The return 
of the money at this time when I so much 
need it would be a godsend to me. I am, 
therefore, sending the note to the Boat¬ 
men’s Bank of Saint Louis to be cashed for 
me. Please be so kind as to tell Mr. Put¬ 
man. your Treasurer, to pay the note when 
it is brought to your bank and help me out 
of my present great trouble. 
Very respectfully yours, 
(Signed) Mrs. Anna Orton. 
The note was forwarded through the 
bank on February 4th. Following is the 
reply of the Boatmen’s Bank of St. 
Louis:: 
BOATMEN’S BANK. 
St. Louis, February 8, 1910 
Tarrytown National Bank, 
Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Mr. W. D. Humphreys, Cashier. 
Dear Sir:—Yours 4th instant at hand, 
with the E. G. Lewis note mentioned, mem¬ 
oranda attached, which we herewith return 
to you. 
Referring to same, beg to advise (hat we 
communicated with Mr. F. V. Putman 
concerning said note, who stated to us that 
if the owner of said note would send same 
to him direct, he would remit in part (as 
they can’t pay all at present) ; balance in 
a short time. Under the circumstances, all 
we can do is to return, which we now do. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) E. M. Hubbard, 
Asst. Cashier. 
Accompanying this note is memoran¬ 
dum for interest. No demand or re¬ 
quest was made for anything more than 
or offset of any kind. And all this only 
last month. The note was forwarded 
through the bank in February at our 
suggestion in order to give Mr. Lewis 
one more chance to pay before we re¬ 
ferred to it in The R. N.-Y. It had pre¬ 
viously been presented in the same way 
January 6 , 1909, by same bank, which 
wrote the Tarrytown bank as follows: 
BOATMEN'S BANK. 
St. Louis, January 0, 1909 
Tarrytown National Bank, 
Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Gentlemen :—Your letter 4th instant at 
hand, with E. G. Lewis five per cent 
Trustee Note, $508, which we herewith 
return to you. 
’Phoned maker, who is located in St. 
Louis county, some distance from the city, 
who informed us that he is not prepared to 
pay. but that he has communicated with all 
holders of his notes direct. Regret our 
inability to make collection for you ; and I 
remain, 
Very truly yours, 
. (Signed) E. M. Hubbard, 
Asst. Cashier. 
Previous to that it had been presented 
on September 4th, 1908, and the Boat¬ 
men’s Bank reported as follows: 
BOATMEN’S BANK. 
St. Louis, Sept. 4, 1908. 
Tarrytown National Bank, 
Tarrytown, New York. 
Mr. Robert A. Patteson, President: 
Dear Sirs :—Yours of the 31st ult. duly 
at hand, with the note mentioned, which I 
herewith return to you, unable to collect. 
The Peoples’ Savings & Trust Co. is a 
long ways out—beyond the city’s limits, 
which accounts for our not making earlier 
reply. Sent a special messenger out this 
morning, with the following result: made 
personal demand on Mr. F. V. Putman. 
Treasurer of the Company, who instructed 
us to return, giving following reasons, 
namely , that the trust notes are payable 
subject to a bond issue which Mr. Lewis is 
now negotiating, and which will be com¬ 
pleted in 00 or 90 days. Mr. Putman also 
said that all holders of these trust notes 
have been notified to that effect within 
the last two or three weeks. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) \Y.\i. H. Thompson, 
Cashier. 
All of this shows that the notes were 
presented several times through regular 
banks, and payment demanded, and re- 
that no demand was made for collection 
fees. 
We know no high-class successful 
paper now that is in Mr. Lewis’s League 
scheme, and some of those who allow 
him to send in their subscriptions at the 
same rates as other subscription agencies 
apologize for his financial schemes and 
admit that they could not and would not 
encourage them. For ourselves, we can¬ 
not see how any self-respecting paper 
could permit him even indirectly to use 
its name by way of association in efforts 
to collect money from poor people. 
The R. N.-Y. has only the object to 
protect the earnings and small savings of 
poor people. If we have said more about 
Mr. Lewis than about other fakers, it is 
only because he has been more persistent 
in his schemes to get money out of these 
poor people. In all we have several 
thousand dollars of this money to collect 
for other people, all of which will be 
mentioned later. We had a letter from 
Mr. Lewis trying to discredit Mr. John¬ 
ston last week. We offered to send the 
notes through our bank for collection 
without expense to him, but he refused 
to say that he would pay them when pre¬ 
sented. We have no doubt, however, that 
the notes will now be paid. No man can 
continue to neglect obligations of this 
kind after becoming public and continue 
to work new schemes to collect money 
from the people. The notes will now be 
paid to pave the way for the promotion 
of the League scheme. But we doubt if 
the women of this country will continue 
to contribute to it in the light of such 
exposures. 
Cost of Building Material, 
Can any of your readers give compara¬ 
tive rate of cost of material and construc¬ 
tion between concrete, brick and wood? A 
good many farm buildings are now built of 
concrete where formerly wood was used, 
and I would like to hear fi - om some one 
who has had experience in using the dif¬ 
ferent materials mentioned. Would the dif¬ 
ference in cost—assuming that a difference 
exists—be proportionately greater between 
large structures than between smaller ones? 
Connecticut. c. r. a. 
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