1910. 
THE K.UBLA.L NEW-YORKKE 
667 
“ OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.” 
Loose Methods of Lewis. 
We print herewith a photo-reproduc¬ 
tion of another of E. G. Lewis’s per¬ 
sonal notes. It reached us with the 
following letter: 
I enclose a trustee note against E. G. 
Lewis, of University City, St. Louis, Mo., 
together with a number of letters written 
in reply to my requests for payment. lie 
made payment of interest to the first of 
July, 1906; the balance is unpaid. Please 
collect it for me if you can. 
Stockport, O. THOS. R. WHITE. 
It will be seen that this note is long 
since past due, and interest on it has 
been in default since July, il)0G, now 
nearly four years. Interest and prin¬ 
cipal have been repeatedly demanded by 
year before, but that Mr. Johnson, the 
postmaster, demanded a fee for col¬ 
lecting them. This silly lie was re¬ 
futed when we showed the records of 
the banks which attempted to collect 
the notes after Lewis alleged that he 
wanted to pay diem. We would like to 
know what excuse he has now for not 
paying this note to Mr. White. 
At one time Lewis wa5 making much 
of the fact that the Chase National 
Bank of New York City was his corre¬ 
spondent for his trust company, but we 
• understand Lewis was requested to 
withdraw a small account he carried 
there, and we hear no more about this 
bank correspondent. 
In addition to ibis note for $500 and 
interest, we have other claims against 
Lime in the Manure. 
G. V. P., Union, A 7 . Y .—We all know 
that it is not a pleasant job to put on 
lime, and I am thinking of getting my 
lime and putting it in sacks and each day 
as I clean my cow stables run the manure 
on the spreader and when half of a load is 
on, level it off and put on a sack of lime, 
and then finish my loading of manure, thus 
making a sandwich with lime in the middle. 
Then when run out of spreader, say 10 
loads to the acre, I would get on about 
1,500 pounds to the acre, and thus get 
away from dust and lumps that will not 
go through a drill, and also got my lime 
on very nearly even. Should I lose some 
of the fertility of the manure or not? Will 
it injure its productive power? I spread 
my manure on sod and plow for corn. I 
don't believe in top-dressing for this reason. 
My father always did this way and I have 
for 20 years, and I can raise three times 
what my neighbor can who top-dresses. My 
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5% Trustee Note. 
OFFICE OF THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO., 
— Uni v e r s i t y iHcigfrrtySw Louisjqp., Mo., 
No. 
2798 
SEP 1 ,1905 lqw 
Dollars 
Mot ualur rrrnticii, 1 hereby p onus 
the sum of_ 
(In gold coin of the United States of present 
from this date at the rate of five per cent per an num 
1906, and semi-annually thereafter) at the<*fli!ia Lthe 
maturity hereof, unless this note be sooneMully patil 
This Note is transferable by endorsement hereon, 
return of same to me at the office aforesaid, w 
balance remaining due thereon. 
Witness my signature the date first aforesaid. 
The foregoing Note is one of a series of similar notes mentioned in a certain Trust Agreement dated September 1, 1905, between 
E. G. Lewis and H. L. Kramer (of Kramer, Indiana) as Trustee, whereby the income of E. G. Lewis is pledged to the full payment of 
^_the same (principal and interest) as defined in said Trust Deed, duly.recorded. 
gre three years/from tTi is daUtf'and interest thereon 
jrst interest to be paid beprfeen January 1 and 10, 
liversity Heights, St. Lduis Couuty, Missouri, until 
ipon other satisfactory evidence of said transfer) and 
the assigiyg; named in said endorsement, fot the 
letter. Abundance of excuses and eva¬ 
sive letters were written in reply, but 
no money. Here is one of the literary 
gems recently received from Mr. Lewis: 
Dear Friend—Please forward your five 
per cent trustee note In the enclosed en¬ 
velope to the People's Savings Trust Com¬ 
pany at once, stating whether you desire 
to have the note paid in full in cash, under 
the plan now being carried out, or whether 
you desire to transfer your*funds to the 
capital of the trust company itself. All 
those holding the five per cent trustee 
notes now have the option of either the 
payment of the note in cash or of trans¬ 
ferring their investment to the capital stock 
of the t rust company at $160 per share, 
without premium, although the stock is 
already .$200 per share. You also have 
the privilege of subscribing for as ninth 
more of the stock at $160 per share as 
you wish, up to 10 shares ($1,600). Your 
failure to promptly forward your note to 
the trust company has delayed the pay¬ 
ment and transfer of the notes under the 
plan that is being carried out. If the 
note has been lost or destroyed, state so 
and a new one will he issued in its place. 
Please state whether you wish the note 
paid or desire to transfer the amount to 
the capital of the trust company. 
Very truly, 
E. G. LEWIS. 
Mr. White refused to step into this 
trap, as many other victims did; but 
sent the note for collection through his 
bank. It was presented for payment by 
the Mechanics-American National Bank 
of St. Louis, and payment refused by 
Lewis. Of course, anyone can see that 
the offer to pay the note in cash was a 
safe bluff. The object was to in¬ 
duce the holder to change it for stock 
in the trust company, and then Lewis 
would not be under personal obligation 
to pay it in cash. The trust company 
stock might just as well be advanced 
to $300 or $500 or $700 as to $160 or 
$200. Mr. Lewis made the price, but 
the value of the stock is quite a dif¬ 
ferent matter. The promise to pay the 
note in cash was a safe bluff, because 
those who resisted the temptation of 
trust company stock, and sent on the 
notes expecting to get the cash, simply 
got a so-called “interim receipt,” and 
no explanation for failure to send the 
cash, while the note had passed out of 
their hands. By this trick, Lewis got 
personal possession of these notes, and 
in place of them his victims received 
nothing but these interim receipts for 
stock in the trust company, which he 
says he is organizing. The North Tar- 
rytown, N. Y., women refused to give 
up the notes, and by simply publishing 
the facts compelled Lewis to pay them. 
In doing so, he made the silly lying 
excuse that he offered to pay them a 
Lewis, mostly in “interim receipts,” 
which were sent in exchange for the 
five per cent notes by the trickery ex¬ 
plained above, amounting to about $10,- 
000. These run in claims of children, ser¬ 
vant girls, old women, decrepit men, 
and feeble old soldiers, in amounts from 
$3 up to $3,000. No sum was too large 
or too small for Lewis’s greed; no con¬ 
dition of poverty or need was sacred 
from his avarice. He would take money 
from the child, the widow and the in¬ 
firm of old age with as little com¬ 
punction or conscience as one would 
pick a berry ffom a roadside bush. The 
confidence of his adult victims made his 
operations as easy as taking pennies 
from babies; and some of the victims 
were virtually babies. We repeat that 
we do not know a single prominent and 
successful publication that is now iden¬ 
tified with Lewis’s American Women’s 
League scheme; but two or three of 
the list affect respectability, and have 
defended Lewis in the past. We would 
be interested to know what excuse they 
make for Lewis’s failure to pay these 
obligations. Some of the really respon¬ 
sible and usually reliable papers like 
Collier’s, Everybody’s Magazine, Farm 
Journal and Delineator ran the adver¬ 
tising of the League scheme last year; 
but soon discovered the error, and with¬ 
drew from the enterprise; but the ad¬ 
vertising gave Lewis a certificate of 
respectability, as he expected it would, 
and the League scheme got some promi¬ 
nence in consequence. The mass of the 
readers of these publications have no 
means of knowing that the publishers 
have now repudiated Lewis, and it 
seems to us that these publishers owe it 
to their readers to tell them the facts. 
Thus far Collier’s Weekly is the only 
one to refer to the subject editorially, 
and its public repudiation of Lewis was 
not all that one might expect under the 
circumstances. What is needed is an 
aroused public sentiment against this 
form of trickery. It is a big ta,sk for 
one paper to undertake alone; but if 
readers of The R. N.-Y. would interest 
themselves to the extent of spreading 
the facts in every section where Leagues 
are being organized, Mr. Lewis would 
soon find it to his interest to send back 
the money he induced these poor people 
to send him hy his “green goods” 
methods. 
Cement Walk. 
I would like to suggest to M 
of St. I.ouis, whose inquiry on 
cement walk appears on page 327 
would find it both cheaper and 
venieut to cast slabs 2 y 2 feet 
other size desired, and 2% or three inches 
thick, for his walk ; then laying them on 
a bed of cinders, in same way as sawed 
stone. The form can be made of two-inch 
lumber, held together with bolts, and ar¬ 
ranged to make one or two slabs at a time. 
In this way, the work can be done at odd 
moments, and the walk need be torn up 
but a short time. Should it become de¬ 
sirable to change the route of the walk it 
can easily be taken up, or a few slabs 
moved to permit passage of a wagon, those 
cast in [dace being almost impossible to 
move. We used 2 V 2 parts sand to one of 
cement, and four parts crushed stone, 
one-quarter to one inch, and made the 
slabs 2 % inches thick. Sand and crushed 
limestone cost $1.25 per ton, and Portland 
cement $2 per barrel, making the slabs cost 
about six cents per square foot at most. 
Ohio. w. t. m. 
oats went 40 bushels to the acre to my 
neighbors’ 18 bushels. I don't know any 
other reason than my plowing under my 
manure. I have 12 acres of as nice clover 
as you ever saw. 
A.\s.—It depends much on the kind 
of lime you use. Burned or caustic 
lime put in the manure as you suggest 
will cause the loss of some ammonia, 
depending on how long you let it lie 
before plowing under. These forms of 
lime will act on the organic matter of 
the manure quite rapidly. Ground lime¬ 
stone—that is, limestone ground fine, 
but not burned—could be safely used 
in this way, for it is much slower in its 
action. It is not the best plan to plow 
lime under, yet we all know what a 
disagreeable job it is to spread it over 
the surface. 
M. M., 
cost of 
that he 
more con- 
square, or 
and 
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