718 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 9, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Mother, sister and myself each invested a 
dollar in I£. G. Lewis’s bank in 1905. We 
could get nothing out of them. A few 
weeks ago we sent for it again and they 
sent us a check for the $3, but no interest. 
We were glad to get the .$3 back. No 
more schemers’ banks foC us. 1 think 
the discussion in Tun K. N.-Y. was respon¬ 
sible for the remittance at this time, as he 
gave us no attention before. 
New York. subscribed 
When the account is small enough 
and likely to interfere with Mr. Lewis’s 
scheme of collecting new money, he 
seems to be willing to make settlements. 
In other words, he has an eye out for 
business, and if settlement of a $3 claim 
will bring him a new $10 account he 
thinks the $3 well invested. But what¬ 
ever his reasons we are willing to give 
him credit for the little money that he 
grudgingly pays back. We yet have 
about $ 20,000 in claims, and we would 
like to get these settled. 
I received this morning a check for 
$11.70 from the Globe Association, which I 
do not think I would have obtained only 
for you. I thank you for your kindness, 
and enclose check for ‘one-half the amount 
as I promised. (I do not think they love 
you very much.) The enclosed letter will 
explain. w. H. B. 
Rhode Island. 
No; they do not love The R. N.-Y. 
over much. We do not expect any 
rogue anywhere to love The R. N.-Y. 
As a matter of fact none does. Those 
who enjoy the special privilege of graft 
on the public either through politics or 
business do not love any agency that 
interferes with their privileges. As we 
can accept no pay for this work, we 
have credited this friend’s subscription 
account with the amount of his check, 
$5.85. The letter referred to is not par¬ 
ticularly complimentary to papers that 
criticise the Globe Association, and its 
fake methods. 
I enclose you receipt which tells its own 
story. A 15-pound casting shipped to me 
from the Olds Seed Co., Madison, Wis., cost 
me $1.45. It is explained by the agent 
that the charge was 90 cents to Pittsburg 
and 55 cents from there here! 1 needed 
the casting and so paid the charge. 
Maryland. M. d. 
After a long correspondence we 
forced the admission that there was an 
overcharge on this shipment; and re¬ 
ceived in rebate the princely sum of 20 
cents. This leaves the charge yet over 
eight cents per pound, or more than 
enough per pound to carry a 200 -pound 
man over the same distance in a parlor 
car. Express rates are high because the 
railroads give express companies a mo¬ 
nopoly of the business. They do it be¬ 
cause the directors of the railroads who 
make the bargains control the express 
companies, and profit by their earnings. 
And farmers send the representatives of 
these companies to make laws for every¬ 
body. 
April 6, 1900, I shipped Thomas Bing¬ 
ham & Co., West Washington Market, New 
York City, via United States Express Co., 
one dressed calf, which they claim they 
never received. I sent Bingham & Co. the 
express receipt, but they claim they have 
not been able to collect from the express 
company. Will you see why they will not 
pay the claim? D. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have been after this calf just one 
year. Bingham & Co. have been rather 
indifferent about it all along. First they 
said they never received it. Then the 
express company showed receipt for it. 
After that Bingham & Co. discovered 
that they had received it, but alleged that 
it has been seized with some other ship¬ 
ments by the city health authorities. 
There was nothing to do but bring suit, 
and, of course, the shipper could not 
come to New York to collect through 
the courts for a calf. When shipped it 
was a veal nearly four weeks old. It is 
of course a total loss to the shipper. It 
is one of the cases where The R. N.-Y. 
has failed to secure returns. In that 
sense Bingham & Co. have succeeded in 
defeating our object. We leave it to 
the future to decide whether their vic¬ 
tory was worth the cost. 
Will you inform me as to the reliability 
of the 'John A. Ilertel Co., 77 Summer 
street, Boston, Mass., also of Chicago, Ill.? 
They offer my daughter $2.25 per day for 
GO days’ time during school vacation for 
representing their company, selling the 
book, “Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare.” 
if more are sold to be 40 cents on a dollar, 
but, the $2.25, is guaranteed no matter what 
they make, so long as they live up to the 
terms. READER.. 
The house has a good enough financial 
rating; but they make a contract that 
it would be practically impossible to live 
up to in all details. What the contract 
obliges you to do is really to buy their 
books and sell them on commission. 
The commission or profits count on your 
salary as you go along. True, if this 
does not amount to the salary, they guar¬ 
antee at end of the period to make up the 
difference, if you live strictly up to the 
terms of the contract, but they would 
probably claim that you broke the con¬ 
tract by not working every day or just 
the required number of days, and they 
would deny the claim for salary. Such 
contracts and correspondence sound 
very good; but when you get to the 
bottom of all of them, it simply means 
that they engage an agent to sell on com¬ 
mission and always require a remittance 
from you in advance. 
• 
I received your remittance of $8.25 to 
cover the Walter Wheatley Company, Phila¬ 
delphia, matter. I am greatly obliged to 
you for the interest you have taken in the 
case and will be glad to render any ser¬ 
vice which may be in my power. 
New York. c. R. w. 
This was for a shipment of quinces in 
1907. Mr. Wheatley wrote in October 
that the quinces sold for $1 per basket, 
and suggested other shipments. The 
returns were made at 75 cents. Later 
he wrote that he returned exactly what 
he got for them, and that they sold at 
top of the market. We put in the claim 
for 25 cents a basket because of his 
October letter, and it was paid. 
Two years ago this Spring I sent a 
order to W. It. Curtiss & Co., of Itunsom- 
ville, N. Y., for GOO day-old chicks at 10 
cents each, sending them a chock in ad¬ 
vance for same. The chicks came in four 
boxes, some of the boxes in bad order and 
222 chicks missing. I have written Curtiss 
& Co. a number of times, and they refuse to 
make good, as they say it: was the fault of 
the express company. The express com¬ 
pany also refuses to pay the damages, say¬ 
ing the chicks were not properly packed, 
and that the shortage was noted when the 
chicks arrived at Pittsburg. Is there any 
way to bring either the express company or 
Curtiss & Co. to time? I think it was the 
American Express Company who took these 
chicks as far as Pittsburg. It rather seems 
to me that when a man pays for a thing 
and does not get it he has good cause to 
think lie is not being used just right. 
Pennsylvania. k. t. m. 
Now note the similarity of the fol¬ 
lowing complaint: 
In November, 1908, I ordered a box of 
day-old chicks from W. H. Curtiss & Co., 
Itansomville, N. Y. The shipment was made 
on November 18, and reached Wilmington 
on November 22. All of the chickens were 
either dead or dying, the shipment being 
entirely worthless. The package came in 
very fair shape, making it difficult to es¬ 
tablish a claim against the express com¬ 
panies for damage in transit. I took the 
matter up with Messrs. Curtiss & Co., in an 
effort to ascertain why they routed the 
shipment via Cincinnati instead of via New 
York City, stating to them that the express 
via New York City would have been consid¬ 
erably lower, and the time consumed would 
not have been more than two days, whereas 
the routing via Cincinnati consumed four 
days’ time. They gave me very little satis¬ 
faction in the matter, and have never 
seemed to care wihch way the shipment was 
routed, so long as they had received remit¬ 
tance to cover the shipment, and they have 
never volunteered to make good the loss in 
any way, having simply left it to the ex¬ 
press companies, stating that the fact of 
the chickens being dead was sufficient evi¬ 
dence that they had been badly handled by 
the express companies. We then took the 
matter up with the express companies with 
the hope of establishing a claim with them, 
and it developed that the express company 
carried the goods to Cincinnati in order to 
got a longer haul, regardless of whether or 
not the shipment would be destroyed. 
I finally took the matter up with the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, who en¬ 
deavored to secure settlement from the ex¬ 
press companies. They were unable to do 
this and advised me that a suit in court 
would be my only way of obtaining redress 
from the express companies. The value of 
the shipment was not large enough to jus¬ 
tify the cost involved in litigation, and I 
dropped the matter entirely. I have en¬ 
deavored to place the matter before the 
public in one or two poultry journals, but 
all of whom appear to be afraid to take the 
matter up. I congratulate you on having 
the courage to place such matters as this 
before your readers so they can judge for 
themselves with whom to place their orders. 
North Carolina. E. P. w. 
We utterly failed to get any redress 
in either of these cases from Curtiss ix 
Company or from the American Express 
Company. Curtiss & Company offer 
to refill the orders at half price, and 
ask us if we do not consider that fair. 
We told them frankly we did not. After 
one such experience what assurance 
would they have that the second^ lot 
would not be dead or dying also? Such 
an offer of adjustment can only produce 
additional disappointment and disgust. 
The American Express turned the ship- 
men over to the Wells-Fargo Express 
at Pittsburg, Pa. The agent of the lat¬ 
ter company says a large number of the 
chicks were then dead or dying and that 
the boxes were too small, with no means 
of sufficient air reaching the chicks. 
Other boxes were provided and the 
chicks forwarded in them. They say a 
similar shipment would not be accepted 
at Ransomville; and give it as an opin¬ 
ion that the Humane Society would 
make trouble if aware of the nature of 
the shipment. 
Curtiss & Co. got their money in ad¬ 
vance for both shipments, and ffom the 
correspondence and reports they seemed 
to take little or no interest in the case 
afterwards. They did not pack with 
proper care, nor ship over the shortest 
route, nor use any great diligence in 
trying to get any redress frofn the ex¬ 
press company. They were probably 
consciolis of their own share in the re-’ 
sponsibility. The express companies 
absolutely refuse to assume responsibil¬ 
ity for young chicks in transit; and the 
only protection is to have the shipper 
guarantee safe delivery, and to know 
that he is responsible before sending 
the check. 
United Wireless Telegraph Company. 
American De Forrest Wireless Company. 
Amalgamated Wireless. 
Wireless Securities Company. 
Greater New York Securities Company. 
For several years we have had numer¬ 
ous inquiries about these companies; 
and the hardest kind of work to keep 
our people from investing in them. The 
history of these filled two columns in 
the city papers last week after the offi¬ 
cers of the company had been arrested 
by the Federal authorities for a charge 
of using the mail to defraud. Some of 
them are in jail and others under heavy 
bond. The inspectors found $400,000 
of assets; and evidence that $ 20 , 000,000 
had been collected on the sale of the 
stock from 28,000 investors. Compar¬ 
ing this issue of stock with the real 
assets, the stock which sold for from 
$7.50 to $50 a share, was actually worth 
one twenty-fifth of a cent per share. It 
was sold to individuals, and these cer¬ 
tificates were not transferable until Feb¬ 
ruary, 1911, so that they could not be 
sold until then, while the officers sold 
their shares freely, and one of them 
made, it is asserted, $5,000,000, and an¬ 
other $ 10 , 000 , 000 , and still other officers 
profited proportionately. As we told 
our people from the start, it never was 
anything but a stock-jobbing scheme. 
The minutes of a recent meeting shows 
that President Wilson reported placing 
400,000 shares of his holdings in 
the treasury and sold it at about $50 a 
share, and received a vote of thanks 
from his board of directors. It was an 
act that a minister described as a “mag¬ 
nanimous and noble action,” as recorded 
in the minutes. Of course, he managed 
to appropriate the proceeds. 
The stock was arbitrarily advanced 
from time to time by the promoters 
from $7.50 to $50 per share. People 
were urged to buy before each advance, 
and did so. The arbitrary restriction 
on the transfer of these sold shares kept 
them out of the way and gave the offi¬ 
cers the opportunity to flood the coun¬ 
try with their own stock. The people 
were told that the company was doing 
a profitable business and as the stock 
kept advancing the investors felt safe. 
Of course, there was practically no busi¬ 
ness, and what there was, was kept up 
for effect, and at a great loss. When the 
stock was advancing some of our best 
friends while expressing confidence in 
The R. N.-Y. generally, thought that 
just in this case we were mistaken. We 
hope none of them went against our ad¬ 
vice. 
You will note a certain similarity in 
the above with such schemes as Tele¬ 
post, American Farm Company, Ellis 
Kornit Company, real estate debentures, 
various publishing company bonds, 
stocks and certificates, and in the varied 
and numerous schemes of E. G. Lewis. 
Look for big and extravagant promises 
of profit for you, coupled with a request 
for your cash, and you will find the faker 
or crook at the other end of the deal. 
The bigger the promise the surer you 
are of the rogue. j. j. d. 
Mapes’ Hen-Liee-Wax 
Has been such a boon to mo and my liens that 1 
docidod to place it on the market. One application 
a yoar to the perches has given me absolute free¬ 
dom from mites. Write for particulars. 
O. VV. MAPES. Middletown. N. Y. 
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