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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August G, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Charged with using the mails to defraud, 
Charles A. Meudum was arrested July 21, 
pleaded not guilty and was held in .$500 hail. 
Meudum is accused of writing to hank offi¬ 
cials in the South and West offering them 
a list of names of Massachusetts people 
who wanted to invest in first mortgage 
bonds. Many he mentioned had no money 
to invest, while forty-six, it was learned, 
were dead. 
The above is from the “Daily News.” 
This was a fraud on a class of business 
men and they promptly set to work to 
suppress it. If the general public would 
do the same, rogues would not prosper 
as long as they do generally. 
I have received from Adams Express Co. 
$5.66 in settlement of claim on shipment of 
chickens made in October, 1909, to William 
Sperber & Co., Pittsburg, I’a. I made 
prompt claim, but it was turned down. I 
want to thank you for this settlement, for 
1 would never have gotten it had it not 
been for your assistance. If any expense, 
please send bill and I will remit. 
Pennsylvania. w. k. t. 
There is no bill for this or any similar 
service. We received the complaint in 
February. The chickens were lost in 
transit and there is no reason why the 
claim should not have been settled 
when first put in by the shipper, except 
that the shipper had no way of enforc¬ 
ing the claim. The claim was intelli¬ 
gently presented originally. 
In the Spring of 1907 I placed an order 
for about 200 fruit trees with the Highland 
Nursery Co. of Rochester, N. Y., among 
which were 40 Nonsuch apples trees. Last 
year 22 of these trees had specimens of 
fruit on, and all proved to be Yellow Trans¬ 
parent. 1 wrote the company and requested 
them to come and see the trees with the 
fruit on. but they did not come or reply 
to my letter. A second letter brought the 
enclosed reply. I wrote them that I pre¬ 
ferred the trees if they would ship them 
last Fall. The trees did not come, and al¬ 
though 1 have written them twice since 
can get no reply from them. This year an¬ 
other of their' trees that I bought for a 
Tolman lias fruit on, but it proves to be 
a sour apple. What the rest will prove to 
be remains to be seen. 1 wish you would 
drop them a line to jog their memory that 
tliev have forgotten to do as they agreed. 
New York. A. e. s. 
In the reply referred to they say such 
a thing might happen, and ask whether 
the grower would have the money re¬ 
turned or some more trees. He was will¬ 
ing to accept the trees, but has been un¬ 
able to get them. It is now nearly a 
year since we received this complaint, 
and we have been unable to get anv re¬ 
ply whatever from them. Edwaid M. 
Woodworth signs himself as president 
with offices in the Granite Building and 
packing house at Brighton, N. Y. If 
the treatment of this grower is a cus¬ 
tom of the concern, we would not ex¬ 
pect to find a very enthusiastic list of 
customers. 
I desire to ask a favor of you. January 
17 I shipped to E. Schlosser & Co., 77 Com¬ 
merce Street, Newark, N. .1., 50 prints of 
butter weighing 48 Mi pounds. They wrote 
me they received the butter, but do not 
make returns. It was just such butter as I 
receive 80 cents per pound for at home. If. 
you can influence them to settle with me, I 
will pay you for the trouble. a. e. d . 
New York. 
My son-in-law, a hard-working young 
man, sent 30 dozen eggs to E. Schlosser & 
Co., 77 Commerce Street, Newark, N. J. 
After waiting some time he wrote for the 
money. The only answer he got was to 
send more eggs, as there was a good do-' 
maud, and worth 24 cents per dozen. Of 
course Schlosser did not get any more, 
but never paid for those he did get. The 
shipper needs all that belongs to him, and 
I hope you will do what you can to get 
the money for him. The bill is $7.20. 
New Jersey. w. M. r. 
I shipped to E. Schlosser & Co., 77 Com¬ 
merce Street, Newark, N. .1., one box of 
poultry about the 21st of December last: 
have got two letters from them, one saying 
they had received it, another saying if 1 
would wait two weeks they would send me 
a check in full. 1 have written them since 
and got no answer. There were 91 pounds 
chickens and 60 pounds geese. If you can 
get it take your pay out and send balance. 
New York. M. k. 
We have had these three complaints 
several months; and have done what we 
could, but have not been able to get the 
money in any case. You can see how 
helpless we are in a case of this kind. 
The concern has no rating and no stand¬ 
ing, and never ought to be trusted with 
a shipment of any kind. If he had any 
pride, or any reputation to lose we could 
hope to do something with him. But this 
man seems to care for nothing except 
consignments that he does not pay for. 
There is only one way to avoid such 
losses, and that way is to insist on cash 
in advance where a concern has no es¬ 
tablished basis of credit. 
During the past year we have had 
many inquiries about the Cuban land 
offered for sale by land promoters and 
companies organized for the purpose.' 
The Cuban Land & S. S. Co., with gen¬ 
eral offices at Passaic, N. J., is promot¬ 
ing a section at La Gloria, Cuba. In 
their literature they talk of building a 
macadam road, and of ditching and 
dredging operations, and urge the pur¬ 
chasers of the lands to clear and plant 
them. One of our Washington State 
subscribers made an investment; and 
sends us the following letter which he 
just received from a friend now in Cuba: 
1 have your letter of May 29 to band; 
would ask when you expect to come to La 
Gloria to improve your land; it is waiting 
for you. To lay all joking aside, will say 
that it is impossible to sell such land as 
yours as long as the best land here is sell¬ 
ing for less than you are offering yours at. 
The macadam road is just as it was two 
years ago. The zangi or ditch is in a worse 
condition than ever, so filled up that boats 
can hardly get through at all, and most of 
the people are discouraged about the future. 
If the Government could be depended upon 
fo complete its work things might be dif¬ 
ferent. but that will soon go to pieces; 
then we may hope for something. Forget 
that you have any land in Cuba for a few 
years: it cannot be any worse than it is 
how, that is sure. If a change should come 
there might be some hope. x. x. x. 
La Gloria, Cuba. 
This subscriber writes us not to pub¬ 
lish the name of the correspondent, as the 
company is in a position to make him 
trouble, and has already done so. This 
subscriber says he bought 3 5 acres from 
the company, paying $525, and he has 
been trying to sell it for $150, and finds 
no buyers. You see what his friend on 
the ground tells him about it. The story 
simply confirms the advice we have been 
giving for years against the purchase of 
lands from promoters .or anyone else 
without first inspecting them for your¬ 
self. The disappointments have been so 
great that the Federal Government has 
issued a warning against the purchase 
of such lands. It points out that the 
climate, products, customs, and habits of 
these places are so different from what 
northern people are used to that most 
people suffer great disappointment, and 
usually those who have the means of re¬ 
turning to their native haunts are in¬ 
clined to do so. This without regard to 
the bad bargain of paying four or five 
times what better land could be bought 
for in the same neighborhood. 
It is hardly necessary to say that The 
R. N.-Y. has no object in publishing the 
facts about Cuban lands, Florida lands, 
or any other lands except a desire to save 
its people from disappointment and loss. 
We think it quite as legitimate to give 
people information that will help them to 
save a dollar from loss as it is to give 
information that will lead to the making 
of a dollar through methods of produc¬ 
tion or otherwise. It is still more im¬ 
portant to give information that will pre¬ 
vent them from taking a step that can 
lead only to hardships and misery. Most 
of the people enticed from their homes 
by land sharks would be more contented 
and happy in their present homes if they 
could only realize the suffering of a 
northern family in these new places, with 
tropical climate and strange faces of a 
different race. 
During the month of June last I had 
the proposition put up to me to go into 
a promoting scheme in the Northwest. 
All I had to do was to furnish the ad¬ 
vertising in The R. N.-Y. and receive 
the cash, which to mde my connection 
might be sent in the name of a company 
which I could control; one-half of pro¬ 
ceeds to go to me and the other half to 
the proposer of the scheme who claimed 
to own the land, lie would, he said, 
guarantee me a profit of a million dol¬ 
lars in less than five years. Of course, 
his profit and mine would depend on how 
effective the advertising would be to 
bunko money out of the readers of the 
paper. I was reminded that one pub¬ 
lisher in the Middle West has made a 
fortune out of a similar scheme, and the 
majority of his subscribers know nothing 
about it. Another publisher of Wash¬ 
ington has put through another scheme 
of the same kind. There is not the 
slightest doubt in the world that thou¬ 
sands of our readers would take our 
word for a proposition of the kind, and 
put their money into it at our solicita¬ 
tion. Many thousands of dollars would 
be invested by our people in these 
schemes if we would only permit the ad¬ 
vertisements of them to appear in the 
paper; but knowingly to contribute in 
any way to such a deception and fraud 
on the part of a publisher is a crime 
compared with which ordinary house¬ 
breaking is a respectable business. 
J- J. d. 
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