1080 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
November 19, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Egg Producers’ Company, 49 Wash¬ 
ington St, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
recorded, but the notes have not been 
paid. In view of this indisputable 
testimony, it would be interesting to 
trace the money sent for the debentures 
to its final source. 
We have for collection against this 
concern the following accounts: 
For poultry, Winthrop, N. Y....§86.41 
For eggs, pigs and poultry, South 
X* V' 
For casi> eggs, Norton ITS 11, N. Y.... 0.00 
For 4 crates eggs, Winthrop, N. V.. 27.30 
For eggs, I’lessls, N. Y. 10.80 
For eggs and poultry, Pulaski, N. Y.- 
For poultry, Brunswick, Md. 40.00 
For poultry, St. Albans, Yt. 47.01 
Total . §218.12 
In their letters soliciting these ship¬ 
ments they promised “check within 48 
hours after receipt of the shipment.” 
though some of these accounts run back 
since March last. After exhausting our 
own efforts we placed the accounts with 
our attorneys; but got no encouragement 
from them. Mr. Morgan, the president 
of the company, now tells Us that the 
treasurer disappeared some time ago, and 
that an attorney has charge of the af¬ 
fairs. Old subscribers will recall that 
we reported difficulties with this com¬ 
pany more than a year ago. The first 
complaints were that they made deduc¬ 
tions for broken eggs to the amount of 
10 to 15 per cent of the shipments. Then 
complaints came about non-payments. 
At first we made these collections, and 
reported results and caution, but of late 
we have been put off, and what we have 
been expecting for the last year has 
now transpired. Some of these com¬ 
plaints came from shippers who were 
not subscribers at the time of the ship¬ 
ments, and of course had no warning, 
but others are regular subscribers, and 
we can hardly understand their willing¬ 
ness to take the risk after our timely 
warnings. We can only surmise that the 
warnings had been overlooked. 
It seems from an explanation made 
by a representative of Dr. H. Sauche 
that there is a difference in the appli¬ 
ances manufactured by Dr. H. Sauche 
and other companies nearing his name, 
and making an oxydonor, which are al¬ 
leged inefficient imitations. We have no 
means of knowing the comparative merits 
of the original to its alleged imitations, 
but our people have had trouble with 
some of them, and in one case at least we 
received a refund of a part of the money 
advanced. Before purchasing any such 
appliance we advise you to consult your 
family physician. • 
During the last month it was an¬ 
nounced by E. G. Lewis through his own 
paper and the press generally that he 
had sold University Heights, one of his 
real estate properties, to a New York 
syndicate for over a million dollars. 
The agent of this alleged syndicate ad¬ 
vertised a week’s sale and proposed to 
sell the lots at public auction. Now lis¬ 
ten to this from Lewis himsef: 
Rather than further sacrifice the values 
of this property which I have been so 
many years in building up and improving 
until to-day it is the most desirable, beau¬ 
tiful and valuable residence section of St. 
Txmis, I stopped the sale and determined 
to lay the whole matter before the nearly 
one hundred thousand members of the 
League, and nearly five hundred thousand 
readers of The Daily once more in an ap¬ 
peal to you to not only assist me in carry¬ 
ing through the great plans we are en¬ 
gaged in, but also by doing so to save and 
secure to YOURSELVES the immense prop¬ 
erties and values already in our possession. 
If this property had been sold by 
Lewis to a New York syndicate, how 
did he have the autfioiity to call off 
their sale, and again appeal io me 
people who refused to respond with 
their cash before an attempt was made 
to sell the lots? After all his bluster 
You probably remember looking up the 
DiNusvo & Spadafora Cheese Company for 
me last October and again in February. We 
also had our local bank investigate them, 
and the community acted on the advices 
and refused to sell them our milk, but the 
people at Burlington Flats were not so 
forward, and let the Italians have the 
milk this Summer, a local man selling the 
products and handling the money. On 
September 1 they persuaded the farmers 
to let them have the milk, giving them 
two months’ milk before paying for any 
of it. There were two Italians here, and 
one of them left about ‘one week ago. The 
checks came all right Sunday morning, 
October 30, as agreed, and the other Ital¬ 
ian left Monday morning, telling a smootn 
story, but Tuesday afternoon the checks 
came back from New York protested. They 
have received about §18,000 worth of milk 
from the farmers in the last two months, 
and practically nothing is left behind. The 
New York police report that both men 
have sailed for Italy. Now there is wail¬ 
ing and gnashing of teeth in our neighbor¬ 
ing valley. When will people learn to be 
careful? They knew about these people, 
for 1 told them what you wrote and they 
are swindled with their eyes open. People 
here think more than ever of you, and .lust 
want to thank you as best we can. You 
have saved us as much as it costs to run 
your “Publisher’s Desk” for a year. 
Burlington Flats, N. Y. harry parker. 
Publisher's Desk Department has its 
drawbacks. Its responsibility is great. 
Where there is doubt of dishonesty, the 
offender must get the benefit. No hon¬ 
est man may have even a suspicion cast 
on his good name. Yet the people must 
be protected from rogues. To maintain 
these principles requires experience, 
care and large expenditures of money. 
Any swindler, whether to work effect 
on the public or in the hope of technical 
legal construction, may hale the pub¬ 
lisher to court, and enforce large ex¬ 
pense in defence. Other publishers have 
said that the department could never 
be maintained. Sometimes we have our¬ 
selves wondered if it were worth the 
cost in time, energy and money. But 
one letter like the above wipes all the 
doubt away. Of what use is a farm 
paper unless it can take some risk, and 
do some work for the real protection of 
its readers? We have before us all the 
records in the above case. No definite 
statement of assets was ever filed. Bank 
references were given, but they only 
showed that the company had a small 
account in each bank, and the people 
behind it had no record that would jus¬ 
tify an extension of credit. No business 
house in this city would extend them 
credit in any considerable amount. We 
reported our findings and advised that 
the producers act in concert and refuse 
to sell their milk unless the company 
put up security for the accounts. We 
are glad that Mr. Parker’s community 
took our advice, but we equally regret 
that their neighbors at Burlington Flats 
lost sucb a large amount. It is hard for 
honest men to be ever on their guard 
against crooks. We can the better sym¬ 
pathize with these producers who lost 
their milk from the fact that we have 
ourselves suffered from similar opera¬ 
tions. We tell this story now not to 
blame or scold the losers, who have al¬ 
ready suffered enough; nor even to re¬ 
joice with those whom we may have 
helped save from loss, but to emphasize 
the necessity of business methods by 
farmers in these transactions. It is a 
safe plan to look up the standing of peo¬ 
ple who ask for your credit or cash. 
Even then there is a chance of loss; 
but it is business suicide to hand out 
money or credit to any one who comes 
along in -good clothes with big promises 
and a smooth tongue. j. j. d. 
and brag about the value of these lots, 
the test has now been made; buyers re¬ 
fused to pay the prices expected. The 
real value is the price at which they 
will sell. These deductions seem evi¬ 
dent : 
1. —The property was not sold to a 
New York syndicate as announced by 
Mr. Lewis. 
2 . —Heretofore the people did not re¬ 
spond sufficiently to his demand for cash 
in exchange for debentures—paper notes. 
3. —The sale was not called off to give 
the dear people another chance, but be¬ 
cause the lots did not find a ready mar¬ 
ket. 
4. — That the League members and the 
public generally have now another op¬ 
portunity to send Mr. Lewis the two 
million dollars he now says he needs 
to pay his debts. In exchange Mr. 
Lewis will issue to them notes of a 
straw-man for five years. In this con¬ 
nection we need only add that we now 
hold for collection notes against Mr 
Lewis, past due, interest unpaid, and 
with them his letters to the creditors 
giving assurances two years ago, that 
the notes would be paid as soon as he 
completed the details of a loan already 
made on his real estate. A loan was 
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