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THE RURA.Lv NEW-YORKER 
May 23, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Occasionally a farmer is a little care¬ 
less in his correspondence. Recently we 
had a claim from one of them against a 
Brooklyn concern. We made a demand 
for settlement, and the remittance was 
promptly sent the farmer, but no reply 
was made to our letter. The farmer also 
neglected to advise us that he had re¬ 
ceived the settlement. In accordance 
with our custom, we continued to fol¬ 
low up the complaint, and it was not 
until some months later that we forced 
the information from the Brooklyn con¬ 
cern that the account had been adjusted. 
This, of course, was embarrassing for us. 
The experience is rare, but it does oc¬ 
casionally occur. If a shipper receives 
communication of any kind after com¬ 
plaint is forwarded to us, the new in¬ 
formation should be promptly forwarded, 
and remittances should be promptly re¬ 
ported. There is no charge in any case 
for what we can do; but the advice will 
save trouble, loss of time and embarrass¬ 
ment to us. 
I found my imaginary name on the 
suckers’ list last Fall. In August I at¬ 
tended the Cambridge fair and while 
there, I ran across a man who gave three 
agricultural papers for three years and a 
fountain pen, all for one dollar, you see, 
something for nothing. I took them; 
about three weeks later I saw on the 
publisher’s page of The R. N.-Y., want¬ 
ing of this game, so I gave it up for lost 
right away, and it was lost. c. w. N. 
New York. 
The bargain counter is a poor place to 
look for service, and service is what is 
needed in a farm paper. The fountain 
pen fakers have been debarred from fairs 
in Ohio and Michigan; and they ought 
to be denied the privilege of playing their 
deceptive game on all New Y'ork State 
fair grounds. 
It affords me pleasure to inform you 
that my recent claim of $6.00 against 
the Adams Express Company for a dam¬ 
aged case of eggs, has been paid and I 
hereby thank you for the valuable ser¬ 
vice you thus rendered me. If at any 
time I can give you any assistance at 
this end it will be a pleasure to do so. 
Maryland. j. b. w. 
I have at last received package from 
Adams Express Company—one year from 
time of shipment. I paid them the $3.50 
which they said was transportation ex¬ 
penses. The goods were all right but 
badly mussed up. I am extremely grate¬ 
ful to you for all your kindness and 
trouble in the matter. I shall lose no 
opportunity to speak a good word for 
you, and as the Irishman said, "May 
your powers never grow less.” w. M. 
Rhode Island. 
Kindly pardon my tardiness in inform¬ 
ing you of my settlement with the Adams 
Express Company in regard to dead 
chicks, amount $12.24. Records of care¬ 
lessness were complete but they withheld 
payment. I want to express my sincere 
thanks for your earnest efforts and I 
feel the matter was cleared up through 
your kindness. c. m. v. 
Rhode Island. 
I received check of $6.20 from Adams 
Express Company, which is my full claim 
against them. I thank you very much 
for entering my claim. f. a. s. 
New York. 
I received payment of $9.60 for the 
eggs sent Mr. Mupes which became so 
oily while in possession of Adams Ex¬ 
press Company that he could not use 
them. I thank you for your work and 
will pay you whatever is right for same. 
New York. h. j. t. 
Received check for $12.60 from Adams 
Express Company to cover my egg ship¬ 
ment of August 2, which contained 
cracked, broken and stained eggs to that 
amount. Please accept my • thanks. 
Pennsylvania. w. j. k. 
I received check for $7.20 in settle¬ 
ment of my claim against Adams Express 
Company for the box of meat lost in 
transit. Send me your charges and I 
will settle. Thank you kindly for your 
help. m. s. 
Ohio. 
The above letters affecting one express 
company shows the necessity of some 
system in the shipment and marketing of 
farm food products. We could fill col¬ 
umns of such reports every week. The 
first step in the saving of these losses, 
is to assemble the goods at the shipping 
stations, and ship in car lots to men in 
the markets representing the shippers. 
The essential to this system is coopera¬ 
tive organizations of shippers. 
I was interested in your account of 
Geo. F. Cole in The R. N.-Y. Perhaps 
you will be interested to see how slickly 
lie fooled us. lie offered two or three 
cents better prices for eggs than I was 
getting, at Faneuil Hall market, but if 
he did not pay for any of his goods, he 
could afford to offer a good price. 
Massachusetts. c. ir. g. 
For 25 years now I have been warn¬ 
ing country shippers against this trick of I 
irresponsible commission men. It would 
seem that the shipper ought to catch on 
after a while. The commission man who 
offers prices above the market, is reason¬ 
ably sure to leave you his creditor in the 
end. At different times we thought it 
impossible that Cole could ever get ship¬ 
ments again except for cash in advance, 
but each time he bobs up with a haul 
from a new section. Put a pin in him 
now. 
l'ou seem to have tried to collect many ! 
bad bills for your readers, and I am go- ! 
ing to ask your kind offices in an effort to 
get the enclosed bill for $1S.60 for me j 
from Jos. Ash, Sweet Clover Farms 1 
Dairy, 643 Lexington Ave., New York. 
This covers eggs sent to Mr. Ash in 1912. 
New York. j. e. o. 
There are things beyond us, and the 
collection of this claim is one of them. 
Our attorneys fell down on the job as 
well as ourselves. If these city concerns 
cannot show a satisfactory rating, it is 
better to have cash before the goods are 
shipped. Where you are a member of a 
cooperative company the manager of your 
company will have a rating before he 
ships eggs to a customer. lie may sell 
them through the State Market Commis¬ 
sion, and in either case you will lu $18.60 
ahead and probably more owing to bettor 
price. 
Edwin K. Ilanley of Binghamton, gen¬ 
eral manager of the National Develop¬ 
ment Company, who was last week found 
guilty of having used the United States 
mails for fraudulent purposes, also ap¬ 
peared before Judge George W. Ray yes¬ 
terday. but the passing of sentence was 
deferred because Hanley has agreed to 
pay back about $2,000 to persons who 
put money into the Development Com- 1 
puny. "I commit you to jail until May. 
26,” judge Ray told the prisoner, "in 
order that you may have an opportunity j 
to make restitution, but this does not in- | 
vulve any promise whatever on the part 
of the court.”—Local Paper. 
We are glad to see a tendency on the 
part of courts to encourage crooks to 
make restitution to the poor people who 
have become victims of their schemes. 
I saw an advertisement of the Cluthe ; 
Co., 125 East 23rd Street, New York 
City, in which they offer to send a Cluthe 
truss on 60 days’ trial without the pur¬ 
chaser having to risk a single cent. I 
sent $12 and got, to me, a worthless and 
crude appliance. I returned it twice and 
each time they sent it back and refused 
to return my money as originally prom¬ 
ised. f. F. it. 
< )hio. 
When we read the advertisement we 
got the idea that it stated clearly that j 
the purchaser was entitled to 60 days’ J 
trial, and that if the test did not prove } 
the value of the truss then it was to be 
returned and the purchase price would be 
refunded. We wrote the company and 
got a reply from Chas. Cluthe & Sons, 
Bloomfield, N. J., who seem to be the 
proprietors. They say that they do not 
give such a broad guarantee as we un¬ 
derstood. In their letter to us they 
ignore the terms of the advertisement, 
and say they accept orders only as per 
the booklet, as per guarantee, and as per ! 
order blank. This order blank specified 
to guarantee to fulfill all claims made for 
it in book entitled “Cluthe’s Advice to 
the Ruptured.” The order blank also 
says this is the “only device for rupture 
that is sent on 60 days’ trial and guar¬ 
anteed to hold successfully; it is the most' 
comfortable holder ever invented.” 
It would seem from the correspondence 
that the advertisement implied plainly 
enough that the purchaser was to have 
an unconditional trial of 60 days without 
risk of a cent; but that the order blank J 
modified this condition so that the truss j 
was guaranteed only to the extent spe¬ 
cified in the book. Our notion is that | 
the layman like ourselves would get his 
idea from the advertisement, and would 
not bother to decipher the technical 
terms of the booklet or of the order 
blank. The plan of salesmanship has 
evidently been carefully worked out. 
There is little question that an astute 
mind has worked out all the details to 
make it technically legal; but our cor¬ 
respondent who accepted the advertise¬ 
ment in good faith is out his $12. If our 
laws do sanction such a transaction is 
our application of law and justice all 
that it should be? j. j. p. 
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