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March 20, 1015. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I thought you would be interested in 
the inclosed announcement of the trans¬ 
fer of the Myrick Building to the trus¬ 
tees of a trust. Where are those “build¬ 
ing certificate” holders coming in on this 
deal ? L. B. 
Massachusetts. 
The announcement is that Herbert 
Myrick transferred the much-advertised 
Myrick Building to a trust; and had the 
mortgage increased from $350,000 to a 
trust mortgage of $500,000. Our exper¬ 
ience with trusts and trust mortgages is 
not very extensive. Our old friend E. G. 
Lewis of St. Louis used them to great 
effect and profit to himself and with cor¬ 
responding loss to the people who were 
induced to invest in them. Sometimes 
when it is desired to borrow more money 
on real estate than lenders care to risk 
on mortgage security, a deed or eondi' 
tional sale is made under a private agree¬ 
ment that the property may be redeemed 
within a given time; but if the terms 
of the agreement are not kept up, the 
property automatically goes to the owner 
of record without the expense or formal¬ 
ity of a foreclosure. 
On an ordinary private transaction 
such a deal would not interest the public, 
but our correspondent’s inquiry is per¬ 
tinent from the fact that Mr. Myrick sold 
so-called “building certificates” to the 
public through several different compan¬ 
ies, only one of which held title to the 
building. Even in that one case, how¬ 
ever, the certificates formed no lien on 
the building. What we previously point¬ 
ed out as possible, has now been done. 
The building is sold without any leave or 
license by the certificate holders. Except 
that part of tin* assets are gone they are 
in the same position now that they were 
in before. They had no investment 
then. They have none now. They have 
a receipt for their money and nothing 
more. Two of the companies which is¬ 
sued tlie certificates are out of business. 
-A 11 of them could go out of business and 
dispose of all of their assets, and leave 
the building certificates still outstanding, 
and neither Mr. Myrick nor any other 
individual could be held responsible for 
them. 
I have never seen the Saudow kero¬ 
sene engine advertised in The It. N.- 
Y. since I have been a subscriber. I 
would be very glad if you could give me 
any information as to the company's re¬ 
liability. I send their guarantee and ref¬ 
erences. j. ir. k. 
Virginia. 
The Sandow kerosene engine referred 
to is made by the Detroit Engine Com¬ 
pany, Detroit, Mich. The guarantee 
printed on the page of tin- catalogue en¬ 
closed by the subscriber is as plain and 
explicit as anyone' could ask for. No 
engine manufactured, so far as we know, 
goes quite so far to make the terms so 
completely in favor of the purchaser. But 
how about living up to the terms of the 
guarantee after the company gets the 
customer’s money? There’s the rub! 
Our files show more complaints about 
this engine and company than all other 
manufacturers of engines combined and 
invariably the attitude of the Detroit En¬ 
gine Co. when the complaints were pre¬ 
sented have been that the engine was all 
right and the purchaser must be either a 
fool or a knave. Frequent reference has 
been made to the methods of this house 
in the past but it seems necessary to re¬ 
peat the advice for the guidance of J. II. 
K. and other new subscribers. 
ordered to pay 
ceipts produced, 
disregarded, as 
Springfield, and 
they are now in 
THE KUKAL 
back all money on re- 
The court order was 
the parties “jumped” 
our information is that 
Waterbury. 
is. i£. vv - v o K. K. je tt 
I read, on page 15S, what you said 
about Dr. Coutant. I will give you my 
experience with him. I saw his adver¬ 
tisement to cure deafness, wrote him and 
he answered that he would treat me for 
$10 a month. I thought his letter had 
the ear-marks of a fraud, so I wrote you, 
requesting you to investigate, and you 
said that advertising doctors were after 
my money and to let them alone. I paid 
no attention to his $10 offer and some 
time after he wrote me that he would 
treat me for $7 a month. Then he made 
me another offer of $5 a month and later 
offered to treat me for $2.60 a month. I 
paid no attention to these offers and then 
he wrote that he would like me to test 
his skill, and if I would fill out a blank 
sent with his last offer he would send me 
a proscription that any first class drug¬ 
gist could fill. I filled out the blank and 
sent it to him. lie sent me the prescrip¬ 
tion. I took it to the drug store and the 
clerk said he could not put it up; would 
have to send and get the medicine. It 
might take a month and it might cost 
$15 or $20. I told him that convinced me 
tlie doctor was a fraud. lie said he 
thought so himself and advised me to 
have nothing to do with him. Now for 
the game. He sent a package of medi¬ 
cine to me marked C. O. D. $2.60 and 
wrote me as I had concluded to test his 
skill he thought I would rather he would 
put up the medicine so I would know it 
was all right. It went along a month or 
so; he wrote me calling me his dear pa¬ 
tient, hoping I was improving. I paid 
no attention to all of these letters. In 
another month he wrote me again calling 
me his dear patient, hoping that I was 
progressing finely and sent a bill for 
$2.60, requesting me to pay the same. I 
wrote him that I did not owe him any- 
thing. I had not ordered any medicine 
from him, and I had not taken any of 
his medicine, I was not his dear patient 
and never would be. If I heard from him 
again I would write out a history of 
Ibis case, bunch his letters up and send 
them to the Postmaster-General at Wash¬ 
ington. I have not heard from him since 
so I think I have got rid of him. w. s. 
The experience this subscriber had with 
the quack promising to cure deafness is 
very interesting—and yet some people 
are sincere in giving testimonial letters 
that they have been cured by these so- 
called “treatments.” The explanation is 
that many forms of deafness are only 
temporary and when the hearing returns 
from entirely natural causes the quack, 
whose treatment the person is taking, gets 
flic credit. Dr. (?) Coutant had one ex¬ 
perience with the postal authorities so 
it is not surprising that the letters sud¬ 
denly ceased when W. S. threatened to 
send his correspondence to the Post¬ 
master-General. This trick of sending 
the patient a prescription free which no 
druggist can fill is an old one—the mail 
order patent medicine fakers have worn 
the scheme threadbare. The scheme has 
cost the unwary, we dare say, into the 
millions and enriched the patent nostrum 
venders, and their partners, the publish¬ 
ers who publish their advertisements, to 
a like amount. 
T am enclosing you some correspond¬ 
ence and a contract with the Air-Friction 
Carburetor Company, of Dayton, Ohio, 
which I entered into to act as county 
agent, to sell these carburetors. The 
carburetor did not give satisfaction, and 
I therefore returned the purchasers their 
money. I made a deposit of $48 at the 
time of signing the contract, with the 
understanding that if the carburetors did 
not work the money would be refunded. 
When I made a demand for a refund of 
the money due me, the company sent me 
more carburetors, which I refused to ac¬ 
cept. and they are at the express office. 
Can you collect the balance of $21.10 
Sometime ago you published an arti¬ 
cle about exchanges for women’s work, 
and this experience of mine may be of 
use and help some other women to be on 
their guard. I joined the Crayl Ex¬ 
change, sending in my $2 for member¬ 
ship. They wanted small articles for the 
holidays. I sent some, but did not hear 
from them. I wrote and wrote and fin¬ 
ally enclosed 25 cents for the return of 
my goods. They asked for a list of same. 
I sent it but have received no reply. 
They had about $27 worth of fancy work, 
which I lost, besides my work and out¬ 
lay for material, membership fee. and the 
25 cents. i. h. s. 
New York. 
We had occasion to refer to this Crayl 
Exchange for Women’s work, 374 Main 
Street, Springfield, Mass., some time ago. 
The above complaint now reaches us, and 
it is hard to estimate how many others 
met with similar loss. This exchange was 
operated by a mother and daughter. Be¬ 
cause of complaints they were brought 
into court and fiued $50 and costs, and 
which is due me? i. o. w. 
Ohio. 
We took the complaint of this sub¬ 
scriber up with the Air-Friction Car¬ 
buretor Company, of Dayton, Ohio, and 
have been unable to get any satisfaction. 
The contentious of the company are that 
the trouble is all due to the subscriber’s 
poor salesmanship, and refuses to refund 
the balance due on the contract. The 
contract is so written as to lead the agent 
to expect that any balance over and 
above the value of the carburetors or¬ 
dered, would be refunded; but it does not, 
as far as we can see, oblige the Air-Fric¬ 
tion Carburetor Company to refund any 
portion of the money under any circum¬ 
stances. Like most contracts it appears 
to be one-sided, fully protecting the rights 
of the company using it, with no pro¬ 
tection of the other party to it. We are 
printing this brief reference of the trans¬ 
action. for the guidance of others who 
may be asked to deposit on one-sided con¬ 
tracts of this sort. 
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