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THE F4UECA.L, rsi VV - Y U K K K K 
May 8, I'.tl.i. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
■ A number of years ago I invested $15 
with the Orange Judd Company through 
Herbert Myriek, in their new building. 
They promised to send me the American 
Agriculturist for life, and to pay $1 per 
year as interest. I get the paper but 
never get the dollar. Is there any way to 
get back my money? T have lost the cer¬ 
tificate by fire. a. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
T am enclosing a building certificate for 
$100 against the Phelps Publishing Com¬ 
pany, controlled by Herbert Myriek. No 
interest has been paid for seven years, as 
we were to let. it remain with the princi¬ 
pal. While the amount is small I do not 
wish to lose it, and hope you can collect 
it for me. m. 0. n. 
Massachusetts. 
We wrote Mr. Myriek some time ago 
requesting a remittance for the $15 cer¬ 
tificate, with the assurance that we would 
give him an affidavit from A. M. that the 
certificate had been destroyed, and any 
reasonable protection that he may re¬ 
quire in the refund of this money, lie 
has not sent the remittance nor has he 
answered our letter. We are drawing on 
him for the $100 certificate with interest 
and made a demand for payment in full, 
the certificate to be banded to him by tbe 
bank in exchange for the payment of the 
draft. We have now also made a draft 
for the fifteen dollars. It is our infor¬ 
mation that Mr. Myriek has something 
like $100,000 of farmers’ money, which 
be has received in exchange for these cer¬ 
tificates. From the advertising given the 
Myriek building at the time the certifi¬ 
cates were issued, and the fact that tbe 
impression was given that the certificates 
were a lien on the building, country peo¬ 
ple, men and women, accepted the certi¬ 
ficates as a secured investment. In some 
of the literature Mr. Myriek went so far 
as to assure the people that an invest¬ 
ment of this kind made them a partner 
with him in the business. This was 
clearly a misrepresentation. The invest¬ 
ment did not make them a partner of My¬ 
riek. and the certificates are no lien what¬ 
ever on the building. In fact, the build¬ 
ing has lately been sold and transferred, 
and mortgages on it increased. The hold¬ 
ers of these certificates have absolutely 
no collateral security of any kind. 
They have a mere written promise 
to return the money on demand 
after 00 days’ notice, after it has 
been outstanding five years. No doubt 
many of his subscribers are yet holding 
these certificates under the impression 
that they have a safe and secure invest¬ 
ment. If so they are laboring under a de¬ 
lusion. The certificates were fakes, and 
they were worked off on Mr. My rick's 
own subscribers through misrepresenta¬ 
tion. No bank would accept them, and 
they can be sold only to people of small 
means without experience in investing 
their money. 
Our drafts have been returned through 
the bank unpaid, but we are not alarmed. 
Mr. Myriek will return the money for 
these two certificates. No man can pub¬ 
licly repudiate such an obligation and yet 
live on the patronage of honest farmers. 
We will get this money, but we would not 
guarantee to collect on all the outstand¬ 
ing certificates if presented at once. 
Money easily secured is usually spent 
recklessly, and even if he would, any fake 
promoter is seldom able to square up in 
full. 
Mr. Myriek will return the money for 
these two certificates. He will hardly 
expect us to accept excuses and evasions, 
but how long can he pose as a high moral 
alvocate and leave the evidence of these 
fake investment schemes scattered over 
the country in the hands of his victims? 
I would like to join your Anti-Fake 
Flub. Received the enclosed envelope 
with contents yesterlay. w. t. 
('onnecticut. 
The contents of the envelope referred 
to are post cards of nine separate houses 
soliciting business, ranging from tobacco 
habit cures to agents’ propositions for 
selling various lines of goods, patent 
medicine concerns, etc., sent out by the 
Twentieth Century Mailing Service of 
Chicago, Ill. If any legitimate houses are 
included in the collection of post cards, to 
say the least, they are in bad company. 
We think most of our people recognize 
that the proper disposition of literature 
of this kind is to put it in the fire as 
soon as it is received, and thus avoid 
tern ptation. 
Enclosed find a letter from a fancier, 
H. I). Roth, Souderton, Pa., from whom 
I ordered four settings of It. C. Black 
Minorca eggs last Spring. This is the 
reply after writing him several times. 
The eggs bought were to be first class. 
The eggs were only .‘10% fertile, and the 
chicks obtained were all black but one 
when batched ; this one was white and is 
now a buff. All the cockerels when 
feathered had red or buff backs. G. D. 
New York. 
There is always a question as to the 
responsibility of the breeder when eggs 
fail to hatch after having been shipped 
a distance, but there is none where, as 
it appears in this case, the chicks did 
not turn out to be purebred of the variety 
ordered. Mr. Roth considers the case 
none of The R. N.-Y.’s concern since he 
did not advertise the eggs in our col¬ 
umns. Readers may draw their own con¬ 
clusions. 
During the past two months we have 
had reports from subscribers that they 
have failed to receive returns from ship¬ 
ments to the following houses: 
Kurtin & Safren. 102 Reade Street, 
New York. 
F. II. IVe Bow & Co., Newark, N. J. 
W. II. Conrad, Atlantic City, N. J. 
E. Eohsen, 975 Second Avenue, New 
York. 
Menge & Steiniger, 441 E. 144th St., 
New York. 
('has. S. Rosenberg & Co., 838 S. 4th 
St., Philadelphia, Pa., later at 1615 
Michigan Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Investigation showed that some of the 
concerns had moved and left no trace 
of their whereabouts, and others paid no 
attention to the complaints. We might 
add to this that many complaints reach 
us regarding: 
A. Seekendorf, Bath Beach, N. Y. 
1). L. O’Connor, Huguenot Park, 
Staten Island. 
Geo. A. Reynolds, Newark, N. J. 
A little delay to look into their fin¬ 
ancial standing would have saved consid¬ 
erable loss. 
An illustration of the means and meth¬ 
ods of promoters to gain their ends is re¬ 
vealed in tin* trial of 1\ M. Looker, who 
appears to have been the moving spirit 
in the Monatou Realty Co. swindle. The 
following report from the daily papers 
shows how a minister was duped and 
used by the promoter to allay the sus¬ 
picious of prospective investors: 
The Rev. John C. Chapman, who gave 
up his pulpit in Haekettstown, N. J.. to 
accept the editorship of the Monaton 
Monthly, testified about the acceleration 
of security sales at the resumption yes¬ 
terday in the Federal Court here of the 
trial of Pierre M. Looker, president of 
the dead Monaton Realty Company. The 
clergyman said President Looker was re¬ 
sponsible for the articles praising the 
Monaton scheme. All the matter relating 
to the company was invariably submitted 
to Looker, said Chapman. One edition 
was suppressed because an article had 
slipped in that did not meet Looker’s ap¬ 
proval. Th > magazine had a circulation 
of about 2,000 copies, the clergyman tes¬ 
tified. and was distributed from the com¬ 
pany’s offices in this city to persons like¬ 
ly to become interested in the company’s 
securities. 
Mr. Chapman insisted that he had 
acted in good faith, as Looker had told 
him that the company's properties yield¬ 
ed 10 per cent, net profit, and the invest¬ 
ment offered “an opportunity without a 
parallel" and “a proposition which pays 
as it goes.” These phrases were used in 
the monthlv. 
On cross-examination the clergyman- 
editor said he had taken Looker’s repre¬ 
sentation on faith, with the exception 
that he made inquiries from the auditing 
department regarding the total assets. 
Many of the eulogistic articles he pre¬ 
part'd from listening to Looker’s address¬ 
es to agents and solicitors. As on pre¬ 
vious days of the trial there were in 
court many persons who had contributed 
to tin* $1,000,000 sunk in the company’s 
securities. 
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I should build a separate house, for the 
reason that I should want it more than 
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for open-front ventilation, with sufficient 
depth to permit of the perches being 
placed out of drafts, and the house would 
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