1026 
August 14, 1913. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Mr. Frank Urner, of the Produce Re¬ 
view, is disturbed because as be says the 
Department of Foods and Markets openly 
declares: “A whole class of business 
men to be a set of dishonest and swind¬ 
ling parasites, scheming to get control of 
farm products below their value, and sus¬ 
taining themselves at the expense of 
cheated and downtrodden producers.” 
To people who do not know Mr. Urner 
and the peculiar nature of his services to 
convicts and crooks, his words would 
sound like an outburst of righteous in¬ 
dignation in defense of a noble and hon¬ 
est industry; but coming from Mr. Ur¬ 
ner in his present position of apologist 
and defender of crooks it does not have 
the ring of sincerity. Mr. Urner was an 
official of the Mercantile Exchange, and 
printed its official quotations which Judge 
Jacocks decreed to be untruthful, wilful, 
deliberate, intentional, systematic and 
fraudulent! He did the bidding of the 
live poultry trust, and published their ar¬ 
bitrary quotations, and defended and 
pleaded for them even after their convic¬ 
tion was confirmed by every competent 
court in the State. He continued the 
pleading and the apologies after the con¬ 
victs had gone to the penitentiary. He 
knew that prominent men in the produce 
business confessed to fraudulent practices 
against the transportation companies, and 
paid heavy fines. He knows that promi¬ 
nent men in the trade have been fre¬ 
quently tried, convicted and fined or im¬ 
prisoned fer violations of law in the city, 
State and Federal courts. He knows that 
a recent and incompleted investigation of 
the Attorney General’s office shows that 
prominent houses in the produce trade 
deceived and cheated the Federal. Navy 
and State Departments and made fraud¬ 
ulent returns to shippers. He knows that 
it is general information as well as official 
record that shippers get such bad treat¬ 
ment in the New York market, they ship 
to it only when they have no other mar¬ 
ket, and then expect to be “done up,” and 
that in this expectation, at least, they are 
seldom if ever disappointed. 
Mr. Urner knows more, but this is 
sufficient for the present. It looks as 
though no proof of deception on the part 
of a produce dealer would bar him from 
the use of advertising space in Mr. Ur- 
ner’s paper. Apparently no conviction or 
confession of guilt taints the money 
that pays Mr. Urner’s advertising bills. 
Even while the heads of the houses are 
wearing stripes in the State and Federal 
prisons does not Mr. Urner open his col¬ 
umns to their advertisements, while he 
accepts his share of the loot of crooks? 
Mr. Urner may deceive himself by his 
protestations of virtue, but he deceives 
no one else—certainly not Governor Whit¬ 
man ! 
William E. Moore, of Detroit, Mich., 
advertised for a young man with $500 to 
invest in an ice cream making machine 
for a season at Coney Island ; $15 a week 
and 50 per cent, of proceeds from sales 
would be allowed. Inducements were of¬ 
fered for taking larger concessions. In¬ 
vestigation showed that Moore, his wife, 
Ruth Moore, and William Cleverager had 
been working the same sort of a scheme 
at San Francisco and other places, and 
others beside the complainant were 
duped. The three were arrested on the 
charge of having used the mails illegally 
and are held on bail. All sorts of schemes 
are originated with the sole intention of 
separating the unsuspecting from their 
savings—and it is wise to take every pre¬ 
caution in the way of investigation before 
parting with your money. Once put 
into schemes of this kind, it can never be 
recovered. 
Leon or Louis Bamburger, New York, 
used the mails in an Ingenious scheme. 
For years he has been answering adver¬ 
tisements for agents and salesmen under 
the representation that he had a large 
clientele, thereby securing employment on 
commission and a drawing account basis. 
After securing a position he would turn 
in many orders, collect commissions on 
same and draw on his account, and then 
disappear. The merchants found goods 
shipped on his orders went to irresponsi¬ 
ble parties who disposed of the goods and 
also disappeared. This alleged fraud 
totals several thousand dollars and some 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
small concerns were forced out of busi¬ 
ness. He had previously served a year in 
prison and is now held on bail for oper¬ 
ating schemes to defraud through the 
mail. 
J. F. O’Neil, Philadelphia, Pa., butter 
and eggs and poultry dealer, has been ar¬ 
rested on charges of using the mails to 
defraud and held in $500 bail. He made 
alluring promises of payments greatly in 
advance of market quotations. In many 
cases for shipments consigned to him by 
farmers, he made no return ; in others he 
sent checks which were promptly protest¬ 
ed. Shippers attempting to look him up 
found “for rent” signs on the door. Some 
of his addresses were 2814 W. Hunting- 
ton Street, Philadelphia—4025 Ridge 
Ave., Philadelphia—102 Cotton St., Man- 
ayunk—2628 N. 28th St., Philadelphia. 
Mr. O’Neil’s explanation is that he was 
often mistaken for his twin brother, J. A. 
O’Neil, who is also in the butter and egg 
business, and whose practices were criti¬ 
cised, but not having used the mails he 
escaped with a reprimand. J. F. O’Neil 
claimed employees have defrauded him so 
he was unable to take care of accounts 
due. Nevertheless more than a dozen 
complaints have been entered against him. 
I am enclosing one dollar for renewal 
of my subscription to The R. N.-Y., also 
a bill for collection. I notice in Publish¬ 
er’s Desk that you have good success in 
collecting. J. R. 
Vermont. 
We did not meet with success in this 
case. The subscriber sent E. D. Bar¬ 
tholomew, Collins Station, N. Y., 13 
bushels of seed potatoes at $1 per bushel 
and failed to receive payment. Our let¬ 
ters were delivered but brought no re¬ 
sponse, and since Mr. Bartholomew can¬ 
not be located in the vicinity, keep the 
record in case he turns up again. 
I have 48 shares at $10 a share in the 
Monte Cristo Conservative Mining Co., of 
Douglas. Arizona, dated May 4, 1005, 
also 1.000 shares at $1 a share in Ideal 
Mining and Development Co., at Spokane, 
Wash., dated November 25, 1007. Would 
you tell me if these are of any value? 
New York. A. A. 
We could get no information in regard 
to the one mining company. The Ideal 
is not an active company, and while 
they claim $20,000 was expended for im¬ 
provements and development work, it is 
alleged that the property has lain idle for 
the past four years, as far as operations 
by the company are concerned. Whether 
these mining companies were organized 
for the express purpose of separating the 
unsuspecting from their cash or are 
merely “Lost Hopes” of some visionary 
operator the result is all the same to 
the investor—the money put in them is 
gone. 
I have long had a desire to join the 
Anti-Fake Club, but missed the rules and 
regulations, so thought I would have to 
put up some certain sum to join, and 
could not see my way clear to pay any¬ 
thing. I am sending herewith 10 cents in 
stamps; if you will mail me 100 Anti- 
Fake Stamps, and place me on as a mem¬ 
ber I will send you the first dollar I can 
get that I can call my own, as I do not 
know where a man could invest $1 to bet¬ 
ter purpose. The R. N.-Y. has already 
saved me more money than the paper 
would cost for a lifetime. I have some 
correspondence to attend to now, but am 
holding same as I want to use one of 
these stamps. II. w. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
The rules and regulations governing 
membership in the Anti-Fake Club are so 
simple no one need hesitate to join. The 
purpose i* to protect mutual interests; to 
discourage deception, and to promote 
honest legitimate business. The members 
report to the secretary any case of de¬ 
ception, and bring same to the attention 
of the publisher in whose paper it ap¬ 
pears. There are no dues. Voluntary 
contributions are accepted, but they are 
not solicited. The stamps are furnished 
at five cents the hundred, and are useful 
in promulgating the intentions of the 
members. 
A number of New York and Massa¬ 
chusetts subscribers have reported pay¬ 
ing their subscriptions to one E. S. 
Brandt, who has failed to turn such 
money over to us. Our readers are there¬ 
fore warned against paying money to 
this party on account of the Rural New- 
Yorker. and we will consider it a favor to 
us if they will advise us promptly if ap¬ 
proached by him. 
Freight Charges; Underground Streams. 
1. A great deal of milk is shipped from 
here to Philadelphia, via the Philadel¬ 
phia & Reading R. R. on a combination 
milk and passenger train at a rate of 
6-10 cent per quart, tickets required to 
be attached to each can. Can the rail¬ 
road company compel the farmers to load 
the milk from the platform into the train, 
and refuse to take milk on which the 
transportation has been paid in advance, 
if not so loaded by the shippers? All 
other shipments, in less than car lots, of 
which I have any knowledge, are load¬ 
ed by railroad employees. 
2. What are the rights of land owners 
to the underground water? There is a 
spring exactly on the line between two 
farms. A has dug a shqllow well just 
on his side of line and pumps his water 
supply therefrom. B proposes to do the 
same, but A claims B has no right to 
do this, as it would reduce his (A's) 
supply, as the water all comes from the 
same source, the ground being gravelly, 
and water percolating through it easily. 
What is the law in the case? 
3. A man near here had a fine flowing 
artesian well. A village of which he is a 
resident bought ground adjoining, drilled 
two deeper wells, securing a fine supply 
for municipal use, but greatly reducing 
the supply from the original well. Now 
another citizen has drilled a well close 
by which also flows a large stream. Can 
the owner of the original well recover 
damages for the decrease of his water 
supply, and if so from whom? p. s. w. 
New Jersey. 
1. I never heard of railroads requiring 
shippers to load in less than carload lots, 
but these rates and the question of load¬ 
ing are governed entirely by the pub¬ 
lished freight tariffs of the company, a 
copy of which must be on file with your 
station agent, who must exhibit it to you 
on demand. There are some classes of 
freight which the railroads compel the 
shippers to place on the cars, such, I 
think, as stage scenery, etc., and as long 
as they can show that the circumstances 
make it a reasonable requirement, and it 
applies to everybody alike, it will prob 
ably be upheld. If you consider this an 
unreasonable and discriminatory rate and 
regulation, it is an excellent opportunity 
to get the farmers shipping from this 
station to cooperate and place the matter 
before the Interstate Commerce Commis 
sion in the form of a complaint. If you 
could only get together this course might 
not be necessary. The company might 
see a light. 
2. 3. These waters which pass through 
the ground beneath the surface of the 
earth without any definite channel and 
not shown to be fed by a definite flowing 
stream are known as “percolating 
waters” and are subject to the absolute 
disposition of the owner of the realty 
where they are found, and there is no 
correlative right on the part of an adjoin¬ 
ing owner to have such water reach or 
flow into his land, nor can one obtain 
a prescriptive right by long use of these 
waters which another is bound to recog¬ 
nize. B has the right to dig a well. And 
the owner of the original well in your last 
question has no right of action against 
the village or the citizen. Unless they 
can agree as to the use each shall have 
of the water, which they should attempt 
to do, the only recourse is to dig a deep¬ 
er well. 
Visitor: “What’s up around here? 
Every house is closed, all the street- 
signs' removed, hardly any lights, and not 
a person on the streets. You aren’t look¬ 
ing for a Zeppelin raid, are you?” Sub¬ 
urban Resident: “O no! This is the 
first of the month, the day when the in¬ 
stallment collectors come out here from 
the city.”—Puck. 
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