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THE KURA L, NKW-YORKER 
September 4, 1015, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A little item in your fa'ke column saved 
me about $25. k. w. 
New Jersey. 
Well, that one item would pay for the 
paper 25 years, longer, perhaps than this 
one man will be a patron, and yet we have 
many family names on the list that have 
been there continuously for more than 
half a century. We would be glad if the 
paper saved $25 in one way or another 
for each one of them every year. 
The Dan Patch line, or the Minneapo¬ 
lis. St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque, 
failed by a narrow margin to earn its 
fixed charges in the year ended June 20, 
1014. Partly as a result of this and part¬ 
ly because of the business depression, the 
company found increasing difficulty in 
selling its stock and recently did what it 
always had intended never to do—it sold 
bonds to the amount of $750.000 secured 
by first mortgage on all its property. As 
a result of this sale the .1. G. White cor¬ 
poration now has the management of the 
company and is purchasing all supplies 
for it. There are no recent reports of 
earnings available, but presumably divi¬ 
dends on the $9,000,000 more or less of 
stock are still far in the future.—Chicago 
Tribune. 
If any It. N.-Y. reader finds himself a 
stockholder in this mortgaged road, he 
will know that he acted contrary to th•> 
information given in these columns at va¬ 
rious times. Railroads are necessary. 
They are all right when properly man¬ 
aged, but this road was 'organized in the 
promotion style. Farmers have trials 
enough of their own without financing 
the schemes of romantic promoters. Mr. 
Savage assured prospective stockholders 
that no stock would be sold to Wall 
Street. But now lie has evidently mort¬ 
gaged the whole lot of them to Wall 
Street, and turned over the management, 
in order to get the loan. If you had to 
give up tin* control of the farm to get a 
loan, you would not value your equity 
very much. How much is the stock of 
such a railroad worth? If you have any 
awaiting those big profits promised a 
short time ago, take it to your bank and 
get it appraised and charge the difference 
between that and the cost to experience. 
Don’t call yourself names. If you had 
our information you would have known 
in advance just as we did. We are no 
wiser than you. We simply had the in¬ 
formation. You didn’t. This is a case 
where you might have been saved by 
faith—perhaps you were. 
I am sending you a copy of letters I 
sent to the Akron Tire Company, Kil2 
Broadway. New York. ’Chose Akron 
tires are the poorest tire that could pos¬ 
sibly be made. I will not take any Akron 
tires under any consideration. I am not 
naturally a sucker, but I bit that time, 
because I saw their advertisement in the 
“Automobile,” and thought it would be 
all right. Now what I would like you to 
do is to see if you could get some of my 
$23.X0 back. Any part that you think 
would be right I will accept. c. p. 
Massachusetts. 
We have taken this matter up with the 
Akron Tire Company and the only ad¬ 
justment which the concern is willing to 
make is to send the subscriber another 
tire in replacement of the two worthless 
ones returned. This the subscriber re¬ 
fuses to accept on the ground that the 
tires sent out by the Akron Tire Com¬ 
pany are worthless. Of course an auto¬ 
mobile tire that runs only a few hundred 
miles and blows out. damaging the inner 
tire, if not destroying it entirely, in ad¬ 
dition to the annoyance of frequently 
changing tires on the road is considered 
by automobile owners generally as even 
worse than worthless—a positive damage. 
The experience the subscriber has had 
with the Akron tires, which has been 
practically duplicated by other subscrib¬ 
ers reporting to us, justifies him in refus¬ 
ing to accept the tire in replacement. As 
a rule, the buying of cheap tires or what 
is known as seconds, turns out to be the 
most expensive in the end, to say noth¬ 
ing of the annoyance. 
Sir: Your letter says if I don’t pay 
the June installment on that 10 acres of 
Florida land you will start the machinery 
of the law moving in my direction. Well, 
I’m not going to pay it, or the July, or 
the August, nor any of the rest. I’ve 
quit, so start your machinery of the law 
and I’ll put a monkey wrench into it 
that’ll knock out more cogs than Mr. 
Blackstone could replace working nights 
and Sundays for the next three years. 
Say, when that slick-tongued salesman 
of yours sold me those 10 acres for $50 
down and $10 a month as long as I live, 
he had the Indian sign on me, with his 
back to the land and be your own boss 
stud. I used to sit out on the porch 
after supper smoking my pipe and dream¬ 
ing about that southern home, the bunga¬ 
low among the palm trees, the evening 
breeze laden with perfume of orange blos¬ 
soms. my orange blossoms. And now a 
friend of mine who went to Florida on 
other business sends me back a kodak pic¬ 
ture of my farm that shows a fellow sit¬ 
ting in the middle of it. in a boat, fishing. 
It would be a grand place for a fishing 
lodge if there was a chunk of ground big 
enough to build a shack on. sticking out 
of the water anywhere. Did you think 
I could live in water just because I’m a 
sucker, or does a diving suit go with that 
10 acres? I didn’t get mine. 
The above is a letter from a victim of 
a Florida land scheme to the company that 
promoted the sale. It may serve as a 
suggestion for some one who is tempted 
by promises. 
We have a world of hay down here and 
I am finding a market for it. My little 
advertisement in The R. N.-Y. brought 
us lots of orders. s. H. B. 
Indiana. 
We have always felt that there is a 
great opportunity for our people to trade 
with each other first hand through th • 
Subscribers’ Exchange. Our readers are 
so widely separated and have so many 
individual wants it seems that almost 
anything one has to sell another needs. 
We have made the cost of this space so 
low there is no profit for it to the pap< r. 
so that we do not refer to its use with any 
desire for profit, but it would be a great 
thing if one class of readers could sell 
their surplus to another. 
Did you have any luck collecting from 
George Wessells? n. A. v. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Enclosed find statement of account 
against Geo. Wessells for $100.50. Will 
you try to collect this? F. c. A. 
New York. 
We did not have “luck” in collecting 
either of these accounts or some half- 
dozen others sent us, and the prospect is 
the egg shippers will suffer a total loss. 
Mr. Wessells has promised to pay for the 
last year, but does not make' good. He 
claims to be out of business but his ad¬ 
vertisement still appears in some of the 
poultry papers giving his address at 5 
South Third Street, Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
lie was previously located at G59 Post 
Road. Williams Bridge, and 4024 Carpen¬ 
ter Street. Bronx, New York. Our read¬ 
ers will avoid similar loss by refusing to 
send him shipments. 
What do you know of the National 
Paving Company of Scranton, Pa. *. 
Quite a number of investors are found 
in this community. G- <T - 
New York. 
The National Paving Company is a 
Delaware corporation, and it is proposed 
that it will be a holding concern for 
forming a pave proposition in tin 1 State 
of Pennsylvania. The capitalization is 
$500,000, consisting of $250,000 common 
stock and $250,000 preferred stock, par 
value of $50 per share. It is stated by 
one of the officials of the company that 
it is the intention to organize six differ¬ 
ent corporations with a capitalization of 
$5,000 each, to be located in six prin¬ 
cipal cities of Pennsylvania, which will 
be known as the operating companies. 
The official interviewed withheld the 
names of some parties interested in the 
company, claiming that it was not wise 
to give their names out at present. This 
organization seems to bear the earmarks 
of the Foster chain of investment enter¬ 
prises eminating from Scranton, I’a., 
while our report does not connect Mr. 
Foster’s name with it. The concern is 
in formation state, and at best there is 
nothing to warrant an investment of as 
much as a nickel in the proposition. 
Indigestion. 
I have a fine large mare 1400 or 1500 
pounds, about 10 months with foal. She 
lias indigestion. For some three weeks she 
has had something similar to cramp colic. 
She is pretty well but is getting thin 
in flesh and is not very energetic. What 
is the trouble and what is best to do for 
her. Appetite is very good. R. 
()regon. 
Grass is disagreeing with her while 
at work and it would be well to keep her 
off grass and feed hay. Also add one- 
ninth part of wheat bran to the oats and 
dampen it at feeding time. If the trou¬ 
ble persists it will be well to retire her 
from work and let her run on grass, with¬ 
out other feed. a. s. a. 
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ried back to the house but the fire was out before we got there. 
My eldest daughter, Jennie, it seems, had been cooking when 
the gasoline stove exploded and caught her dress on fire, and at 
the same time set fire to the kitchen. 
Alice, my youngest daughter, who is only ten, ran for the 
Pyrene Fire Extinguisher which hung in the hall upstairs and 
put out every bit of the blaze in a jiffy. 
It was just in the nick of time, too. Ten seconds later and we 
might have had a vacant chair at our table. 
1 certainly would never do without a Pyrene. My neighbors, 
learning of our experience, are buying Pyrenes. 
It certainly saved a life in our home. 
Send us the name of your implement or hardware dealer ami we will send you 
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