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RURAL NEW.YORKER^ 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
1 «>h5ppcf] 30 dozen eggs on June 28 
to 11. iiUsss, 197 Third St., Jersey City, 
N. J. lie ^!is failed to remit for same. 
Can you collect my claim of $11.40 for 
this case of eggs? j. n. 
New Jersey. 
In reference to the above claim, we 
learn that this party was arrested on 
July 9 at Jersey City, charged with using 
the mails to defraud. We learn that 
this party has also been operating under 
the name of “J. S. Samuels,” Newark, 
N. J., and as “J. & S. Samuels,” 192 
Broome Street, New York City. The 
real name of this .swindler is Charles 
Abromson, who in the year 1914 was in 
business at 233 Madison Street, New 
York City. At that time he swindled 
shipi)ers out of eggs and we exposed him 
and warned our people at the time that 
Abromson would probably show up in 
some other locality under a different 
name in the future. Our predictions 
have come true. Abromson is at pres¬ 
ent in jail under .$4,000 bail awaiting 
the action of the United States Crand 
Jury. lie is therefore out of the way 
of temptation for the present, but there 
are many other receivers in the market 
playing Abromson’s game, and just so 
long as poultry men will send Iheir goods 
to people they know nothing about, this 
class of swindlers will thrive. The Post 
CfRce Department and the Fcnlei-al 
Coiirts are doing their part to protect 
shippers from such rascals. The Burai. 
Nkw-Yorker is also “doing its bit,” but 
it is up to the shippers themselves to re¬ 
fuse to ship their produce to anyone who 
cannot show responsibility and reliability. 
I am enclosing a letter from the Acorn 
I’rass Manufacturing Company, of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. Are they reliable? Some time 
last Winter I ordered one unilite lantern, 
and could not get it to work, and re¬ 
turned it prepaid. I told them to d(Mluct 
enough from original i)rice to paj’’ for 
j>acking and edeaning .same and return 
me balance; have written them several 
times. They seem to have a supi)ly of 
letters as this one reads same as the one 
they wrote me Avhen T returned lantern, 
saying they would hold the lantern when 
it returned, and they had the lantern 
several months ago. Would there be any 
chance to collect the price, $3.98? 
West Virginia. j. k. f. 
The Acorn Brass Mfg. Co., Chicago, 
III., is a financially re.sponsible concern. 
These lanterns are sold under a guaran¬ 
tee to refund money or replace umsatis- 
factory lantern. The firm in this ca.se 
reserves to itself the option to send an¬ 
other lantern. We regard that a fair in¬ 
terpretation of the guarantee would give 
the purchaser the option and no doubt 
this is the way the company desires the 
pro.spective customer to interpret it. 
Other subscribers will know what to ex¬ 
pect when oi-dering from this house in 
the future. 
I am unable to see why so many farm¬ 
ers are always beaten by these various 
firms, when .such a reliable paper as 
The R. N.-Y. is continually warning its 
readers of the snares of these firm.s. Some 
months ago you had published about a 
portrait firm working among the farmers. 
One day he came to our home and of 
course showed us his samples, took a 
package of tickets out of his pocket and 
asked myself and wife to draw. I 
promptly told him “nothing doing” as his 
firm was advertised in a reliable farm 
paper as a fake. He promptly closed up 
his sample case and left, never a.sking 
in what farm paper I saw his firm men¬ 
tioned as a fake. One of our neighbor’s 
told me it cost him $8.50 to get done 
with that agent, but said he would never 
get caught again. We wish you success 
in your exposure of the farmers’ enemies 
—the money grabbers. f. e. d. 
Ohio. 
We publish the above letter of the 
Ohio subscriber because of the suggestion 
that other subscribers might also profit 
by a more careful reading of Ihiblisher’s 
Desk department. Few of us can claim 
that we have not been sold a “gold brick” 
at some time or other. It is our partic¬ 
ular aim in this department to give our 
subscribers information that will put 
them wise to the sharks and humbugs 
seeking to get their cash v/ithout giving 
fair value in return for it. We cannot 
warn our people against every particular 
fake, but the bait used by sharpers is 
very frequently of the same variety and 
the earmarks can be readily recognized. 
The Union Security Co., McAlester, 
Oklahoma, got $80 from me. I I’cceived 
a slip of printed paper with ngent’s name 
signed “H. II. Henry,” saying 108 acres. 
I am a widow working in a .shop on a 
power machine. Mr. Henry said it was a 
square deal, that I would never have to 
work in a shop after 30 days. This is 
taking blood money from a poor widow. 
Can you help me get my money back? 
Massachusetts. mrs. .t. s. 
We are unable to get this money back 
for this widow Avho was persuaded by 
the slick agent f)f the above company that 
her fortune would be made by buying 
Oklahoma lands. The McAlester Real 
Estate Co. is operating on the same plan 
’—both concerns are no doubt within the 
law, but when they take the hard-earned 
savings of a poor woman under such rep¬ 
resentations these real estate sharks put 
themselves outside the pale of desirable 
citizens. 
On June 9th there appeared in The 
Rtirae New-Yorkicr a statement signed 
H. Cr. M., in which one of our customers, 
having bought “Rid of Rats” from us, 
complains that we did not live up to our 
guarantee. I’urposely or otherwise the 
statement omits details, hence the edito- 
riiil remark f>f your paper does us gross 
injustice in commenting on the c mplaint 
of 11. G. M. by insinuating that as a con¬ 
sequence of the statement of your corre- 
siiondent, H. 6. M., you have barred us 
from your adverti.sing columns, while thj 
facts are, that v/e, about a year a ^o, 
withdrew all advertising from ,our 
paper, and have never since made uii at¬ 
tempt to enter your columns aga-'.i, hence 
where there was no attempf- to enter 
there could have been no act of refu.sing 
us entry. 
We may also say that while we regret 
that our firm has been the object of dLs- 
cu!5sion ip your paper, we assure all those 
dealing with us, that where the circum¬ 
stances are consistent with good methods 
cf business,^ we have been living and al¬ 
ways will live up to our guarantee. As 
to the quality of “Rid of Rats,” we can 
safely leave judgment to the hundred 
thousands of satisfied customers whom 
we have freed of the rat and mouse pest, 
and to the fact that thou.sands of the 
most flatterin'? and unsolicited testimo¬ 
nials are at our disposal. 
THE BERG & BEARD MFG. CO., INC. 
C. Berg, President. 
The R. N.-Y. not only desires to do no 
one an injustice or to give i-eason for 
feeling we have been unjust and we there¬ 
fore print the above statement of The 
Berg & Beard Mfg. Co., Inc. 
The statement from H. G. M. refeircd 
to simply gave his experience. Perhaps 
he was not entitled to a refund under 
the circumstances. We did not intimate 
that he was; but desired other subscrib¬ 
ers to understand that they must not ex¬ 
pect a refund under similar circum¬ 
stances. Notwith.standing the fact that 
the firm refused to make refund to H. G. 
M. the advertiser claims, to use the firm’s 
own language: “We guarantee all goods 
and refund money when goods are re¬ 
turned within a reasonable time, but not 
after several months.’* The goods in this 
case were ordered Feb. 10, 1917, and re¬ 
fund was asked on May 5. The in¬ 
ference that the advertising of this 
firm is barred from The R. N.-Y. 
because of the transaction is erroneous. 
We advised the firm on Sept. 13, 1916, 
that their advertising would net be ac¬ 
ceptable for the columns of The R. N.-Y. 
in the future. This action was taken 
because of the attitude of the firm in con¬ 
nection with the order of another sub¬ 
scriber. The advertising order had ex¬ 
pired previous to. the time this contro- 
A’ersy arose. 
Berg & Beard claim to have antici¬ 
pated our action, withdrawing their ad¬ 
vertising by telephone on or about Sept. 
9. We have no record of this, but desii-e 
to give the firm the benefit of every doubt. 
At any rate, we are agreed with regard 
to future advertising! 
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