1046 
7She RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 1, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On February 21, 1017. I shipped to 
1.. M. Oilbert. wholesale eonimission mor¬ 
el 22 Cnllowhill street. I’hiladelphia, 
.. fat Piarre<l Koek hens, for which 
1 wa to receive 22c i)er i)ound. The 
net 5 ocfeds airiounled to .$2S..‘!() iifter 
deiliictinp expressage and commission. 
Aff<‘r several we(‘ks had ])ass(‘d T received 
oi account, with j)roinise that bal¬ 
ance would he at this rate every week 
until debt uas paid. After receivina: fir.st 
Iiayment in March I luive not I'cceived 
any more. Have written twice, hut have 
had no answer. I have shipped to Mr. 
(Jilhert tor several years. Tie has alw.iy.s 
been p.ronipt heretofore. Ilis first letter 
.stated that he had had .some financial 
difficulties, hut that he would p.ay every 
cent of the .$22.04 still owing, hut to 
date has not i)aid or <Toes not answer my 
letters. G. F. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
IVe have other claims against L. M. 
rtilhert of I’hiliidelphia. Pa., which we 
haA'O ueen unable to collect, and we are 
printing the above letter merely for the 
information of otluu’ shippers who may 
he solicited by him to ship him their 
jii’oduce. 
In 1014 D. B. Cornell & Co., Ot. Bar¬ 
rington, Mass., through an agent named 
J. J. Booker, induced my client to sign 
one of CorneH’s contracts by the terms 
of which the defendant, if he withdrew 
the premises, Avas to pay a withdrawal 
fee and which in his case amounted to 
$2G4. At the time of making the con¬ 
tract the agent secured $20 from the de¬ 
fendant and a couple of years later the 
defendant wrote to Cornell that he de¬ 
sired withdraw his farm. At that 
time h., discovered for the first time that 
he was liable to a withdrawal fee of 
$204. upon which he was credited the 
.$20 paid at the time of .signing the al¬ 
leged contract, leaving a balance of $244. 
Cornell wrote him several letters in which 
he demanded this amount and at various 
times sent him printed matter informing 
him of the dire consequences Avhich fol¬ 
lowed a refusal of parties to pay a Avith- 
drawal fee. Among other papers sent 
the defendant was one in which Cornell 
set forth the fact that he was a resident 
of New York City, having a home at 120 
West GOth street, and advising that it 
was useless to attempt to change the 
place of trial, and that the net result 
wa.s that the client’s attorney got a tri]) 
to New York at considerable expense to 
his client, “only to find that he cannot 
secure the change.” “This useless move 
cost around $.50 and you haven’t even 
started.” And a lot more bunk to the 
same effect was set forth in this state¬ 
ment. In this particular case I made a 
motion to change the place of trial from 
New York County to Lewis County upon 
the ground that Cornel! w.as not a resi¬ 
dent of New York State. My papers also 
showed that F). B. Cornell Company was 
incorporated in the State of Delaware, 
and it also filed a certific.ate of condition 
in the State of Massachusetts for the 
yeai’S 1914, 1915 and 191G. I also had 
iiflidavits from Great Barrington, Mas.s., 
which is the real home of Cornell, show¬ 
ing that Cornell and his family both re¬ 
sided there and that he was assessed for 
j)oll tax in the town of Great Barrington 
for the year 191G. I also had affidavits 
showing numerous letters and statements 
mailed by Cornell showing his address 
to be Great Barrington, Mass., and cop¬ 
ies of letters sent out by Cornell in 
which he was addressed at Great Barring¬ 
ton. Mass. I had an affidavit showing 
that Cornell w'as not a resident of 12G 
West IGGth street, but that, on the con- 
tr.ary, he had only rented a small bed¬ 
room there, had only appeared there a 
few times and had advised the landlady 
to forward any mail Avhich came to him 
there to Great Barrington, IMass. That 
Cornell only paid for this room in New 
York City when he occupied it. In the 
action in Avhich my motion was made 
Cornell appeared by one Thomas Benton 
Wilgu.s, of 50 West 24th street. New 
York City, and after my motion to change 
the place of trial Avas made Cornell, 
through his attorney, offered to let my 
client convpromise for $100. Ths Ave de¬ 
clined to do. My motion to change the 
place of trial was made returnable in 
NeAv York City on July 16th and no ap¬ 
pearance was made on the part of Cor¬ 
nell to contest the motion and the mo¬ 
tion to change the place of tidal from 
New York County to Lewis County Avas 
granted by default. r. E. n. 
Ncav York. 
The above statement illustrates the 
means taken by D. B. Cornell & Co. to 
bluff and hulldoxe farmers into paying a 
Avithdrawal fee. When farmers .show a 
disposition to fight for their rights as this 
farmer did Cornell fails to come into 
court to oppose the motion. The first 
essential of a plaintiff in the eyes of the 
court is that he must “come to court 
Avith clean hands.” This Cornell cannot 
do—^the $20 advance fee is secured by 
misrepresentations and fraud practiced 
by the Cornell agent Looker. The farm 
owner i.s told that if the farm is not sold 
the $20 is refunded. The Avithdrawal 
fee clause in these contracts Avill not 
stand the light of the courts, so Coi-- 
nell depends on his game of bluff to get 
money settlements from farmers in c.a.ses 
of this kind. It is needless to add th.at 
no money is due Cornell and Tx)oker on 
such contracts. If justice Avere done Cor¬ 
nell Avould he obliged to refund the $20 
advanced. 
In_ your is.sne of August 4th in your 
I’uhlislier’s Desk def)artment is a note 
Avritten by a correspondent from Con¬ 
necticut in regard to the Hercules Tire 
(’ompany, 17S9 Broadw.ay, Ncav York 
city, in which_ he notes the selling of tAvo 
tires to a friend in Connecticut, Avhich 
turned out to be worthless. On .Tune 
2.‘lrd my son purchased, from the same 
company, two tires, .20 by at cost 
of $19..50, under a guarantee to run 
4,000 miles, or to replace with another 
tire for half of that price. The tires 
actually ran about 2.5 or .50 miles in 
all when they both bleAV out beyond i-e- 
pair. The tires Avere returned to the 
Hercules Company and demand made for 
the 7'eturn of the money paid. This 
Avas refu.sed. and the offer on the guar¬ 
antee Avas the only one made him. As 
the tiros, _ apparently, Avere absolutely 
worthless it would h.ave b('en useless to 
have taken other tires at lialf price, 7’un- 
ning not over 50 miles. IVIy son placed 
the matter in the hands of an attorney, 
who has been making inquiry into the 
financial condition of the company, and 
finding them to be ab.solutely irresponsi¬ 
ble. any judgment obtained against them 
AA'ould be useless. a. r. 
NeAV York. 
The aboA’o report is the usual expe¬ 
rience of those patronizing b.argain tire 
owners. We have publi.shed the expe¬ 
rience' of several of our people in their 
de.alings Avith the Akron Tire Company. 
Avhich seems to be another name for the 
Hercules Tire Company, ooA'ering a pe- 
n-iod of seve7-al ye.ars back. The Akron 
55re Company seems to be able to buy 
space in some of the farm ])apei\s. We 
are A'ery so7'7’y for autoi77obile oAvners, 
faianers or otherwise, aa'Iio 7nay be in¬ 
duced to send their money to the firm for 
well-nigh Avoi-thless tires. The ui)keep 
071 automobiles is sufficientlyy large 
Avithout AVJisting any mo7iey on “g.vp” 
tire houses of this sort. 
It gives me gi-eat pleasure to infoi'm 
you that a few days ago I received the 
New England Biscuit Company’s check 
from --Service Bureau, for 
$1,44, being settlement in full of my cl.aim 
against the biscuit company. I do not 
think they would have ever made set¬ 
tlement if you have not given them a 
prodding. I thank you A^ei’y much for 
your help in this matter and it will be 
my pleasure to continue speaking a good 
word for The R. N.-Y. whenever I have 
the opportunity. ~ L, E. E. 
New Hampshire. 
This little service to the above sub¬ 
scriber is in connection with an order 
sent to the New England Biscuit Co,, 
Woi’cester, hlass., for a barrel of broken 
crackers. The baiTol of crackers, when 
they ariuAmd, wei'e described by L. E. E. 
as having a rancid and greasy smell and 
taste, and also contained pieces of 
string, sticks, cardboai-d, calico, moldy 
cake fi'osting, dog biscuit, and were unfit 
for human consumption. After sampling 
a small quantity of the biscuits they Aver-e 
retU7’ned to the Ncav England Biscuit 
Co., under the fi7TO’s guarantee of satis- 
Laction, or refund of purchase pi’ice. 
A deduction of $1.19 Avas 7nade for the 
small sa7nple of cracke7*s that Avere used. 
The subseribe7*s Avei'e unable to get ad¬ 
justment fi'om the company and appealed 
to the publication which carried the ad¬ 
vertisement of the Ncav Engla7id Biscuit 
Co. The correspondence with this i)ub- 
licatio7i shoAved cleardy that the publish¬ 
er was inclined to support the unreason¬ 
able deduction made by the advertiser. 
Then L. E. E. Avrote “Publisher’s Desk,” 
with the I'esult that the full purchase 
I)rice was refunded plus the return 
freight charges. 
Fa7‘mors are 7iot sIoav to recognize that 
this so-calle<l “Se7*vice Bureau” is 7iiain- 
tained for the i)urpose of ac‘cele7-ating 
adver-tising and supporting injustice on 
advertising. The correspondence in this 
case is illuminating, but too bulky to 
print. 
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