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T/ye RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 20, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Your paper is always ready and will¬ 
ing to aid the farmer. I have read in 
The R. N.-Y. of so many instances. My 
trouble is this: I own a farm near New¬ 
port News. I have P. L. Webb managing 
it. In .Tune, U>1G, we shipped a carload of 
Irish potatoes to II. Morganthaler & 
Co., Cleveland. Ohio. Morganthaler & Co. 
agreed to allow us to draw on them for 
per bbl. on arrival of car, so l'\ L. 
Webb, my manager, consigned car to 
himself, sent bill of lading sight draft 
attached through Schmeltz Rros.. bankers 
of this city, to the First National Bank 
of Cleveland. Ohio, to Morganthaler & 
Co.; telegraphed them, allowing them 
right to see potatoo!*. ^Morganthaler 
write-s me he presented bill of lading to 
the Pennsylvania Railroad agent for car. 
This road handled and transferred the 
car from C. & O. R. R. They told him 
they had no such car number. It fol¬ 
lowed that in transfer instead carrying 
our car through to Cleveland they un¬ 
loaded the car, changed potatoes to an¬ 
other car. Car arrived there on .Tune 
2r)th. They refused on pre.sentation of 
bill of lading to deliver original car of 
potatoes, Morganthaler letter to Penn¬ 
sylvania R. R.. which I have, making 
claim for $l»SS.O,5 caused by mistake of 
Pennsylvania R. R. in transfer. Car must 
have laid in Cleveland a week or more; 
hot weather injured potatoes, al.so their 
bruised condition from rough handling 
in transferring from one car to another; 
had to sell them at a reduced figure. 
Had they arrived in same condition, as 
day of shipment in time could have got¬ 
ten $4.40 per bbl. for them. Can you 
give^ assistance in collecting this claim? 
Virginia. E. w. M. . 
We took this claim up with the Penn¬ 
sylvania R. R. Co. on r>ecember 20th 
last, and our letters received courteous 
and prompt consideration. The claim was 
paid in full by the railroad to II. Mor- 
"^ganthaler & Co., Cleveland, which firm 
entered the claim in behalf of the ship¬ 
per, on Feb. 20, 1017. When forward¬ 
ing the money to the shipper Morgan¬ 
thaler deducted 25% or $07.01 for their 
services in presenting the claim to the 
Railroad Company, the balance of $201.04 
was forwarded to the E. W. M.’s farm 
manager. When the producer only gets 
?,5 cents of the dollar anyhow, in this 
ca.se of the IMorganthaler deducted his 
collection fee the farmer only got 75% 
of a 85-cent dollar. Morganthaler & 
Co. write us that the usual charge for 
such services is ?>.S l-o% of the amount 
collected, and assume to feel injured be¬ 
cause the shipper refused to send fur¬ 
ther shipments to their firm because of 
this transaction. We will leave it to 
other shippers to say whether or not 
Morganthaler & Co. treated the shipper 
fairly in deducting $97.01 for services 
after they had already received their 
commission on the sale of the potatoes. 
In all our experience Avith commission 
firms our records show only one other 
house taking advantage of shippers in 
this way—C. A. Watson & Sons. Chi¬ 
cago. Ill. It has the distinction of be¬ 
ing the other hou.se to charge a shipper 
an unreasonable fee for having helped to 
deception was brought into play 
to secure the order, because the amount 
is usually not large enough to make it 
worth while to hire a lawyer and fight 
the case in court. But farmers fail to 
realize that these nurserymen selling 
stock by unscrupulous methods do not 
dare come into court with their hands 
dirty. And eA'cn when such nurserymen 
are not bluffing, farmers have the rem¬ 
edy in their own hands by combining 
their interests, and the expense of the 
services of a lawyer would then be slight. 
We understand Whiting has been oper¬ 
ating in Pennsylvania without a license, 
and in such case his claims Avill ha^-e no 
standing in the State anyhow, 
E. G. Lewis, the unlucky promoter of 
University City, St. Louis, and who ran 
counter to Uncle Sam when he en- 
deaAmred to establish, a mail order sav¬ 
ings bank, makes a unuiue appeal to 
those who have followed his meteoric 
financial career for capital to increa.se 
the circulation of a new monthly publi¬ 
cation he has started out in California. 
The new magazine is called the “Il¬ 
lustrated Review.” It is emi)loyed largely 
to exploit Atascadero, a colony in Cali¬ 
fornia. Lewis at the present time wants 
in the neighborhood of $300,000, which 
he AA'ishes to borrow, paying for same a 
liberal rate of interest and besides he will 
throw into such individual loans as might 
be made him by investors as a sweetener, 
$500 of dividend sharing certificates of 
the publishing company. The.se certi¬ 
ficates are simply shares of stock. With 
a loan of $300,000 Lewis says he can 
build up the largest magazine in the 
country, and it should easily earn wads 
of money for the fortunate stockholders. 
When that is attained, and when the 
groves in his colony begin to bear a 
full fruit, Lewis believes his individual 
share of the profits will reach such a 
sum as to enable him to discharge in full 
a moral debt he feels he owes to those 
who lost their money in his unfortunate 
St. Louis enterprise. Still this is but 
a promise which, however well intended, 
is far from certain of fulfillment. In the 
meantime inA'estors are asked to assume 
another risk in the making of a sub¬ 
stantial loan. Herein is the chance they 
must take, and knoAving AA-ell the vicissi¬ 
tudes of the publishing bu-siness it seems 
to us considerably more than $300,000 
fresh capital would be required to secure 
the goal of the largest circulating maga¬ 
zine, toAvards Avhich LcAvis has set his 
eyes.—Financial World. 
The above from the well-known finan¬ 
cial publication is printed under the de¬ 
partment heading: “In the Land of Fairy 
Finance.” We think it is only fair to say 
that Mr. LeAvi.s's financial operations 
might Avell be classed as “Fairy.” He 
borroAved about ten million dollars on 
one scheme or another in St. Louis— 
nothing fairylike about the amount. And 
noAv he proposes returning tlie niotu'.v 
to his St. Louis A’ictims Avheu his ('nli- 
fornia groves come into bearing to en¬ 
able him to do so. That’s .safe prom¬ 
ise I I.oAvis Avas ahvays long on prom- [ 
ises—his bank, his trust company, his 
publishing business, and each of his other 
schemes, numbering around seventy, Avere 
each in turn going to make each investor 
rich according to LeAvis’s promises. The 
court records shoAA' that none of LoavIs’s 
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D. R. SPERRY & CO., Box 15, Batavia.IH; 
collect a just claim against the trnspor- 
tatiou company. Does the commission 
trade approve such treatment of shippers? 
As mentioned in Publisher's Desk 
recently, Whiting has been doing the 
farmers of Erie Co., Pa., and I am sorry 
to say. has done a fat business, but not 
Avith me. for. Avhon he said “Whiting 
Nursery Co..” I at once remembered your 
exposures of him, and Avent at him ham¬ 
mer and tongs, yet he took it all pleas- 
ently ; never gave me a cross reply, and 
eA'en remarked Avheu leaAdiig. that he AA'as 
glad he had met me. He is the smoothest; 
to my knoAvledge he has “stung” some 
city farm OAA'iiers for $100. I am not 
an agent in any Avay Avhatevor. but I feel 
you desei'A'e encouragement for exposing 
these crooks. If it Avere agreeable. I 
AA'ould prefer giving my commi.ssion over 
to the association, to shoAV I am not lielp- 
ing you for the financial part, but I 
understand you object to any but the 
straight dollar per year. When I help 
a friend I like to help free grati.^i. As a 
number of the victims are members of 
the Milk Association there is already 
some talk of pooling their interests, hir¬ 
ing an attorney, and at least trying to 
put up a fight; hoAvever I prefer never 
to sifj}} ail)/ paper for a stranger. E. M. 
Pennsyh’ania. 
Erie Co., farmers Avho have been de¬ 
ceived by Whiting’s fake claims Avill do 
Avell to pool their interests and refuse to 
take the trees or pay for them. Tricky 
nursery agents figure that they can 
frighten farmers into paying for an 
order for trees no matter what 
enterprises eA’er made a profit—all his 
money came to him from the public on 
his promises to make the investor rich. 
.\nd in spite of this record LcavIs is al- 
loAved second-cla.ss iiostage priAuleges for 
a publication Avhich as the “Financial 
World” points cut, is employed to exploit 
a colony land scheme. 
I thought the enclosed letter of the 
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terest you. It appears to me to he a new 
Avork of “camouflage” on the part of real 
estate “sharps.” I don’t imagine any of 
your subscribers Avould take this “bait,” 
hut one can neA*er tell. May I not also 
add, pour reputation up here is growing 
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by all who understand your aims and 
ideals. ii. n. b. 
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The meaning of the word “camouflage” 
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