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Ijhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 24, 1017 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
are living on a farm and there is 
no music teacher near us, but we would 
like to have our boy take lessons on the 
piano. Could you tell me if the I*. S. 
School of Music, 225 Fifth Avenue, New 
York City, is a good, reliable firm, or 
not? t. s. s. 
New York. 
The best musical authorities agree that 
music cannot-be efficiently taught by mail. 
We therefore could not advise our people 
to invest in correspondence courses on 
the subject and we have refused this line 
of advertising for the columns of The 
Rukae New-Yoekek. 
I want to thank you for the very good 
service I received from your paper. I 
had a farm for sale and wanted to ar¬ 
range so I could get in touch with the 
farmer direct I asked a friend, an old 
partner of mine, what farm paper to ad¬ 
vertise in, and he said “The Rubae New- 
Yoekeb, by all means.” I paid you $7.40 
for four insertions, and received direct 
from farmers, 30 letters; €«)ld the farm to 
one of these and gave him a bargain. I 
want to say that The R. N.-Y., for real 
service, honest, truthful help to the real 
farmer, is without equal, and I am en¬ 
closing herewith $1 to renew my sub¬ 
scription for another year. L. ir. w. 
Chicago. 
We ai’e always glad to hear that the 
paper has performed a satisfactory ser¬ 
vice. The ‘SSubscribers’ Exchange” de¬ 
partment is growing in popularity. ^lany 
others would make use of it, no doubt, if 
they realized the possibilities of telling 
100,000 good farm families what they 
may have for sale. We restrict the de¬ 
partment to the advertising of farmers to 
farmers. 
On Aug. 22 I consigned two cases eggs 
to the O. K. Dairy, 49 Sussex St., Jersey 
City, N. J., without doing as you advise 
in the way of investigating. While the 
goods were delivei’ed, ..without dobut, my 
letters addressed to the house come back 
unopened. Anything you could do in the 
matter will be greatly appreciated. 
New York. , . H. E. b. 
The O. K. Dairy Company are willing 
to let this account stand unadjusted. 
Our letters have not been returned, and 
we can only give our people the experi¬ 
ence of this subscriber as a warning. Do 
not neglect to look up references before 
making shipments. It will be a saving 
in the end. 
Tn regard to the enclosed article pub¬ 
lished in your paper, I beg to say that 
Mr. C. J. Collins, who is mentioned, is 
not now and never has been a tenant of 
the Marbridge Building. We found that 
•he had, unknown to us, taken desk room 
with one of our tenants, and as we did 
not like his dealings, he was requested 
to leave the building. I hope you will 
kindly make it known through your col¬ 
umns that he is not and never has been 
a tenant of the William H. Martin 
Trust, owners of the building. 
WILLIAM n. MARTIN TRUST, 
Bradley J. Bloodgood, Mgr. 
New York. 
The above refers to an item which we 
published in The Rural New-Yorkeb 
September 22, regarding O. J. Collins, 
who appealed to telegraph operators to 
send him a list of names of investors or 
men of means, -with the view to finding 
purchasers for stocks which Mr. Collins 
was engaged in promoting. We only wish 
that the managers of all buildings in 
New York were as careful about the 
character of their tenants as the manager 
of the Allentown Democrat during the 
past week asking holders of Liberty Bonds 
to exchange them for shares in the Pine 
Ridge Farm Company, of Vineland, N, .T., 
and thereby aid in supplying pork for the 
soldiers who go to France to fight the 
Kaiser. I have not asked this company 
to send me their booklet, but I think this 
scheme ia well -worth your attention and 
thorough investigation. The company 
may be all right and sound as a Liberty 
Bond, but for myself I prefer to hold on 
to the Liberty Bonds I have purchased, 
and if our Uncle Sam gets whipped by 
the Kaiser and has to go into bankruptcy 
I am willing to lose the cash I have in¬ 
vested in Liberty Bonds and call the deal 
closed. w. A. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is surprising the number of people 
—mostly fakers of one sort and another— 
willing to wrap the American flag about 
themselves for the purpose of furthering 
their own selfish interests. The man who 
has the true brand of patriotism in his 
heart isn’t preaching about it or adver¬ 
tising it. The Vineland promoters, after 
dwelling upon the needs of the Govern¬ 
ment for more pork, offer to exchange 
stock in this pig farm, which was of little 
or no actual value, for your Liberty Bond, 
which is the best security in the world 
today. We pred’eted some time ago that 
promoters of worthless stocks would seek 
to beguile holders of Liberty Bonds into 
exchanging them for spurious wares, and 
this is the first instance of it that has 
come to our attention. And what can be 
said in defense of the publisher who aids 
this class of promoters to rob his readers 
of their Liberty Bonds by printing their 
advertisements? 
hlajestic Squab Co., Adel, Iowa, ad- 
vertmed squabs as possessing certain qual¬ 
ities and claimed to have squab-buying 
houses in large cities, which representa¬ 
tions were untrue.—Better Business 
News. 
We published the complaint of a Penn¬ 
sylvania subscriber in the issue of March 
31, 1917. The subscriber in question or¬ 
dered 75 pairs of squabs from this com¬ 
pany under a “90-day guarantee” which 
provided in case the birds were not satis¬ 
factory they might be returneJ and the 
money would be refunded. When the 
purchaser made claim under the guaran¬ 
tee, his letters were ignored. 't^Tien we 
made an appeal to the Majestic Squab Co. 
in the case w'e were given to understand 
“it was none of our business.” It is well 
that Uncle Sam has made it “his busi¬ 
ness” to see to it that transactions of this 
sort cannot be carried on through the 
United States mails. 
I want to thank you very much for the 
settlement with Maurice Lippman. I 
don’t care about the five crates he report¬ 
ed short, as you have been to trouble 
enough with him, I shipped him six 
times before the two you collected on, 
and he was short from one to five crates 
every time, and so I stopped shipping. 
Then he would not pay for the last two 
shipments. He came to see me before I 
shipped at all, and talked very smooth, 
and said he would pay the day after he 
received goods, I shipped him 547 crates, 
and he has done nothing, only telegraph 
sales, so I stopped and wrote him it was 
time to pay. He paid for all but the lot 
you collected on, only each sale was short, 
and I made up my mind to stop. L. B. 
'New York. 
We want to give Maurice Lippmann 
credit for this belated payment, , The 
prevalence of reports of short shipments 
by Mr. Lippmann is significant. 
of the Marbridge Building. 
Newark, Nov. 7.—Thirteen months in 
the Federal Prison at Atlanta was the 
sentence imposed by Judge Relistab in the 
United States District Court, on Charles 
Abramson, of No. 125 West 54th Street, 
Bayonne. He used the mails to defraud. 
Abramson solicited consignments of eggs 
from farmers and chicken raisers. He 
promised them two cents a dozen above 
the quoted trade price. He succeeded in 
getting large consignments, but the con¬ 
signors did not get their money.—Daily 
Paper. 
At last Abramson, who has been swin¬ 
dling egg shippers for years, has received 
his due. Poultrymen must not delude 
themselves that the term in prison will 
cure Abramson and others of his kind 
from 1 ‘obbing farmers in the future. We 
venture the prediction that we shall hear 
of Abramson working the same old game 
within six months afttr his sentence has 
expired. The only safety lies in looking 
carefully into the standing of parties so¬ 
liciting before sending produce. 
I am enclosing with this letter an “ad” 
which has been appearing in the columns 
During September we received com¬ 
plaints against the express companies as 
follows; Adams, 75; American, 20; Wells 
Fargo, seven. We received adjustments 
for 27 from Adams Express Company ; 11 
from the American Express Company, 
nnd three from Wells Fargo & Co. Ex¬ 
press. There were only three complaints 
■against other transportation lines. In 
the case of the Adams Express Company 
claims the 27 adjustments we report rep¬ 
resent only six of the claims received 
during September. The other 21 adjust¬ 
ments covered claims running from four 
months to a year. We have some that 
are still older that hang fire without any 
adequate explanation as to the cause of 
delay. Of the 75 claims 23 were for egg 
breakage and 5S for non-delivery. We 
contend these claims should be closed out 
in 30 days, and certainly should not stand 
over 60 days. Other States have laws 
to that effect. IVThy not New York j 
State? A three-cent stamp will be well 
expended if it can convince your represen¬ 
tatives of this need. 
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