1386 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 1, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I have just received check for $75 from 
the N. Y. C. li. R. Co. in settlement of 
my claim. The railroad company did not 
pay attention to the letters I wrote them, 
hut as soon as The R. N.-Y. got after 
them I had a prompt reply. G. s. 
New York. 
A cow belonging to this subscriber was 
killed on July 10, 1917, by an engine of 
the New Y'^ork Central Railroad. The 
cow was appraised at $100, but the rail¬ 
road offered $75 in settlement, which was 
accepted rather than add delay to the sub- 
sci-iber’.s loss. The railroad claimed that 
the offer was made “for the purpose of a 
quick compromise settlement.” The 
voucher was not issued until November. 
This seems to be a case where the “tiring 
out” process succeeded in inducing the 
owner to accept $25 less than the value 
of the cow. 
Enclosed find those bonds, $600, in the 
Floral Garden Development Co., Flatiron 
Rldg., New Y’'ork. They had declared 
they never lost a dollar to anyone, and I 
hope I am not to be the fir.st one or last 
one. I have not been able to get a .satis¬ 
factory reply from them outside of ex¬ 
changing these bonds for later issue. I 
needed my money, but refused to cash 
them. Will you get whatever you can 
from them? They have had the use of 
the money for two years, without figuring 
iutere.st. j, w. A. 
Pennsjdvania. 
The result of our investigation does not 
justify the claim of the Floral Garden 
Development Company. They offered to 
buy or sell, preferably sell, their bonds for 
no per cent of par. We accepted on the 
subscriber’s behalf and asked for a remit¬ 
tance of $300, as Qie hijid paid $600 for 
the bonds. The company neglected to ad¬ 
just on this basis, but after considerable 
prodding we received another offer to pay 
30 per cent on the bonds. We accepted 
this, but no effort was made to redeem 
the promise. Now they fall back on the 
condition of the real estate market in gen¬ 
eral. Whatever the excuse the result is 
the same to the 'purchaser, whether he is 
the first or last to lose on the proposition. 
The bondholders, Ave are told, are consid¬ 
ering a plan to have the company deed 
over to them the real estate security, and 
the company will lose their equity above 
the bonded indebtedness. In the mean- 
tiime the subscriber has paid $600 for the 
experience, and it is doubtful if any re¬ 
organization will help him to get his 
money. These gloAving real estate propo¬ 
sitions are good ones to leave alone, es¬ 
pecially for those at a distance. 
A\’'e seldom miss reading Publisher’s 
Desk. Enclosed find clipping from local 
l)aper. This is another scheme to put 
some faker on easy street. I think this is 
about the latest get-rich-quick scheme 
that I have come across. P. S. 
Ohio. 
The article from the local paper en¬ 
closed refers to the old cat ranch scheme 
which was quite as popular some eight or 
10 years ago as the hog ranches, through 
which the promoters promise to enrich 
the public of late years. This cat ranch 
scheme, however, has some features that 
have not been developed by promoters in 
any other line. A rat ranch is to be es¬ 
tablished adjoining the cat ranch. The 
cats are to be bred for their skins. The 
cats are to be fed on the rats and the 
rats in turn are to be fed on the carcass 
of the cats after the hides have been 
removed. In this way the cat ranch and 
the rat ranch are automatically self-sus¬ 
taining, and of course everyone is to be¬ 
come rich through the sale of the cat 
skins. The proposition might only be 
considered in the light of a joke if it 
were not for the fact that there are peo¬ 
ple foolish enough to part with their per¬ 
fectly good money on schemes of this kind. 
Charges of using the mails to defraud 
were made yesterday by I’ost Office In¬ 
spectors IMcQuillan and Mayhew against 
Milton P>ejach, i)resident of the Alliance 
Tire and Rubber Company; Warren C. 
Daniel of the promotion brokerage con¬ 
cern of Warren C. Daniel, Inc., of 220 
West Forty-second Street, and Raymond 
N. Rond and II. P. Dowst, associates of 
Daniel. All the men were arrested and 
locked up except Bejach, who is said to 
be in Pittsburgh. 
It is charged that the Alliance Tire 
and Rubber Company grew into a $2,- 
500,000 concern in the Summer of 1916 
out of the Alliance Rubber Company, 
with a capital of only $58,000. It is al¬ 
leged that the Daniel concern distributed 
literature, saying the company’s plant at 
Alliance, O., was working 22 hours a day, 
so as to catch up with orders, and that 
the company has an annual output of 
$75,000,000. 
Investigators reported that only two 
inen were working in the plant, at Al¬ 
liance, and that every statement made 
in the literature was false. It was said 
that upward of $160,000 Avorth of stock 
had been sold. Daniel, it was reported, 
had receiA^ed .$800,000 of the preferred 
stock, which he Avas offering at .$.3 a 
share, ^nd that he had received as a bo¬ 
nus $475,000 of the common and pre¬ 
ferred stock.—Daily Papers. 
The above illustrates the fictitious 
stories and false claims put out by stock 
promoters to catch the unwary inAmstor. 
The prospect for big profits is the bait 
held out. The eagerness of the public 
to get rich by some quick and easy pro¬ 
cess makes the AA’ork of the vendors of 
worthless stocks comparatively easy. In 
this case alone $160,000 is lost to invest¬ 
ors, who can ill afford to lose it. If put 
in Liberty Bonds this amount would prove 
an insurance against want in old age for 
each of the individuals. 
IMiss Elizabeth INTcTTose, formerly of 
Catasauqua, noAV of New York, is spend- 
f ng some time here representing the 
Aither Burbank Society. This society 
aims to distribute the AA’ritings of Mr. 
Burbank, who is knoAA'n as the wizard of 
the plant wmrld. 
Miss McIIose Avill urge the study of 
Burbank’s methods during the Winter in 
order to increase the products of the soil, 
making tAvo blades of grass groAV Avhere 
one groAV before. Those pursuing this 
study Avill be better prepared to do their 
gardening next Spring. The claim is 
that crops can be doubled and quad¬ 
rupled in many instances. 
About forty million men are taken 
out of their usual avocations by the AA-ar 
and among these are hundreds of thous¬ 
ands Avho are engaged in the agricultural 
lines. The complaint of the farmers is 
that they cannot gather sufficient people 
to help gather the crops already planted. 
Miss McIIose states that the need is no 
longer acreage but large crops. She 
claims that Mr. Burbank’s methods are 
the onl.v ones knoAvn to accomplish this 
as he shoAvs hoAV to groAV corn that aAmr- 
ages 32 ears to the stalk instead of tAvo 
as per the statistics of the IT. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. 
One of our readers sends that from 
the AllentoAvn (Pa.) Morning Call. We 
thought it Avas about time the Burbank 
Society came to life, for this Avar is giv¬ 
ing all the “tAA'O blades of grass” advo¬ 
cates the chance of their lives. We have 
no doubt the people aa’Iio study under 
INIiss McIIose Avill go at their gardening 
Avith great spirit next year. They Avill 
need to in order to make up the money 
the.v hand over to the Burbank Society, 
and it Avill be a good Avay to relieve their 
feelings—mauling the earth since they 
cannot hit this society. What an old 
bluff this Luther Burbank Society is! It 
Avas rei)orted dead some months ago. The 
Avar seems to have brought it to life 
along Avith a Avhole cartload of bluffs, 
stuffs, deadbeats and live beats! It docs 
not seem possible that anyone Avho has 
ever enjoyed the society of Publisher’s 
Desk could ever fall for the Luther Bur¬ 
bank Society. 
I have received the rifle from the New¬ 
ton Arms Co., Buffalo, N. Y., all right. 
Connecticut. B. J. w. 
Reference Avas made in September 22d 
issue to the resentful attitude of this firm 
toward our efforts to secure the rifle for 
B. J. W. We are glad to give the firm 
credit for having eventually filled the 
order. The conditions are unusual and 
many business houses are obliged to delay 
and disappoint customers for causes over 
Avhich the concern has no control. There 
is no good reason, however, Avhy a firm 
should not reply in a civil manner to a 
courteous inquiry regarding delays. 
I shipped Bronx Egg Case Co., 744 
East ISlst St., Ncav York City, tAvo cases 
of eggs on Sept. 24, valued at $36, for 
AA'hich I have been unable to secure settle¬ 
ment. I am writing you to see if you can 
get settlement for me. G. A. B. 
NeAv York. 
We have warned our people repeatedly 
against having anything to do Avith this 
Bronx Egg Case Co. The former address 
AAms SOI Tremont Ave., New York. The 
company has no financial responsibility, 
and no regular place of business is main¬ 
tained. The individuals connected with it 
were formerly employees of another egg 
case concern, and are no doubt making an 
easy living, and will continue to do so 
just as long as poultrymen are such easy 
marks as to ship their eggs and other pro¬ 
duce to concerns that they knoAv nothing 
about. 
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