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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June S. 101S 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
So many of our subscribers have 
trouble colleeting claims against the ex¬ 
press companies, .ami particularly against 
the Adams Expre.ss Company, that we 
think the exiierience of one of our Penn¬ 
sylvania subscribe'rs. as related in the fol¬ 
lowing letter, will prove both interesting 
and i)rofitable: 
Xinety days after filing my claim with 
agent at shipping point I proceeded to 
g(>t judgment against express company, 
whicii met with no opposition. WTien I 
had four judgments, totaling .$120 against 
the company, and one' day before the first 
one was to be executed, a special agent 
came and agreed to settle all just claims 
within 30 days if I would not execute any 
judgment in the meantime. I agreed to 
this, as I had $375.80 against his com¬ 
pany. $200 of Avliich I could not collect 
by suit, etc., within three months. The 
agent took complete record of my claims, 
went to New York personally (instead of 
corres])onding) and looked up the matter 
in each ca.se; also went to see the con¬ 
signees of my shipments. He surely kept 
his word (and that is all I Inul Ifor on 
April 10 he handed me $375.80 in cash 
after I had signed the’ claim vouchers, 
thus paying me everj' cent they owed 
me. The only way to secure prompt at- 
timtion of the claim department is to 
show them that you mean business by 
bringing suit. ll. ('■ >'• 
Pennsylvania. 
t\V are always glad to be of any as¬ 
sistance that we can to our subscribers 
in collecting express cLaiins. but it occurs 
to us that where shippers have a large 
number of cl.-iims the best means to 
secure redress is to bring suit before a 
Justice of the Peace or at a local court, 
as was done in this case. Quick action 
can usually be secured in this way, and 
the result of the action taken by B. C. N. 
is more effective than any other we have 
heard of in securing settlements from 
the Adams Express f’ompany. It fre- 
fpiently takes us six months or more to 
get adjustment on lost or damaged ship¬ 
ments. even with continuous persistent 
effort on our part. 
Six years ago T took two shares of 
Coal Tiand Securities through the Scran¬ 
ton. Pa.. C'oi’resjiondence Schools. o_f 
which I had taken a course. I paid $-57 
oer share. $114. and got dividends just _n 
few time.s, when they wi’ote me their 
iM^nl for cash, and wauled me to turn my 
two shares of $114 ijito $10 sliares. and 
I wrote them no. Still fhe.v kept asking 
f-r mone.v. but T wrote and told them 
the truth about being unable to work. 
iii’d a famil.v on my hands. Since then 
T lun'e lieard nothing. I hear you foiks 
lo<ik up claims such as this, (’ould you 
tell me if I could get anything out of 
them? Or is it an N. (I. i)i'oi)osition? J 
surely could use the money and back divi¬ 
dends. Let me hear from you. i)lease. 
Illinois. Jfi- 
'fhe (’oal and Security Oo. imiuired 
a lout by the above sul)scriber. was one 
of Mr. T. J. Foster’s promotions which. 
w(' understand, had nothing very tangilde 
on which to base the investment excejit 
Mr. Foster’s representations of big 
lu'ofits in the future. ISIr. Fo.ster's en- 
ti'riudses have bee'n fre(|uently referred to 
Iiy this department. IMany innocent in¬ 
vestors lost their small savings through 
Ins ^-arious i)romotion schemes. We' fear 
that the onl.v way our Illiirois subscriber 
will ever be able to realize on his invest¬ 
ment will be by profiting by this expe¬ 
rience and just avoid all siieculative and 
“(Jet-Rich-Quick” schemes in the future. 
I feel it my duty to inform you that 
Whiting’s victims in this section are 
“over the top.” Acting on your advice, 
they got ready for his coming, hired at- 
toriieys. and got the State Department of 
Agi'iculture interested ; and the men who 
were to deliver the trees refused to act. 
One had .$700 in orders, the other .$1,100. 
from my vicinity. Although Mr. W'hiting 
and his “assistant” have been here. Mr. 
Sanders of the I)ei)artment of Agriculture, 
and a Mr. Backus, a local State repre¬ 
sentative, have also been here, and the 
trees are still at railroad station, with 
orders from the State Department to he 
notified if they are re-billed, so they can 
be traced. Qur local State representative. 
Mr. Backus, has done his part to help the 
.people; he examined Whiting’s trees that 
wei'e shipped to North East (10 miles 
from Erie) and informed Whiting that if 
he attempted to deliver the orders at Erie 
he would follow in auto and inform the 
people of the quality of the trees, and 
then if they wished to pa.v the price it was 
up to them. Now this you will agree is 
genuine help. The State Department also 
asked my neighbor, who was to deliver the 
trees, for his list of victims, and soon each 
one received a letter advising him not to 
accept the trees. Wliiting told this neigh¬ 
bor. who refused lo deliver his stock, that 
if that man Dei,"htou had not put that 
piece in The R. N.-T. last Fall the people 
would not be afraid of his trees. 
I have gone into details to explain the 
situation here, thinking that with the 
slams and abuse you must receive expos¬ 
ing crooks, it would be a comfort to you 
to hnow that where your advice is fol¬ 
lowed, and the people show fight, and are 
determined, right must win. A great loss 
to the farmers in these parts has been 
saved by The R. N.-Y. sunsciiinER. 
Pennsylvania. 
The above i-efers to the operations of 
our old friend, II. M. AVhiting of Geneva, 
N. Y., and Boston. Mass. Mr. Whiting’s 
methods have been so often referred to in 
the columns of The R. N.-Y, that it is 
hardly necessary to go into details of his 
selling plans at this time. An item from 
the Erie Dispaich is to the effect that the 
State of Pennsylvania license issued to 
the II. M. Whiting X^ursery Company 
of Boston has been revoked. 
We are printing this letter principally 
to show how farmers can protect them* 
selves in cases of this kind where an at* 
tempt is being made to take advantage of 
them by pooling their interests and fight* 
ing the imposition. Concerns doing busi* 
ness on the Whiting plan know well 
enough that they can bluff and bulldoze 
an individual farmer, but where a number 
of farmers combine for their own pro¬ 
tection is a different story. We con¬ 
gratulate the Pennsylvania farmers that 
they have in Mr. .1. C. Sanders a State 
official who is not afraid to co-operate 
with and use the functions of his office to 
protect farmers from impositions in cases 
of this kind. 
I am enclosing a bill that I would like 
to have put in your collection department. 
We were advise'd by the New England 
Brokerage Co. of Chelsea. Vt.. to ship 
eggs to L. E. Densmore. Boston, and that 
they (the New Engband Co.) would pay 
us for same. We sent them several bills 
and wrote the'm several times, but have 
never been able to get a reply. G. n. 
Vermont. 
The New England Brokerage (’o. do 
not respond to our letters, and those to 
L. E. Densmore are returned by tin* Post 
Office Dei)artment, as they are unable to 
locate him. The subscriber is. therefore, 
obliged to charge $15 to experience, 
which is rathe'r serious in these days of 
high prices, and shows the wisdom of full 
investigation before shipment. 
I shipped Mrs. Walter Mack. 312 West 
71st Street. N'ew York, eight dozen eggs 
to her addre.ss at Glen Head. Long 
Island. They were valued at $(>. and I 
have never had a payment. Will you 
collect it? A. H. 
New York. 
We can get no response from Mrs. Mack. 
Our letters are deliverwl. as they are not 
returned by the Post Office Department, 
and we can only conclude that she be¬ 
longs to the class that supplies her table 
at the farmer’s expense. 
Do your fences need constant repair? Do they keep 
your stock from damaging your crops, or your neigh¬ 
bors? There’s one sure way of having good fences, use 
Concrete Fence Posts 
They are everlasting. They can’t rot or burn. 
They are easy to build and cost no more than wooden 
posts. They make your farm neat and good looking. 
Twenty concrete posts J feet long, tapering from 
6 inches square at the bottom to 4 at the top, re¬ 
quire only 6/4 bags ot Atlas Cement (ask your dealer 
what this will cost), 13 cubic feet of sand and 20 cubic 
feet of small pebbles. You may have the sand and 
pebbles on your own farm. 
Use Atlas Portland Cement 
Its uniformly I'.igh quality makes it best to use. Full instructions in tlse Atlas 
Farm Book make it easy for you td build a concrete 
hog wallow watering-trough celler floor 
manure pit barn floor barn approach 
sidewalk foundation feeding floor 
feeding trough garage root cellar 
_and many other improvements for the farm that are everlasting, cost little to 
build and require no repairing. The Farm Book also tells about concrete silos, 
barns and other large buildings. Send coupon below. 
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Send free Atlas Farm Book. I expect to build a. 
I have a claim against .lames Dean, 01 
►South 4th Avc.. Mt. Vernon. Y'.. for 
five cases of eggs per enclosed bill. When 
vi.siting in Now York city last Winter I 
met ^ir. Dean. I entered an agreement 
with him to ship my eggs, and he was to 
remit the 1st and 15th of every month, 
lie paid for two cases ; but since then I 
have not heard from him. After sending I 
five casein I quit sending. He owes me; 
$102. I have written him several tiim.s 
and received no answer. He was to pa.v 
me fancy prices for fresh white eggs. 
New York. x. c. 
James Dean, of Mount Vernon. X’^ew 
York, will have to join the list of parties 
to whom it is inadvisable to make .ship¬ 
ments. He has failed to settle the above 
bill. 
Is the “United Food & Fur Ass’n” a 
reliable firm or not? I am interested in 
.some of their stock. c. H. (;. 
New York. 
We do not find the United Food and 
Fur Association of New York listed in 
our reference books, and our universal ad¬ 
vice to our people is to have no business 
dealings involving cash in advance pay¬ 
ment or an extension of credit with 
houses or individuals that have no estab¬ 
lished financial standing. 
.lust received check of $13.45 from 
Adams Express Company, for case of eggs 
that I put in your hands to collect for 
me. I had given up ever getting anything. 
New York. G. a. p. 
We want to give Adams Express Co. 
credit for the “prompt” payment of this 
claim. A shipment of eggs made on Sept. 
6, 191G, was not delivered. It took them 
one year, seven months and sixteen days 
to decide that they were responsible. 
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