1394 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 14, I'.u.b 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On February 22, 1918, I had an Adams 
I-Jxpress shipment from Warren to Kin- 
zua, Pa., a distance of 13 miles. From 
said shipment there was stolen out of the 
package smoked meat to the amount of 
$10. My claim was filed on February 
28. 1918, and have written several letters 
.since that time, and up to the present time 
have been unable to secure a settlement. 
I would appreciate it very much if you 
would suggest or help in sorne way to re¬ 
cover the amount of this claim, E. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have many requests of this kind to 
help sub.scribers collect claims already en¬ 
tered against the various express com¬ 
panies through the local express agent. 
It is difiicult for us to help subscribers in 
such cases, unless the claim agent of the 
express comj)any has acknowledged re¬ 
ceipt of the claim, giving the file number, 
and the subscriber forwards this to us, 
or otherwise sends us the express receipt 
covering the shipment. If the claim has 
not been acknowledged, with the express 
receipt in our possession we can then 
enter a new claim. We are utterly help¬ 
less to do anything for the subscribers 
unless they can send us the acknowledg¬ 
ment of the receipt of the claim bearing 
the file number, as above stated, or the 
express receipt. 
Kindly note this new hog ranch circu¬ 
lar enclosed, which was advertised in 
I’hiladelphia Puhlio Ledyer. G. M. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
The new hog scheme is being presented 
by Fairfield Hog Growers, Witherspoon 
Building, Philadelphia, and the location 
of the farai is represented to be on the 
Eastern Shore of Maryland. The repi'e- 
sentations as to the profits that are sure 
to accrue are practically a duplicate of 
those put out by the promoters of other 
similar schemes. The alluring arguments 
are not likely to fool any real farmers; 
but many would-be or near-farmers will 
no doubt take the bait. 
I am enclosing to you a clipping rela¬ 
tive to prosecution of produce dealers. 
When thieves fall out, honest men get their 
dues. This is an old saying. But can¬ 
didly there should never be a repeal or 
modification of the supervision of commis¬ 
sion merchants engaged in interstate busi¬ 
ness. For years the American farmer and 
fruit grower has been systematically 
robbed by these men. You should make a 
fight to have this Federal supervision con¬ 
tinued after the war has actually ended. 
Tennessee. C. P. B. 
The above refers to an investigation by 
the United States Food Administration of 
three commission houses charged with not 
returning to shippers the full amount re¬ 
ceived for the goods, less a commission 
in cases where the produce was sent on 
consignment. As a result of the investiga¬ 
tion the license of Lass & Cohen was re¬ 
voked for an indefinite time; the license 
of N. Durham & Sous was suspended for 
a week, and that of W. J. Hinrichs with¬ 
drawn for 20 days. We fear that if every 
house guilty of the practice were brought 
to the bar on similar charges there would 
be a dearth of commission merchants in 
business in New Y'ork City for some time 
to come. We have previously had occa¬ 
sion to refer to the good w'ork of this 
branch of the Food Administration in 
compelling settlement with a Delaware 
farmer for a carload of melons, which the 
dealer sought to beat him out of. We 
heartily agree with the Tennessee sub¬ 
scriber that this bx-anch of the service 
should be maintained. Perhaps the best 
means of securing a continuation of the 
service will be for shippers to write their 
Congressman or Senator, expressing their 
desire in the matter. 
I sent $18 to the Automatic Trap Nest 
Co., 1463 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, 
N, Y., for pigs, and I cannot get any 
satisfaction fi'om them. I wrote to the 
Brooklyn Police Department and they 
looked them up, and found a man named 
Fred Spencer. I have had lawyers write 
to them, but cannot get any satisfaction. 
[ buy quite a lot of stuff in a year’s time 
through advertisements, and a friend of 
mine told me to subscribe for The R. 
N.-Y., so I enclose $1 for your paper. 
Now if you can help me out on this I 
will be willing to pay you for your 
trouble. N. H. 
Connecticut. 
The Automatic Trap Nest Company 
replied to our letter in the subscriber’s 
behalf advising us that the order would 
be filled as soon as possible, but no pigs 
were available at the time. The party 
doing business under the above name is 
not a breeder of pigs or anything else. 
He can best be described as a “cattle 
jockey.” He buys pigs and poultry 
wherever he can find them and fills orders 
received when he has the stock. As in 
this case the customer often has to await 
his convenience and then has no assurance 
the kind of stock he will get—if any at 
*11. The unwisdom of sending orders and 
remittances to dealers or jockeys of this 
aort is too apparent to require comment. 
I had a call today from your Rochester 
seed salesman, w’ith his oats and potatoes. 
As I was in the mid.st of some pump re¬ 
pairs and had no time for any dramatics, 
I informed him that his firm was in wrong 
with The R. N.-Y. and that I did not care 
to bite on his half-page picture of a po¬ 
tato. Keep it up, and if the time should 
ever come that I can be of any assistance 
to you, I am yours to command, c. w. A. 
Pennsylvania. 
So the .seed salesman has reached Penn¬ 
sylvania territory; he may not be the 
same one who duped so many New York 
State farmers, but he is no doubt of the 
same family of spellbinders. We are glad 
that the warnings issued are bearing fruit. 
Certainly those who bite on the windy 
bait of these seed agents cannot blame 
The R. N.-Y. for not having used every 
effort to put them wise. 
I am sending to you a plan to sell real 
estate to see if you know anything about 
the company. I have tried to sell and 
go where it is warmer, as I suffer with 
the cold so much. So please let me know 
what you think of w’hat I am sending. 
New Ilampshii'e. J. J- P- 
The enclosure consists of an advertise¬ 
ment of the Simplex System of selling 
real estate and circulai-s, sent out by the 
Simplex Company, 1123 Broadway, New 
York. We understand Wm, Ostrander is 
the Simplex Co. He is the man who 
concocted the scheme of a “listing fee” in 
connection with the sale of real esrate. 
After he was driven out of this scheme 
by publicity, given him principally by 
The R. N.-Y., he turned his attention to 
selling worthless stock, including stock in 
his own company. Now Mr. Ostrander 
wants those who have farm property for 
sale to send him $5 for a plan how to 
sell real estate by direct advertising. 
Anyone can do this without paying Mr. 
Ostrander $5 for the privilege. His past 
record does not wari-ant the public in 
placing any confidence in his recommend¬ 
ations. 
The real estate game played on Long 
Island has now been thoroughly aired. A 
company bought a tract of land, put one 
or more mortgages on it, and then filed 
a map of it, divided into city lots at the 
rate of 16 lots to the acre. Sometimes 
the land was .swampy. Some of it was 
located favorably; again, the scrub oak 
land 130 miles from the city at $3 an 
acre served the purpose. 
These lots were sold on installments to 
poor people, who were led to believe that 
they would increase in value like the 
Astor estate on Manhattan Island. The 
less romantic hoped at least to own a 
piece of ground and a home for declining 
years to keep them out of public charity. 
After years of privation and saving, the 
stipulated amount was paid, but the com¬ 
pany had squandered the payments and 
neglected to pay the mortgage, and so 
could not give a clear title. Even taxes 
were not paid. Often two maps were 
filed and the poor investor paid taxes on 
one lot while at the same time the State 
sold the same lob under another map 
number for taxes. 
_At the tax sale the lots were bought 
in for the amount of the tax by a regular 
tax lot speculator. Often the tax was less 
than $3; but to recover the property the 
owner would be obliged to pay several 
hundred. 
All this was legal under the law, and 
sanctioned by court and official decree. 
Justice Appleton has heard the evidence, 
and denounced the custom in plain lan¬ 
guage. The Legislature will be asked to 
pass laws in the next session to make 
such abuses impossible in the future. 
Some one ought to make it his business 
to see that for once this proposed law has 
no joker in it to permit the continuation 
of this kind of legalized swindle. 
“Is the medicine you h^ve for your 
rheumatism used internallyor external¬ 
ly?” “Eternally, I guess. I’ve used nine 
bottles and it hasn’t helped me yet.”— 
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