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Iht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 17, 1919 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
I.ast March Carl E. Davidson came to 
Equinunk, Wayne Co.. Pa., rented the 
creamery of the Pine Hill Creamery Com¬ 
pany and contracted with the farmers for 
milk. He agreed to pay the League price, 
less the cartage to the shipping station. 
He took possession on April 1 and ran the 
creamery for a full month, making butter 
and cheese and shipping cream, but the 
farmers did not get their money, nor has 
the creamery had the rent for its plant, 
nor the pay for some empty butter tubs 
that it s'Old him. Because of failure to 
get their money the producers stopped 
shipping on May 1, and they have since 
been busy trying to get their pay for the 
April milk. He was operating under the 
name of the Davis Condensed Milk Com¬ 
pany. and has frequently promised checks, 
hut failed to send them. A. J. V. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have had experience with Mr. Da¬ 
vidson before. Something more than a 
year ago he rented a creamery at Pratts- 
ville. N. Y., and left a legacy of unpaid 
milk bills behind him. If our Pennsyl¬ 
vania friends had applied for information 
in time, we would have saved them a 
months’ milk bill, but there is no way to 
protect producers who sell their milk to 
irresponsible dealers without security. It 
is a little annoying to know that a clever 
operator can virtually swindle a whole 
neighborhood out of a month’s production 
of milk, and we hope that the next place 
that Mr. Davidson tries it will have at 
least one member who remembers thus 
record at Equinunk, Pa., and Prattville, 
X. Y. 
Acting upon th“ complaints of many 
citizens who say they have bought stock 
in oil companies that never existed and 
shares in oil wells that never had any oil 
in them. Theodore L. Waugh. Assistant 
District Attorney, yesterday began an in¬ 
vestigation of the New York curb market 
by which he proposes to enlist the co¬ 
operation of the legitimate brokers in a 
movement to get rules adopted for the 
curb .which will bar the wildcat brokers. 
It is Mr. Waugh’s intention to bring 
to justice dishonest brokers, some of them 
men with criminal records, who have 
been using to advantage the oil boom of 
the last six months to clean up several 
million dollars through the disposal ot 
worthless oil stocks. lie is trying to in¬ 
terest the board of governors of the curb 
market to aid in rounding up the crooked 
operators. 
Mr. Waugh has written to many towns 
iu the Southwest in an endeavor to locate 
some of the oil firms whose stock has 
been sold on the curb. He lias received 
unsatisfactory replies to most of his in¬ 
quiries, he says.—New York Sun. 
The above item contains food for 
thought for those who are approached by 
slick-tongued oil stock salesmen, or re¬ 
ceive equally alluring propositions through 
the mail. Country people have good rea¬ 
sons for suspicion of anyone who proposes 
to make them rich through investments 
in oil stocks—or any other stocks for 
that matter. 
We have had many inquiries about the 
stock brokerage firm of Andrews & Co., 
and the class cf stocks promoted by the 
firm. It is to be hoped that none of our 
readers is the victim of the telephone 
solicitations as reported by the Philadel¬ 
phia Ts'orth American as follows: 
“We are.going to let you in on a good 
thing.” say the Andrews & Co. boys to 
their victim on the telephone. “Andrews 
A Co. is one of the largest stock selling 
houses in the country, which means m 
the world. We handle nothing but re¬ 
liable. old industrial stocks. You don’t 
have to drill a well to look for oil or 
dig a hole in the ground to look for copper 
ore to find out what we are selling you. 
This stock we let you in on is iu a com¬ 
pany that has been in business for years, 
paying dividends regularly.” 
"I don’t want any stock, I have no 
money to invest,” the victim answers. 
“Well, listen, this stock has advanced 
from $4 to $6 a share and we are sure it 
is going up again,” says Andrews & Co.’s 
trained telephone liar. “You are willing 
to take vour profit on 10 shares if it goes 
up tomorrow from $G to $8. aren’t you?” . 
“Sure, I am always willing to take a 
profit, anybody is.” replies the victim iu 
nine cases out of ten. 
“We will carry you. The way the 
stock is advancing it will be us sending 
you checks instead of you sending us 
any.” declared the Andrews man. 
Next morning or a few days later the 
victim is called up again. 
•Hello, Mr.; well, the 100 shares I 
sold you the other day have advanced; 
they are up to $8 a share now. Pretty 
nice for you.” starts the Andrews faker. 
“I didn’t buy any stock from you; I 
never gave you an order for 100 shares,” 
protests the victim. 
“Oh, yes. you did, and you have made 
a profit of $2 a share on it,” retorts the 
Andrews faker in his smoothest language. 
“Now, you know you bought that 100 
shares: you know that $200 profit is 
yours, don’t you?” 
“Well, sell it then and send me the 
check for my profits,” the victim may 
burst out to cut the business short. 
But that doesn’t embarrass the An¬ 
drews boys at all. Oh. no. they cannot 
sell the stock. They are not brokers. 
They are simply an “underwriting syndi¬ 
cate.” And. besides, the stock is not 
transferred and delivered until it is paid 
for. But if Mr. Sucker will kindly for¬ 
ward his check to Andrews & Co., the 
stock will be delivered immediately, and 
then Mr. Sucker can take full advantage 
of the next advance in price when lie 
acts more promptly on a friendly tip from 
the generous Andrews & Co. 
I am enclosing a letter from Coffee 
Bros., Sabot, Ya.. the only letter I have 
received from them since sending a post 
office money order for $30 the first day 
of .Tune, 1018. to pay for a boar pig they 
had advertised iu the May number of the 
American Swineherd. I wrote again 
June 12, asking if they had received the 
money order. Getting no reply to that 
letter, I had the postmaster send to 
Sabot to see if the order had been pre¬ 
sented for payment. It had not. but 
later the returns came from Richmond, 
when it had been paid on June 8. I then 
wrote again, threatening to expose them 
if they did not return the money. They 
then sent the enclosed letter. I answered 
it immediately, asking them to return the 
money, as the boar they offered was too 
young. The one they advertised was a 
Fall boar. If they did ship a boar— 
which I very much doubt—it certainly 
was not the one I sent the money for. as 
they wrote to the Swineherd they had 
sold the three, advertised in 
number, within a week of the 
coming out. about May 15. and 
wish for one till the first of 
should be greatly obliged 
collect this money for me. 
the May 
magazine 
I did not 
June. I 
if you could 
The delay in 
waiting to hear from them was a serious 
loss to me. MRS. M. B. 
New Jersey. 
We have written the Eastwood Stock 
Farm Co.. Sabot, Ya., repeatedly in the 
subscriber’s behalf without result. We 
yet give these breeders credit for good 
intentions, but people who will not an¬ 
swer letters in a case of this kind are 
about as satisfactory to do business with 
as those whose intention it is to defraud. 
It is now nearly a year since this sub¬ 
scriber bought and paid for the pig. Cer¬ 
tainly the transaction would gh< little 
encouragement for others to favor these 
Southern gentlemen with further patron¬ 
age. 
The Hercules Tire Company, which for¬ 
merly did business at 1789 Broadway. 
New York City, now under indictment, 
had a guarantee of 4.000 miles which 
provided that in the event you did not get 
the promised 4.000 miles, you could pur¬ 
chase another tire for half the price of the 
first. The Hercules developed to be a tire 
made of wornout standard casings, cam¬ 
ouflaged. Some of these tires blew out on 
inflation, some went seven, some 10 and a 
few ran a little more than 10 miles. 
Needless to say, no Hercules buyer 
wanted a second tire at any price, but 
using the actual mileage obtained by H. F. 
Bee. a New Jersey motorist, as the basis 
of computation, had he fully equipped his 
car with Hercules tires and availed him¬ 
self of their guarantee and continued to 
do so, each tire giving him the same mile¬ 
age as the first, it would have cost him 
$18.85S for casings alone to obtain his 
guaranteed 4.000 miles.—Associated Ad¬ 
vertising Clubs. 
The above is interesting as showing 
what would happen if a customer of these 
“tire gyps” followed up the guarantee to 
the bitter end. The word “guarantee’ is 
perhaps the most abused one in the Eng¬ 
lish language. It means so much when 
used by responsible and honorable men ; 
but becomes “sucker bait” iu the hands of 
the faker. The Hercules Tire Company 
has been exposed so often iu these columns 
that further comments on its methods are 
unnecessary. 
We are receiving for milk $3.50 per 
cwt., four per cent test; eggs. 42c; veal. 
18c per lb.; wheat, $2.20; corn. $1.75; 
oats. SOc; hay, $31 in the mow. Late 
hatched roosters 47c* per lb. Seed [iota- 
toes cost about $1.70 per bu.. Northern 
grown. We receive $5 a cord for mixed 
firewood iu stove lengths, delivered from 
one to two miles. Oats are about all 
sown. Not many potatoes planted. 
Wheat and clover fields look well. The 
ground was bare all Winter, but wheat 
is extra good. Farmers are planting pota¬ 
toes and plowing corn ground. F. s. p. 
Bucks Co.. Pa. 
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