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‘Prc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 6, 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 unsigued let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Verified claims against the Catskill & 
New York Steamboat Co., Ltd., should 
be filed with the receivers before Dec. 15. 
1919. Send verified claims with full par¬ 
ticulars to Win. Parkin, Special Master. 
Room 422, Old Post Office Bldg., Park 
Row, New York. 
I am enclosing you a statement that 
I received from Grantwood Realty Co. I 
hold several of their bonds, and this is 
the last statement I have received from 
them; they have never paid any divi¬ 
dends and don’t give any information, and 
I wondered if you could get a liue on 
them for me. I also own some stock in 
the Grantwood Lumber Co., located in 
Grantwood, N. J. This company was 
identified with the Realty Co. It has 
been in the hands of a receiver for several 
years, and they do not send any state¬ 
ments or pay dividends. There is quite 
an amount of the bonds owned here by 
farmers, and they are anxious to know if 
there would ever be any show of getting 
any part of it back. I am a great ad¬ 
mirer of your Publisher’s Desk and am 
glad to know that there is one paper that 
is fearless enough to expose fake invest¬ 
ments. Had I the advice of your valuable 
paper when I invested in these I would 
be saved quite a sum. J. d. h. 
New York. 
The Grantwood Realty Co. and the 
Grantwood Lumber Co. wore side issues 
of the promoters of the Industrial Sav¬ 
ings & Loan Co. of New York, which 
was exposed by the State Banking De¬ 
partment in 1912. Some two years be¬ 
fore this action was taken by the State 
officials The Rural New-Yorker dis¬ 
covered that the officers of the Building 
& Loan Association were using its funds 
to promote outside enterprises, and hung 
up a danger signal promptly. The editor 
of Publisher’s Desk is no prophet, but 
such practices in violation of good busi¬ 
ness principles could eventually result in 
nothing but trouble and disaster. 
Will you take this claim up with the 
Erie Railroad Company? We would be 
perfectly satisfied with any settlement 
you may be able to make with them. 
New York. J. n. s. 
This shipment was made Nov. 30. 1917. 
It consisted of 2G barrels of pears, which 
were delayed in delivery and damaged 
in transit. The consignee claimed they 
were worth $8 to $10 if delivered in good 
order, but because of the bad handling 
they realized only $1.50 per barrel. We 
entered claim for a reasonable loss, and 
the Erie Railroad insisted they would 
pay only $4.30. We refused this, and 
finally on Nov. 14, 1919. succeeded in 
getting $79.50. It took nearly two years 
to get it. We hope to be as successful 
with other claims on file. In this case 
the records were absolutely clear and sup¬ 
ported by the necessary evidence. Where 
we are unable to show such proof we are 
tinable to make collection. 
I am sending you some sucker bait to 
investigate, as there is an agent going the 
rounds among the farmers in La Porte 
County selling stock of the Production 
Meter Company, Chicago. It does not 
look good to me, but possibly your opinion 
will benefit someone else. A. A. w. 
Indiana. 
The proposition doesn’t, look good to us, 
either. It is always dangerous to invest 
money in stocks of any enterprise on the 
strength of the representations of the 
promoter or salesman. As a rule stocks 
peddled around in this way have no value. 
My father is a subscriber to The R. 
N.-Y. and we all read it. Among other 
things I notice that you have a service 
bureau and are very successful in se¬ 
curing satisfaction for readers of your 
paper who have been unfairly dealt with. 
I for one. have been unfairly dealt with, 
and I would appreciate it very much if 
you would use your influence in securing 
a settlement for me. Enclosed find a cir¬ 
cular from the Kimball Tire & Rubber 
Co. I secured one of their regular 30x3 
tires through their agent, the Berner Mo¬ 
tor Car Co., of Gloversville, N Y. I put 
on the tire and after using it only a day 
or two it split along the rim, and also in 
the middle of the tread. Their agent ad¬ 
mitted the tire was defective, and wrote 
the company advising them of it and ask¬ 
ing them for an ad'ustment. lie re¬ 
ceived no reply and after writing several 
times, sent the tire back about a month 
ago. paying shipping charges as required 
in their guarantee. Since then we have 
heard nothing from them, and it surely 
looks as though they intended to do noth¬ 
ing about it. Will you do all you pos¬ 
sibly can towards making them settle? 
New York H. w. v. 
The Kimball Tire & Rubber Co., Chi¬ 
cago. Ill., absolutely ignore our letters, 
and the subscriber will have to accept his 
loss. This is the usual result when deal¬ 
ing with houses that carry these cheap 
tires. The higher-priced tires are cheaper 
in the end. 
I am wondering whether you have heard 
recently from E. G. Lewis, the man whose 
exploits at University City, Mo., attracted 
so much attention about a dozen years 
ago. I was surprised to learn a short 
time ago that he has made another start 
will other people’s money, and is conduct¬ 
ing big operations in the same old way. 
This time he is developing vast mining 
properties and real estate schemes, with 
headquarters at Atascadero. California. 
I would not bother myself about him, but 
got a jolt recently upon discovering that 
an elderly couple who live close to me 
have turned their whole welfare into his 
hands. These good people own a house 
and two acres of land, out of which they 
eke a bare existence. They mortgaged this 
property for $1,000 and turned the money 
over to* Lewis. Great news kept coming 
to them in rapid succession, sometimes of 
such a jubilant nature that it could not 
even wait for the slow mails, hence came 
by telegraph. In their excitement they 
saved and scraped another hundred dol¬ 
lars and sent that to him also. I have 
tried to alarm them about their situation, 
but they are completely fascinated by T the 
man. and are sure that fabulous wealth 
will soon be theirs. Possibly I am a 1 
out of date, but shall be pleased to have 
you investigate these new schemes cf 
Lewis and give a report of your findings. 
Oregon. R. E. H. 
We have done all the investigating of 
Mr. Lewis that we care to make. In hi® 
St. Louis schemes he gathered up an es¬ 
timated $12,000,000 of other people’s 
money and spent it. At first we got a few 
thousands back for our people, but when 
Lewis found how widespread the demand 
for refunds became through The R. N.-Y. 
he refused to make restitution. W ith the 
exposure that followed he was unable to 
collect enough new money to keep going, 
and his house of cards fell to the ground. 
Little of the twelve million was ever re¬ 
turned. 
While the people of St. Louis as a 
whole regretted the scandal to their city, 
Lewis spent other people’s money there 
and had apologists and defenders in bank¬ 
ers, business men and politicians, but the 
Federal courts were not misled by them, 
and it at least stopped the scandal in the 
State of Missouri. Lewis secured victims 
in every walk of life. Big publishers in 
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago; 
educational institutions, even eminent pro¬ 
fessors in some of our agricultural col¬ 
leges, and Chautauqua institutions all lent 
the weight of their name and influence 
directly or indirectly to the Lewis schemes. 
While the money kept coming he spent 
it freely. His special source of income 
was the inexperienced and gullible women, 
children, invalids and old couples, all of 
whom were induced to believe that Lewie 
would make money so fast for them it 
would burn their pockets. Many of his 
victims, stripped of their life savings, died 
in poverty and want. 
The R. N.-Y. at its own heavy expense, 
and often under protest from deluded vic¬ 
tims, broke up the flow of money to St 
Louis. It never spent money and energy 
to better public service, nor with less hop** 
of profit to itself. 
Can you recommend the Pan-American 
Motors Corporation of Decatur, Ill. as a 
safe company to invest in? Some time 
ago I received a letter asking if I was 
interested in investing in their stock and 
upon replying in affirmative was visited 
by one of their representatives who was 
selling stock at $12.50 per share, par 
value $10. r. w. E. R. 
New York 
The Pan-American Motor Corporation, 
Decatur, Ill., is capitalized at $2,500,000. 
The company appears to have some good 
assets, but the concern or its cars cuts 
no figure in the trade and we should con¬ 
sider that it would be a reckless specu¬ 
lation for a farmer to put liis savings in 
the stock of a concern no better estab¬ 
lished than this seems to be. This com¬ 
pany, however, must not be confused with 
the Pan Motor Co., St. Cloud, Minn., the 
promoter of which, S. C. Pandolfo, has 
recently been prosecuted by the IT. S. 
authorities under charges of fraudulent 
use of the mails. 
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