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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 8, 1920 
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. 
July 14, 1919, we sent an order to the 
Metropolitan Egg Case Company for 50 
egg cases at 9c each, total $4.50: sent a 
check, as you can see by the one indorsed. 
"Waited two months; never heard a word ; 
wrote them about it. received a letter 
from them stating they had no record of 
ever receiving an order or a check from 
us. but for us to give names on back of 
check and if they could be convinced they 
would send the cases at once. We did 
as requested, and never heard from them 
since. We sent them another letter about 
two weeks ago asking if they had found 
out anything and if so we would prefer 
our $4.’50 back, but have never heard any¬ 
thing from them. We got 25 from them 
last year, so think them reliable; but 
why do they not answer our letters? 
New Yo-k. j. e. s. 
The above is typical of the experience 
of a great many poultry men ordering sec¬ 
ond-hand egg cases from New York City 
dealers. The class of people in this line 
of business are irresponsible, and it is a 
gamble whether those sending remit¬ 
tances get the goods ordered or not. 
Would you please tell me if the Deselms 
Watch School. Attica, Ind., is a reliable 
place to take a course in watch making? 
As I am unable to go to a watch making 
school. I would like to take a course 
through mail. C. N. 
Michigan. 
We do not know the school in question, 
but we consider it the limit of corre¬ 
spondence school fakery to lead this young 
man to believe that he can learn the art 
of watch making through a mail course. 
He might just as reasonably expect to 
learn how to fly to the moon by such a 
course. And the only difference we see 
between this and the other correspondence 
sdiool propositions is the matter of degree 
of deception practiced. 
We are enclosing herewith a copy of 
letters to J. C. Blume Co.. Pittsburgh, 
Pa., with reference to sprouts shipned 
to them during November, 1919. The 
draft which we sent them through our 
bank on February 25 has been returned, 
and we are wondering whether you can 
do something for us. We have express 
receipts for all shipments. J. t. k. 
John C. Blume & Co.. Pittsburgh, Pa., 
paid for th's shipment of last November 
on April 19. after the shipper had placed 
the account in the hands of our collection 
a'torney. The record in the case requires 
no comment. 
Inclosed you will find a letter sent to 
me by P. Baron. 1634 Amsterdam Ave., 
New York City, as to how to make $10.- 
000 for a dollar. Do you know anything 
about this person? w. n. b. 
Rhode Island. 
We know nothing of this P. Baron, 
whom, if we are to believe what he says 
in his letter to this subscriber, possesses 
the key to easy riches, and is willing to 
pass his secret around for the small sum 
of $1. He claims to have made a for¬ 
tune himself, but we can find no evidence 
of it. The letter is such a palpable trap 
to catch easy money that it is quite in¬ 
conceivable that anyone should consider 
it seriously; still, similar plans have 
caught a goodly percentage of suckers. 
The Postoffice inspectors’ attention has 
been called to the case. 
Enclosed you will find a letter I would 
like your opinion on. I ordered bushes 
from’Rice Bros.’ agent, Geneva. N. Y., 
and, finding we could sell our farm, we 
wrote them, asking if they would cancel 
order, as we would have nowhere to plant 
them, and the intending purchaser did 
not want them. The enclosed is their re- 
ply. We would like to know if they are a 
responsible firm. We would have bought 
more bushes from them when we had lo¬ 
cated another place, but will not do so 
now. w. J. G. 
New York. 
The above letter illustrates the attitude 
of nursery houses selling through agents. 
When a farmer sells his farm and for this 
reason is unable to make use of the plants 
ordered, it is only reasonable that cancel¬ 
lation of the order would be accepted. 
This is true of houses in most lines, and 
also nursery houses selling direct by cat¬ 
alogue. It is not so of any of the nursery 
houses following the agency system. Rice 
Bros, are within their legal rights in in¬ 
sisting that W. J. G. pay for the stock, 
even though he cannot use it. but this 
isn’t the way high-class houses in the 
nursery trade or other lines treat their 
customers. We only want fruit growers 
to know what they must expect when pat¬ 
ronizing these “agency” nursery houses. 
Can you give me any information re¬ 
garding’Carlisle Tire Corporation? They 
have agent out here selling stock for them 
at $25. per share, preferred, and give you 
as bonus same amount of common. It 
looks too good to me to be true. They 
pay S per cent on preferred. I would 
like to invest, but want to be sure that it 
is safe. I have confidence in you. as I 
have saved a lot of money through your 
Publisher’s Desk. I consider a dollar a 
year is a pretty good investment when it 
saves hundreds, besides a lot of good com¬ 
mon-sense reading. F. d. a. 
New York. 
The Carlisle Cord Tire Company, ac¬ 
cording to a financial statement before us, 
has $275,000 of indebtedness against 
$176,000 of assets. Suit is said to have 
been entered against the company by one 
of the stockholders, and application made 
for a receivership. An investment in the 
stock of company, in view of the above 
facts, would be taking a very “long shot.” 
Of course, information of this kind is 
never carried by stock salesmen. 
What do you know of R. W. Van 
Iloesen of Franklinville, N. Y.? In the 
forepart of last November I sent for two 
Yorkshire pigs, which I received all right, 
and he wrote that the papers would come 
later on, for he was to register them in 
my name. I have not heard anything o p 
the papers yet. About eight weeks ago I 
wrote him regarding the matter, but got 
no answer, so I wrote him again April 4, 
and had the letter marked to return m 
five days, but I did not get it back and 
did not get an answer. I paid a good 
price for those purebred hogs, and would 
like to have them registered. What do 
you think is the trouble? c. T. 
Ohio. 
We had a previous complaint against 
R. W. Tan Iloesen. A subscriber failed 
to get eggs for which he had paid, and 
Van Iloesen considered it none of our bus¬ 
iness how he conducted his affairs. He 
offered to supply eggs the next Spring, 
but refused to refund the money. Van 
Hoesen’s record is not good. We under¬ 
stand he runs his business under several 
names, but the only accounts he pays are 
in the name of the Van Iloesen Press, 
under which name he runs a small job 
printing establishment and publishes the 
Ancona World. As a publisher and 
breeder he is no credit to either. 
George C. Booth, proprietor of the 
IT. S. Food & Fur Association, New York, 
was fined $1,000 last week under the 
indictment and conviction of fraudulent 
use of the mails. He thus escapes a jail 
sentence in connection with his scheme of 
selling rabbits, promising the purchasers 
to buy the progeny at $7 a pair. The 
offer, as we have many times explained, 
is pure sucker bait to make the sale of 
rabbits or hares at a fabulous price. All 
such so-called “associations,” “labora¬ 
tories” or whatever other name may be 
used to conduct the business are to be 
avoided. 
I am enclosing a letter and some liter¬ 
ature from an oil land leasing company 
of Syracuse, which looks to me like 
eueker bait. I have a friend who seems 
inclined to invest all his savings in the 
scheme, and I am writing you if you 
know anything about the company. 
New York. D. ii.p. 
We share the subscriber’s estimate of 
this proposition. Betting on a horse race 
or the throw of the dice we should con¬ 
sider a mild form of gambling compared 
with putting money into promotions of 
this sort. The chances of winning are 
better in the former. 
I have an account against A. Lee. a 
florist of Riverhead, N. Y., amounting to 
$48.70. Can you collect it? J. G. c. 
New York. 
For many years past we have known 
Arthur Lee of Lee’s Nurseries, Riverhead, 
Long Island, and the complaints have 
been continuous that he orders goods and 
neglects to pay for them. One attorney 
reports that Mr. Lee is well known all 
over, and no one should sell him anything 
without) cash in advance. He has been 
through bankruptcy twice, and had a rep¬ 
utation later of getting goods from a dis¬ 
tance, as it was impossible to get credit 
near home. 
Jones (telephoning) : I wish you’d 
send a man up here to fix that phono¬ 
graph you sold me. It’s singing through 
its nose.—Philadelphia Ledger. 
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