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June 11, 1921 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
How to know good Roofing— 
HTHERE is one sure way to select good roofing. It never fails. Look 
± at the label before you buy ! If it reads “Barrett Everlastic” you are 
perfectly safe. You are sure of a moderate priced roof that will give 
many years of satisfactory service — a roofing backed by a company 
with sixty years of “know-how.” 
It isn’t necessary to rip off the old roof when you use Everlastic 
Roofings. You can lay the new roofings on top of the old and get 
a first-class job. 
There’s a style of Everlastic for every steep-roofed building on your farm. In roll 
roofing, you have a choice of two styles—one plain-surfaced, another handsomely 
coated with red or green crushed slate. There are also two styles of Everlastic 
Shingles, one single and one in strips of four—both surfaced with crushed slate in the 
attractive natural shades of red or green. 
Everlastic “Rubber " Roofing 
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. 
Louis Enrieht was arrested and held on 
bail for sale of stock in the Enrieht Peat 
Gasoline Corporation. A Long Island 
man purchased $1,000 worth of stock and 
is now endeavoring to obtain a return of 
his money. Enrieht has “invented” two- 
cent gasoline, artificial rubies, fireproof 
paint, synthetic rubber, artificial marble, 
radium water, and a system for increas¬ 
ing the growth of potatoes. Ilis latest 
effort was selling stock in the above com¬ 
pany, which was to manufacture a ma¬ 
chine to convert Long Island peat into 
gasoline. Needless to slay, an investiga¬ 
tion would have saved the $1,000, whereas 
now good money must be spent to get it 
back, and the effort may be unsuccessful. 
On March 21 last a fellow claiming to 
be a representative of the Standard Cir¬ 
culation Company, Buhl Block. Detroit. 
Mich., called at our office and took my 
subscription and the bookkeeper's sub¬ 
scription for a club of magazines, consist¬ 
ing of American Magazine, Outdoor Life , 
Illustrated World and Cosmopolitan , to¬ 
gether with a good leather-bound Web¬ 
ster dictionary, for a total of $7.80. We 
were to receive the dictionary at once. 
We have not received the dictionary or 
the magazines. We were not asked to 
pay anything down, but were to pay the 
banker any time within six months. We 
signed wbat purported to be a plain sub¬ 
scription order. A letter addressed to 
the Standard Circulation Company at 
Detroit was returned by the postal de¬ 
partment as “not known.” 
There were several here who accepted 
this proposition besides us. We find 
now that the banks holds six months’ 
notes against us for $7.80. We did not 
sign notes, but these subscription orders 
were made into notes after we had signed 
them, and without our knowledge. The 
bank (Kent City State Bank) has al¬ 
ready discounted the notes, supposing that 
the concern was reliable and the offer 
genuine. It looks as though we would 
have to pay these notes, although we have 
simply been hoodooed. We do not want 
to do anything to get the ill-will of the 
bank, but it seems that there ought to be 
some Way to get hold of these people and 
stop such practices. They are probably 
making the rounds in other towns. 
Michigan. G. w. R. C. 
The publishers of Cosmopolitan, Outdoor 
Life and American Magazine write us that 
they have not authorized Standard Circu¬ 
lation Co. of Detroit to represent them in 
any capacity, or to take subscriptions for 
these magazines. This same scheme was 
worked in New Jersey last year by agents 
of lloosier Publishing Company of Brook¬ 
lyn. We feel that banks are subject to 
criticism when they discount notes for 
strangers in this way without consulting 
the alleged makers of the notes. Court 
records show that in cases where the 
banks failed to take reasonable precau¬ 
tions to learn the character of the parties 
presenting the notes, the banks were un¬ 
able to collect from the signei's of the 
notes. 
Will you let me know if Hydro-United 
Tire Company, Philadelphia, Pa., is all 
right? A. N. 
Connecticut. 
Tiie Rural New-Yorker has refused 
the .advertising of this firm for the reason 
that we do not desire to be even indirectly 
and he decided the case in favor of Gun- 
son & Co. a. e. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
We fail to see whether or not The 
Rural New-Yorker owns the press on 
which it is printed has any bearing on 
the case of the neighbor of A. E. S., but 
w'e are not surprised the agent of Gunson 
& Co. made oath to this false statement 
quoted above. That they are entirely 
false is subject to ready proof. But 
falsehoods about the seeds they sold have 
been the stock in trade of the agents of 
L. P. Gunson & Co. as long back as we 
have heard of them, and it would there¬ 
fore be unreasonable to expect one of 
them to tell the truth about anything. 
I have received your answer about the 
Broadway Composing Studios of New 
York City. I am very thankful for your 
good advice. After reading the clipping 
you sent me, I realize how much money 
I saved by writing to you first. Really, 
it is a shame to let such people cheat 
others. The money they ask for is quite 
a sum; maybe not to some people, but 
it is to people who have to work hard for 
it, as I myself do. I have to support my 
mother and keep up our little home with 
what I earn in shop. So again I want to 
thank you for your good advice. I hope 
if there are any others who are trying to 
make up. song poems they will first seek 
your advice, as I and others did, and not 
be cheated out of their money. M. E. 
Connecticut. 
This class of music publishing houses 
are in the same class as the “work-at- 
home” fakers, because they take money 
from poor deserving people, leading them 
to believe that when the song is published 
it will prove a source of income. What 
actually happens is that the song writer 
loses the money sent to these concerns to 
have the song published. Regardless of 
the merit of the song, it is impractical to 
promote or market a song in this w T ay, 
or through any of the various houses ad¬ 
vertising in the “mail-order” papers for 
victims. No legitimate publication would 
carry such advertising. 
Last Fall I received through the mail 
a circular saying that if one wished to 
know about sealing fruit jars which 
would not seal with their regular tops to 
send the enclosed card, which was ad¬ 
dressed to J. H. Fletcher & Co., Brisbane 
Building, Buffalo, N. Y., for particulars. 
I mailed this card, and in about one week 
J. II. Fletcher came personally to my 
house. He was selling stock for the 
Upressit Cap.” This cap is manufac¬ 
tured by the United States Metal Cap 
and Seal Co., with office and factorv at 
107 West Thirteenth Street, New York 
City. After some persuasion I agreed to 
purchase 10 shares of the common stock, 
par value $10, for $8.50 per share. I 
paid $10 down, and promised to pav the 
balance in 00 days. If I failed to pay 
Mr. Fletcher said that I could receive 
back what I had paid. When the balance 
became due I asked that my money be 
returned on account of needing the money 
for other purposes. Mr. Fletcher said 
that he could not return the money, as 
the stock certificate had been issued. Was 
it proper for him to issue certificate of 
stock before it had been paid for, also can 
he collect payment under these circum¬ 
stances? I would like your opinion as to 
what the future of this stock will be. 
New York. MRS. G. A. 
This case is so typical of the way stocks 
of this character are sold that all who are 
approached by stock salesmen may profit 
by the subscriber’s experience. In the 
first place, the indirect way in which the 
woman was interested is sufficient to 
cause suspicion. No confidence should 
ever be placed in what a stock salesman 
“says,” or any other salesmau, for that 
matter. Insist that all agreements be 
Thi* is one of our most popular roofings. A recog¬ 
nized standard among “rubber” roofings. Famous 
for durability. Made of high-grade waterproofing 
materials, it defies wind and weather and insures 
dry, comfortable buildings under all’weather con¬ 
ditions. Tough, pliable, durable and low in price. 
It is easy to lay.no skilled labor, required. Nails 
and cement in each roll. 
Everlastic Slate-Surfaced Roofing 
A high-grade roll roofing, surfaced with genuine 
crushed slate, in two natural shades, red or green. 
Needs no painting. Handsome enough for a home, 
economical enough for a barn or garage. Com¬ 
bines real protection against fire with beauty. 
Nails and cement with each roll. 
Booklets fully describing 
Everlastic Multi-Shingles 
(4-ShingIes-in-One) 
Made of high-grade thoroughly waterproofed felt 
and surfaced with crushed state, in beautiful natural 
slate colors, either red or green. Laid in etrips of 
four shingles in one at far less cost in labor and 
time than for wooden shingles. Give you a roof of 
artistic beauty worthy of the finest buildings, 
and one that resists fire and weather. Need no 
painting. 
Everlastic Single Shingles 
Made of the same durable slate surface (red or 
green) material as the Multi-Shingles, but cut into 
individual shingles, 8 x 12% in. Laid like wooden 
shingles but cost less per year of service. Need 
no painting. 
each style, free on request 
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responsible for the stock-selling propo¬ 
sition of the company. We also question 
the good faith of the “100,000-milo guar¬ 
antee.” None of the standard manufactur¬ 
ers make such a guarantee on tires, and it 
is unreasonable to expect this compara¬ 
tively new company to turn out a better 
tire than all others. 
Some time ago I wrote you about the 
standing of L. P. Gunson & Co. of 
Rochester, N. Y., the firm that has been 
selling seed oats in our locality, and your 
reply and also clippings from your paper 
were received, which I thank you for. 
They have misrepresented their oats and 
also sold for different prices, and the 
fanners are very much dissatisfied with 
them. They have sued one of my neigh¬ 
bors for $1(5.75 for six bushels of oats that 
he refused to accept. I offered your let¬ 
ter and clipping from The R. N.-Y. in 
evidence at the hearing, and the salesman 
for Gunson & Co. denied that they were 
true, and said that you people were in 
bad financial standing, and also swore 
that you do not own the press on which 
your paper is printed. These assertions 
had relative weight with the magistrate, 
written in the contract or order. Then 
if the firm which the agent represents is 
responsible the other party has some pro¬ 
tection. Regardless of whether the stock 
certificate was issued or not, it is impos¬ 
sible for this inquire r to get. return 
of the money. On the other hand, no 
doubt the TJ. S. Metal Cap and Seal Co. 
could hold her for the balance due on the 
contract. It will prove the exception if 
stock sold by such methods should become 
valuable iu the future. 
A furniture van blocked the waj, and 
a little boy stood by the horse and gave 
it some bread to eat. The driver looked 
on approvingly. “That’s right.” he said 
to the young benefactor; “always be kind 
to dumb animals. Look how the horse 
enjoys it. But does your mother always 
give you big hunks like that?” “No,” 
replied the youngster, “mother didn’t give 
me that one. I found it lying in the 
van.” “What!” yelled the driver. “Why, 
that was my breakfast!”—New York 
Globe. 
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