1146 
September 17, 1921 
<Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Conn., receiving 
postoffice of Cos 
of Demmon is 
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. 
The victims of the live stock deals of 
Douglas Demmon will be interested to 
note that the Federal authorities are look¬ 
ing for him again. Of late he has been 
located at Greenwich, 
his mail at the nearby 
Cob. One peculiarity 
that he conducts most of his correspond¬ 
ence on telegraph blanks. It is reported 
that he represented himself in Greenwich 
as a wealthy ranch owner from Montana. 
He got shipments of breeding stock a 
year and a half ago on the pretext that 
he was shipping to South America. The 
most charitable view of Demmon is 
that he is not of sound mind, but at any 
rate he showed a large degree of cunning 
in the stock transactions. 
Receivers for the American Motors 
Company of Plainfield. N. .T.. one of the 
largest automobile manufacturing con¬ 
cerns in the Fast, were appointed recently 
as the result of an equity action before 
Federal Judge Lynch in Newark. The 
suit was filed by Furst & Furst and Sam¬ 
uel M. Hollander, attorneys, who repre¬ 
sent 80 per cent of the creditors. It was 
started with the consent of the company. 
The above item is of interest to those 
who have been invited to purchase stock 
in the American Motors Company. The 
general depressed condition of the busi¬ 
ness may be responsible for the financial 
difficulties at this time, but the stock 
promotion plan was unsound, and not 
such as to inspire confidence in the enter¬ 
prise. 
An individual came to our burg last 
•week and engaged something like 40 
young girls to work for him. with a doll 
as a reward for their services. Each 
girl was given a large card with which 
to do business. On the card were 40 con¬ 
cealed numbers. The scheme is to start 
the little girl out among her friends and 
have them pick out one of the numbers by 
pulling off a piece of tissue paper. If 
the number revealed is 18. you pay 18 
cents. If it is 6. you pay 0 cents. The 
numbers run consecutively from 1 to 40. 
You write your name over the number 
you picked. In the upper corner of the 
card is another concealed number. When 
the little .girl has sold all the numbers 
she has $8.10, which she gives to the 
promoter. He uncovers the winning 
number, and if it corresponds with yours 
you get a doll worth about $1.50. ’ The 
little girl also gets a similar doll. That 
totals $3. Now subtract $3 from $8.10 
and there is a balance of $5.10. Multiply 
that by 40 and you have $204. All the 
while the children were out importuning 
their friends to assist them in the gam¬ 
bling scheme the promoter basked in the 
sunshine on a hotel porch. 
The above from the Quakertown, Pa., 
Free Press reveals an easy money scheme 
that country people should be on guard 
against. The children, of course, only 
see the doll which they are to receive for 
their work, and their parents fail to real¬ 
ize the viciousness of the scheme until the 
easy money artist has passed on to an¬ 
other town. We hope this item may 
head him and his ilk off in some quarters 
at least. 
The United Fertilizer & Lime Com¬ 
pany have an agent here selling stock at 
$10 a share; can’t take less than five 
shares. They are picking up a lot of 
money here. Will you look them up and 
let us know what they are about? Am 
sending you a little slip they had in the 
Malone paper. D. B. 
New York. 
We have already paid our inspects to 
the United Fertilizer & Lime Company 
stock promotion scheme. We suspected 
from the start that this was a promotion 
of C. II. Stromblad, and the newspaper 
clipping forwarded by this subscriber con¬ 
firms the suspicion. It states that Strom¬ 
blad represented F. B. Kelley, president 
of the company. In all probability Kel¬ 
ley is the stool pigeon for Stromblad, 
who organized a similar scheme two years 
ago, which was effective in separating a 
good many farmers from their savings on 
the strength of representations that were 
impossible to carry out. 
Reading the letter of J. F. C., Vir¬ 
ginia. in Publisher’s Desk recalls to me 
a little business I had with the Harlo- 
warden Gardens, Riverhead, L. I., a few 
years ago. The proprietor advertised 
some new varieties of carnations in one 
of our trade papers. I sent him an order 
for several hundred, but he wrote back 
demanding payment before plants were 
shipped. I did not know him. but wish¬ 
ing the varieties I sent him check in pay¬ 
ment. After growing these carnations all 
Summer I found in the Fall that they 
were a lot of inferior mixed varieties of 
little value, and not one single plant of 
what I ordered. After writing him he 
claimed his hired help got them mixed. 
It seems to be a bad habit of the con¬ 
cern. j. fc. 
Connecticut. 
We referred to Arthur Lee as proprie¬ 
tor of the Harlowarden Gardens. This 
was an error. He is proprietor of Lee’s 
Nurseries, Riverhead, L. I. We hav e had 
numerous complaints against him and ad¬ 
vise against dealings with him. The 
Harlowarden Gardens are conducted by 
J. M. Raynor at Greenport, L. I., and 
we have also had frequent complaints 
against him and accounts for collection. 
We do not consider either house satisfac¬ 
tory for the trade of our people. 
Last Fall I shipped a box of merchan¬ 
dise from Buffalo to Smethport, Pa., by 
American Express. I waited in Smeth¬ 
port for one week for this box to come, 
which it never did. I called at the 
American Express twice a day at Smeth¬ 
port, and had to pay my board for two 
of us, which was a big expense. At last 
I gave the express agent my address and 
told him where to ship it, and he said he 
would. I came home then, went to the 
claim agent at Ruffalo and put in a 
claim, and he said he would look it up 
right away. In a week or so I received 
a letter from the claim agent in Buffalo 
saying the box had been delivered. Then 
I wrote right back to him and told him 
if it had been delivered I had never re¬ 
ceived a thing. I have called at the 
claim agent’s office twice since that, and 
I have received nothing. Will you look 
up this matter for me? a. j. c. 
New York. 
Claim was entered promptly by ship¬ 
per, but he could get no advice or adjust¬ 
ment. It took the express company a 
year and eight mouths to settle. The 
goods were worth $250, but as a value of 
$100 was put on the express receipt the 
express company was not responsible for 
anything more than this amount. 
We wish to thank you for the fine work 
The R. N.-Y. has rendered us in securing 
our money. We received the check for 
$475, and will always feel grateful to the 
paper. Thanking you again and wishing 
you all success, hr. and mrs. a. r. k. 
New York. 
This is a case of a poor couple having 
made a deposit on a farm under circum¬ 
stances which made the refund clearly 
due them. To secure the refund through 
legal process would cost as much as the 
amount involved, and the couple would be 
no better off. It is a source of great 
satisfaction to help subscribers in cases 
of this kind. Also we are glad to per¬ 
form the service in the interests of jus¬ 
tice and square dealing, regardless of the 
interests of individuals concerned. 
I never saw a paper that gives to each 
member of the family such a sense of 
being understood and helped. 
Massachusetts. MRS. e. it. g. 
The above note is especially pleasing, 
because the author of it has discovered in 
the paper just what we have been study¬ 
ing and trying to make it for years. If 
all of our people get this feeling our 
satisfaction would be complete. 
Alien Land Owner 
Gan an alien not naturalized own real 
estate in Pennsylvania? In buying a 
farm for part cash and balance on time, 
what is the customary method of proced¬ 
ure? What form of agreement or con¬ 
tract would best protect the purchaser’s 
equity interests? Can you name some of 
the more important points to be investi¬ 
gated in order to prevent loss by decep¬ 
tion or error? j. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
Aliens may buy land and hold the same 
as citizens may in your State. 
It depends entirely upon what part of 
the purchase price you are receiving. If 
you are getting a substantial sum you 
would want to take a mortgage for the 
balance, the mortgage should contain in¬ 
surance, tax and assessment clauses, and 
if there is a considerable timber on the 
property it would be well to add a clause 
prohibiting the purchaser from disposing 
of the timber without applying the pro¬ 
ceeds in payment of mortgage. Your 
lawyer will undoubtedly see that your 
interest is well protected when your' pa¬ 
pers are drawn. Ordinarily there is no 
money saved by drawing your own papers 
or employing a layman to do so. N. T. 
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