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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1024 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Inquiries addressed to this department 
of The It. N.-Y. are regarded as confiden¬ 
tial, but should be signed and and address 
given for reply. Those who have not re¬ 
ceived reply to their letters may consider 
it is because they have either failed to 
sign name or give full address. 
My son has been driving the R. F. D. 
wagon as substitute for a while, going 
out from 'Stonington, and he says there is 
hardly a farmhouse on the route where 
they do not take The R. N.-Y. That 
speaks pretty well for the- paper. Ilappy 
New Year and much success. G. H. S. 
Rhode Island. 
Evidently the New England farmer, 
like others, knows that The It. N.-Y. is 
about the only product that he can buy 
that gives him more than he got before 
the war for the pre-war price. No other 
paper in this part of the country has 
maintained its price without depreciation 
in quality. The It. N.-Y. has not raised 
the price and has increased the quality 
and service. And our friends have helped 
us do it. 
For some time I have been carrying an 
advertisement for John J. Black of Chip¬ 
pewa Falls, Wisconsin. I have had my 
attention called to the fact that some 
time ago you listed this man among other 
undesirable advertisers. I will greatly 
appreciate any information you can give 
me on this man. I will not carry an¬ 
other insertion of his advertisement until 
I hear from you. apublisheb. 
The publisher who wrote the above 
letter is sincere in his desire to keep frau¬ 
dulent advertising out of his columns 
AYe advised this publisher that J. J. 
Black has been working a petty swindle for 
years in soliciting an advance fee from 
farm owners on the pretext that he could 
sell the property. As a matter of fact 
he makes no effort to sell the farm after 
he gets the fee—none of the “advance 
fee” real estate pirates do. Black was 
denied a license by the Wisconsin Real 
Estate Brokers’ Board lasft April; but he 
still seems to carry on his swindling 
game. 
Lowell, .Tan. 19.—'Charged with using 
the United States mail with intent to 
defraud, Edward R. Tryou, Harry P. 
Doherty, F. G. Leary and W. C. Gray 
of Lowell were arraigned before United 
States Commissioner R. B. Walsh this 
morning and were held under bonds of 
$1500 each, which they furnished. All 
are connected with the Tryon Knitting 
Company. 
It is alleged that defendants were in¬ 
terested in the sale of knitting machines 
which they offered for sale to the public 
by means of mail advertising, and it 
is further alleged that the knitting ma¬ 
chines were advertised as being suited to 
home knitting on which the defendants 
were to .pay a fair return. On informa¬ 
tion to the effect that such advertising 
was not in accord with the facts, the 
warrants were issued.—Boston Daily 
Globe. 
The attitude of The R. N.-Y. towards 
these “work-at-home” schemes in con¬ 
nection with the sale of knitting machines 
is too well known to require any lengthy 
comment. The Tryon outfit was ex¬ 
posed in these columns October 6, 1923. 
The machines are difficult to operate and 
many women who have borrowed the 
money to purchase them, relying on the 
representations of the money to be made 
in knitting socks, have been unable to 
operate them at all. Others seem to have 
been able to do a small amount of work 
with them, but the amount to be earned 
in the work has been misrepresented. 
Since the knitting machine project 
started The R. N.-Y. has warned its 
readers regarding it and refused to ac¬ 
cept the advertising. Possibly this in¬ 
dictment spells the “beginning of the 
end” of the knitting machine work-at- 
liome scheme. 
My daughter graduated last June with 
over one hundred others at the State 
Normal School, Broekport. N. Y. She 
was approached by a representative of 
the Empire New England Co., and was 
persuaded to purchase a set of the ref¬ 
erence books at $69.50. If on examina¬ 
tion she did.care for the books she might 
return them, but afterwards on reading 
the contract it stated that, provided she 
did not teach, she right return them. 
On examining the books and finding that 
most schools had reference books in their 
libraries she returned them about the first 
of August, also writing the firm the 
books were being returned, and stating her 
reason for doing so. Nothing was heard 
from the firm until about October 1, when 
she received a bill for first payment. My 
daughter wrote them that books were re¬ 
turned in good condition so did not owe 
anything. Their answer was they had 
no record of books being returned, but 
their letter shows that they received her 
letter of about August 1. We have ex¬ 
press receipt that books were shipped. 
• Why did this concern wait over two 
months to acknowledge August letter, 
if they are honest? My daughter is n 
minor. They have the books, but still 
they send their duns. H. F. 
New York. 
The above letter illustrates the way 
young girls are frequently imposed upon 
by unscrupulous book agents and sales¬ 
men for correspondence school courses 
Girls who have just graduated and are 
enthusiastic about their future work are 
easy victims of slick-tongued book agents. 
We should be the last to advise young or 
old to violate an honest contract, but 
when deception is employed to seecure the 
signature the individual is doing a pub¬ 
lic service by refusing to allow the sharper 
to benefit by the trick or fraud in securing 
the signature. 
On the other side you will find bill of 
fur I shipped to I. R. Ilough, Meriden. 
Conn. The fur was all in good shape. I 
was offered $12 for nine of the skunk 
and thfe other two were just as good. 
The skunk at the time I shipped them 
were worth in the New York market just 
$14.10. It isn’t likely that you can col¬ 
lect anything, but thought maybe you 
could fix ijt so some other shippers 
wouldn’t get skinned as I did. E. G. H. 
The returns on the shipment were 
$6.20 and this is much better than some 
of the reports we are receiving about 
Hough. The number of complaints leaves 
no room for doubt that Ilough is skinning 
the shippers. He has an alibi prepared 
in advance that the furs were received 
in bad condition. 
Allegations by stockholders of misman¬ 
agement and waste of funds resulted yes¬ 
terday in the granting by Supreme Court 
Justice O’Malley of a temporary order re¬ 
straining the sale of stock by the Com¬ 
monwealth Hotel Constructioji Corpora¬ 
tion. The Hotel Commonwealth “co¬ 
partner ownership plan” was first evolved 
in 1916 and plans were undertaken for 
the construction of a large hotel at 
Broadway and 56th Street. Each per¬ 
son who purchased a share of the stock, 
then selling for $100 a share, automat¬ 
ically became a member of the “Common¬ 
wealth Club,” with quarters in the hotel 
building. No dues were to be paid by 
these members, and they were to receive 
special privileges from the management. 
—Daily Paper. 
Although many men of prominence and 
whose names stood for success and busi¬ 
ness integrity in New York City lent their 
influence to the project, The R. N.-Y. 
from the first advised its readers to give 
the proposition a wide berth, and allow 
the men of means whose names were used, 
to influence the investments of others, to 
finance the operations of the corporation. 
It is said that $6,000,000 of stock has 
been sold and only $12,000 remains in the 
treasury of the enterprise. As usual with 
enterprises financed in this way, large 
salaries were paid to directors of the 
company, and it is also reported that a 
salary of $25,000 a year has been paid 
to a hotel manager, even though no hotel 
is in existence. 
In a November (1923) number of The 
R. N.-Y’. you printed a long statement 
from one who had been practically swin¬ 
dled by H. N. Cobb of Glen Rock Nur¬ 
sery and Stock Farm, Ridgewood. N. J. 
Y’ou gave a very full account of his life 
as a poultryman, and this account agrees 
with my own experience. The Spring of 
1922 I subscribed for the Reliable Poul¬ 
try Journal. In looking through the 
pages of the December (1923) issue of 
this periodical, I was much surprised to 
find a “display” advertisement of our 
friend Cobb. I at once wrote to the pub¬ 
lishers, giving my unsatisfactory venture 
with him, and sending the page contain¬ 
ing your statements in “Publisher’s Desk” 
department. Can the United States gov¬ 
ernment, upon information such as I can 
furnish, compel the publishers of Reliable 
Poultry Journal to refuse the use of its 
columns to a swindling advertiser? 
New Jersey. . F. j. 
The government has no pow’er to regu¬ 
late the character of advertisements car¬ 
ried by a publication, except when an ad¬ 
vertiser has been convicted of fraud ; then 
the Post Office Department would be jus¬ 
tified in rejecting the publication from 
the mails. Glen Rock Nursery and Stock 
Farm is advertising in a number of poul¬ 
try and farm papers. The proprietor, 
Cobb, has the audacity to claim in his 
circulars that he has never allowed a 
complaint to go unadjusted—a deliberate 
falsehood on Cobb’s part. 
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