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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1924 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
In answer to two secret indictments re¬ 
turned by a federal grand jury charging 
the use of the United States mails to de¬ 
fraud, and conspiracy, four Lowell men, 
Edward R. Tryon, Harry P. Doherty, 
Fred G. Leary and William C. Gray 
were arraigned before Judge Lowell in 
Federal court in Boston today. They 
pleaded not guilty and were held in bonds 
of .$2,500 each for trial. Bail was fur¬ 
nished. 
The indictment alleges that from Sep¬ 
tember 1. 1022 and January 1, 1024, the 
Tryon Knitting Corporation offered a 
machine for home use in the manufacture 
of wool stockings. They agreed to buy 
the stockings thus manufactured in ad¬ 
vertisements published. They averred 
that the production of such stockings was 
not sufficient to meet the demand and 
they further claimed to have provided 
employment for hundreds of people, and 
paid out hundreds of dollars. The in¬ 
dictment declares that there was no 
marked demand for wool stockings in ex¬ 
cess of production, that the defendants 
had not provided the employment claimed 
by them, and had not bought stockings 
thus manufactured. A scheme to defraud 
was consequently alleged. The conspiracy 
indictment is in similar terms. The fur¬ 
ther charge is made that it was impos¬ 
sible to make stockings with these ma¬ 
chines, which sold for $78 each. 
Sometime ago the same defendants 
were arraigned before United States 
Commissioner Richard Brabrook alsh 
on similar charges, but were discharged 
because no federal officers appeared _ to 
prosecute the case.—Lowell Evening 
Leader. 
We reported the original indictment 
against the promoters of the Tryon 
Knitting Machine Corporation of Low¬ 
ell, Mass., several months ago, and more 
recently we reported the dismissal of the 
original indictment referred to in the 
above item. 
The above charges and indictments are 
verified by our reports from women who 
have purchased the knitting machines of 
the various concerns selling them under 
a similar work-at-home proposition. The 
originator of this scheme in connec¬ 
tion with the sale of knitting machines 
seems to have been the Auto Knitting 
Hosiery Company of Buffalo. N. Y. This 
concern was so successful for a time that 
it attracted at least four or more com¬ 
panies to adopt the same sort of a 
scheme. One manufacturing concern 
which previously sold their machine at 
around $18 to $20 advanced their price 
to $70 under the work-at-home plan. 
That the game is pretty well played 
out is indicated by the fact that the 
Auto Knitter Hosiery Company had its 
stock listed on the New York Stock Ex¬ 
change a little more than a year ago 
through a prominent New York City 
brokerage house at about $22 per share. 
Recently the stock was quoted on the 
New Y’ork Stock Exchange at less than 
$?, per share. The financial statement 
of the company shows that a profit of 
$4S4,943 in 1922 had dwindled to a loss 
of $130,6S0 in 1923. It has always been 
our contention that no business can be 
permanently successful that does not 
render a useful service to the public. 
I answered an advertisement of Leslie 
Jones, Olney, Ill., in the Newtown (Pa.) 
Enterprise for ladies’ work at homeland 
I am inclosing the answer I received. 
Can you tell me if it is a reliable firm? 
I am so anxious to get home work. 1 
always read the Publisher’s Desk in The 
R. N.-Y.. and pity the people who have 
been taken in. as I bought an auto knit¬ 
ter, and couldn’t use it, like so many 
others. MRS. s - c - s - 
Pennsylvania. 
Leslie Jones’ fake real estate scheme 
has been exposed in The R. N.-Y. a num¬ 
ber of times. When one scheme plays 
out, the faker will always find another, 
rather than turn to any honest pursuit. 
Leslie Jones is now promoting a “work 
at home” scheme. We hope no reader of 
The R. N.-Y. will get caught on these 
work-at-home schemes. They have been 
exposed often enough. 
About April 15, 1923. my brother and 
mvself wrote to the Riverside Plant 
Farm, Franklin, Va., asking if their to¬ 
mato plants were ready to ship. I am 
inclosing their reply. May 10 we ordered 
28.000 at $1.25 per 1,000. and sent a 
check for $35. These plants were to be 
shipped May 22. to Weston. Md.. by ex¬ 
press. They did not arrive at Weston. 
Md., until late in the day of May 28, with 
$27 express charges due. They turned 
the order over to another plant farm in 
Southern Georgia. The plants were 
shipped from Georgia and were most all 
dead, and the expressage was near the 
worth of the plants. We refused to ac¬ 
cept them. The Riverside Plant Farm 
has refused to refund the price paid for 
the plants. We did not order the plants 
to be shipped from Georgia, nor should 
they have shipped our plants or trans¬ 
ferred our order without first writing us. 
It is too long a distance to ship live 
plants. Notice in Letter No. 1 they guar¬ 
antee to refund money if not satisfied. I 
would like you to collect this claim for 
me, $35. ' I am inclosing old letters; 
please see what you can do with it. 
Maryland. c. o. f. 
The subscriber refused this shipment 
because of the condition of the plants, de¬ 
livered on May 28 instead of May 22, as 
specified in correspondence, and because 
the plants were shipped from Georgia 
instead of from Virginia, as he had a 
right to expect. When soliciting the or¬ 
der, Riverside Plant Farm wrote: “We 
guarantee satisfaction or your money will 
be cheerfully refunded.” In order to get 
any satisfaction we were obliged to put 
the case in the hands of our attorneys, 
who finally compromised the claim for 
$25 rather than go to expense of court 
proceedings. The R. N.-Y. made good 
the balance to the subscriber, under our 
“square deal guarantee” of advertisers. 
Received check of $22 from the Farm¬ 
ers’ Standard Carbide Company of New 
York City. Many thanks for your kind¬ 
ness for getting it for me. Will you 
kindly send me your bill for your trouble, 
and i will remit. s - J> 
New York. 
We have no bill to render to the sub¬ 
scriber for the little service. We are 
having many complaints from those who 
sent orders to the Farmers’ Standard 
Carbide Company for carbide during the 
past six months, and the orders have not 
been filled. Up to date the company has 
been honoring our demands for refund of 
the money to its customers, but appar¬ 
ently refunds are not being made to cus¬ 
tomers otherwise. In some cases where 
the customer has made the request for 
refund direct, it has not been honored. 
On June 22, 1923, I mailed a Post 
Office order for $4 to one of your adver¬ 
tisers, Warren Shinn of Moodbury, N. J., 
for 2.000 Self Blanching celery plants. 
This order was requested to be shipped 
promptly as it was almost too late to set 
out celery in this latitude. After waiting 
seven or eight days and no celery. I de¬ 
cided to cancel my order and shortly alter 
did so. About 3 days after, I received 
card from shipper that celery was on the 
way. On July 7 I received celery and 
paid an additional 53 cents for postage. 
So von see it took this man over two 
weeks to deliver a small order of 
plants. This celery was received during 
my absence and was immediately set out 
bv my son whom I had instructed to that 
effect The next morning, I went over to 
the celery field and took a look at it. I 
was immediately struck by the difference 
in color between this stuff and my own 
home-grown Golden Self Blanching va¬ 
riety. My celery (0.000) had the char¬ 
acteristic gold color of the true Selt 
Blanching—the stuff I had bought was a 
deep green. 
After I had sold all of my G. S. B. 
celery, I started to dig this green stuff 
but quickly found out that it was well- 
nigh worthless as it was almost as green 
as when it was first banked. _ not only 
that, but a large proportion of it I found 
to be hollow stalked and some plants. I 
found were a reddish color, like wild 
celery. K - w> 
Vermont. 
This complaint was submitted to the 
advertiser, who blamed the purchaser for 
not recognizing at once that the plants 
were not the “Golden Self Blanching” 
if his complaint were justified. Later on 
the customer sent Mr. Shinn a sample of 
the celery and he contends it is the variety 
ordered. The plants the grower sent to 
The Rural New-Yorker office certainly 
were not the “Golden Self Blanching” 
variety. The correspondence develops 
that Mr. Shinn sent the order to be filled 
to J. C. Schmidt of Bristol, Pa., whose 
advertising had been barred from The 
R. N.-Y. because of unsatisfactory trans¬ 
actions. This juggling of orders from 
one grower to another is one of the causes 
of trouble in vegetable plant business 
which has the usual percentage of men 
who for one reason or another do not 
conduct the business in a satisfactory 
way. It is needless to add that the ad¬ 
vertising of Warren Shinn, Woodbury, 
N. J., will not appear in The R. N.-Y. 
in the future. 
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