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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
All  letters  to  Publisher’s  Desk  depart¬ 
ment  must  be  signed  with  winter’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. 
Having  in  the  past  few  weeks  read  sev¬ 
eral  editorials  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  concern¬ 
ing  the  Auto  Knitter  Company,  I  am 
writing  my  experience  with  them.  Dur¬ 
ing  the  month  of  October,  last  year,  I 
purchased  an  auto  knitter,  and  finding  it 
very  unsatisfactory,  asked  the  company 
to  take  it  back,  which  they  promptly  re¬ 
fused  to  do.  I  took  their  advertisement 
from  a  reliable  magazine  which  guaran¬ 
tees  its  advertisements,  so  I  wrote  to  the 
publishers  immediately,  and  they,  after 
making  sure  that  I  had  given  the  machine 
a  fair  trial,  instructed  me  to  return  it, 
and  in  some  way  they  compelled  the  Auto 
Knitter  Company  to  return  my  money.  I 
hardly  think  it  would  be  fair  to  the  mag¬ 
azine  concerned  to  mention  its  name,  but 
hope  that  at  least  a  few  others  may  get 
rid  of  their  unsatisfactory  machines  by 
trying  my  way.  E.  c.  N. 
Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y. 
It  is  evident  that  the  refund  was  made 
in  this  case  because  of  the  insistence  of 
the  publication  in  question,  and  no  credit 
is  due  the  Auto  Knitter  Hosiery  Com¬ 
pany  for  it.  The  suggestion  that  the 
publication  carrying  this  advertising  be 
plastered  with  postage  stamps  by  those 
who  bought  the  machine  and  cannot  oper¬ 
ate  it  is  a  good  one. 
Find  inclosed  check  for  $2,  sent  to 
Claremont  Egg  Case  Company,  Box  25, 
West  Farms  Station,  N.  Y.  I  have  not 
heard  from  them  ;  wrote  them  three  times. 
If  you  will  look  after  this  for  me  I  shall 
be  very  thankful  to  you.  j.  B.  L. 
New  York. 
Put  this  concern  on  the  list  with  the 
Metropolitan  Egg  Container  Company  as 
a  most  undesirable  party  to  whom  to  send 
orders.  They  refuse  to  send  the  egg  cases 
and  make  no  response  to  demands  for  re¬ 
fund  of  the  remittance. 
Being  a  faithful  reader  of  your  paper, 
wish  to  call  your  attention  to  the  inclosed 
literature  of  the  Commonwealth  Hotel 
Corporation.  Is  not  this  sucker  bait? 
New  York.  o.  e.  s. 
Investment  authorities  do  not  advise 
putting  money  into  this  hotel  proposition. 
During  the  past  seven  years  the  company 
has  been  selling  common  stock  to  small 
stockholders  on  the  theory  that  they 
would  have  more  interest  in  it  than  the 
big  bankers.  They  are  said  to  have  raised 
$3,374,719.21,  but  they  now  propose  to 
issue  $5,000,000  of  7  per  cent  cumulative 
preferred  stock  to  rank  ahead  of  the  com¬ 
mon  stock  already  sold.  The  company 
desires  a  loan  of  $12,500,000  to  go  on 
with  the  work,  and  this  amount  repre¬ 
sents  only  one-half  of  the  cost  of  the  pro¬ 
posed  hotel.  It  is  certainly  not  an  in¬ 
vestment  for  the  savings  of  small  inves¬ 
tors. 
I  inclose  some  circulars  of  Mushroom 
Products  Corporation,  Washington,  D.  C., 
just  sent  me.  The  whole  thing  looks  to 
me  to  be  a  big  fraud.  Give  me  your  ad¬ 
vice.  what  you  think  of  it.  J.  B. 
New  Jersey. 
The  corporation  announces  that  it  is 
“about  to  engage  in  the  mushroom  indus¬ 
try.”  In  all  probability  this  is  condi¬ 
tioned  upon  the  public  putting  up  the 
money  to  finance  the  project.  The  cir¬ 
cular  states  that  “experts,  scientists  and 
successful  business  men”  are  backing  the 
business  corporation ;  then  why  don’t 
these  eminent  men  (the  names  of  whom 
are  not  mentioned)  make  it  unnecessary 
to  appeal  to  country  people  to  sell  pre¬ 
ferred  stock  at  $10  a  share  with  a  bonus 
of  40  per  cent  of  common  stock  with  all 
purchases  of  five  or  more  shares?  In 
short,  the  proposition  has  all  the  “ear¬ 
marks”  of  a  dangerous  promotion  scheme. 
I  read  the  “ad”  of  the  Rose  Tire  Com¬ 
pany,  1526  South  Wabash  Avenue.  Chi¬ 
cago,  Ill.,  in  a  New  York  paper,  and  sent 
for  one  of  their  tires.  They  acknowl¬ 
edged  receipt  of  my  order  and  stated  that 
if  the  tire  was  not  satisfactory  they  would 
replace  the  tire  for  half  the  purchase 
price  if  it  did  not  run  eight  months.  I 
wrote  them  after  using  the  tire  about  a 
month,  and  they  stated  that  it  was  their 
custom,  when  the  tire  proved  unsatisfac¬ 
tory,  to  have  the  purchaser  prepay  the 
tire  back  to  them,  pay  half  price  for  an¬ 
other,  sending  the  money  in  advance  this 
time,  and  pay  the  charges  on  the  second 
tire.  What  I  want  to  get  at  is  that  they 
say  nothing  about  your  having  to  prepay 
the  first  back  to  them  at  the  time  of  send¬ 
ing  a  check  for  another,  before  they  will 
make  good  (not  saying  the  second  would 
be  any  better),  and  paying  the  charges 
on  the  other.  I  have  found  quite  a  few 
around  here  who  were  as  foolish  as  my¬ 
self,  but  it  is  a  shame  that  any  reputable 
paper  would  carry  their  advertising,  be¬ 
cause  it  is  generally  the  man  who  needs 
his  dollars  most  who  is  searching  the 
daily  paper  and  periodicals  for  bargains. 
It  may  be  that  if  you  give  them  a  little 
publicity  a  few  of  your  readers  will  be  in 
some  money.  All  good  wishes  to  you  and 
The  R,  N.-Y.  p.  r.  b. 
New  York. 
It's  the  old,  old  story  of  looking  to  the 
“gyp”  tire  dealer  for  bargains.  Reputable 
papers,  in  the  sense  that  the  publisher  has 
any  regard  for  the  welfare  of  his  readers, 
do  not  carry  advertisements  of  this  class 
of  tire  dealers.  The  guarantee  to  replace 
an  unsatisfactory  tire  at  half  price  is 
no  protection,  because  the  replacements 
may  not  be  worth  this  half  price,  any 
more  than  the  original  was  not  worth 
what  was  paid  for  it.  To  take  advantage 
of  such  an  offer  one  might  only  be  throw¬ 
ing  good  money  after  bad.  This  report 
only  confirms  our  oft-repeated  advice 
that  the  only  tire  economy  is  to  buy 
standard  makes  of  reputable  dealers  and 
avoid  the  “bargain”  offers. 
I  am  sending  you  letters  and  papers 
which  I  have  received  from  the  firm  of  I.. 
Menkes  &  Son,  Inc.,  of  98  Commerce 
‘Street,  Newark,  N.  .T.,  relative  to  a  trans¬ 
action.  About  October  21,  1922,  I  re¬ 
ceived  a  card  from  them  on  which  they 
quoted  and  guaranteed  the  price  on  hens, 
medium  weight,  at  27  to  29c.  up  to  and 
including  October  31,  1922.  On  October 
25  I  sent  them  two  crates  White  Leghorn 
fowls  (hens).  The  two  crates  contained 
38  head,  which  weighed  121  lbs.  at  the 
station  (the  combined  weight  of  the  two 
empty  crates  was  36  lbs.  )  They  sent  me 
check  to  the  amount  of  $14.99  for  85  lbs. 
I  waited  two  weeks  for  coops;  as  they  did 
not  arrive  I  wrote  them  concerning  the 
transaction.  About  two  weeks  after  my 
last  letter  to  them  I  received  two  coops, 
homemade  affairs,  with  broken  slats,  etc., 
unfit  to  use  again  without  much  repair¬ 
ing,  whereas  the  crates  I  sent  them  were 
new  spindle  crates  for  which  I  had  re¬ 
cently  paid  $1.25  each,  plus  freight  from 
New  York  City.  If  you  can  do  anything 
about  this  I  shall  be  grateful.  w.  L.  s. 
New  York. 
The  price  returned  was  20c  per  lb.  in¬ 
stead  of  27  to  29c,  as  quoted.  We  wrote 
L.  Menkes  &  Son  about  the  case,  and  the 
firm’s  reply  states:  “We  never  guaran¬ 
teed  any  price  on  Leghorn  fowls.”  The 
card  making  the  quotation  which  the  ship¬ 
per  sends  us  does  not  exclude  White  Leg¬ 
horns.  The  quotation  is  for  “hens.” 
Either  the  quotation  was  too  high  or  the 
price  returned  too  low.  There  was  no 
dispute  about  the  weight  of  the  poultry. 
The  firm  further  claims  to  have  returned 
the  coops  received  from  the  shipper,  and 
suggests  mishandling  en  route,  which  is 
not  probable.  Complaints  from  shippers 
to  this  concern  are  too  frequent  to  con¬ 
sider  the  firm  blameless  in  its  treatment 
of  customers. 
I  write  to  let  you  know  that  the  egg 
cases  ordered  from  Metropolitan  Con¬ 
tainer  Company,  341  East  119th  Street, 
New  York  City,  have  come,  and  we  have 
them  unloaded.  They  have  charged  us 
with  the  following :  1.200  second-hand 
egg  cases,  at  9c,  $10S ;  seven  cases  of 
fillers  (100).  at  $1.25,  $S.75 ;  two  cases 
of  flats  (500),  at  $1.75,  $3.60.  Total, 
$120.25. 
The  cases  of  fillers  and  flats,  which 
were  to  be  new,  are  second-hand,  and  this 
alone  is  quite  a  damage,  as  the  express 
companies  passed  a  new  ruling  that  every 
crate  of  eggs  shipped  must  have  new  fill¬ 
ers  and  flats.  The  car  was  full.  There 
were  18  tiers,  eight  wide  and  eight  high, 
which  only  made  1,152  cases  all  told. 
After  deducting  the  nine  cases  of  fillers 
and  flats  it  leaves  1.143,  or  a  shortage  of 
57  cases  of  what  we  paid  for.  We  have 
had  two  telegrams,  both  of  which  were 
false,  as  have  been  every  promise  they 
made  us.  Do  you  suppose  you  can  do 
anything  toward  collecting  damages  for 
this  shortage?  j.  b.  g. 
New  Y’ork. 
We  have  many  complaints  from  those 
sending  orders  to  the  Metropolitan  Con¬ 
tainer  Company.  Customers  have  to  wait 
months  before  the  eases  are  shipped,  and 
in  some  cases  shipment  is  not  made  at 
all.  We  have  been  obliged  to  put  some 
cases  in  the  hands  of  an  attorney  in  order 
to  secure  refund  for  the  poultryman.  No 
adjustment  has  been  made  of  the  above 
complaint.  Those  who  desire  to  avoid 
trouble  will  not  send  orders  and  remit-  \ 
tances  for  egg  cases  to  the  Metropolitan 
Container  Company  or  other  such  irre¬ 
sponsible  second-hand  case  houses  An 
inquiry  to  this  department  in  advance  1 
will  bring  reliable  information  <by  next  i 
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