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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
May  12,  I9-.J 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
I  send  you  statement  of  the  losses  from 
worthless  investments  made  here  in  Ohio, 
that  would  have  been  avoided  if  each  and 
every  one  of  these  investors  had  been 
taking  The  R.  N.-Y.,  and  read  nothing 
else  than  the  Publisher’s  Desk.  I  meet 
men  every  day  who  congratulate  them¬ 
selves,  saying :  “If  it  had  not  been  for 
The  It.  N.-Y.  I  no  doubt  would  have  been 
one  of  these  suckers.”  These  picture¬ 
selling  schemes  here  in  Ohio  are  about  at 
an  end.  for  the  people  have  got  their  eyes 
open  to  that  extent ;  they  don’t  bite.  I 
know  of  many  who  were  victimized  by 
the  chain  grocery  promoters.  L.  M.  P. 
Ohio. 
The  report  gives  the  estimate  of  Ohio 
State  officials,  showing  the  loss  in  each 
county  through  spurious  investments  ag¬ 
gregating  $100,000,000  during  the  year. 
The  figures  are  staggering,  but,  no  doubt, 
true.  The  Federal  officials  estimated  that 
the  public  was  being  swindled  to  the  tune 
of  $100,000  a  day  before  the  round-up  of 
the  oil  promoters  of  Texas  was  begun. 
The  line  of  “easy  money”  and  “quick 
riches”  is  responsible  for  all  such  heart¬ 
rending  losses  of  poor  people  who  can  ill 
afford  to  drop,  in  many  cases,  their 
life’s  savings.  Too  much  publicity  can¬ 
not  be  given  to  stock-swindling  operations. 
If  any  warning  published  here  will  save 
only  one  reader  from  disaster,  we  are 
satisfied  that  our  efforts  are  not  in  vain. 
I  received  this  circular  of  Delmore 
Motor  Corporation,  58  West  39th  street. 
New  York  City,  by  mail  last  week.  They 
want  me  to  buy  shares  in  this  propo¬ 
sition.  What  is  your  advice  on  same? 
It  looks  good  to  me ;  that  is,  in  regard 
to  a  car  for  cheap  transportation.  If  it 
is  what  they  claim,  it  will  make  a  big 
seller,  and  make  the  shareholders  a  lot 
of  money.  Before  I  invest,  I  would  like 
to  have  your  advice  on  same.  w.  P. 
New  York. 
If  this  person  will  take  our  advice  he 
will  make  some  other  use  of  his  money. 
Promoters  always  have  a  way  of  making 
their  propositions  “look  good”  on  paper. 
The  circular  describes  a  three-wheel  de¬ 
livery  and  passenger  car  which,  in  our  es¬ 
timation,  cannot  compete  with  the  low- 
priced  regular  four-wheel  automobiles  in 
service  or  manufacturing  costs.  The  cir¬ 
cular  is  chock  full  of  “sucker  bait”  in  the 
line  of  the  fortunes  made  in  other  automo¬ 
bile  enterprises.  Delmore  Motors  Cor¬ 
poration  has  no  financial  standing  that 
we  can  find,  and  automobile  concerns 
promoted  by  such  methods  invariably 
have  resulted  in  disaster  and  loss. 
Would  you  give  me  your  advice  in  re¬ 
gard  to  the  Magna  Metal  Corporation, 
to  be  known  as  the  General  Magnesium 
Corporation?  I  have  10  shares  of  this 
stock,  which  I  bought  two  years  ago.  I 
was  told  last  month  that  every  stock¬ 
holder  should  take  more  shares.  20  per 
cent  of  their  previous  shares,  which 
amounted  to  $20  in  my  case,  on  which  I 
paid  $10,  remaining  $10  to  be  paid  later. 
New  York.  H.  L. 
Had  we  been  consulted,  we  should  have 
advised  against  the  investment  in  the 
first  place,  and  also  against  paying  the 
20  per  cent  assessment.  The  Magna 
Metal  proposition  was  a  “blue-sky”  pro¬ 
motion,  and  we  can  see  no  better  prospect 
for  the  reorganization  to  be  known  as 
Geueral  Magnesium  Company.  We  would 
now  advise  making  some  better  use  of  the 
remaining  $10. 
I  have  been  approached  by  an  agent  of 
the  Confederated  Home  Abattoir  Corpor¬ 
ation,  40  Rector  street,  New  York  City, 
to  take  stock  in  that  corporation  as  an 
opportunity  of  a  lifetime.  The  system  is 
called  “Chaco,”  and  the  business  is  local 
packing-house  business.  The  agent  claims 
they  have  a  chain  of  these  houses  in 
operation,  and  promises  big  profits  in  the 
operation  of  them.  They  are  planning  to 
open  one  here.  It  looks  good  on  paper, 
but  I  wish  you  would  investigate  and  ad¬ 
vise  me.  J.  w. 
New  York. 
The  purpose  of  the  promoters  of  this 
enterprise  seems  to  be  to  sell  equipment 
for  the  plants  and  service  in  organizing 
a  company  and  building  the  plant.  They 
create  a  customer  and  sell  the  goods  and 
the  service  at  the  same  time.  It  is  to  be 
assumed  that  the  price  is  a  liberal  one, 
since  they  fix  the  amount  themselves. 
Whether  the  business  is  a  success  after¬ 
wards  or  not  depends  on  circumstances 
and  the  ability  and  experience  of  the 
local  company.  Our  information  is  that 
the  plants  are  being  located  where  the 
prospects  are  good  for  raising  the  money 
to  pay  for  it.  rather  than  on  the  need  of 
the  plant  ill  the  neighborhood  or  the 
prospects  of  its  success  in  the  place.  The 
past  experience  with  such  schemes  has 
been  that  the  promoters  get  away  as  soon 
after  the  money  is  collected  as  possible, 
and  the  plant  is  left  in  the  hands  of  men 
without  experience  in  the  business.  Dis¬ 
appointment.  loss  and  failure  has  so  far 
been  the  record.  The  Chicago  creamery 
sharks  worked  the  same  game  with  great 
profit  to  the  promoters  some  years  back. 
This  scheme  “Chaco”  originated  in  the 
same  place.  Our  advice  to  farmers  is 
to  let  the  promotens  gather  in  all  the 
promised  “profits”  on  this  scheme,  and 
to  keep  a  tight  grip  on  their  own  modest 
savings  while  the  promoters  are  promot¬ 
ing. 
I  enclose  correspondence  from  Exter¬ 
minating  Engineers  of  America,  43  West 
16th  street,  New  York.  For  application 
for  membership  in  the  Exterminating  En¬ 
gineers  of  America.  Plan  A,  fee  is  $5  as 
first  payment,  and  $5  each  month  until 
full  cost  of  $50  is  paid.  Plan  B  requires 
$10  as  first  payment  and  two  monthly 
payments  of  $20.  each  until  full  cost  of 
$50  is  paid.  Plan  C  calls  for  $45,  the 
full  cash  membership  cost.  Is  this  busi¬ 
ness  a  success,  and  would  you  advise  me 
to  take  up  this  business?  They  claim  there 
is  a  great  profit  when  one  gets  his  di¬ 
ploma.  They  will  start  him  at  once  at 
work.  T.  r.  K. 
New  York. 
“Exterminating  Engineers  of  America” 
is  rather  a  high-sounding  name.  Perhaps 
“Vermin  Exterminators”  would  be  more 
illuminating  of  the  nature  of  the  business 
which  the  applicant  is  solicited  to  learn. 
The  circular  letter  of  Exterminating  En¬ 
gineers  calls  it  “a  profession,”  and  says 
it  is  not  a  “correspondence  school,”  but 
still  the  subject  is  to  be  taught  by  mail — 
very  particular  in  choice  of  words.  The 
$50  is  for  a  membership  in  the  organiza¬ 
tion,  and  it  is  represented  that  some  mem¬ 
bers  are  making  $5,000  to  $25,000  per 
year.  We  cannot  dispute  this  claim,  but 
it  is  news  to  us  that  killing  bugs  and 
vermin  is  such  a  profitable  line  of  busi¬ 
ness.  It  should  produce  large  money  con¬ 
sideration  at  least  to  make  it  attractive. 
But  those  who  desire  embarking  in  the 
line  we  think  can  get  expert  knowledge 
on  the  subject  by  other  means  at  a  very 
much  less  expenditure  of  money. 
We  do  enjoy  The  Rural  New-Yorker 
thoroughly,  and  I  think  that  if  the  Angel 
Gabriel  came  around  selling  stock  in 
some  concern,  I’d  hold  him  off  until  I  had 
time  to  hear  from  “Publishers’  Desk”  that 
he  was  not  handling  fake  stock.  I  am 
also  sending  you  a  new  subscriber,  that 
he  may  have  the  benefit,  of  Publisher’s 
Desk,”  as  some  recent  unfortunte  invest¬ 
ments  might  have  been  saved  had  he  been 
a  reader  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  What  can  you 
tell  me  of  the  Dallas  (Texas)  Loan  Com¬ 
pany?  They  make  a  proposition  of  lend¬ 
ing  one  $2,000  if  one  pays  $20  per  month 
for  15  months  in  advance.  A  friend  went 
into  the  thing  and  at  the  end  of  the  15 
months  applied  for  the  $2,000  and  was  de¬ 
nied,  so  then  he  wrote  asking  for  his 
money  back,  and  they  sent  it  nine  months 
later,  with  a  certain  per  cent  deducted  as 
a  charge  “for  keeping  it  for  you.”  Can 
you  beat  that?  It  took  a  lawyer,  who 
charged  10  per  cent,  to  get  it  even  then. 
New  York.  R.  p.  a. 
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Long-Time  Farm  Loans 
This  Bank  has  loaned  to  the  farmers  in  New  England, 
New  York  and  New  Jersey  over  $25,000,000  and  has  re¬ 
turned  to  them  over  $137,000  in  dividends. 
If  you  operate  your  own  farm  or  intend  to  purchase  a  farm,  we  are 
prepared  to  make  a  long-time,  easy-payment  loan.  Interest  at  55/2%. 
Payments  semi-annually.  Loans  run  for  33  years  but  can  be  paid  at 
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Serving  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 
The  letter  itself  contains  all  the  infor¬ 
mation  necessary  for  the  guidance  of  any¬ 
one  regarding  the  Dallas  Loan  Company. 
The  result  of  such  contracts  to  secure  a 
loan  usually  end  in  this  way — only  in 
many  cases  the  party  paying  the  money 
on  the  contract  is  unable  to  get  any  re¬ 
fund  at  all. 
I  was  unfortunate  enough  to  have  or¬ 
dered  and  received  200  chickens  from 
Frederick  M.  Pashall.  New7  Haven,  Conn., 
before  I  saw7  the  article  referring  to  him 
in  the  Publisher’s  Desk.  I  ordered  them 
from  him,  it  being  a  local  hatchery,  as 
I  thought;  but,  to  my  surprise,  I  received 
them  from  Bueyrus,  O.  I  paid  $20  a 
hundred  for  Grade  A  Rocks  and  $22  for 
Grade  A  Wyandottes.  They  w7ere  a  very 
poor-looking  bunch  of  chickens.  They 
died  as  many  as  15  a  day  from  white 
diarrhoea.  I  have  now7  about  25  Rocks 
and  28  Wyandottes  left.  I  wrote  to  him 
about  them.  I  am  enclosing  the  letters 
I  received  from  him.  J.  s. 
Connecticut. 
Now  this  subscriber  might  have  had 
the  same  result  in  ordering  chicks  direct 
from  a  hatchery  instead  of  from  this 
broker,  but  the  purchaser  has  a  right  to 
know7  the  facts  when  placing  the  order. 
In  the  correspondence  Mr.  Pashall  admits 
lie  is  a  broker,  but  his  circular  led  this 
subscriber  to  believe,  as  it  would  anyone 
reading  it,  that  the  chicks  would  be 
shipped  from  New  Haven.  There  are 
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we  discovered  tw7o  such  using  the  columns 
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