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Th*  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
July  7,  1923 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
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. 
Mr.  Peter  Turchon,  formerly  conduct¬ 
ing  a  mail  order  shoe  business  under  the 
name  of  the  Boston  Mail  Order  Company, 
Boston,  Mass.,  has  recently  tried  to  se¬ 
cure  space  in  The  Rural  New-Yorkei: 
through  an  advertising  agency  under  the 
name  of  the  Bradley-Boston  Company, 
in  the  same  line  of  business.  During  the 
time  Mr.  Peter  Turchon  conducted  the 
Boston  Mail  Order  Company  we  had  a 
large  number  of  complaints  from  his  cus¬ 
tomers. 
Mr.  Turchon  finally  turned  stock  pro¬ 
moter  and  sold  stock  to  the  public  in  the 
Boston  Mail  Order  Company,  which  has 
since  been  abandoned.  Mr.  Turchon’s 
record  as  a  mail  order  advertiser  and 
promoter  of  worthless  stock  of  the  Boston 
Mail  Order  Company  does  not  commend 
him  to  the  confidence  of  the  farming  pub¬ 
lic.  We  are  publishing  this  warning  to 
our  readers,  as  this  advertisement  of  the 
Bradley-Boston  Company  will  no  doubt 
appear  in  many  of  the  other  farm  papers. 
Could  you  give  me  some  information 
regarding  the  Keystone  Pecan  Company, 
Manheim,  Pa.,  as  I  bought  an  acre  of 
ground  from  them  on  which  they  say  they 
have  planted  20  trees,  which  after  a  cer¬ 
tain  period  of  time  would  be  of  value  in 
bringing  in  an  income  profitable  to  me. 
Do  not  know  if  it  would  be  advisable  to 
buy  some  more  from  them  or  not,  the 
price  being  $750  per  acre  with  20  three- 
year-old  pecan  trees  growing  on  it. 
New  York.  M.  j.  F. 
This  “unit  orchard”  promotion  has  been 
before  the  public  for  a  number  of  years. 
The  experience  of  all  such  promotions 
has  been  disastrous,  and  we  do  not  ad¬ 
vise  M.  J.  F.  to  put  any  more  money  in¬ 
to  the  enterprise.  If  he  ever  realizes 
anything  on  the  money  already  invested 
in  it  we  shall  be  agreeably  surprised. 
I  have  written  you  before  in  regard  to 
a  note  for  $50  I  gave  the  United,  Lime 
and  Fertilizer  Co.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and 
you  advised  me  that  it  would  probably 
never  be  pushed  to  collection  by  lawsuit. 
Now  I  have  received  the  inclosed  letter 
from  a  firm  of  Syracuse. lawyers,  threat¬ 
ening  immediate  action  if  it  is  not  paid 
at  once.  I  was  notified  recently  that, 
their  affairs  had  b£en  turned  over  to 
the  Empire  Fertilizer  Co.,  Oneida,  N.  Y. 
Your  paper  has  exposed  the  United  Lime 
and  Fertilizer  Co.  as  no  good  repeatedly, 
as  well  as  our  local  paper,  on  authority 
of  the  Farm  Bureau  and  no  one  can  get 
any  fertilizer  from  them,  so  I  hate  to 
put  $50  into  stock  that  is  worthless. 
Several  farmers  of  a  nearby  neighbor¬ 
hood.  headed  by  James  Doney,  a  wealthy 
and  influential  farmer — all  United  Com¬ 
pany  stockholders,  tried  to  get  a  car.  of 
fertilizer  from  them  this  Spring,  offering 
to  pay  cash  at  once,  but  could  not  get  it 
They  left  this  note  for  collection  with 
Roscoe  Sargent,  a  Lacona  lawyer,  once, 
but  when  I  wrote  him  the  circumstances 
he  replied  that  he  would  not  prosecute 
it ;  so  far  as  he  was  concerned  they  would 
never  collect  it.  This  countryside  is  full 
of  poor  people  who  gave  similar  notes  for 
$50  and  over  to  whom  it  would  be  a  real 
hardship  to  have  to  pay  up  and  get 
nothing  in  return  and  it  would  be  a  great 
advertisement  for  you  if  you  could  help 
us  get  out  of  it.  Poor  farmers  and 
renters  took  as  high  as  $200  of  their  stock 
and  some  renewed  the  notes,  being  un¬ 
able  to  pay.  c.  ii.  D. 
New  York. 
Our  contention  is  that  these  notes  were 
obtained  by  fraud,  and  therefore  cannot 
be  collected.  This  stock  selling  scheme 
was  promoted  by  Geo.  A.  Stromblad,  and 
this  class  of  pirates  rely  upon  frightening 
farmers  to  meet  the  demands  rather 
than  face  a  lawsuit.  We  have  yet  to  hear 
of  Strom'blad  going  into  court  to  collect 
any  of  the  fertilizer  company  notes,  or 
of  his  previous  promotion,  the  Farmers’ 
Standard  Carbide  Company.  We  advise 
C.  H.  D.  to  fight  if  necessary,  and  if  the 
other  farmers  in  his  vicinity  will  join 
him  the  expense  will  be  only  trivial  to 
each,  should  court  proceedings  be  brought. 
The  Empire  Fertilizer  Company  men¬ 
tioned  is  another  get-rich-quick  promotion 
scheme. 
off  my  mortgage  by  collecting  insects  for 
him.  But  I  have  no  money  to  waste  in 
purchasing  his  book  if  there  is  any  doubt 
in  your  minds  regarding  him.  I  believe 
I  saw  his  advertisement  in  one  of  your 
issues.  It  frequently  appears  in  maga¬ 
zines.  a.  c.  s. 
New  York. 
The  hook  behind  this  “work  at  home” 
bait  to  a  scheme  to  sell  a  book.  James 
Sinclair  was  under  charges  of  fraudulent 
use  of  the  mails  in  connection  with  the 
scheme  at  one  time.  The  subscriber  is 
mistaken  that  he  has  seen  Sinclair’s  ad¬ 
vertisement  in  The  R.  N.-Y.,  but  we 
have  exposed  his  easy  money  scheme  pre¬ 
viously. 
I  enclose  statements  showing  that  on 
January  29,  1920,  I  sent  a  money  order 
for  $30  for  130  R.  I.  White  chicks  to 
Sterling  Poultry  .  Farms,  Sterling,  Ill. 
Later  I  told  them’  they  could  send  Reds, 
■which  they  promised  me  to  do,  but  which 
never  came ;  and  I  enclose  a  copy  of  a 
letter  which  I  sent  later,  and  from  which 
I  heard  nothing.  The  card  shows  they 
received  money  order  for  $30,  as  well  as 
their  letter  acknowledging  the  same.  Is 
there  anything  you  can  do? 
Connecticut.  (rev.)  ii.  e.  s. 
Repeated  letters  to  Sterling  Poultry 
Farms  brought  a  response  acknowledging 
Rev.  H.  E.  S.’s  order  had  not  been  filled, 
and  made  explanation  that  his  failure  to 
fill  the  order  was  due  to  an  oversight. 
This  was  more  than  a  month  ago,  and 
Sterling  Poultry  Farms  has  had  plenty 
of  time  to  refund  the  $30  belonging  to 
this  minister,  but  repeated  requests  to 
do  so  have  been  ignored.  The  letterhead 
of  this  concern  states  “Life  Member 
American  Poultry  Association.”  We 
hope  other  members  will  try  to  impress 
on  the  owner  of  this  farm  his  responsi¬ 
bility  in  this  case.  No  individual  name 
appears  on  the  letterhead,  a  fact  to 
cause  suspicion. 
Would  you  advise  me  what  the  status 
of  the  Non-Shatterable  Glass  Company  of 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  is,  and  if  their  stock  is 
an  investment.  There  has  been  a  party 
through  here  selling  their  stock,  and  it 
looks  like  a  good  proposition  if  they  are 
on  the  square.  G.  s.  J. 
New  York. 
We  have  a  number  of  times  advised 
our  readers  that  the  Non-'Shatterable 
Glass  Company  proposition  has  all  the 
ear-marks  of  a  stock-selling  scheme.  Stock 
promoters  always  have  a  way  of  making 
their  scheme  “look  good”  to  those  who 
have  not  had  experience  with  them. 
Steele’s  chain  store  promotion,  and  Jas. 
W.  Elliott’s  get-rich-quick  promotions 
looked  good  on  paper,  and  sounded  even 
better  as  the  dope  flowed  from  the  lips 
of  the  strong-arm  stock  salesmen.  The 
Non-Shatterable  Glass  Company  stock  is 
in  the  same  class. 
Indictments  against  six  former  officers 
and  directors  of  the  defunct  L.  R.  ^feel 
Corporation  were  reported  and  five  of 
the  indicted  officials  arraigned  before 
Justice  Hinkley  in  Supreme  Court  June 
22,  Buffalo,  N.  Yr.,  after  a  week  of  in¬ 
vestigation  conducted  before  the  jury  by 
District  Attorney  Guy  B.  Moore  and 
Deputy  Attorney  General  Hugh  Reilly. 
All  five  of  the  defendants  arraigned 
pleaded  not  guilty  and  were  admitted  to 
bail. — Buffalo  Newspaper. 
The  prime  mover  of  the  enterprise, 
L.  R.  Steel,  died  a  short  time  previous  to 
the  bankruptcy  proceedings.  No  doubt 
the  indicted  officials  were  equally  guilty 
before  the  law  with  Steel  in  perpetrating 
the  fraud.  But  whether  these  officials 
pay  the  penalty  which  the  crime  deserves 
is  a  matter  of  indifference  to  the  deluded 
investors  who  trusted  their  savings  to 
these  get-rich-quick  promotors  —  their 
money  is  gone.  We  are  only  referring  to 
the  case  again  to  warn  country  people 
against  the  smooth-tongued,  convincing 
and  unscrupulous  stock  promotor.  How 
can  the  ordinary  individual  differentiate 
between  the  legitimate  investment  and 
the  get-rich -quick  scheme?  The  only 
safety  is  to  regard  all  stock  propositions 
offered  by  traveling  salesmen  as  worth¬ 
less.  Country  people  will  be  justified  in 
this  position  until  a  thorough  investiga¬ 
tion  can  be  made.  They  will  not  be 
wrong  in  very  many  cases  and  if  investi¬ 
gation  proves  favorable  no  harm  will  be 
done.  What  millions  in  money  and  heart 
aches  the  word  investigate  might  save ! 
Can  you  tell  me  whether  James  Sin- 
eclair,  whose  circular  I  inclose,  is  honest  “Ma,  did  you  ever  hear  a  rabbit  bark?” 
'in  his  dealings?  I  have  seriously  con-  “Rabbits  don’t  bark,  dear.”  “That’s  fun- 
sidered  purchasing  his  book  of  instruc-  ny !  My  story  book  says  that  rabbits  eat 
tions  and  trying  to  earn  money  to  pay  cabbage  and  bark.” — Detroit  Free  Tress. 
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Approximately  200  buildings  and  improvements,  located  = 
at  Coddington  Point  and  two  buildings  at  the  Naval  Train-  = 
ing  Station,  Newport,  R.  I.,  will  be  offered  at  public  auction  EE 
on  July  17  and  18,  1923.  = 
These  buildings  must  be  torn  down  and  removed.  Excel-  EE 
lent  facilities  for  removal  are  available  since  Coddington  == 
Point  is  situated  on  the  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  and  H.  R.  R.  on  Narra-  = 
gansett  Bay  with  good  wharfage.  Removal  by  truck  is 
made  possible  and  desirable  due  to  good  roads.  EE 
Large  quantities  of  piping,  wiring,  fixtures  and  other  EE 
improvements  are  included  in  the  buildings,  but  no  land  = 
is  offered.  = 
Sale  to  be  held  under  the  auspices  of  Gerth’s  Realty  = 
Experts,  Inc.,  505  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City.  Catalog  == 
No.  508-A  covers  all  details  of  the  sale  and  may  be  obtained  EE 
from  the  Auctioneer  or  the  undersigned.  == 
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