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9ft*  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
August  11,  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. 
I  am  writing  to  ask  about  Geo.  K. 
Iligbie  &  Co.  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.  A  man 
by  the  name  of  James  Drum  has  been 
canvassing  this  community  about  six 
weeks,  selling  oats  for  next  Spring  de¬ 
livery  at  $2  per  'bushel.  R.  a.  m. 
New  York. 
The  Iligbie  agents  are  on  the  warpath 
again  with  the  usual  “sucker  bait,”  claim¬ 
ing  superior  variety  of  oats.  Farmers 
reporting  to  us  have  not  found  the  seeds 
sold  by  the  agents  of  Geo.  K.  Iligbie  & 
Co.  superior  to  old  varieties,  and  the  de¬ 
ceptive  methods  of  the  salesmen  have 
been  exposed  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  for  the 
past  eight  or  10  years.  This  warning 
should  prove  timely. 
Is  the  New  York  State  Farm  Sales  Co., 
whose  central  New  York  office  is  Utica, 
N.  Y.,  P.  O.  Box  156,  reliable?  We  have 
paid  them  $45  to  list  our  property  for 
sale  and  were  to  pay  the  balance  of  the 
$85  in  monthly  installments.  They  were 
to  list  it  at  $8,500  and  now  they  write 
us  they  wish  to  list  it  at  $7,000.  after 
their  agent  had  accepted  it  to  list  at 
$8,500,  and  said  he  thought  it  a  fine 
bargain  at  this  price.  F.  B.  M. 
New  York. 
We  have  previously  expressed  our  views 
of  the  New  York  State  Farm  Sales  Co. 
plan  of  listing  farms,  as  the  old  Ostrander 
scheme  in  a  new  form,  but  equally  un¬ 
desirable  from  the  standpoint  of  the  farm 
owner.  Cornell  worked  the  same  ad¬ 
vance  fee  scheme  through  his  agent,  the 
notorious  J.  J.  Looker.  J.  J.  Black  of 
Wisconsin  and  others  are  doing  likewise. 
No  matter  what  the  pretext  for  getting 
an  advance  fee  for  the  sale  of  farm  prop¬ 
erty,  it  is  a  fake  and  a  fraud ! 
I  have  taken  your  paper  for  a  num¬ 
ber  of  years,  and  would  like  to  ask^  you 
if  you  know  anything  about  the  North 
American  Automobile  Owners’  Associa¬ 
tion  of  New  York  City,  Fisk  Building, 
Broadway  and  Fifty-seventh  street,  New 
York?  They  are  running  a  two-year 
campaign  for  $39.50.  'Will  you  let  me 
know  whether  they  are  frauds  or  not? 
New  Jersey.  MRS.  T.  B. 
The  country  seems  to  be  overrun  with 
agents  of  concerns  similar  to  the  North 
American  Automobile  Owners’  Associa¬ 
tion,  selling  “service  contracts.”  Many 
people  are*  led  to  believe  these  contracts 
constitute  automobile  insurance.  They  are 
simply  contracts  covering  towing  in  case 
of  trouble  on  the  road,  legal  advice,  etc., 
in  such  cases  as  it  may  be  required.  We 
regard  the  service  as  of  doubtful  value, 
and  we  might  say  an  “easy  money 
scheme.”  There  is  no  fraud  about  the 
proposition  when  the  contracts  are  signed 
with  an  understanding  of  just  what  ser¬ 
vice  is  to  be  delivered.  When  sold  as 
insurance  policies  the  transaction 
amounts  to  a  fraud. 
In  your  letter  of  June  28,  1923,  re¬ 
garding  my  claim  for  three  cases  eggs 
shipped  i  Atlantic  Egg  Co.,  Duane  and 
Greenwich  Sts.,  New  York  City,  you 
mention  having  succeeded,  and  the  above 
concern  is  sending  me  their  check  for 
$34.27,  but  up  to  now  I  have  not  re¬ 
ceived  any  check  or  heard  from  them. 
Delaware.  w.  h. 
This  case  has  been  hanging  fire  since 
January,  the  original  check  in  settle¬ 
ment  of  the  shipment  having  gone  to 
protest.  The  Atlantic  Egg  Co.  claim  the 
check  to  take  place  of  protested  one  was 
mailed  to  the  shipper,  and  are  awaiting 
return  of  cancelled  vouchers  from  bank 
before  sending  a  duplicate.  This  is  only 
reasonable.  But  we  have  had  consider¬ 
able  trouble  over  checks  of  this  company 
going  to  protest,  which  does  not  speak 
well  for  it.  The  house  gives  “all  com¬ 
mercial  agencies”  as  reference,  but  Brad- 
street’s  book  does  not  rate  the  concern. 
And  now  that  eggs  are  becoming  scarce, 
dealers  will  be  making  frantic  efforts  to 
secure  new  shippers,  offering  prices  in 
excess  of  the  regular  market,  etc.  A 
word  of  caution  is  therefore  timely. 
Don’t  be  induced  to  make  shipments  to 
unreliable  houses  on  the  promise  of  high 
prices.  Ship  only  to  houses  known  to 
be  responsible,  and  the  commission  houses 
bonded  by  the  State  Department  should 
be  given  preference.  Those  doing  busi¬ 
ness,  as  “dealers,”  “wholesalers,”  “receiv¬ 
ers,”  etc.,  are  not  bonded  and  the  Farms 
and  Markets  Department  has  no  super¬ 
vision  of  their  transactions. 
In  Publisher’s  Desk  I  note  your  refer¬ 
ence  to  D.  B.  Cornell  of  Great  Barring¬ 
ton,  Mass.,  having  arranged  to  transfer 
his  sucker  games  to  Florida,  and  recog¬ 
nizing  the  name  so  well  I  remember  now 
in  one  of  our  local  papers,  in  the  portion 
devoted  to  Great  Barrington  news,  seeing 
mention  of  him.  I  am  inclosing  clipping. 
Now,  what  constitutes  “near  Tampa”? 
I  have  resided  in  Arcadia ;  possibly  as 
the  crow  travels  you  might  make  it  in  30 
or  40  miles,  but  as  one  has  to  travel  high¬ 
way  or  railroad  it  is  between  80  and  100. 
But,  more  to  the  point  is  this,  that  any¬ 
one  who  buys  of  him  or  any  other  land 
promoter  is  surely  stuck,  especially  if  he 
pays  anything  over  $2  or  $3  an  acre. 
The  land  around  Arcadia  is  good,  for 
Florida  ;  too  level,  if  anything  ;  about  20 
miles  to  nearest  ocean  shore,  but  I  am 
writing  principally  to  refer  to  his  descrip¬ 
tion  of  the  location  near  Tampa.  After 
Summer  rains,  territory  for  miles  under 
from  6  in.  to  5  ft.  of  water  for  days  at  a 
time.  k.  d.  p. 
Massachusetts. 
D.  B.  Cornell  will  no  doubt  be  very 
much  at  home  promoting  this  sort  of 
Florida  land  as  above  described.  Some 
men  seem  to  be  so  constituted  that  they 
would  prefer  to  fake  the  public  even 
though  it  would  seem  to  be  to  their  own 
advantage  to  deal  fairly  and  honestly. 
Columbus,  Ohio,  July  25. — A  thorough 
investigation  of  the  affairs  of  the  R.  L. 
Rollings  Company  and  its  six  subsidi¬ 
aries  now  in  the  hands  of  receivers,  and 
the  conduct  of  officials  of  the  Dollings 
Company  “who  have  made  possible  the 
gigantic  frauds  which  have  been  per¬ 
petrated  on  so  many  people  of  this  State,” 
was  requested  tonight  by  State  Attorney 
General  C.  C.  Crabbe  in  a  letter  to  John 
R.  King,  prosecuting  attorney  of  Frank¬ 
lin  County. — Daily  Paper. 
The  above  dispatch  suggests  that  re¬ 
cent  developments  would  indicate  fraud 
on  the  part  of  the  officials  of  Dollings 
Company  in  the  sale  of  stock  to  the  pub¬ 
lic.  In  connection  with  the  receivership 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Company  Judge 
Dickson  is  quoted  as  being  opposed  to 
any  reorganization  of  the  company  on 
the  grounds  that  its  only  excuse  for  ex¬ 
istence  was  the  selling  of  its  own  stock 
to  the  public.  The  R.  N.-Y.  has  always 
taken  a  conservative  attitude  regarding 
the  Dollings  Company,  and  all  other  in¬ 
stitutions  of  the  same  order,  of  which 
there  are  many  selling  stocks  to  country 
people  by  “strong-arm  methods.” 
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In  an  action  brought  by  Attorney  Gen¬ 
eral  Sherman  under  the  Martin  act  Jus¬ 
tice  Bijur  granted  a  temporary  injunc¬ 
tion  July  24  restraining  Pyramid  Pic¬ 
tures,  Inc. ;  Smallwood,  Inc.,  and  A.  N. 
Smallwood  from  disposing  of  $2,000,000 
in  bonds  of  the  Pyramid  company.  Jus¬ 
tice  Lydon  will  hear  argument  on  Friday 
on  a  motion  to  make  the  injunction  per¬ 
manent. 
It  is  stated  in  the  petition  on  which 
the  court  granted  the  injunction  that 
Mr.  Smallwrood,  who  is  president  of  both 
corporations,  testified  before  the  Attorney 
General  during  an  investigation  that  the 
assets  of  the  Pyramid  corporation,  whose 
office  is  at  150  West  Thirty-fourth  street, 
consisted  of  equipment  valued  at  $25,000, 
had  accounts  receivable  amounting  to 
$38,000.  principally  for  royalties,  and  a 
claim  of  $200,000  against  the  American 
Releasing  Corporation,  another  Small¬ 
wood  promotion,  and  which  he  admitted 
could  not  pay  any  part  of  that  amount. 
The  Pyramid  Pictures,  Inc.,  was  char¬ 
tered  under  the  laws  of  Delaware  in 
July.  1921.  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,- 
000.000.  Subsequently  Smallwood  &  Co., 
Inc.,  acquired  all  of  the  stock  of  the 
Pyramid  corporation  for  property  of  a 
nominal  value.  Mr.  Smallwood  said  that 
half  of  this  stock  was  returned  to  the 
treasury  of  the  Pyramid  corporation. 
Then,  it  is  alleged,  the  stock  was  re¬ 
purchased  by  'Smallwood  &  Co.  for  $2.50 
a  share  and  was  offered  by  that  company 
to  the  public  for  $7.50  a  share. 
Despite  the  small  assets  of  the  Pyra¬ 
mid  company,  the  Attorney  General 
complains,  the  $2,000,000  in  bonds  which 
it  is  alleged  the  defendants  propose  to 
sell  are  secured  by  a  mortgage  and  a 
deed  of  trust  on  the  Pyramid  property. — 
Daily  Paper. 
The  above  report  from  the  daily  press 
revealing  the  true  situation  with  regard 
to  the  Pyramid  Pictures  promotion  will 
not  prove  encouraging  to  those  who  have 
invested  in  the  enterprise.  We  commend 
the  action  of  Attorney  General  Sherman 
in  putting  a  stop  to  the  sale  of  securi¬ 
ties  of  the  flimsy  character  of  Pyramid 
Pictures.  The  case  illustrates  again  the 
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