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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  13,  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. 
The  officers  of  the  Hudson  Tire  and 
Rubber  Co.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  take  ex¬ 
ception  to  our  advice  to  readers  with  re¬ 
gard  to  the  stock  of  the  company  as  an 
investment.  The  company  has  now  sub¬ 
mitted  us  a  'financial  statement  which 
shows  tangible  assets  of  $451,137.17  and 
liabilit-'es  aside  from  stock  issued  of  $86,- 
592.97,  leaving  a  net  asset  of  $364,- 
544.20.  The  company  has  outstanding, 
$756,420  of  stock  of  an  authorized 
capitalization  of  $1,500,000.  From  a 
credit  standpoint  the  stock  is  not  con¬ 
sidered  an  obligation  against  the  as¬ 
sets  and  therefore  from  this  view  of 
the  company  the  firm  has  a  good  financial 
standing.  In  considering  the  statement 
in  connection  with  the  stock  as  an  in¬ 
vestment  about  $2  of  stock  has  been 
sold  for  every  dollar  of  net  assets.  The 
company  has  a  modern  plant  and  has 
entered  the  production  stage  about  four 
months  ago.  The  management  claims 
to  have  an  outlet  for  all  the  tires  it  can 
produce.  If  this  be  true  and  this  condi¬ 
tion  holds  good  for  the  future  the  com¬ 
pany  would  have  a  better  prospect  than 
Tiie  R.  N.-Y.  has  given  it  credit  for  in 
our  previous  reference  to  it.  Ordinarily 
the  outlook  for  a  small  rubber  tire  manu¬ 
facturer  with  limited  financial  resources 
and  in  view  of  the  keen  competition  pre¬ 
vailing  in  the  business  cannot  be  con¬ 
sidered  particularly  promising  and  the 
stock  in  our  opinion  is  highly  specula¬ 
tive  at  best. 
I  hold  a  certificate  for  200  shares  of 
the  'Consolidated  Copper  Creek  Mining 
Company,  main  office  Kansas  City.  Mo., 
and  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Ari¬ 
zona.  I  bought  these  shares  August  19, 
1907,  but  have  heard  nothing  from  them. 
I  presume  it  is  a  fake  concern,  j.  f.  s. 
New  York. 
The  Consolidated  Copper  Creek  Mining 
Company  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  was  mere¬ 
ly  a  get-rich-quick  promotion  scheme,  and 
the  stock  has  no  value,  and  never  had 
any. 
I  am  enclosing  a  letter  from  the  Radio 
Message,  Bible  House,  New  York  City. 
At  first  I  was  puzzled  to  know  how  I 
was  a  winner  of  a  radio  set  when  I  never 
was  a  contestant,  and  thought  perhaps 
someone  else  sent  in  my  name.  The  ad¬ 
dress  of  the  Bible  House  caused  me  to 
take  the  letter  to  the  minister  of  my 
church,  he  not  knowing  anything  about 
it,  but  a  visiting  minister  there  told  me 
that  the  Bible  House  itself  was  not  re¬ 
sponsible  for  the  Radio  Message,  as  per¬ 
haps  they  only  had  rooms  rented.  I 
have  been  anxious  to  get  a  radio  set,  but 
do  not  want  to  spend  $3  for  something 
worthless.  Would  like  to  protect  myself 
and  others,  and  if  they  are  reliable  will 
send  the  $3.  B.  b.  w. 
Pennsylvania. 
We  should  not  expect  a  radio  set  in¬ 
cluded  with  a  subscription  to  a  magazine 
or  publication  of  very  much  value.  The 
reference  to  the  “prize  contest”  is  an  old 
fake  that  has  been  used  to  sell  anything 
from  imitation  silverware  to  Long  Island 
lots.  Its  purpose  is  to  lead  the  one  re¬ 
ceiving  the  proposition  to  believe  that  be¬ 
cause  of  being  a  winner  in  the  contest 
he  or  she  will  get  something  for  nothing. 
In  this  case  a  subscription  to  Radio  Mes¬ 
sage  is  solicited  for  $3,  and  a  cheap  radio 
set  is  offered  as  a  premium.  That’s  ail 
there  is  to  it.  The  “Bible  House”  is  an 
office  building  in  which  anyone  can  rent 
space,  so  that  the  subscription  scheme 
coming  from  that  address  does  not  re¬ 
move  the  fake  from  it. 
Barcelona,  Sept.  27. — The  men  who 
for  many  years  have  been  working  what 
has  come  to  be  known  as  the  “Spanish 
prisoners”  confidence  game  have  been  ar¬ 
rested  by  the  police. 
For  many  years  these  swindlers  have 
been  flooding  the  world  with  heartrending 
letters  of  appeal  in  behalf  of  fictitious 
prisoners  who  were  represented  as  re¬ 
questing  financial  assistance  so  that  they 
might  pay  their  fines  and  obtain  posses¬ 
sion  of  valuable  hidden  treasure. 
The  police  confiscated  carefully  kept 
files  of  the  names  and  addresses  of  per¬ 
sons  from  whom  money  had  been  or 
might  be  obtained.  The  authorities  said 
that  this  record  was  the  most  elaborate 
work  of  its  kind  ever  compiled. 
Among  those  apprehended  were  two 
employes  of  the  Barcelona  telegraph  of¬ 
fice. 
This  “Spanish  prisoner”  swindle  has 
been  operating  for  25  years  or  more,  and 
has  been  referred  to  in  Publisher’s  Desk 
from  time  to  time  since  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  this  department.  We  hope  the 
reported  arrest  of  the  perpetrators  of  the 
swindle  will  put  an  end  to  it  for  all  time 
to  come. 
Dec.  4,  1922,  we  sent  a  shipment  of 
furs  to  A.  B.  Shubert,  Inc.,  Chicago,  Ill. 
Although  his  advertisements  do  not  ap¬ 
pear  in  your  paper,  they  are  in  several 
well-know  reliable  magazines.  We  used 
a  Slmbert' envelope-tag,  as  directed,  and 
inclosed  an  order  to  hold  the  furs  sepa¬ 
rate,  according  to  their  guarantee.  We 
received  a  check  for  $28.70.  Since  this 
was  unsatisfactory,  we  returned  the 
check  and  inclosed  return  postage  for  the 
furs.  Then  they  invited  us  to  send  them 
a  check  for  $2.  If  we  did  this  they  prom¬ 
ised  to  return  a  mink  which  they  had 
held  separate.  At  this  time  they  had  our 
furs  and  the  check,  too.  On  Jan.  3  they 
returned  the  original  check  to  us.  We 
consider  our  furs  worth  $40.  They  claim 
that  they  were  not.  However,  the  ques¬ 
tion  at  issue  is  that  they  did  not. keep  the 
furs  separate  in  accordance  with  their 
guarantee.  We  have  no  means  of  prov¬ 
ing  that  we  ordered  them  to  hold  the  furs 
separate.  However,  we  told  them  that 
we  could  prove  it.  We  thought  that  it 
might  pay  to  try  to  bully  the  bully.  The 
number  of  the  statement  is  529234  we  are 
sending  you.  Will  you  help  us  to  collect 
this  claim?  We  are  still  camping  on 
Shubert’s  trail,  but  we  need  help. 
Iowa.  h.  w.  M. 
This  is  rather  typical  of  the  complaints 
we  receive  from  shippers  of  raw  furs. 
Some  few  years  ago  we  did  carry  the  ad¬ 
vertising  of  A.  B.  Shubert,  Inc.,  Chi¬ 
cago,  which  is  one  of  the  large  and  reput¬ 
ed  to  be  wealthy  houses  in  the  business, 
but  a  number  of  complaints  similar  to 
the  above  caused  us  to  consider  the  adver¬ 
tising  undesirable.  Tiie  R.  N.-Y.  takes 
the  same  position  with  regard  to  the  big 
fur  houses  in  St.  Louis.  The  question 
of  the  value  of  the  furs  does  not  enter 
into  the  merits  of  this  case.  The  shipper 
submits  affidavit  showing  that  he  fol¬ 
lowed  instructions  to  the  letter  in  speci¬ 
fying  that  his  furs  should  be  “Held  Sep¬ 
arate.”  Under  these  circumstances  it 
was  incumbent  on  Shubert,  Inc.,  to  re¬ 
turn  the  furs  or  pay  the  shipper’s  price. 
Shubert,  Inc.,  finally  offered  to  make  up 
one-half  the  amount  in  dispute  and  the 
shipper  accepted  it.  The  record  stands 
to  the  discredit  of  the  house  of  A.  B. 
Shubert,  Inc.  We  have  found  that  some 
of  the  fur  houses  refuse  to  hold  furs  sep¬ 
arate  on  the  grounds  that  the  skins  were 
“green”  and  therefore  would  spoil  if  held 
any  length  of  time.  This  claim  might 
with  justice  be  made  in  a  few  instances, 
but  when  any  firm  makes  this  excuse  re¬ 
peatedly  the  good  faith  of  the  concern  is 
subject  to  suspicion.  It  is  the  large 
houses  of  the  Central  West  that  most  of 
the  complaints  we  receive  are  against — 
those  sending  out  glaring  circulars  of 
high  prices  and  fair  grading. 
I  have  received  registry  papers  for  the 
ram  from  the  International  Records 
Association,  Elmira,  N.  Y.  Thanks  to 
your  efforts.  A.  D.  b. 
Maine. 
We  publish  the  above  communication 
in  order  to  give  the  association  credit 
for  having  furnished  the  subscriber 
registry  papers  for  a  ram  in  September, 
for  which  application  was  made  in  the 
latter  part  of  March. 
The  Music  Industries  Chamber  of 
Commerce  sends  out  a  bulletin  warning 
the  public  against  the  “song  shark”  and 
fake  music  publisher.  The  bulletin  pub¬ 
lishes  a  letter  from  a  young  girl  sorely 
afflicted  and  endeavoring  to  earn  money 
to  pay  for  an  operation,  who  was  robbed 
of  $40  by  one  of  these  pirates.  Sharpers 
who  take  money  from  the  poor  and  af¬ 
flicted  in  this  way  are  about  the  lowest 
and  meanest  class  of  mortals  that  belong 
to  the  human  family.  These  sharks  lead 
the  writer  of  the  song  to  believe  that  if 
set  to  music  there  would  be  a  ready  sale 
for  it.  They  know  better,  and  all  they 
are  after  is  the  fee  for  setting  the  song 
to  music.  The  so-called  bureaus  for  dis¬ 
posing  of  short  stories,  moving  p  icture 
plays,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  order  of 
fraudulent  schemes.  And  the  real  estate 
agent  asking  for  an  advance  fee  for  the 
sale  of  farm  property  is  tarred  with  the 
same  stick. 
O  I  l— 
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Some  (people)  are  always  going  out.  They  smoke; 
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are  leaky,  and  they  shed  mighty  little  light  on  any 
subject.  Besides  which  they  soon  burn  out. 
But  with  Embury  Supreme  Lanterns  it  is  different. 
You  cannot  make  them  go  out ;  they  never  smoke; 
never  smell ;  and  seldom  break.  They  throw  a 
big,  generous  light  in  every  direction.  They  are 
sturdy,  rugged  and  dependable. 
No.  160  is  one  of  the  most  popular.  Take  a  look 
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I  * 
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Cannot  accidently  loosen  or  be  lost — no  pins  to 
break  or  lose. 
Flat  links;  cannot  slip,  cut  or  bind. 
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