Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25
Another of the knaves starts on, in this
BELL 4 son.

hx friend. Who Saow. yoa well, thst you are
highly suitable to represent &c. Asw haye nao
many dealings with tax- gentleman and Know nm
70 be 81 upright and kocorahe Easn- any friend oil
NJ. viii receive our ut-noet confidence we there
fore feel thai there l. no risk Il eonactag 20 you
o., secret
In this particular case be won't require
cash in advance, and after making several
alluring propositions, he winds up thus:
We know yo- vii serve Us faithfully snd truly
Yea cannot afford TO deceive rs State the Aro IN
a-d denominations required When you sena ths
tie arnoEz. from the principal TO pay the same
Wha.ever 200 do. donsr write by mail. as we viii
not claim OF recsive any letters from the post
o.sce. Ssss only 5s szpress. p'rspat1!
Awaiting your early reply,
We are yours fraternally,
BELL Il Son.
express, and ordering SIS 0 package, you viii
secure the agency for your State.
P!s4Ss rttErN DSs 10 TsHiiHd Us.
This gentleman Is csntented to do bust
ness with only the additional names OF
King & Co, 80 Nassau street; Over
Bros, IS Liberty street, and Williams &
Co., 1876 Broadway.
Another operator, also capable Of sub
division. is the one who throws his hool
thus baited:
Esteemed FRIEND: Being In want OF reliable
agent In your State, have selected you In prefer
ence TO many others, In consequence Of your be-
ing recommended TO me by a gentleman Of this
city, whose business is to drum up trade in the
country for large commercial house. / already
have ave agents at different points; but desiring
to push my business for the season. have re-
solved 10 employ one or two more. / have now
on hand about 5000 In counterfets 81 rs and $40
bills / might az well represent them az genuine,
for II would require an expert banker TO distin-
guish them from the notes issued at Washington.
They are printed on frstclass bank-nOte paper.
are OF the size az the genuine, and are cor
rectly numbered The printing Is incompatible.
/ would not for the world send out bill that is
badly printed.
|. He gives much excellent advice to his
gudgeon to the effect that "When you get
the bills ruffle them so as to make them
look old. Don't pass too much upon one
man at time. Put private mark on the
bills, SO that, should they come back on
you in the course of trade, you will know
them. You can carry as much about you
as you like, but do not exhibit too much.
If you follow these instructions guaran-
tee that you will clear large sum of good
money in short time. Endeavor 10 send
all communications by express. Do not,
under any circumstances, send me letter
by mail" This man of careful business
habits is variously known as Joseph r.
Lee, so Nassau street; Horace Madden, 10
Chatham street, George Sommers, 30
Chatham street; Edward f. Dickinson, 36
Maiden Lane, and John 3. Forrest, 80
Liberty street.
In addition to these operators doing bus
mess under several different names, there
are a few who, having not yet risen
TO this prominence, are content to swim
die by single cognomen. Among them
is s. Y Adando & Co., No. so Park Place,
whose photographic letter, covering three
large pages sets forth the manifold excel
lencies Of his wares and the extreme rea-
sonableness of his rates. He, too, is "a
man of honor" trusting to the honesty"
of his correspondent and manifests in an
extraordinary degree that wholesome
dread Of the Post Office, and great
solicitude that money shall be sent
by express, which is prominent in the
epistles Of all the swindlers. G. E. Ben.
son g. Co., No. 176 Broadway, is shrewd-
or knave than some of the others in many
respects, for he boldly puts his letter into
type and bats his hook for the most fool
ish Of very tiny gudgeons. After offering
a package Of $500 for $25, package Of
81 900 for $40, and one Of 5000 for 5000,
he says:
On receipt OF price in registered letter for either
OF these packages, we will send the goods by mail
In registered package which IL the only safe way
by mall as there IL then no cause for fear whatever,
or we will safely pack either size package and
send by express, @. o. D. on receipt Of depsit of
" for No package, 81 for No. 2package, or IS
ceipt Of package, and mark them in such way
that no one will suspect or know but ourselves.
We will give any information desired Of us at any
time, but we suppose any one knows what TO do
with money when they geti II.
William Cooper e. Co.," who styles
himself "dealers in fine stationery, 6S8
Broadway" has devised yet another method,
by having all of his thousands of circulars
actually written by hand, in which work,
up to the time he, or rather his business,
suddenly came to grief, he had eight men
constantly employed, and had so drilled
them there was nc perceptible difference
in the chirography of his missives. He
also enclosed a printed circular, with the
assertion that very few are to be issued,
which he begins with this alluring scrap
of secret history:
When Congress authorized the present ssue OF
greenbacks, the Treasury Department executed
plates OF enormous cost and wonderful workman
ship from which the whole amount Of currency
authorized by Congress was to be printed, and 1t
was ordered at the time that as coon as the whole
number. should be taken from the treasury Print
ing Department, conveyed to the navy yard and
melted. Now, 1t 80 happened that the plates from
which the I, 2 and dollar bills had been printed
were not destroyeo. How 1t was brought about, we
a. matter If prudence, do not state. 1t Is enough
to know that tho plates still PREF erved unin-
jured, and We trust their whereabouts will never
be known except to us.
He then proceeds to offer at fabulously
low rates money in any desired quantity,
surreptitiously printed from these plates,
so miraculously saved from the fire.
Rufus Stockton. stationer, wood, steel
and copper engraver," 2O4 Broadway, is
the pioneer title in the fraud, but now is
SO seldom seen as to be unworthy of
further notice.
H. Golfer s. Co., 1915 Broadway, also
does business in the usual way, and on q
small scale. Last, but by no means least,
is rascal who is aware Of the rescality of
the other fellows, and advises his dupes Of
the fact thus:
[Express all your moneyto this address.l
MCNALLY ~ Co., 300 Broadway.
DEAR SIR: You no doubt have some reluctance
In engaging with Q; perhaps you have already re-
ceived from different parties In New York, who
represent things highly colored, with great mix.
sire to dispose Of, and their extreme cheapness;
they unaccountably got hold Of the way we
do business, and as near as possible they try to
initiate us; they are flooding the country with cir
cuars, receiving money, and sending nothing In
return; you can see for yourselves: how can any