The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-27

Old Sawdusf SwindIers I'm u New
Business.


The New York Sun OF Saturday g YES
the following particulars o. the break
ing up OF the old frm Of swindlers
known as Raynor, Ward i Co.: Phila-
delphia and other provincial newspa-
pers recently published conspicuously
10 their advertising pages a most at
tractiye announcement, beaded with the
neat little sum Of 81 80, las, followed
by the high sounding words Merchants
and Bankers s.ociation OF New
York" The advertisement goes on to
display "GaiIy drawings, announces
prize for every ticket, and sets out IN
detail Numerous verv desirable things,
among which we pane one prize OF
rornl hundred thousand dollars, six
prizes OF fifty Thousand each, and so on
down 20 one hundred dollars, five hun.
d. Ell and fifty tickets, according to the
scheme and lis advertisement, drawing
that sum. Then the gold watches, the
sewing machines, elegant pianos
melodeons, silvervale. etc, promised to
the Ircky hol@ets o. tickets are unnum-
beTed. Aud il is all so fair and Loaest !
You have ouly 20 invest twenty-five
cents, and you &c, in an envelope a
ticket which states the prize you have
drawn, and then you have Only to send
on a dollar and seventy five cents for
exgressage aud packing, add yon can
rest few days in the happy consciou--
ness that you are lucky fellow.
MEAT FOR RURAL FOOLS.
4 lew days ago country correspond
ent of a leading New York business
house bought tour tickets. He received
four small bits OF pager. Suppose the
following to be printed in red ink, and
YOU will have sample:
Grand
Daily Distribution
of the
Merchants and Bankers Association.
Certificate No. 56.7T1.
This certificate, when accompanied by
one Dollar and 10 cents for expressaSe and
packing, entities the holder To
silver Tea Set,
Valued at So.
Mercha1ts' and Bankers Association.
Certificate No. 1851 entitled the
benny ticke -bdser 10 a silver hunting.
cs,el W "h. valued at $40. Tbst his
wife or sweetheart might not scoIi,
certificates numbered $1,000 AMI T.
So each promised him silk dress
patterr. valued a. SO. Here, then,
was p operty valued at $50, all for the
trtlng outley OF IS, one of which was
already paid. Before RENTING the s.,
however, the bucolic gentleman con-
cluded to write 30 his city friends. lie
enclosed his tickets, and empowered
them 70 get his prizes and forward them
to bin, thus kindly relieving the i'm
mense Merchants AMI Bankers Asso
cia,ion OF the trouble Of expressing and
packing the articles.
AMY:H
The advertisement is signed Raynor,
Ward II Co, 100 Broadway, \. Y.
Now, l20 Broadway is good place for
the transactions of such large concern
as the Merchants and Bankers Assoc
ton. Its place easily found. There
are big silt figures on the doors of the
main entrance on Broadway. In fact,
it is the Equitable Insurance Company
building, aud anvNew Yorker can go to
it without difficulty. But, fortunately,
going there as did the city friends OF the
lucky ticket owner, no Merchants
and Bankers Association, and no
Raynor, Ward & Co, can be found
therein. A vivid sense OF having been
slightly swindIed will overcoms any
other ticket holder who undertakes the
task OF finding Raynor, Ward N Co, At
l2O Broadway or elsewhere. No one
but some letter carrier has been able to
penetrate to the office OF this muntcent
concern; and hereafter even that will
be an impossibility, for the reason that
Sun reporter has taken the trouble to
90 to the Postoffice and have the Nef.
chants and Bankers Association, and
Raynor, Ward Il Co., OF No. 100 Broad
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