The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-04
lEeW York Times.l

New York Timesl 10.
The large number OF strangers in the city
has stimulated the mock>auction horse sales,
and there are nine now in full blast, the
sales being carried on nearly every day.
They advertise extensively, and use nume-
rous devices to attract purchasers. Afa.
vorite method is the use of the names Of
prominent persons either deceased or bank
rupt as the owners Of the property. Among
The names recently used were those OF Hen
ry Clews, Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, j. B..
Doremus, Walter Garner, W. 81. AspinWall,
Lester j. Astor, George A. Sherman, James
E. Rowland, w. E. Roosevelt, James
A. Peckham, j. w. Traphagan, M. Stadler,
James L. Montelth, j. w. Grinnell, and G.
81. jerome. To make the notice appear
genuine they always wind up either with
the name of an assignee or executor, which
is, OF course, fictitious. The assignee OF
Henry Clews was given as D. Gilbert Bel
mont, Daniel Drew's as H. q. Kennard, j.
B. Doremus's as Charles r. Darling. The
sales are invariably advertised to take place
in the private stable of either the deceased
or the bankrupt. These stables are located
in fashionable neighborhoods, are kept in
excellent order, and have every appearance
OF being the stables Of wealthy gentle
men. The principal ones where the
swindling sales take place are 10
Gated as follows:o No. 115 east Twenty
second street, few doors from St. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal church; No. s west
Thirtieth street, four doors from Fifth ave-
nue.; No. 81 east Thirty-third street; No. "a
east Seventeenth street, in therear OF Daniel
Drew's mansion; Nos. II and 13 west
Twenty-seventh street: No. 112 east Twen-
ty-seventh street; No. 81 east Twelfth
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and Fourth street. The 'auctioneers are
Charles c.. Duff, w. B. Nelson, g.. w. ,Jen-
kins, and William Borst. The auctioneers
are by law compelled to place their names at
the head Of the advertisement OF sale, but
this is violated every day, and it is only oc-
casionaily that their names appear at all, and
then they arc in q position where they are
not likely to be seen.
Bogus pedigrees are given, and the same
description is used for different horses at va
rious stables. The very fast trotting-horse
Midnight, sold at No. 8 west Thirtieth street,
Is called the very fast trotting-horse Or
ward ut No. 115 east Twenty-second street.
The very fast brown gelding Monitor be-
comes the very fast trotting gelding Royal
John; the very fast trotting mare Stella be-
comes the very handsome sorrel mare Vic
toria, and the very elegant and fast-trotting
gelding Yellow Jacket becomes the very ele-
CANT and fast-trotting gelding Regulator.
The legitimate horse auctioneers denounce
the swindle in the severest terms, and say
that it is not only iniuring their business
but hurting the interest which gentlemen
take in horse-fesh. The horses purchased
for these sales are the most common kind OF
stock. "Railroaders and horses from
Bulls Head are cleared up, given an extra
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prices. One of the auctioneers adver-
tised Heatherbloom for sale with re-
cord of better than 2:30, and it was knocked
down for $500. Now, this very same horse
was purchased as common horse ut legltl-
mate sale for $100. The real Heatherbloom
could not be bought for $1,000. Another
horse was sold by Well-known dealer
without a guarantee for S5S, and it was
purchased by one Of the sWindlers, who
called it Major Allen, and he sold it for S400.
The auctioneer Duff is said to have sold
chestnut mare three times and realized over
$500 by the transactions. 1t was bought by
one OF Stewards men for $500, but finding
that he had been duped he took it to reSu-
lar auction-house, where it brought S140,
Duff being the purchaser, who resold it Tor
1915.
Horses bring as high as $1,000 which are
not worth more than $3.50. The purchasers
when they find out that they are "stuck :"
sometimes send them to regular auction
room to be sold on their account, and en-
deavor to get the swindling auctioneers to
pay the difference. The sufferers are mostly
countrvmen, who think they know a great
deal about horse-iesh, and believe they are
stealing somebody's trotter when they buy
one OF the horses put up for sale. A gen.
tleman from Cleveland, stopping at the
Fifth-Avenue Hotel, was bitten at one OF
these sales to the extent of S., 200. He pur-
chased horse with fine title, represented
to be first class in every respect. On snow
ing it to friend he was told it was not
worth 5000, and he became so disguised
that he sold it, and went to the auctioneer IN
a fruitless endeavor to get his money back.
A horse was sold at Twenty-second street
few days ago for $3.50 which, II it had been
the real one, would be, worth S5,000'
Strangers seeing the advertisement with the
lowery pedigree, think they have got q
prize, and readily buy. Henry Clews's
horses are advertised for sale on Twenty
seventh street, and not one ever belonged ia
him. Daniel Drew's horses have been sold
twice; and the late E. j. Shandley's horses
were advertised for sale last week, when II
was well known that the Judge had none.
These auctioneers not only sell horses in
this way, but they sell cheap wagons also
! They put the name Of a well-known maker
on common wagon and get q big price foI
it. They buy these wagons at a manufactory
in Brooklyn and at Amesbury, Mass, fol
less than 500. They make slight change,
generally, in the plate to save themselves.
Thus r. NJ. Stivers is changed to e. NJ. Sti
yers, J. B. Brewster to j. r. Brewster, Van
|Duser to Van Duzen, Bradley. Pray d. Co
to Bradley & Pray or Bradley Pray, Dusen-
bury & Nelson to Dusenbury Nelson. Ere
quently they take an old plate from Wagon
. and place 1t on one OF theirs. Ihe Prom
nent makers often go to the sales ana take
Il their plates of when they think any OF then
will be sold. -a,." -.
The "private stables ." where these sales ale
of wagons take place are reported 10 De al
|, Nos. L and west Fifteenth street, Ihirty'
! first street between Sixth and Seventh ave.
nues. Thirtieth street near Seventh avenue,
i and Nineteenth street between Sixth AND o
4 Seventh avenues. The Carriage Manufac.
turers' Association will probably take lega
means to break up the swindle. 9;. Il
/ CoNDEMN1Na WRONG, BUT PURSUING IT,
i A few days since hesheriff in charge OF the
Northfeld (Minn.1 bank-robbers receiver
letter from q gentleman requesting that the
ouestion be asked the robbers whether tney M
had ever attended Sunday school, ihe
i letter was given to Cole Younger, tne neao
i OF the captured band, who replied on
postal card: g am proud to say TO you We
were raised by religious parents ana asteno.
/ ed Sunday school regularly in our boyho
1 and tno had charge of Bible class Winnie