The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08
CRAY0NS NEVER SEEN.
TEE FRBE PORTRAIT SwINDLE
THAT CAUGRT SAVANNApIAN6

THAT CAUGRT SAVANNAPIANS.
The Way the Game Ia Worked-The
Frame Dodge Where the Money
Comes in for the Concsrn-Clrculers
Which Read Like Green Goods Bait.
A Little Girls Experience With q
New York Company.
The free crayon swindle which has been
worked in Savannah with more or less sue
cess in the last three or four months Is
catching thousands of people all over the
country.
One of the latest victims is little girl in
Savannah who dubbed together her saw
ings with those of several other children to
get crayon of her Sunday school teacher
She sent on to the crayon company IS 80
for frame. but has never received the
frame or the picture she sent to have the
crayon made from, and has never been able
to get her money back.
HOW IT IS DONE.
A good many other people were swindled
In the same way. A concern called the
Pacific Portrait House, which has offices in
the Broadway Theater building IN New
York, and savors more of green goods''
game than OF legitimate business enter
prise, is the company through which many
Savannahians have lost their money.
According to the New York police the
business conducted by the Pacific Portrait
House is huge swindle which is coming
money for Joseph Budzzileln, the ostensible
proprietor, out of the guilibility of human
nature.
A young man named Watson who can
vassed Savannah couple of months or SO
ego. and who was afterward arrested and
jailed, collected pile of photographs con-
tanning several hundred which the owners
have been trying to get back ever since.
The Pacific Portrait House is said by its
management to be the successor to the
Metropolitan Crayon House. Its ostensible
purpose Is to make from photographs en-
larged crayon portraits. The concern ad-
vertises largely in out-of-town newspapers.
This Is fair sample Of It's card;
FREE FOR 20 DAYS FROM DATE OF THIS
paper Wishing to introduce our CRAYON
PORTRAITS and at the same time extend our
business and make new customers, we have
decided to make this special offer:-Send us a
picture of yourself or any member of your
family, living or dead, and we will make you q
LIFE SIZE CRAYoN PoRTRAIT FREE OF CHARGE
provided you exhibit 1t 10 your friends as q sam
pie OF our work aud use your influence in secur-
ing us further orders; place name and address
on back of picture and it will be returned in per-
feet order; we make any change in picture you
wish, not interfering with the likeness; refer to
any bank bank in New York Address all mail to
Theater Building, New York.
A BIG CONCERN.
Day after day. according to the New
York Herald, packages containing photo
graphs are delivered to the Pacific Portrait
House for enlargement. in answer to the
advertisement Of the firm. All these photo
graphs are carefully .indexed by clerks
under their proper heads, so that they can
be easily located. A week after photo
graph is received circular is addressed to
the sender. This circular states that the
photograph has been received, and that the
circular Is to q considered as q receipt.
| Then the victim is told that the crayon will
be completed in four days. Then the finan-
cial part OF the business is sprung, and it is
contained in these words Of the circular:
Regarding portraits finishing touch. {"
| namely, that of framing it with the correct
! kind OF frame. If you frame portrait with q
| landscape frame you have used the wrong pat
| terms and wrong combinations Of holdings,
consequently ruined its artistic appearance, and
vice versa with portrait frame. AS you are
| aware we are placing sample life size portraits
/ to limited number free of charge for adver-
using purposes (rather than employ canvassers,
who, as rule, are ready to misrepresent for
the sake OF gain, we would respectfully ask
| you land we feel yor viii credit US with being
competentl to permit us to frame your portrait
/
retail house possibly eau. as we are heavy deal
| ers and importers of holdings made especially
for hne crayon portraits, besides we offer the
| benefit or our selection, knowing what are the
| latest, best and really appropriate frames
| for such work as yours, az a properly
i selected frame embodies shade color. finish,
| depth, width and correct combination Of
various choice holdings, all to be considered
| from the Portraits effect. Hence we are able
to place the portrait In your house in the latest
and best style suited to it, and at figure that
4 Ia for asrfxx
| are the latest and most appropriate, and made
| especially for our class OF work only. Our
1 frames are selected for the purpose of being
/ able to stand for a lifetime without furnishing
| or cracking ct the corners, as is the case with
| most large and heavy frames We place dura-
| bility along with appropriateness, aud have an
article we guarantee to last lifetime The
| portrait and frame will be perfect long after
| life. and will always be as beautiful piece of
furniture as you could place in your home
| We tnclose the latest designs for frames.
Select any one on the list, and your portrait
| will be framed accordingly, any OF the designs
| being perfectly appropriate Past experience
teaches US that for every free portrait placed in
1 peoples homes, secure for us a standing and
| permanent advertisement, and when properly
| framed a perpetual advertisement, so we are
| directly interested in guaranteeing yours to be
good, But portrait Of the quality Of yours
| and backing TO protect it. Therefore
we ask you to select frame from list
inclosed, AMI you will be more than
|
| number always. Remember we charge you
| nothing for portrait, only the frame. To still
further prove our intentions are to please and
| satisfy you we send all goods @. o. D., with
privilege of denomination before paying for same.
\ This is as candid and fair an offer as we could
possibly make you. and the best evidence we can
| offer that your portrait and frame will more
than please you. Doing business in this way,
you have exactly the same opportunity you
would have should you come direct to our stu
| do. Should you desire to save yourself several
| dollars on your frame you will observe we are
making every iuducement TO satisfy you and at
the same time deal very liberal and fairly with
youl, If you send cash with order we
| allow 10 per cent. discount from frame
| price list enclosed.
TEMPTING BAIT.
Accompanying this circular is another
| showing illustrations of the frames and
the prices on one side, while on the other
| side the page Of the circular is devoted
| to highly colored description OF the work
shop of the company. This description is
| illustrated by three pictures-one the corre-
| spondence room, another the artist studio
and the third the shipping room. Il is
needless to say that there is no shipping
room and that there is no artist studio,
| for the simple reason that there are no
artists and there is no occasion for shipping,
for that is something that Budzzilein never
does except when forced to by the police.
The price of the frames ranged from &c 40
i To eS 30 according N afvla daeirad brtk oa