The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-29
PULLING IN
THE INNOGENTS.
GRAND HOWL ABOUT CRAYON
PORTRAIT MAKERS.
CONTRACTS THAT BIND ONE PARTY
But the Other Parties to Them
May Laugh at the Victims.
Business Methods Of a
Peculiar Nature.

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There are a number Of town people com
planning bitterly of the methods of certain
parties who are acting as agents for por-
trait company on West Coal street
HERALD reporter was detailed to investi-
gate some of the stories. The result is a
development Of affairs that warrants the
HERALD in again warning the people of
town against snapping at bats offered by
strangers who travel from door to door.
About the middle of last month the por.
trait company sent out agents to canvass
from door TO door. These agents, upon re-
ceiving the sum Of fifty cents, handed the
parties to whom they applied a card OF
which the following is u fac-simile
READ CAREFULLY.
| SHENANDOAH PORTRAIT COMPANY,
No. 20 West Coal street, Franey's block, will
enlarge for the holder of this contract any small
picture TO any size desired upon the payment of
| FIFTY CENTS
| for this contract TO our agent and purchasing
/ frame at our store Frames range from s2 "a
up, according to size and quality Part paw
| ment TO be made at time of choosing the frame
| Call before 10 days are up and select frame
| are delivered at the studio.
We agree TO forfeit S25 II portrait is not de-
| livered according to contract of this ticket
| Contract good 10 days only.
Lounge No. Signed. ed.................
verbal contracts not recognized.
The last line in the above is no doubt
intended to protect the company against
any misrepresentation its agents may
make. But 1t does not shield the company
for issuing lottery tickets. When the
agents Issued the tickets they filed in the
space with numbers after Lounge No.n
and the parties receiving them were in
formed that they stood chance of winning
a lounge.
The offer of a forfeit of S25 "if portrait is
not delivered according to contract of this
ticket is farce All the Contract"
binds the company Gf it is binding at all)
is that it will enlarge any small pi .ture to
any size desired. 1t does not say the work
shall be genuine crayoD, genuine hand.
painting, or genuine bromide or silver
print. True, the agents say the pictures
will be crayon-but the card provides
| VERBAL contracts not recognized"
| One lady complains that she paid fifty
cents and received card. Upon a. seer
tanning the price of the frames she con.
cluded she would not have the picture
made. Application was made for the
picture and the fifty cents given the agent.
| The picture was returned, but the fifty
cents-"That belongs to the agent. You
can get it if he will give it to you. That
is his fee. You pay it for the card"
Two ladies on Coal street invested so
cents each. One of them states positively
that the agent told her she would get the
crayon for 80 cents, and that she could
purchase frame where she pleased. The
card was read after the agent left. Upon
application to the companys office the
gentleman in charge said that the agent
couldn't have made such representations
and If he did so, he alone was responsible
Verbal contracts not recognised"
OF course, the idea that any portrait
maker can furnish a crayon for so cents is
extremely ridiculous and little sympathy
can be expressed for those who entertained
such an idea The newspapers of the
country give warning daily against strange
agents who travel from door TO door, and
on this ground also the people who are de-
ceiyed, or walk blindly into schemes lose
sympathy.
At the same time we do not think the
Shenandoah Portrait Company is dealing
fair and square with the public, for the fol-
lowing reasons;
A reputable company should not attempt
to shield itself behind a clause like "Ver
bal contracts not recognized"
No reputable company, when misrepre-
sentations by its agents are brought to It's
attention, will pass them over by declaring
that they were not made, or should not
have been made.
No reputable company will declare |
payment to its agent forfeited unless its
contract provides for the forfeiture, or |
unless it has been put to Expense by reason
Of the deposit.
No reputable company will permit it,
agents to discriminate by requiring de-
post from some people and none from others
when the declared policy of the company |
is that all its patrons shall be treated alike.
A company having agents whose state
ments it refutes aud refuses to make good |
should discharge them and any company
that persists in employing such agents is 1
unworthy the confidence Of the people.
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