The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-21
A WEST VIRGINIA WOMAN
Hho Does II Shrowd s%wlndIins business In
Now York CITY.

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New York city.
From III article by Nelly bly,, In the
Now York Norii, in which she exposes
certain swindlinG operations by persons
advertising bargains in pianos and
household goods, tho following interest.
ing extract Ia taken:
Between t~hirty-six and forty years
ago Fanny Ford was born somewhere
in West Virginia. Her parents wore
poor people. Her father, now Of por.
maps seventy years, was for forty years
Il pilot on the Ohio river.
Tho family moved to Gallipolia, O.,
and something like ton years ago Funny
Ford married Il man named Walsh, who
tried TO practise medicine in Cincinnati.
1t is said that Walsh made a failure
OF medicine, and that then Fanny went
into tho furniture business, lust as she
is in it to-day, buying cheap furniture
At wholesale prices. aud selling it by
alluring MISREPRESENTATION TO would-bO
bargain.iinders.
Less than three years ngo Walsh
died and left his wife with three chill
dtcn whom sho idolizcs. There is
Lucy, nine ycara old. who has II gov
crness, for her iond mother will not
pcrIni; her TO attend public school.
Next comes Tiny. Il littlo tivc.year.old
girl. and last is Elmer, three years old,
tho baby and only boy.
Alter Walsh died Mrs. Walsh had
about $4,000 that she had scrapod to.
Gether, aud with that mou and her
three children she removed from Gin
cinnati TO broader fields.
In other words. she came TO New
York and rented No. II West Twenty
fourth street, where she opened Il board
ing house.
Her first boardcr was Victor Cadieux,
a Canadian youth, less than twouty-
ono years old, who attended to tho
microscopes in the Eden Musee.
No one knows whether it was tho
widow Walsh who made tho first adj
vances, or tho boy Cadicux, but be that
as it may, they say that in less than
eight months after her husbands death,
and with courageous, ii not admirable
disregard OF the almost double differ
cncc in age, the two were wed, and Vic
tor gave up the Eden Musee. with its
m~otionless inmates. for the boarding
house and its spry mistress.
The .boarding-housG proved 4 failure.
| don't know why, ior though Fanny
didn't sell furniture during that time
she sold carpets.
Having lost considerable on the
boarders, the removed to No. l3T West
Forty-siNth street. where she went into
the business in which she is At present
engaged.
But trouble will come to those who
deal unfairly, and at last too many had
lost money through her to make home
very comfortable, so she gave it mp and
went to No. IS West Twenty.scventh
street.
She only remained there about six
months when she sold her lease ut 500
increase 10 n Mrs. Gibbs, together with
$500 worth OF furniture.
1t WAS only six months from the time
she lived III West Twentv-seventh street
until she sold and moved to No. l27
West Forty-serenth street February !.
She buys her furniture at wholesale
prices from Pierce & Co., West Nine
icenth street. near Sixth avenue, and
this furniture sine represents rs having
cost enormous amounts. and succeeds
in swindling her customers into buying
at prices that exceed the real value,
giving Mrs. Cadieux u mos. handsome
profit.
Her pianos are bought from Scars r.
kelso, One Hundred and Thirty-third
street and Lincoln venue, and by ex-
aiming the following receipts, it will
be seen how buyers arc easily misled
and swindled:
The first receipt, dated March 5,
1894, giving the number OF the piano
and price, 500, is the real receipt.
That was meant only for the Cadieux
family. The second receipt, dated
August &c, 1898, and giving the number
oil the piano and the price rs $500, is
tho fake receipt. given by the firm OF
the CadieuXes to help them swindle the
public into believing tho piano cost n
great deal and that Sl4O $40 increase
on the real price, they would be getting
it at a great bargain.
Tho carpets are furnished BY Dobson
4 &c. Most OF them arc made in the
house, and when they are shown it is
always done in the hail, so that n buyer
cannot judge how small the carpet is.
| was shown one that was actually
not moro than ten teet long and four
brcadths wide, and was earnestly IA.
sured that it covered the floor OF q very