Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-08-18

the circular
All drafts, checks, postal orders, &c,
TO be made payable to Porter x Co., FL
nancial Agents and publishers.
It Is Porter and Co., all the way
through. The u. s. Or at MOnu-
inent Association In to furnish the
name and Porter & Co., is to take
the money. Here is another ex-
tract from the same circular
All donations to the Association to be
shipped to and receipted for by Porter
& CO.. at Richmond, Va.
And again from the same circular
comes:
Agents or eanvaseers will have au-
lrity only TO sell and receive amounts
n the sales oi popular subscription
.fda. memberships, and certificates OF
wo and a half and five dollars. After
fenishinK security and receiving their
utbority from the asonciation's Au-
bsorizsd agents.
Who re the Associations author
ed agents ? Porter & Co. But
how Is the circular signed +? Porter
ECo.
And again the circular reads:
Associations General Office, No. 522
North Third Street.
And where is this but the residence
0f L. w. Porter, who Is all that has
as yet been found to be Porter & Co.
n THE DONATION BLANK.
|sotten up by Mr.. r. w. Porter Is a
| Remarkable document. 1t Is bound
/ Ike book form and was intended to
be given to any one contributing
money to the mystic Porter and Co.
9n the aforesaid blank appears the
| following note:
In the blank line (Tunds) the Donor
/ can designate which of the three Funds
Monument; Old Folks Home and En-
towment-they propose to add TO their
EQUATION.
It will be seen that all of the funds
entered one tunnel. that of Porter
aud Co., but after It's reception 1t
Wis presumed to go In three direct
[ las the 4th being not named, pro-
B.s OF Porter aud Co.
/ On the face of this remarkable do
a ttlon blank the name of Porter
appears eleven separate times.
Porter and Co. seem To be fearful
le some one would send money tC
ts1 General u. s. Grant Monument
Association and Old Folks Home
foF On every book, blank, card Oh
ci cular appear either the name o
TN. Porter or Porter and Co.
Itis not at all surprising then thai
President Browne should have be
come indignant and determined tx
uDearth wnat seemed to be en engin.
OF destruction, and what In time
, seeT destined TO be a monumental
swIl ale.
O. ha face OF this donation blanl
sars the solsowiug:
II sklpmonts uade direc
ASzss tnarai ottic
nee
n, s,orafs, mohey or postal or
sde must be made payable TO Por
: te nd Co., financial agents, Gene
raj office 522 N. 3rd st., Richmond
Va.
{ Itwill be observed that the onl,
thing that could be sent In the nam
d of the Assoc't'n was material-furn
9 tureI clothing etc. but these reache
q Porter and Co. all the same, for tn
8 general Office of the Association wa
z at No. 522 n. 3rd St., and that
: the private residence of T. W. Porte
the only person who is so far know
In tile mysterious firm OF Porter an
4 Co.
ri In attempting to solve this riddl'
/ friend has suggested that In q
. 1 n Il 10 In
d wae Vice President of the concern
n may stand for Porter & cook.
81 Wish the ''ok" left off In the wor
o cook. If this version of 1t can be a
Ii ceptsd we would at last have fOuu
y out the identify OF this Porter 4 c.
1t Is plainly evident that Broth
Porter had little hope of erecting q
Old Folks Home In any time shor
- - for from the face of this remarkab
- donation blank we extract the 10
lowing:
ns So desire to donate, Descriptit
,nS ns - to be converted in
he he money and applied the--Ful
=. of the General u. s. Grant Mon
nd ment Association and Old Fol
he HOsne.' And even here 1t will be se
he that the money would go to PC
%. ter & Co.
eff 1t mas been suggested that If I
zs' General u. s. Grant MOnume
IN Association and Old Folks HoI
1t. and Porter and Co. had chang
u places the one that received
moneys and the other to have all
ION nana the outlook for the Assoc
re- tion might have been brighter.
CHI thousands of people who possi
All cor ributed or bought the ca
'er- frolf this concern never for 4
to suspected it's double purpC
Maay OF them thought that ere tt
" eyea were closed In death they wo
s,ss be- sshftpg unde- the vine aud fig I
tea of fhis association, ,tenderly cared
Co in itbeir old age, while within
sbche's throV could be seen
mobumsnt Of the greatest commi
CIR or .he world has ever seen.
Oh, what a grand thing 1t VIC
I. hare been had the plan material
ond and the affairs of the concern |
var, properly conducted. The unerring
I'd is OF President W. w. Browne dete'
'cia- the deception and his efforts to
crate his fl Iiends from the deadly
DR.. bs,Sce OF this octopus were ably
hat onEed by President J.H H.Holmes
his although at first deceived haste
nss to correct the error and wal
serr, sss tl sm of the danger which was al