The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03

will do me the favor to send me copy of the
paper. Very truly
E. L. GooDsELL.
l feel sorry to think that l have been
the cause of the orange growers losing a
friend who was willing to do charitable
work for them with "no profit.
The following letter is from Messrs.
J. & B. Shaw of Hull referred to in Mr..
Goodsell's letter of October 6, 1894.
HULL, Sept. 6, 1884,
e. L. GoOdseH, Esq, New York,
DEAR SIR: When your solicitor here first com
municated with us many months ago with refer
ence to our letter to Mr.. E. 0. Painter of 18th
July, 1898. and his circular to the "Ethelwold
shippers of 23rd Aug. 1893 (both of which are set
out in the FLORIDA AGRICULT URIsT of Oct
18th. 1897 we at once expressed to him
our intense astonishment and regret that
Mr.. Painter should have Interpreted our letter as
being intended to cast the slightest doubt upon
your integrity in the matter of the "Ethelwold
We, unfortunately, had a dispute
with yon as to the principle upon which tht
had been made up, but never for a moment
doubted the accuracy of your figures as such
Doubtless, our dispute with you would have
been settled ON your visit to this country in M ay
1893, had it been possible for us to have met you
on that occasion Not having met you, however
we wrote Mr.. Painter the letter of 18th July
1898, that he might obtain certain inform alton
as to the advances. ETC., in order that we might
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that had, unhappily, arisen between us.
This was, we think, perfectly business like
course, and our express directions to Mr.. Painter
as contained in our letter to him. were ''that
this business should be conducted in a perfectly
straight forward manner" We assumed that
as he had acted as supercargo for the shippers
he would have had no difficulty in obtaining
from them the information we desired, and there
was, in our Judgment, no necessity for him In OBJ
tanning that information to go out OF his way
(as we cannot but think he did, to cast doubt
upon your honesty and integrity in the matter.
1t was certainly never our intention to convey
to him any imputations upon your character,
and the statement in the circular to the shippers
of 23rd of August. 1898, that he ''had reason to
believe that every thing connected with this cargo
in no sense authorized or approved by us, nor
was Mr.. Painter justified in making any such
statement. Had he contented himself witt fur
nishing and Obtaining the information required
in the ordinary and usual course of business, no
reflections could have been cast upon you, and
we feel bound, in Justice to yourself to give it as
our opinion that Mr.. Painters action in issuing
such a circular and afterwards publishing same
and our letter of 18th OF July 1898 in his "news-
paper was in no degree iustif1able, and in doing
we consider he acted uniustly towards your
self and ourselves.
Having now had the advantage of an inter
view with you here and having examined the ac-
counts and vouchers of the "Ethelwold'' trans
action we have the greatest pleasure in affirming
the accuracy of your accounts, and you have our
permission to use this letter in any way you may
think proper for the purpose of putting yourself
right with your shippers and friends as we feel
that you have suffered injustice by Mr.. Painters
unwarrantable conduct in the matter.
Yours faithfully,
B. 81 j. SHAW.
1t would seem from above that Messrs.
Shaw were trying to shift the whole
thing on my shoulders and not being