The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-04-07

A fake scheme to obtain silk skirt for
apparently the small sa;a Of Is cent?, has
been heard Of in Elkton for some weeks and
wo are informed that the ladies' are investing
very heavily. The way the scheme works Is
for person to buy 3 ticket for which they
pay 20 cents. this ticket eutitling them TO re-
ceivs five coupons. which they sell to other
person. for 25 cents each, sending the S,1.25
on 10 the company. When the five persons
who purchase these coupons. comply with
the same conditions and sell i've coupons
each and send 81 25 to tho company, the
purchaser Of the first ticket, or in other
WCr;2, the one who starts the chain, receives
| skirt. The scheme works on il this way
| indefinitely The result is that about Ave or
| six skirts arc delivered, when the chain
breaks hecaEse ct the impossibllity OF COM
| plying with the conditions ami tho plan fails.
| The skirts are supposed 70 be worth Sc rs
! each. 1t ia easily seen that whereas for each
skirt Delivered tho company received Sc %,
no account Is taken of III" large amount Of
| money theY must necessarily receive when
the chain breaks, for which they make no
return whatever Suppose only four of the
| persons to whom one CELLS their Ave coupons
comply with the conditions and send on the
= 81 fox The li,e coupons they must sell to
keep the scheme working; the company of
| course rcc"ycs s 800 and makes no returns.
If three IMPLY only. 50 rs q gathered in by
th1m and so on.
This fake has baeQ fully exposed by the
papers. Tho New York SlA has compiled
| some interesting statistics relating to the
system. which shows It's utter ahsurdty.
Says IL" SUI. suppose MI the 1Ye new
customais 20 10 work ceiling their five
coupons. When each Of their friends sell
oupone--gweLty-Hye in ail--they get silk
skrts. Each Of these five gets silk skirt for
twenty five cents and the store receives for
the skirts Ave times Sos or s3l %. The
twenty-five AeT customers 20 begging for
coupon buyers ann when their l25 rrienda
haze bought coupons and pail ia 515G - the
twenty fly" re! tacir skirts. The 12j sell
thar couforg aid get iLer skirts when their
625 trends have paid 97Sl Is. Tie 625 get
their sAirts when taeir circle OF 3. l25 pay ,ha
sturn $1,000 %. The 3,l2j come in for their
skirts when 1858 more people have paid
1881 70. Aud skirts Gro due tho 10 ,G2j
WHEN their rs. l25 friends have deposited
@97 GjG IS. Before the rs, l25 can get skirts
800, CO more people must pay IN 1888, 2S1 %
And the 390,G25 must go sE,rtless uatil !, 953,
l25 have paid over 81, al ,406 % to Tho end.
less chain store. These nearly two million
Of women will be without their silk skirts
until 9765. G25 more have come to their res
cue by taking SO, 2O7 OBJ. % to the store.
About this time men and boys and babies
viii have to begin wearing silk Skirts, for be-
fore the 9,765 G25 women can send to the
store for thrlr skirts the rest Of the inhabit-
ants 81 the United States will have to buy
coupons valued at sol ,035 1926, which
must bn bought before the l0,0O0,O00 are
entitled to skirts. When these nearly nny
mliioa people have sold thair coupons they
viii hGTa 10 wait Tor skirts until their 2i4,-
lao, G25 coupon buyers have paid 1905 49,
ST. 25 III" last will sci! coupons 20 l, 220.-
7O3, 125, and the pa 200. coo will get skirts
haY. paid 81, 525. 873 ,90G.25 to the endless
chain store Ali OF the earth's population
having bought coupons, one.s!xth Of the
people on the earth will have silk skirts ut
the expense OF the other flve.sixths. The
dead loss TO the uniucky flve-sixth would he
something liko $1,s3O,OOO,OOO. This con-
dition could be brought about in three
months, il every coupon buyer sold her
coupons in y week.