The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-14
IT'S FURNITURE REMOVED.
An Apparently Opulent Mining
Concern in Hard Luck.
Boston and Nevada Company Fails
TO Make Coed Its Promise to Pay
Col. Dick PiunI<ett's dissatisfied
.Judgn,cnt-A CIitteripg Prospectus

: Hard luck has befallen the Boston and
! Nevada Company" a much-advertised
! nd apparently opulent corporation which
| has been in existence in tins city for
| The past four months, and which occupied
a suite of six elegantly furnished offices
in the Bond Building, New York Avenue
and Fourteenth Street. The company was
said to be capitalized at S1l. $780, o0 and
was announced to he engaged in coal and
gold mining.
| Yesterday Messrs. w. b. Moses & Sons.
| who furnished the offices ON the install
| ment plan. removed all the furniture and
| carpets.
The misfortunes of the company com
menced with the filing of suite in Jus
tice O'Neins court for the small sum of
$500 about three weeks ago, by the pict-
| uresQue and adventurous parsonage
known as Col Dick Plunkett, OF Okla
| homa After long hearing the Justice
! gave a verdict for the Oklahoma man.
The defendants announced that they
would appeal. bat die net appeal. and the
tirle having expired judgment was enter
| ed up Monday.
| As a result of this unsatisfied judgment
being recorded, and also because the com
pany failed to make good it's promised
payments on the Office furniture, Moses
& Sons yesterday practically cleared out
the sumptuous,y furnished offices
| The concern opened offices TO do bust
ness here with a flourish of trumpets
Arthur j. Hartford, of Boston, came here
| as general manager and vice president of
| the company. He employed Col E. b.
| Hay with the title of general counsel and
! Legal adviser of the company at the Ma
| tionai Capital"
Ex-Judge Walter r. Vaughan was taxi
en- in as associate counsel and one of
the local board of directors If there were
any other local personages in the COM
pany their names do not appear in the
! literature. A splendid set of offices was
secured and furnished in a manner that
| would make any ordinary million-dollar
corporation turn green with envy. In
each room was a private telephone and
desk, brass-buttoned messengers were hir-
! ed. also expert typewriters and stenogra
piers.
How Col Dick Plunkett happened to get
into the corporation is best told by him
self. He said to a reporter of The Times
yesterday in his breezy way:
Il was an easy mark. Hartford w-c:c
to friend of mine out West and as;ecG
where / could be reached. He got the
information and wrote me. asking me to
come East, as he had lucrative position
for me. / was coming East about the
time of inauguration and after seeing all
the sights here, l went to New York and
met Hartford by appointment. He told
me the company had 5000 acres of rich
mining land in Nevada, and that they
were about to open up a branch office in
Washington and that he wanted my ser
vices as d promoter. From what he told
me the job seemed good one and /
agreed to take it The salary was to be
500 a month with commissions and ex-
penses.
When l came here my eyes were vir-
tualiy dazzled with the splendor of the
Offices, and i began TO assume that had
got next to something good. When the
time came around for my remuneration
/ was told that / had to wait a week or
SO, and l did not mind that. When the
next week ended / was given check for
only $50, and this began to make me feel
something was wrong. The next thing
that happened confirmed my suspicious.
l was asked by Hartford to tell persons
who had been approached to buy stock
that l had actually seen and approved
the mining property of the company. ]
fatty refused to do this, answering that
that no pay could induce me to do so.
Then the break between myself and Hart
ford occurred. j had brought several rep
utable ladies and gentlemen to the offices
to see about buying stock. but. of course.
l knew nothing as to the actual property
the company was supposed to hold.
Belya Lockwood, the woman lawyer, was
one of those whom / induced to come to
the offices to talk the matter over about
investing in the stock. Hartford told me
l was useless to him. because / would
not state that l had seen the property.
Judge Vaughan also then began TO have
doubts about the concern and he got out.
Il vert around to Colonel Hay and TO
Hartford to get the money due to me.
but could get no satisfaction. Then IL
was that | decided to bring suit. /
brought suit before Judge % Neal. Colonel
Hay appeared for the company. The
company made the plea that il Vas not
indebted To me. and asked for a post
ponement TO show an alleged agreement
which would demonstrate that / was not
hired by the company. but by Hay and
Hartford personally, and that they were
to remunerats me. An alleged agreement
OF some kind was produced, but the jus
tice gave the judgment nOtwithsta ndiug
Il nave been practically ruined by this
whole affair continued Colonel Plunkett
sadly. These men brought me East on
a FOOLS errdnd, and ] am now without
Colonel Hay was seen yesterday after
noon at the offices Just the furniture
was being moved out. I'VE have tCic-
graphed to Boston in reference to this
matter. said TIE colonel. In a light
hearted strain. Everything will be all
right We VIII move into more modest
and economical quarters"
Mr.. Smith, the financial man in Charge
of the business of Moses * Sons was
seen and asked about the Boston and
Nevada Company.
The furniture was put in there under
an agreement that it be paid for in a
stipulated manner and time" he said
All Will say IS that we We're disappoint-
ed In the company, and that the furniture
Is being taken away today"
Mr.. uay and Mr.. Hartford stated be
fore Judge o Neal that the president OF
the company was the Hon. Josiah Quincy
of Boston, but his name does not appear |
in any of the papers of the company as
far as could be ascertained The pros
pectus Of the company is interesting read |
ing, especially to the local stock holders if |
there are any.
II is stated in the prospectus that the |
company has secured options on . 90 |
acres of coal and gold mining lands in ]
Esmeralda County New, that il is in
corporated as the Boston and Nevada |
Company, with capital stock of 81. $50 |
900. divided into 7.0y0 shares of SIS each |
full paid and worcestershire. s, 500 900 of |
said stock to be placed in the treasury |
of said company to be sold from time to |
time and the entire proceeds to be used |
in completing payments on the said prop |
erty and equipping the same with a 500 |
stamp mill, for mining coal and also for |
Installing electrical appliances for !
light. power, and other purposes. and for |
lighting and supplying water to mining |
town or city to be built within three |
miles Of the property. This town is to
be owned by the company. The gold /
mining plant is to have a capacity of |
. tons a. Der daV with pro,uct