The sun., 1908-05-03
FOR BASKET MACHINE VICTIMS
.0T Any CASH LEFT BURR
BROS. WILL TAKE ~


,srtha aler Horton Basket Machine Company
.,ns wears ago and then after waiting
a,usntly for large dividends heard last
O,a, Der that the company had gone TO
.nah after reapng 81, 100000 from the sale
n stock have received word lately from
p,rr Bros. the youthful financiers Of the
glatiron Building. that all Is not yet lost.
lust how the Burrs got hold Of the bas-
,ct machine company's list Of stockholders
doesn't appear. but living up 70 their repu-
radon oi philanthropists and friends Of the
,,rich the Flatiron fnanciers have made
an oner to the stockholders Of the basket
O,mpany whereby they can give up their
tasket stock to the BurB and-proHded
afco,nse they will send some real cash along
sIth it--can try their luck with moving
p,cture machines. OF course the reputa-
,on Of Burr Bros. ought 10 be q sufficient
Guarantee that the moving picture machine
n the Burrs is going to beat the record Of
,he basket machine.
All the stockholders Of the basket machine
company have received letter from the
BiTs reading like this.
We are informed that you are q holder
of some shares Of the Observation-Disclosures
Basket Machine Company. Wepresume you
oarchased this stock at about rs cents per
mare. Il is now quoted among New York
nrokers at about three-quarter cent per
,hare. II We can secure a sufficient amount
,'this stock TO give US an effective voice In
he management Of this company we believe
go can make the stock worth 80 cents per
.hsre; we therefore feel disposed to offer
you for the stock that you hold rs cents
oer share in stock Of the Vitak Company
,,H5O per share, par $40, the only condi-
ION attached being that you buy an equal
amount Of stock In this Wtak Company at
he initial ground floor price Of $3.50 per
share
Any one With 100 shares Of basket stock
must send in t25 cash With II 10 get twenty
.hsres Of Vitak stock. Reading this part
n the offer carefully. some OF the unfor-
innate investors In the basket machine
company, 10 whom the memory Of that
little affair may be painful, may take it
into their heads that with 100 per cent.
nro6t staring them in the face after all these
1sys Of weary waiting n might be better
10 stand pat and not give up moro cash.
But further on you see how much better
twill be to let the Burrs have your basket
machine stock and some cash, because, on
the word OF the Burrs, the Vitak stock
isn't going to double; it's going to quad
0lDle.
Remember. in considering this exchange
proposition.' says Shelton G. Burr, the
sder Of the brothers, that Mergenthaler-
Horton stock, as IL is az present In your
hands. Is absolutely worthless and will
remain so. In making this exchange,
however, you will realize % cents a share
'or your holdings-twenty-hv times what
anv other broker in New fork will give you.
Resides Vitak stock will quadruple In value
mis- year. How can you lose? We take all
tho chances
From the way Shelton Burr puts II
II ooks as IL the Vitak company had the
exclusive right TO make moving picture
machines for the home. but careful reading
shows that there's any mistake about
asking folks how they'd like to have the
Exclusive right 10 make and sell phono-
graphs for home use and make a little sum
n.e s., 900. 900, the letter says:
While, TO be sure, the idea OF a moving
rorure machine Is not new, the moving
nIcture machine for home use has really
only been successful within the last year
ne WAX NOulDdAly ONh OhbiAhh WV
ratent. which gives them, they claim, an
atsomte monopoly 20 manufacture and
ssl all moving picture machines for the
hnne.
The vtak doesn't happen TO be the only
.arlor moving picture machine on the
market. but little thing like that doesn't
other the Burrs anyway, nor does the
oct that moving picture machines reduced
paror sizes haven't as yet been looked
mon "a great successes by those who are
IN on the matter OF that the cost OF films
,ll remains 30 high as TO make parlor
u.rformanCee pretty expensive. but the
Eyrrr aren't selling the machine; they re
Ilng stock, and they can't understand
phy everybody doesn't believe them, az is
a7ienced nv the grieyed tone IN Whlot
|ev write 20 those misguided basket ma
me stockholders that haven't seen fl
soni in their money right of the bat
am advised by my sales department,
.r-as Shelton Burr after waiting month
.Ist rh,v have had no response from ouT
--,prstion to you by which you can save
rsef from loss on your Mergenthaler'
IRON Basket stock. Personally an
go "a [, understand why you have hesl'
..s. / am going 10 ask you to tell me
% roason am sure you will grant me
,z .avor will you notF
ifar repeating some OF his former arRu'
.m,s shelton Burr speaking oandidly
80 iruthflIlly, goes on to say that ne mas
.orsonally inspected the whole Vitak enter
p-sa 4 had much more at stake than
. 10 mere financing Of the Vitak Company,
10 saws in this heart TO heart tax
- the reputAtion Of Burr Bros. lno. tc
r,intain had their future TO consider
rhle | have had years Of experience n
andling high class Investment securities
am shl young man. The extensive
.l,siness / have built up has been due tC
nv conservatism in the selection OF securl'
Ios offered TO me. II.
shelton SAYS that he's going TO MAKE
sun Brothers the largest concern OF ~
nd in the world, and as evidence that n
eaks the truth about Vitak the stocl
,dvanced in one jumpSon April from VS.
ots Der share, not on the market. OF course
1ut IN the ofice Of Burr Brothers. Never
'helass shelton can let the basket tolK
7sve little AZ the old figure ii they II onl.
1,yry up with the real money. 10 tolk
Who are not stockholders in the baske
machine company the Burrs are onerlng
shoe moving picture maohne iree W W
81. svery twenty shares OF stock but the DasAe
people ought not TO expect too much
Possibly when the news OF TINS one
becomes known investors IN some OF IN
earlier stocks Of the Burrs, such a. chicago
New York Air Line, Pioneer Cab sigma
Happy Jack Copper and score OF other'
a may feel terribly hurt. They have oee
waiting for dividends, too, and they ma
think that they ought 10 come ahead
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