Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-26
DENIED USE OF THE MAILS
FRAUD ORDERS ARE ISSUED
AGAINST TWO ENTERPRISES.
Thomas J. Duffy Anxious to Make a
Good Profit on Photographic
Material.

Thomas j. Duffy, in his desire to dis
pose of Photographic material at a good
profit and to stimulate Its purchase by
persons who might otherwise never care
to know how to be every man his own
photographer" advertised to pay SIS
week salary, steady work. to a man who
could work at home making prints, an
nouncing that no experience was neces-
sary. Those who answered the adver-
tisement were informed that for s1.75 an
outfit would be furnished and SIS week
could be made by making 800 prints.
Duffy, however. did not advertise in
his own name, but that of the National
Illustrated View Company, l West 34th
street. New York city When he dis
covered that the Post Office Department
was looking into his scheme he subst1-
tuted the name of the Eros Manufacture
ing Company for that Of the National IL
Illustrated View Company
Steady Work Promiesd.
Those who were tempted to send s1.75
for the outfit, to make prints at home
for a salary of SIS a week, steady work,
with no experience necessary, received
only enough of an outfit to make TWEEN
-four prints, accompanied with cir
cular directing that all prints should be
made upon a certain kind of paper and
mounted upon certain kind of board,
which, it appeared, could be obtained
only from Duffy's company. They had
also to pay the expressage on all prints
completed and sent in.
j. M. Riggs. who replied to the adver-
tisement, found that it would cost him
$40 to earn S. Many others. when they
discovered this fact. put their hands in
their pockets whistled and forgot all
about the way they had been taken in.
Others maintained their interest and
continued to furnish the market for
Duffy's Photographic supplies.
The department discovered that 213
persons had RENTED for the outfits. and
| that Duffy's outlay for salaries and pay
for prints sent in amounted to but Slab
| The New York postmaster reported that
forty letters a day for the concern were
| received. Accordingly the Postmaste ter
General has barred both the National
Illustrated View Company and the Eros
manufacturing Company from the
| mails by fraud order.
| Deals. in Cards.
A second order has been also is
| sued which shuts out the use of Box
| 166. Millersburg Pa. from participa-
| ton in a scheme which has also been
declared fraudulent
In this case it appears that Charles
| salary to those who would write let
| tiers for him at their homes. and Of
| fered to outline the full plan with
| instructions to those who addressed
Box 166, Millersburg, Pa, and sent
| fifteen cents with their inquiry. Those
! who sent the fifteen cents were told
to get list of persons interested in
post cards and notify them that ten
beautiful cards would be furnished with
their names printed in gold thereon
| for twenty-five cents. Fifteen cents
of the twenty-five was to be retained
as commission. the other ten cents was
to be sent to the Keys Company, Mil
| ford. Conn. to pay for the cards APP
| plicants for light on the scheme were
also informed that names of post card
collectors would be furnished them at
| the rate Of ten cents a hundred
The attorney general for the Post
Office Department, considering the
scheme an attempt to defraud through
the use of the mails, called upon Bur
rows to discontinue the business and
furnish an AFFIDAVIT that he had done
SO: but Burrows failed. hence the fraud
| order against his post Office box