Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-02
WOuld-Be Get-Rich-Quick Vic
tins Give Up $1S3,OOO,OOO.
Remarkable Perpetual Real Estate
Lease Negotiated, Said TO He Unique
New Fcminism Prophesics
No More Household Duties
for Women.

ing OIL new 1OTk city. IL IL also pOlltcu
out that this sum was obtained by per-
sons arrested and that many additional
millions were pillaged by "get-rich-quick"
operators who succeeded in Guiding the
postal authorities. The report shows that
over fifty varieties of schemes are In
vogue by swinders who obtain their
victims through the mail The schemes
range from obtaining two-cent stamps
dishonesty to the mulcting of the pub
lie to the tune of millions in single
enterprise. Worthless stock selling
schemes are in the lead. Year after year
there appear tens of thousands of men
and women In the United states who are
perfectly willing to send their money to
men In distant cities. about whom they
know absolutely nothing except the lur1d
lies which these men tell about them
selves and their companies stock in their
own letters and circulars. Fake land
schemes make up another numerous and
remunerative class of swindle. Sales of
worthless medicines and medical APP
planes net a great deal of money. The
report lists the following among the
schemes worked less frequently: Fake
horse and athletic contests fake banks.
fake employment, fake G. o. ID. express
packages, fake sale of State rights, fake
sale of various articles ranging from
dogs to peanuts, fake home purchasing
investment contracts fake silk dealers,
green goods, fake loan schemes, and re-
quests for rewards for lost articles
alleged to have been found. But all these
varieties of swindle are insignificant
money getters compared to stock
swindles. In one particular stock swndle,
it is estimated, the promoters hlched from
the public approximately 100000.
One of the most remarkable leases
ever drawn in the city of New York. ac-
cording to brokers who are cognizant
of its terms, affects choice plot OF
| two lots on Fiftieth street. Long
leases for twenty one years with three
or four renewals are of common oc-
currence. but in such cases 1t is in
variably stipulated that at the expira-
ton of the first term there shall be a
reappraisement of the property and a
read1ustment OF the .rent. But in the
case of the Fiftieth street property an
unusual condition prevails in that the
original lease is so drawn as to make
| it perpetual. More than that. every
| succeeding term is to be at the same
annual rate as the first, so that should
the lease continue for 500 years, the
holders Of the lease would still be
paying the same price to the owners
as was paid at the time the lease was
drawn. One broker who discussed the
matter said that in all his experience
with leasing conditions on Manhattan
he had never heard Of a similar case,
and in this respect this property oc-
cupied unique position. 1t Is evident
that the advantage OF the lease is en-
tirely with the tenant inasmuch as re-
CARELESS of the increase in the value
of the property the annual rate of
$500 per year will remain. That this
property is increasing IN value rapidly
| is shown by the fact that during the
past ten years the taxes have increased
from Sl.037 to $500. Another inter
esting phase of the matter. as pointed
out by n broker involves the prospec-
tive purchaser in case the property
should be offered for sale at any time
by one of the heirs. The most logical
buyer would be the lessee. as 1t might
be difficult to find buyers under the
terms of the lease. for an outside buyer
would purchase subject to the condi-
tons OF the lease. and would there
fore be paying for a piece of real estate
to which actual possession could never
be obtained until the plot ceased TO be
worth $500 a year.
No more marketing, cooking, house
keeping or tending babies for the ad-
vanced women. This Is the hope held
out to women by one of New Yorks fair.
or sex who lectured recently on the
| Larger Feminism" before more than
one hundred women who were anxious
to hear about '"rhe Home, Past. Present
and Future" The lecturer painted a
word picture showing that nothing is so
dreary and commonplace as household
drudgery. She offered a few suggestions
concerning the best way to bring about
domestic reform She admitted that
women had made a failure In the art
OF housekeeping and in solving the SER
want problem The purchasing Of sup
piles, she said, would in future homes be
done by highly trained and high salaried
experts. The following are a few predic-
tons of what will happen when wife 6
paradise has no Kitchen" We will buy
our food cooked instead Of raw. Then
hired by the hour, who will arrange our
houses every day. This will give the
housewife time for many things besides
trying to keep the home clean with q
string OF babies tagging after her" DO
YOU mean we shall buy our supplies at
II delcatessen?' queried an anxious
housewife and mother. The average mar
objects to that sort of food II an
perfectly aware, replied the lecturer
that the majority OF men cling to tn,
idea of having a private .cook. They
think that's a much better way to live
and 1t hurts their feelings to be asked
TO make "A change. But when they have
a generation of good digestion they will
never want to go back to wife's cooking
again. And the children Of the mex,
: generation who are brought UP in the
future way will get on perfectly and like
1t because they wont know anything
different"
New York now has a cemetery 70
!. dogs and cats where each tombstone hal
an original cpitaph Kanls Ruhe--ani
NAL rest is the translaton--is really wha
D its name implies. IA resting place 70
= dogs and horses and pussies when thei
Y earthly cares are over Kans Ruhe 1
G one OF the largest animal cemeteries II
. the country. 1t is situated In West
o chester county, about 10 miles from New
,, York. Thousands OF animals are burie
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