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TOMATO-FIG COMPANY. Statements a Correspondent Inestigated in Washington. News anil Courier, Tuesday 28th. Lancaster, Aug. 15.?I have a little more information about the Tomato-Fig company, of Washington, which will prove more or less interesting to the people of the Fifth congressional dislri t. provided the editor of The News and Courier does not see lit to rule it out on the ground that his paper does not publish advor tisments in its news columns. The Tomato-Fig company is a great cntcrpri >. ;u. 1 ih iati mation of the Manning Times mci, iiu ui wiiont are interested in the doctor's welfare. And what is the tomato tig compound? The public should not be kept in ignoance. The discovery was made in the dead of winter, when tomatoes were scarce and tigs were not to be had. The tirst experimental brew, therefore, was made from canned goods, bought front one of the many family grocers abounding in Washington, and the tigs were obtained from the same source. They were dried tigs, but that did not in any wise diminish their medicinal virtue, and a few ounces of laxative from tho drug store added to tho mixture gave it untold value. With ripe tomatoes in the summer time and ligs from the south, the remedy is produced mucj^ more economically, and the profits are correspondingly greater. The factory of the Tomato Fig company is located at No. 1,015 F street, Washington. In addition to this wonderful remedy the company also owns a "face steam ingM apparatus, which is largely patronized hy the unfortunate class ol Washington females whose business issiiehasto make litem subject t<> l"r?M|ejops o| annoying j. I: m j >!? -. Not beiti^ in licit el n talker ami bein^ pre venleil by ( '/all* lieed from doin^ anythimrou the iloorof the house. In*. >1 rail spends inns' of his time in the consulting ap.irlm ;nts ol the Tomato l :^ company, and thus becomes a benefactor to suf lering humanity in Washington. Ac \f I?tk * 1 i ik ? !?/> om I I *w ?? 111 i m i in- ?iii M-imnr I hi> fjirtory to 111<*"?111 district when his people decide that they need iiis services at homo, I am tillable to say, but presume that on account of the wider field for his benefaction he will probably remain in Washington. As president of the company Dr. Strait offered several of his fellow congressmen stock of the par value of $100 lor only $1. This was only in order that others might that Dr. Strait has sunk any ol his hard earned savings in it. is a mistake. That the doctor lias invested" is true; hut ho lias not sunk anything. In i onsideration ol his prestige among the statesmen of Washington, and in the further consideration of a few Hundred dollars in cash, the doctor was inat'o president of llie Tomato Fig Company. The other member of the firm, who is business manager and treasurer, is a shrewd Yankee, who, by discovering the virtues of the tomato-fig compound. became a benefactor to his race, and incidentally to Dr. Strait and the voters of the Fifth congressional dis4 -iI ~1 ? -i * The landlord of tlu* building finds ' ^ himself several months shy on rent. He has made an efi'ort to j get satisfaction from such of t lie i shareholders as he knows, but they all tell him that they are not ? putting any more money into the , business. 1 It is understood that K. A. Butts is the manairer of t ho com puny, but it is impossible to learn from him whether the company will resume operations during the coming fall. The company has relinquished its single Jroom in the Walter building, but the com , party's paraphernalia has not been moved pending the shortage | in the rent. As to the virtue of the remedy I am unable to state ! It is supposed to bo a rival of the J California fig juice, which b said to contain valuable medicinal I properties. '< I'lie company includes several prominent citizens, md -"oh* of those who have invest 1 t'i money in it believe that uu?1t favorable conditions the Tomato big syrup would yield a hand some profit. Among the stock holders are Mr. Johnson, of the j firm of Johnson i\. Brothers, the , 1 largest coal dealers in this city i (ieorge Harvey, of Harvey's fa mous oyster house; Mr. (irahain, ' who has the government contract I lor all the lithographing work in the p.'it< nt office. Mr. Butts.the 1 ! secretary and manager, owns the formula. ?nd the fact that he wa? I also the original owner ol the hromo-seltzer roinedy induces the ' stockholders to helieve that there is big money to he made out of * the Tomato l ip syrup if the bus- [ iness is pushed vigorously. At present some of the stock- holders are timid about ad \ vancing further capital to enlarge i the business and properly adver- J derive credit also for the work t that is being done, hut as the i other congressmen are all loo \ seltish and narrow to engage in 1 such an unselfish enterprise they I refused the doctor's liberal offer. ; Straight. 1 Investigated In Washington. 1 c Not wishing to do Dr. Strait ( any injustice hv publishing the letter of "Straight" without due ^ c inquiry, our Washington cor res- { was asked to make a full investi- { of the Tomato Fig Syrup concern, and his u-port is published below ?Kd. X. am? 0. . Washington. August 20.-- j Special; According to the be.a i information obtainable Uepr? ; sentativo Strait and h?s *u>ciate- ' in the Tomato-Fig Syrup c;e? , up, | are not deriving a princely in come from the concern. The ofllce and laboratory of the com I panv is located in a l?ai k ^rooni ( on the second lloor of ihe Walter! building, (in F street, between j| 10th ami IItli streets. The room ( is divided oil into several com partments, and there the com pound was prepared and bottled lor sale at 25 cents per bottle. ( It is a remedy to aid indigestion. | and its compounders claim that il docs its business with neatness i i and dispatch. ( Interest in the company seems ( to he languishing, for the labora j tory has not been in working order for sometime past. In fact it j has been shut down, and it is said that many of the principal shareholders have refused to put any more money into the concern. ,ise the remedy, hence the bnsiless is at a standstill for the vant of funds. As far as I can earn, Dr. Strait paid for his stock; >nt I cannot learn just what nuount lie invested. He was so ected as president of tho com>any, because* of his position in mngress. It is the practice in his city to get congressmen.when >ossible, to head experimental omnanies or enterprises. One >1 the stockholders told me yesonlay that he had attended several meetings, ami lie was conduced that Dr. Strait, lacked both loility uiiii i litim ! t be at the ii'.Ui Oi [iila COllceill. Mr. Harvey savs ho has tried' he remedy or: a number of his riomis. ami >i is :> sure rare for onsfipa* Ion If <ho stockholders uM y ' . 4> : lilh'ioiit money to ,i o t'n u ij) #viu a?lvorlisellout h < < ' ! ' 111 it it would >e a nioi'.ov niakin? concern. In^t how mneh of th? syrup has :>een manufacture-! tie is unable 0 -=1 at< III i- nI>o unahlo to date why I >r. St rail was chosen is president, it is supposed that Mr. I hit f s su-Tires ted him because >t his public position. The host 1 usiness man in the company, Mr. Johnson, was selected treasurer, and so far as I can ascertain [here is nothing "crooked" about, the concern. Huffs has figured in several patent medicine schemes before as promoter; but it annears that he irenerallv sells r>tit. cheap, while his successors some iu ami make lug money out :)f his formula, as in the bromo*elt/.er ami bromo litliio decoctions or compounds. 1 >r. Walter, the owner of the building in which the laboratory is located, has tried to collect the rent from several of the individ ual stockholders. Butts is out of town, and so the matter stands. Butts is trying to raise sufficient money to resume operations in the fall, and in the meantime, landlord Walter is hoping that his rent may be forthcoming. He has been offered some of the stock for rent due. but lie prefers the money, if he can get it. K. M. I.AItN'KH. Make t lie Most of Yourself. It is the duty of every man to muko the most of himself. 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