Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-31
Private Entertainment.
SaaAling to Perfection.

Y7IOMAS G. PRETTYMAN has lately PATENT,
4 and is now Manufacturing, q Spring Saddle, nd
superior 10 any that have hitherto been Offered ws
public. This improvement consists in the ~sIspenag|
Of the whole seat by two C springs, similar to q
spring, which being screwed on the back part olls|
cantie ofthe saddle, receives an iron bar, forming h
sweep Of the %cantle; thus preserving it from receTiyiy
any injury by a horse rolling in the saddle; and mskny
the saddle tree more firm than it would otherwise B:
which cannot fail to give ease to both horse andr
A frame also enters the back ftie cantle ofthe saddle
calculated to raise the yalice or portmanteau, ard ksr
it entirely clear OF the horses back. This can be pl
on orremoved in q moment.
lnorder to prove to the public the superiority ofthx
Saddles, he will give a few extracts of letters foz
those who have them in use-among whom is The la
presidentof the United States:
TIC Prettyman: Sir-I find, on trial ofyour Piig'
Spring Saddle, that it corresponds with the yiewyC
have taken oft J4IES .uONR0f
Onk Hill, July IN, 1926.
IT, Preltyman: sir-l find your Patent Spring Sal
die to be tar superior to any i have ever tried.
IRIS BJTKNER
.8u6nrn, Loyaoun Cy, IA. July I'm, 1926
FROM THE U. S. AGENT OF THE PATENT OFFICE.
I. G. Prettyman: Sir-This evening is the frs, tine
that l have mounted my horse, since I have received
this elegant specimen of your ingenuity. It i so cas-,
should fall asleep. l admire not only tho invention,
but the materials, and particularly the workmanship
WLLL8M YHORNIUN
Washington City, June 20h, 1926.
I. &. Prettyman: Sir have used your Patdi
Spring Saddle for some time past, and can say it 4,
The easiest | have everused-and can, agreeable tony
udSme and experience, IN confidence recommend
It. Daniel KENNEDY
Charles County, Md LIysM, 1926.
We, the subscribers, citizens of Alexandra, have
usedT. G. Prettyman's Patent Spring Saddle, ands nl
JoHN Ho0FT,
a. G.. C1ZEN0pT,
81 %, 1926. j. H. RUNNELLS
II being now more than twenty years since | W.
hrst acquainted with the saddling business, AMI from
nearsix years trial Of my Spring Saddle four wears BE-
fore ii was patented, in order to prove them, and uea;
two years since on public trial, 1 can now With conf.
dence say. that a saddle made on this principle, is bet
ter IN every respect than a saddle made in any othc-
way, either with or without springs; and l viii! give fl.
ty dollars to any man that can prove otherwise, Of
make any reasonable objection why it cannot be done,
and will give one hundred dollars for an improyemer.
on them.
These saddles are made complete at from twelve %
i~orty-hye dollars. The springs are equally as well >
dapted to LANES saddles as any other; and any one
sending the price of such a saddle as they NAV want
1t VIII be finished to order as well as if personal appi.
cation were made, and when they receive the saddle,
IL II IS not according to their expectation, they are at
- Ala VIII TcIutu ~ WCItt INV
pay all expence of conveyance to and from d. Jack.
son of Richmond, and Frederick +. Kneass of Peters
burg, Va. who have rights to manufacture these SAL
dies; and any other person having adesire to ranr'
facture the same can obtain a right by paying tvent
dollars IN hand and one dollar on each saddle inanufar
tured, or caused to be manufactured forthe remaihdu
OF fourteen years from the date of the Patent, whicl
is ThIrtieth Of September, 1895. and any one sendrg
the twenty dollars will be furnished with a conpletr
modeiso they cannot fail to make the ssddle; this no
del can be sent 10 any part of the United states. II
any one wishes to purchase a rightfor a state, or cour.
~, or city, or town, he can have it on accommodate
These saddles are no more work to Inakethen
man '9e common plain saddle. and the springs csnbs
made by any common Blacksmith, and q bow that car
DO any work caniput them "a the saddle.tree.
Aiisederstrom any part Of the U. States, eithssttos
'addses or Patent Rights, will meet with prompt atten'
ION by The subscriber. who is now carrying on the sac
ling in Alesandre, d. c.. {
march, THOMAS q. pRFrrYh1N.