Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-09-05
Private Entertainment.
SaAAliMg to Perfection.

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l. and is now Manufacturing, Spring Saddle, mud
superior any that have hitherto been offered to d.
public. This improvement consists in the suspenaa
of the whole seat by two springs, similar to gl
spring, which heing screwed on the back part Of Tx
cantie ofthe saddle, receives an iron bar forming d.
sweep Of the cantlei thus preserving it from receiving
any injury BY horse rolling in the saddles and making
the saddle tree firm than it would otherwise b..
which cannot fail to give ease to both horse andr
frame also enters the back Of the cantle ofthe saddle
calculated to raise the vace or portma ntea and kseE
il entirely clear oil the horses back This can be pd
on orremoYedin moment.
order to prove to the publicthe superiority of,he
Saddles, he will give few extracts of letters Cn
those who have them in use-among whom is the late
Presidcntofthe United States:
I. G. Prettyman Sir-I find, on trial Of your Paien
Spring Saddle, that it corresponds with the yevyC.
have taken oft L4DiES MONROE
Oak Hill, July IN, 1926.
T. G. Prcttyman: Sir-I fndyour Patent Spring Sal.
die to be far soperiorto any have ever tried.
.fRES BUCKNER
.a,.b1n, Loudoun C'y, IA. July I'm, 1926.
FuoM THE U. s. AsEsr OF THE rArESr OFFICE
4. g. Prettyman: Sir-Ths evening is the first the
that have mounted my horse, since have received
this elegant specimen of your ingenuity. Iii so easy,
thatwcre to ride afew hours omit think probab,
should fall asleep. admirenot only the inyen,ios
but the materials, and particularly the workmanship
WZLLL9M THORN7UN
Washington city, June Ofh, 1926.
L. &. Prettyman: Sir--l have used your Patent
Spring Saddle for some time past and can say
the easiest have cverused-and can, agrceablytom
judgment and experience, in confidence recommerl
1t. Daniel KENNEDY
Charles County, Nd. Juiy8 fh, 1926.
We, the subscribers, citizens Of Alexandra, have
usedT. &. Prettymans Patent Spring Saddle and fnI
It easier than any we have tried
JOHN HOOFF
a. q. CdZENOPE
Juh2s. 1896 j. H. RUNNELLS
IL beng now more than twenty years since was
first acquainted with the saddng business and from
years trial Of my Spring Saddle four years be-
fore twas patented, in order to prove Them and
Two years since on public trial, can now with conf.
dencc say. that saddle made on this principle, sbet
ter III every respect than saddle made in any Other
way either with orwthoat springs; and will give f
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 ALI improvement
on them.
These saddles are made complete at from twelve IA
forty-fye dollars. The springs are equally as well a.
dapted TO- LADIES' saddles as any other; and any ore
sending the price Of such saddle as they may want,
It will be finished to order well as if personal app
cation were made, and when they receive the saddle
= It Is not according to their expectation, they al
liberty to return it, and will refund their money and
F"y ~" SPe"Sc VI conveyance 10 ana from d. Jaeh
ION OF Richmond and Frederick F. Kneass of Peters.
burg, Va who have rights to manufacture these sad
ttes' and any other person having desire to manG
acture the same con obtain right by paying twenty
dollars in hand and one dollar on each saddle manu,
ured, or caused to be manufactured forhe remainder
If fourteen years from the date of the Patent which
5 Thirteth OF September, 1895; and any one sending
he twenty dollar viii be furnished with complete
model they cannot fail to make the saddle; this mo-
lei can be sent TO any part Of the United States u
nyone wishes to purchase right for state, or coun
y, rcity, or town, he have it on accommodating
erms. These saddIesar are no more work to mskethen
han the common plain saddle, and the springs canbe
'ade by any common blacksmith, and boy that eah
o any work can put them to the saddle-tree.
All ordersfrom any part of the u States eitbsr fo
adde's or Patent Rights will meet with prompt alter
on by the subscriber, WHO'S now carrying on the sad
ling in Ale1andra, ID. C.
march, THOMAS G. ppp~rvD'