Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-10-13
Private Entertainment,
SaAdAing to Perfection.

YlHOMAS C. PRETrYMAN has lately Patented
Il and is now Manufacturing, Spring Saddle nueI
superior to any that have hitherto been Offered to n,
public. This improvement consists in the suspeuso,
OF the whole seat by two G springs, similar 10 rs
spring, which being screwed on the back part Of Il;
cante ofthe saddle, receives an iron BAR forming Ii.
sweep of the cantle; thus preserving it from rece,ng
any injury by horse rolling in the saddle and mskry
the saddle tree firm than it would otherwise be
which cannot fail to give to both horse and rider
frame also enters the back ofthe cantle fhe saddle
calculated to raise the valice portma and keep
it entirely clear of the horses back This can be pr
OH orremOyedin moment.
Inorder toprove to the public the superiority ofthcs
Saddles, he will give few extracts of letters from
those who have them in use-among whom is the ,.e
Presidentof the United States:
T. G. Prettyman: Sir find, on trial of your Patent
Spring Saddle, that it corresponds with the vievyug
have taken oft L4HES MONROE
Oak AiB July an, 1896.
7. 6. Prettyman: Sx-l fndyour Patent Spring SD,
die to be far superior TO any have ever tried.
IRIS BLTKNER
auJurn, Loudoun Cy, ia. July I'm, 1926
FROM THE U. s. AGENT OF THE rATENT OFFICE.
L. &. Prettyman: Sir-This evening is the frs,tir
that have mounted my horse, since have received
this elegant specimen Of your ingenuity It's soea.y,
should tall asleep. admire not only the invention,
but the materials, and particularly the Workmanship,
WItLL'N 7W0RN7ON
Washington city, e30M, 1926.
L. u. Prettyman: Sir-I have used your Patent
Spring Saddle for some time past, and can say it
the easiest have everused-and can, agrecably M
judgment and experience, in confidence recommend
it. Daniel KENAEDE
Charles County, 3D. July Sh, 1896
We. the subscribers, citizens of Alexandra, haze
usedr G. Prettyman's Patent Spring Saddle, HdG&
it easier than any we have tried
JOHN HOOFF,
a. e. C.3ZENOJE,
Juy28, 1926. d. H. RUANELLS
1t Icing now more than twenty years since VS.
first acquainted with the saddling business and from
near six years trial of my Spring Saddle four wears be-
fore twas patented in order to prove them, and near
two years since public trial, can now with conf
dence say, that saddle made this principle isbet'
ter IN every respect than saddle made in any ottG
way, either with without springs; and will give h
ty dollars to any man that can prove otherwise or
make any reasonable objection why it cannot be done
and will give one hundred dollars for all improvement:
on them.
These Saddles are made complete at from twelve 10
forty-hve dollars. The springs well adapted 10
aides saddles as any other and any one sending he
prce OF such saddle rs they may want, il will be f.
nished to order well as if personal application
made. ID. Jackson of Richmond, Fred'k. =. Hnesgs
OF Petersburg, and X + Degge Of Wheatlsnd W.
j. Colesberry OF Wilmington. Del, J. van,an, and Il
chard Winsor of Alexandra, d. C. have Rieht,to IT.
nufac'ure these saddles, and any other persons having
a desire to manufacture the can obtsn Rightly
paying one hundred dollars down, or by paying twenty
dollars in hand and dollar on every saddle MANI.
factured or caused to be manufactured or sol ;y tie
OF fourteen years from The date Of the pa
tent, which is the 1hirieth of September, 1875 and
my one sending the hundred twenty dollars, WILDE
furnished with complete model and transfer ct tie
lnhf k,nh a. al
cannot fail to make the Saddle.
This model canbe sent to any part Of the States
my one wishes to purchase arghtfor state, or cOuH
y, orcity, ortown, he can have it accommodating
erms. These saddles are NJ more work to make them
han the common plain saddle, and the springs canb
,ade by any common blacksmith, and boy that cav
o any work can put them to the saddle-tree.
An ordersfrom any part of the u States, either Tor
adde's or Patent Rights will meet with prompt stieh
on by tl'esubscriber. who carrying on the sas;
ling in Alexandra, u. C.
march THOMAS g. PRETTFHAN