Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-09-14
Private Entertainment.
Sa0Aling to PerfectiOn.

IT>HOMAS G. PRETTYMAN has lately Pa,ertea
| Il and is now Manufacturing, Spring Saddle, much
superior to any that have hitherto been offered to tie
public This improvement consists in the Suspension
of the whole seat BY two springs, similar 10 giv
spring, which being screwed on the back part Of he
camille ofthe saddle, receives iron bar forming the
sweep Of the canle; thus preserving it from receiving
any injury by horse rolling in the saddle; and making
the saddle tree more firm than it would otherwise b.
which cannot fail to give ease to both horse and rider
frame also enters the back of the cantle of the saddle
calculated to raise the vace and keen
it entirely clear Of the horses back This can be nj
on orremoved in moment
Inorder to prove to the publcthe superiority othe
Saddles, he will give few extracts Of letters from
those who have them in use-among whom is The late
President of the United States:
T.. e. i'rettyman :Sr- find, on trial of your Pateu
Spring Saddle, that it corresponds with the yewyqg
have taken oft JAMES MONROE
Oak Hill, July IN, 1926.
I. G. Prettyman Sr-I find your Patent Spring Sa5.
die to be far superior to any have ever tried.
ARiS BGTKNER
Auburn, LoudOun C'y, IA. July I'm, 1896
FROM THE U. S. AGENT OF PATENT 0FFIcy.
I. 6. Prettyman: Sir-Ths evening is the frsttime
that have mounted my horse, since have received
tins elegant specimen Of your ingenuity. It's so easy.
that were to ride few hours on it, think i, probable
should fall asleep. admire not only the invention
but the materials, and particularly the workman,hp
VILLff.H 1HOHN1UA,
Washington City, June 2OM, 1896.
7. G. Prettyman: Sir-l have used your Pser.
Spring Saddle for some time past, and can say i Is
the easiest have everused-and can, ably TO nv
Judgment and experience, in confidence RECOMMEND
It. D8fLEL KENiEDE
Charles County, Nd. Julys 1926.
We, the subscribers, citizens of Alexandra, love
usedT. G. Prettyman's Patent Spring Saddle, andfrt
it easier than any We have tried
JOIN Ho0FF,
II. c. C.aZENOJT,
Juy2S, 1926. j. H. RUNNELL&
1t being now more than twenty years since vas
hrst acquainted with the saddng business, and from
years trial of my Spring Saddle four years
tore 1t was patented, in order prove tlcm and
two years since public trial. can now with conf
dence say, that saddle made on this principle bet
ter In every respect than saddle made in any other
way either with or without springs and viii give IT,
" dollars to any man that can prove otherwise, or
make any reasonable objection why il cannot he done
and will give one hundred dollars for an improvement
on them.
These saddlesare made complete at from tweIve,d
forty-fve dollars. The springs are equally as well
daPted to LADIES' saddles as any other; and any
sending the price Of such saddle as they may wan,
VIII be finished to order well as if personal spp'
cation were made; and when they receive the saddle,
. it is not according to their expectation they are
liberty to returlit and will refund their money aud
~ $500 W Soh'Sl a"SC W anu HoH ~. '"
son OF Richmond and Frederick r. Kneass of Peters
burg, Va who have rights TO manufacture these sod
lies; and any other person having desire to manu-
acture the same can obtain right by paying tSen'!
dollars in hand and dollar on each saddle manuc
ured, or caused to be manufactured forthe remandt
Of fourteen years from the date of the Patent which
5 Thirtcth of September, 1895; and any one sending
he twenty dollars will be furnished with complete
nodelsothey cannot fail to make the ssddle this mo.
lei Can be sent to any part of the United States
my one wishes to purchase Alright for state or eOr
y, orcity, or town, he have it on accommodating
erms. These saddlesare no more work to maketten
han the common plain saddle, and the springs esnbe
made by any common blacksmith, and boy that e'h
10 any work can put them to the saddle.tree.
All ordersfrom any part Of the U. States, ethsrt to-
adde's or Patent Rights viii meet with prompt atten
ion by thesubscriber, WHO'S now carrying on the sac
ling in Ale1sadra, DC.
march, THOMAS o. PRRTTYdAA'