ADVEKTISEMENTS. 



A LIFE-SAVING SADDLE BAR. 



May 1st, 1885. 

 Gentlemen, 



Notwithstanding the many efforts on the part of inventors and the 

 trade generally to produce a reliable Saddle Bar, the complication of 

 construction and consequent high price of most of them, coupled with the 

 non -reliability of any, creates a want which it has long been my desire to 

 supply. 



The greatest danger to which horsemen are liable in cases of 

 accident is that of being dragged after being thrown, from the fact of 

 their inability to release the stirrup leathers from the saddle bars. 

 Patents in Spring Stirrup Irons are proved to be at the wrong end of the 

 strap at the critical moment. 



Scarcely a hunting season closes without leaving numerous records of 

 serious and fatal accidents, and anything which has the humane object of 

 saving life under any and all circumstances, either in the field or upon 

 the road, cannot be too much valued by all who ride horses. 



I have taken out a Patent for my invention, the " Centaur " Safety 

 Saddle Bars, which will render accidents of the above kind, to those 

 who use them, simply impossible, as in case the rider be thrown in any 

 conceivable way, either backward, forward, or sideways, the stirrup 

 leathers are instantly disengaged from the bars upon which they are 

 suspended. 



This invention possesses three very essential features, namely : 

 simplicity, effectiveness, and cheapness, and will, it is hoped, recommend 

 itself to every horseman throughout the land. 



Your obedient Servant, 



E. W. GouGH, Inventor. 



[Copy.] 

 To Me. E. W. Gough. London, April Sth, 1885. 



Deae Sib, 



I have this day forwarded your declaration and provisional 

 specification for " Improvements in Safety Bars " to the proper 

 authorities, and in course of post expect acknowledgment of same, 

 which I will despatch to you immediately. 



By sensitive men like yourself, encomiums are generally looked upon as 

 flattery, but I hope you will do me the justice of disabusing your mind as 

 to my being actuated by any motive of that kind in giving expression to 

 my unbiassed and candid opinion of your invention, 



I have been an inventor and patentee for over twenty years, and 

 having paid considerable attention to the construction of Saddle Bars, I 

 am tolerably well acquainted with most of those now in use. 



Notwithstanding that I have patented one myself, I assure you that 

 BO far as simplicity of construction, general effectiveness, and the 

 moderate price which it appears to me capable of being produced at, 

 yours is infinitely superior to anything which has previously come under 

 my notice, and I sincerely hope your very meritorious and humane 

 achievement may meet with that acknowledgment and appreciation 

 which it so deservedly merits. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



W. H. St. Axjbin, 

 Mechanician and Patent Agent. 



