RUNAWAY HORSES.

Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1299, 17 August 1900, Page 2

RUNAWAY HORSES.

[To THE Editor.] Sir,—l was delighted to read the account of the apparatus (or above in last night's issue. It is always a delectable thing to hear of aspiring talont in our midst, and my only hope is that the inventor will have better luck with his patent than I had in exactly tho same lino. I, too, invented an apparatus for runaway horses, but on an entirely different system from that you describe. Mine applied only to tho buggy or four-wheeled vehicle. I claimed that it was not only ingenious, but uuiijue, and one that fulfilled all the conditions of the Chinese proverb m nit tun in j-n< •• —the whole apparatus consisting of what to all intents and purposes looked like a bulky whip, with a slightly bulkier whip box attached to the insido of the splashboard. Tho whip was really an attenuated crane of Pittsburg steel and could bo used either to stop the horse, as will bo seen, or urge him on. The box contained a small windlass worked by compressed electricity, sot in motion by one of three small brass knobs or buttons, attached to the side of tho bos. The only portion of tho machine attached to the harness was a fairly large-si zed hook fixed to the top of the saddle. On touching tho brass button marked " slack away shafts," the slufu became immediately tach d from tho body of the buggy. On touching the second button mark, d " siing crane " by an ingenious automatic action the crane swings forward, and a central chain a'. ache • iNelf to the hook on the saddle. Finally on couching the lit b itton marked •' heave up," the runaway is lifted b-,dily into tht 1u v which, when the natural momentum is finished, elleetually brings you upstanding. Think - ing this a good thing I, at great expense, patented it in Philadelphia, liatavia, Singapore, and tins Old Country, and finally employed an pensive agent to exploit it in Seven I'iaN, London. 15i.it strange to -ay my invention nwver " caught on." Other men stole my brains, claimed tho various suggestions, and some even went so far as to insinuate incipient lunacy, ai;yhov>, -o lo.it.y nbn m hh obstacles were put m tny way shut L finally threw it a-i le in di-gn : and immigrated to Umk..'i 11 ;v rtL-e 1 have beet) otvups >1 with Eh- r.v auut industry in connection with the Land Settleun nt Ac, and now dewtu all my spare time to original observation on the CuJlin Mvtti 1 i !f., ls\tM i.,