Show TRICYCLE RIDDEN BY SCOUT homemade affair saw service with owner in civil war in a little barn on canterbury street east weymouth mass surrounded by old furniture and covered with a man tie tle of cobwebs rests one of the oldest tricycles in the country and one which saw much service and figured in many events everts during the civil war it was built by john armstrong alias kelley a scout in the union service he traveled many miles on the old machine and according to stories told it carried him out of danger on several occasions before the war he built the machine con strutting ting the hub of the front wheel ou out t of a s section e of an oak limb ad u using s I 1 n g b broom ro nation handles tor for the spokes his seat was an army rubber blanket t P N tricycle used ire civil war fastened to a frame and his knapsack was held by a dog chain when he could not scout on toot foot he used the wheel his ills longest rida rid was from washington to portland me return to washington and from there to boston doton just before armsttong Arms ArnIs tiong died he gave the machine to its present owner john J higgins at that time a mem bar of the massachusetts infantry tr higgins says there are many who would give a good sum of money tor for the machine and he has had several excellent offers for it but he would not part with it at any price |