Show UNKNOWN GENIUS GAVE AMERICAN BUGGY TO WORLD Many of our land n methods are of European origin but bu buthe t the old famIly bug buggy y Is s dIstinctly American No one knows s just who wh o dIll did build the first one according to t o Carl W of the Smithsonia n Institution who spent n a lot of tam time e looking the matter up but It was w used In thIs c first of all American roads were extremely extreme l y bad followIng the Hc som some e still sUll are and the only conveyance s were the heavy wagons drawn by b y sy horses or o cn This was a aver cry se slow method of tr About the best way to get any place was t to e I cut across the hIlls and nIl Ot 0 I course Ir if you were well to do an d 0 owned nell n a horse and saddle that was wa s faster too Yankee IngenuIty wouldn't be de- de denell d nell ned even en then and about 1520 10 some som smart fellow bUIlt the first lIght wag wagon on and equipped It with Hh springs Thus we hall had our first wagon wago n Thus we had our first sprIng wagon wago n from which h ch our buggy was rIm le eloped Then about 1840 somebody else els e wanted antell to go stIll faster ter and bull bulIt t the first one boss skins and the gIg gi the same thing in n a different form with two wheels In whIch the opOl ts s went rattling rat tung about at n a gre rt rat of speed Of cour e the railroad d came along about that time but yo you u dIdn't ha hale hae e to lay tracks for a buggy and It held Its own throughout the th e Nineteenth century untIl the aut 0 finally just about put It out of busl Ims ness nese The depressIon made a lot o of f folks folls get out theIr old buggies bug lee how ho eser er so we still see n a few of them the m ground even In the National Capi Pathfinder tal-Pathfinder Capital tal Pathfinder Magazine |