Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — TWO GIRLS ON LONG MOTORCYCLE TRIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO GIRLS ON LONG MOTORCYCLE TRIP

To prove that woipen are an important factor tn national preparedness and as resourceful as men in emergencies, the Misses Adeline and Augusta Van Buren of New York, descendants of President Martin Van Buren, started from New York for San. Francisco on the first motorclcle trip across the continent ever attempted by members of their sex. They expect to cover the 3,814 miles of the trip in easy stages of one hundred to two hundred miles a day, and te reach the Golden Gate about August 31.