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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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NEW SYSTEM of BUILDING HIGHWAYS 
Will Probably Be Tried by State Commission Next Year 
THE state highway commission has under serious con- 
sideration a plan for a different systen of building 
state highways next season than has been pursued in the 
past; that is, in the rural districts where the highway is 
somewhat narow. This system is the outcome of an in- 
spection of the chairman, Col. William D. Sohier, while 
abroad in France and England this fall. 
There is considerable difference here than in those 
countries, however, and it is not absolutely certain that 
the same system can be put in operation here. The matter 
is to be discussed at the forthcoming convention of road 
commissioners in Massachusetts before which Col. Sohier 
will appear and with the aid of a large number of lantern 
| slides showing what is being done in those two countries. 
In brief, it is proposed to build state highways one- 
half the width at a time and by so doing avoid closing 
a section of a through road absolutely. Not only automo- 
bilists but other users of the highways have been much 
| annoyed and put to considerable trouble in making more 
or less long detours to get around a point where state 
highways are being constructed. The theory has always 
been that it would be impracticable if not inpossible to 
| Build highways one-half the width at a time and by so 
doing allow a passageway through. It has been claimed 
that this process would mean a strip of more or less width 
in the middle of the road that would be imperfectly con- 
| structed. And that it would be impossible to carry the 
work in a thorough manner up closely to an imaginary 
ame and then again to take it up at that line and finish 
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it in a workmanlike manner. 
There would always be damage or a serious defect 
that would ultimately result in a bad rut at the point of 
juncture. The past season or two, however. the co mmis- 
sion has had such forms of construction carried out 
where the road was very wide, such as in the outskirts 
of Lynn and some other large cities. 
While abroad, however, Col, Sohier was very much 
impressed with the way the work is done in England and 
France, where the average country road is of less width 
than it is here in this country. There the uniform system 
is to do one-half of the road at a time and then go back 
and do the other half, and while he was touring England 
and France he obtained pictures from which over 100 
lantern slides have been made showing various places 
where this system of construction was being successfully 
carried out. The difference, however, is that in these 
countries the work is one of repair more than of con- 
struction as it would be here in Massachusetts, that is, 
the foundation was put in there many years ago and it 
is only the top layer or at least a few inches down that 
has to be treated, while in this state the construction of 
the foundation is the rain portion of the work. 
The commission appears to believe that some modi- 
fication of the English and French systems can possibly 
be worked out here and it is one of the subjects which it 
will bring up for discussion at the forthcoming conven- 
tion of the road officials of Massachusetts to be held this 
month in Boston. 
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Through the good 
graces of some of our friends, how- 
also from the Gloucester Times, made 
it possible to get out on time. The 
former firm gave over one of their 
two machines to the Breeze work 
be put 
The breaking of an important part 
of the linotype machine at The 
Breeze office on Thursday night of 
last week rendered the machine unfit 
for operation Friday and it looked 
very much as if last week’s issue of 
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Friday morning ,and the Times also 
gave a small “lift.” 
The linotype is one of the greatest 
inventions of the past century; it is a 
very delicate machine, and is some- 
times called a “human machine.” The 
one at the Breeze plant cost with its 
auxiliary equipment about $4000. 
Some four ton (8000 lbs. )of metal 
is constantly in use. One man at the 
key-board can do the work formerly 
required of five girl compositors. 
Water in which onions have been 
boiled is excellent for cleaning gilt 
picture frames and furniture. 
Asbestos deposits throughout a reg- 
ion approximately two by four miles 
in extent have been discovered in 
Natal. 
To secure a merit badge in forest- 
ry, boy scouts are required, among 
other things, to identify 25 kinds of 
trees, 
