August 6, 1915. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Will Mark All State Highways 
N the course of the summer the Massachusetts state 
highways that are most frequently used by motorists 
will be marked with a simple but effective direction sign, 
so that tourists may travel from end to end of the state 
without being obliged to stop and consult signboards. 
Some of the work has been done and it is being pushed 
forward rapidly in other places. ‘The marking is being 
carried on under the direction of the Highway Co yrmis- 
sion, which, although the last legislature refused an appro- 
priation for road signs, has found sufficient funds to 
carry out the plan on the principal routes. 
The scheme of marking is one devised by Col. W. D. 
Sohier, chairman of the Highway Commission, and is on 
the same principle as that adopted several years ago in 
New Hampshire, and also in Vermont, the only difterence 
being that different colors are used here from those in 
New Hampshire and Vermont. It is understood, how- 
ever, that Connecticut and Rhode Island and probably 
Maine will adopt the Massachusetts idea, and possibly 
New Hampshire and Vermont, when they have to renew 
their signs, will change their colors so as to make the 
marking uniform throughout New England. 
The plan that is being carried out in Massachusetts 
is to paint bands around telegraph posts, fence posts and 
on metal bands around trees at or near corners and junc- 
tions of roads, where the traveller might be doubtful as 
to the proper direction. The colors in Masachusetts are 
red for the main east and west routes, blue for the main 
north and south routes and yellow for secondary routes. 
So far only the route from Boston to Pittsfield by way of 
Worcester and Springfield, and the route from Fitchbure 
to Greenfield, have beer’ marked, but the division superin- 
tendents have men at work painting other routes. 
A traveller going from Boston westward to Pittsfield, 
if he wants to use the main route, will have only to follow 
The Rose Garden at “Uplands,” 
Mr. 
West Manchester, 
and Mrs. Frank P. Frazier 
the red bands on the posts and fences along the way. 
If, however, he turns off at Springfield and goes up the 
Connecticut valley and then west, he will follow blue 
signs to Greenfield and then the red signs to North 
Adams. At intersections of main routes two bands of 
biue and red are painted, while at intersections of main 
and secondary routes the bands are red and yellow dr 
blue and yellow, as the case may be. 
In order to prevent confusion, the Highway Commis- 
sion hopes to make an arrangement with the highway 
authorities of New Hampshire and Vermont,.so that the 
Massachusetts markers can be carried over the line a 
little distance and the New Hampshire or Vermont mark- 
ers carried a short distance into Massachusetts. In this 
way the motorists will easily pick up the route, though in 
crossing the line the color of the signs changes. 
Keep to the right! How the autoist must have that 
indelibly impressed upon his brain these days. On every 
street corner and in between, many times, he sees that 
warning. The most flagrant offenders of this rule seem 
to be the jitney ‘bus drivers seen on every road nowadays. 
They seem to think the road is their own and left and 
right means nothing to them. 
The song of the sea was an ancient song, 
In the days when the earth was young; 
The waves were gossiping loud and long 
‘Ere mortals had found a tongue: 
The heart of the waves with wrath was wrung, 
Or soothed to a siren strain 
As they tossed the primitive e isles among, 
Or slept in the open main. 
Such was the song and its chenges free, 
Such was the song of the sea. 
Summer home of 
