New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Maine to Name
And Color Band
Its Main Roads
Ambitious Plan Will Make
1t Easier for Motor Tour
lists to Find Their Way
About the Pine Tree State

The Maine Automobile Association
this spring will color band the principal
routes of highway travel after the
style made so popular by New Hamp-
SHIRE and Massachusetts. This wear ten
routes have been selected and another
year the work will be continued and
the entire state, probably, will be COW
cred.
The work outlined for this season.
however, is so vast in its scope that
only few Of the main arteries of
travel will remain unbranded Another
feature will be the naming of main
routes of traffic. For instance, the
Atlantic Highway follows the Maine
coast from Kittery to Calais; the Long
fellow Trail was named for Names
great poet, and the route from Port
land to Fryeburg was selected because
Portland was his birthplace, the Sebago
Lake region was one Of his favorite
haunts, and some of his ancestors came
from the vicinity Of Fryeburg, which
he also made famous by his poems
The Aroostook Trail is intended to
run through the heart of Aroostook
County, and so on through the list.
The latest ideas in color banding have
been adopted and several entirely new
ones have been incorporated into the
project in this state
The work of laying out these routes.
naming them and selecting the color
schemes has been in progress for sew
eral months under the direction of
D. W. Hoegg, jr., chairman of the
touring bureau of the Maine Auto
pointed committee of one to have
charge of the task. The plan has the
Endorsement of the Maine State High
way Commission and will be carried
on under the personal supervision of
that department. The work is to be
started on April l and is to be com
pleted June l..
The complete list of routes to be
named and painted is made public
for the first time:
NO. 1. TLANTIC HIGHWAY
Marking-Blue band. fanked top and bot
tom with narrow white band.
Route-Portsmouth, N. H.; Kittery Me-.
York Harbor, Kennebunk, Biddeford, Saco,
Portland, Brunswick, Bath, Wiscasset, Rock
l I1Ts Camden, Belfast Bangor. East Holden.
Ellsworth. West Sullivan, Milbridge Har-
rington. Machias, Whiting, Pembroke South
Robbinston Calais.
NO. 2. CAPITAL WAY
Marking-White band and blue band OF
equal width.
Route-Portland, Gray, Danville junction
Auburn, Lewiston, Greene Winthrop. Au.
gusta.
NO. 8, INTERNATIONAL TRAIL
Marking-Red band. flanked top and bot.
tom with narrow white band
Route-Brunswick, Gardiner. Hallowell
Augusta. Vassalboro, Watervile, Fairfield
Skowhegan. Norridgewock, Madison, NORTH
Arson, Scion.
(Note-Eventualy this marking will be
!. extended to the international boundary line
north of Jackman)
NO. 4, PINE TREE WAY
Neutrality-suspicious. band, hanked top anc
bottom with narrow white band
Route-Gray, Sabbathday Lake. POLAND
Spring, Norway. South Paris, Bryant.
Pond Bethel, Gilead, New Hampshire Stat,
line, near Gorham, N. H.
NO. 5, LONGFELLOW HIGHWAY
Marking-Red band and blue band OF
equal width.
Route-Portand North Windham, Ray.
mond. Naples, Bridgton. Fryeburg
NO. 6, UMBAGOG TRAIL
Marking-White band and yellow band of
equal width.
Route-Bethel, Newry, Grafton Notch,