Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1917 — STATE LIKE A BARBER POLE [ARTICLE]

STATE LIKE A BARBER POLE

Illinois Landscape to Have Black and ’ White Stripes Galore—Aim to Prevent Accidents. Hundreds of painters are at work turning Illinois into a huge barber pole —or rather a series of barber poles. “Barber pole” stripes bands of white and •black—are to be placedupon"llllgates and "Wticts- at grade crossings in or near cities apd towns on all the railroads in Illinois. - The passing of the crossing watchman’s flag is another phase of the move to cut down the number of highway smashups and fatalities. Instead of red and green flags the crossing man will be provided with a 16-lnch white target or disk on which the word “Stop? is printed in five-inch black letters. —- — The changes are in accordance with an order issued several weeks ago by the public utilities commission upon recommendation of a special investigating committee of the American Railway association.