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 GENERAL INFORMATION 19 Walla, Wash., to North Yakima, Ellensburg and Seattle. The American Automobile Association, 437 Fifth Ave., New York, will supply information concerning this ocean to ocean tour. The National Parks Transcontinental Highway, born of the ambition and energy of the good roads enthusiasts of the Northwest, is open to traffic from June 15 to October 1, and presents a well maintained highway from Chicago, through St. Paul, Bismarck, N. D., Livingston, Montana, Missoula, Wallace, Idaho, Spokane and Ellensburg to Seattle and Tacoma. The sign is a device in red and white. Though three ranges are crossed, the grade never exceeds five per cent. Along its course this northern continental route touches by branch roads the Yellowstone, Glacier and Rainier National Parks. On the coast of southwestern Washington it brinks the Pacific. The Motorists' Travel Service Bureau at Spokane will send free a pamphlet about this highway and its contribut-ing branches. Spokane is also the headquarters of the Western office of the Automobile Trail Blazing Association of America. This organisation undertakes to blaze motor-ways throughout the continent, by placing a painted mark on telephone and telegraph poles, or other suitable places, at every opening in given roads. A trail from New York to Seattle is so marked, also the Pacific and Columbia Highways, besides many others of interest to motor tourists. Inquiries as to routes, distances and road conditions will be answered by this association if addressed, Post Office Box 156, Spokane, Washington. The Pacific Highway, "Road of Three Nations,"