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Show SAYRV!ULES AMAZING HUES- 4- Jersey Blasphemy In Yellow Set In a Symphony of Blue. Probably tho most remarkable bit of color to be found within a radins of 100 miles from this city is tho little hamlet of Sayreville, N. J. From an artist's point of view Sayreville is impression-Istio impression-Istio in tho nightmare sense of the word. Its surroundings are beautiful, for it stands on a little bluff overlooking a epfeading marsh, through the center of which a sparkling river runs to lose itself in a rift of the faraway hills. The marsh is a dull, grayish blue, the river gives a steel bine effect, and far away the distance of the hills blends in soft gradations into the hue of the sky. In the midst of this gem of a landcpe stands Sayrovillo, yellow in every sensa of the word. It is a blasphemy in yol-low yol-low st in a symphony in blue. In tho neighboring villages there is a legend as to how Sayrevillo became yellow. yel-low. They say that when the town was first built there wasn't a painted house in it, and that one day an enterprising peddler on his notion selling rounds saw in this an opportunity for money making. He procured a large quantity of damaged paint at a nearby oity, all of the paint being in various hues of yellow, trom bright orange down to the dullest buff. This paint he carted tc Sayreville and sold at low prices, and Etill with largo profit to himself. Ther tho town set about painting itself yellow. yel-low. Some of the people pooled their interests and their paints and ornament ed their houses with the combination Others ran to stripes, and having usod up one tint filled in with the rest. One man tried polka dots in chrome on a. background of greenish buff, with brilliant bril-liant effect. When tho work was done, the peddlor enme baok with a big con signmont of staring green, which the townspeople bongTit, and with which they painted their blinds. The result was ploasing to tho Sayrevillers, but startling to such few outsiders a chanced to journev to that town. In the course of time two household-ars household-ars found courage to break away from tho prevailing yellowness. One repainted repaint-ed his house in robin's egg bluo, the other tinted his a deep magenta, and uow these two buildings stand out conspicuously con-spicuously and givo just enough coloi tono to the village to accentuate its amazing effects in yellow. .New Yorl Sun. |
