Evening star., 1923-03-30
'GEN. v. y. JUDS0N
| DIES IN FLORIDA
Former D. c. Engineer Conn.,
missioner Succumbs, Fol-
lowing Long Illness.

! ORLANDO. Fla, March 30.-Brig.
Con. w. V. Judson, retired, of Chi
| cago. died yesterday at a hotel in
! Winter Park, near this city, of heart
disease following an illness of-more
than three years. the last eighteen
I months of which he had been an in
Vaiid. He was ffty-eight years old.
| Brig. Gen. Judson was born in
Indianapolis in 1865, studied at Har-
ward and was graduated from the
United States Military Academy,
West Point, in 1888. He was pro-
NOTED soon after leaving the
academy. and during the world war
| served in France as a colonel in the
. Engineer Corps
He is survived by a widow and one
son, who live in Chicago. His wife
/ was at the bedside when death came.
Was CommissiOner Five Years.
Due to the fact that he had served
Of the District. Gen. Judson. retired,
was widely known in Washington.
He served as d District Commission
er from March Is, 1909, to September
20, 1914.
Commissioner Rudolph, present
chairman of the board referred to
Gen. Judson today as the father of
] the public utilities law. Mr. Rudolph,
who served his first term as Commits
sioner on the same board with Com
missioner Judson, said the Army Of
hcer was largely instrumental in
having, the Utilities Commission
created by Congress.
| Both Mr.. Rudolph and Engineer
| Commissioner Keller spoke highly of
\ the character and accomplishments s
they were students at West Point to-
| gether where their ties Of friendship
\ were formed.
! Daniel Z. Garges, who was chief
clerk Of the engineer department dur
| ing the Judson administration. re-
! called that the general was an ac-
| tive advocate of the plan for enlarge
ment of the park system by the ac-
QUESTION of Klfngle valley, the Dean
| and Patterson tracts.
He also had introduced in Congress
| a measure known as the city beau
| tiful bill" which, Commissioner Ru-
dolph said, was somewhat along the
lines of the recently enacted zoning
; law.
! Gen. Judson, starting as a second
| lieutenant of engineers, gradually as
| cended to the rank of colonel in 1917.
He was retired August 81, 1922. for
disabilities incurred in line of duty.
Among the Army's Best Officers.
He was considered as one of the
| very best officers of the Army and
Russian army during the Russo-Japa-
nese war. When the United States
entered the world war in 1917, he was
| appointed brigadier general and, on
account of his special familiarity
| with Russian affairs, was designated
a member of the Root commission
| which was sent 10 Russia soon after
our declaration of war. After his re-
/ turn from Russia he at first COM
| manded a division. but was soon
placed in command of the port of en-
| barkation at New York, where his
| services were invaluable.
Ar. attack of influenza which his
arduous duties had i'll prepared him
TO resist. broke down his health and
left his heart in d seriously weaken
ed condition, so that he was forced
by failing health TO retire from active
service in August of last year.
| Interment will be at Arlington. Fu-
neral services will be held at the
chapel at Washington barracks to-
morrow at pm.