The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-20
ELLIOTT TURNS ROADS OVER TO
 INTERIOR DEPT,
Formal Transfer Made tc Gov. Parks Board Ends
 28 Years Service

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 ants our best wishes for the flu ture development of Alaska by tn, continuance of vital road and trai construction"
 Confidence of Continuance
 In a few well chosen words, Gov Parks paid 8 tribute to the Boar: and it's record for efficiency i, administering it's duties and pow, CTS in the Territory Expressing regret at the loss of the organiza. ton, the Governor extended to tht Boards members wishes for con. tinued. success in the future. H. said he realized fully the greaf value of the fine work it had don: for Alaska and hoped, with the CO operation of the civilian organi- zation taken over by the Interiol Department to maintain it's higr record.
 Dstails of the transfer have beer worked out since the first of the month. T'odays proceedings mark ed the end of the transaction While the Governor is at the head of the organization. which remains unaltered h it's civilian personnel Ike P Taylor, for several years Senior Engineer for the Board takes active charge of road and trail work, With the title of Acting Chief Engineer. The. organization will continue to be known as tn Alaska Road Commission.
 Officers Leave Soon
 The officers of the Board will sail for. the south within a few days. Maj. Elliott and his family expect to sail next Monday for Seattle, thence to San Francisco where they will board an Army transport on August 2, for New York. They wiu then go directly to Washington, D. O., where he has been assigned to duty in the office of Chief of Engineers as head of the Miscellaneous Civil Affairs division
 Maj. L. E. Atkins, Engineer Off, ficer, and his family, will leave on the same day for Seattle. He is under assignment with the Sixth Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash ington, as commanding officer of the Engineer battalion on duty at that post.
 Lieut.. w.. w. Hodges, Secretary, will leave l.oxt week, also, enroute to Fort Mcintosh, Texas, for duty there. 2
 Brief History Given
 The Board of Road Commission CTS for Alaska was created in 1905, by an Act of Congress ap- proved on January 27 of that year. The first Board was composed Of Maj. Wilds P. Richardson, Infan. try, President; Lieut.. George B. Pillsbury, carps of Engineers, En- gineer. and Disbursing Officer, and Lieut.. Samuel e. Orchard, Secre- Itary. It held its first meeting at Skagway on May IS, 1905, and its first headquarters were established in that city.
 For the next 13 years Maj. Richardson, who was promoted to Lieut.. Col. in 1911 and made a Brigadier General in 1918 remain ed at the head of the Board with a number of changes in the other memberships. Lieut.. Pillsbury, who is now Brigadier General and Assistant Chief of Engineers, was replaced as engineer officer by Capt. F. A. Pope in 1908. The lat ter is now Colonel and in charge of the Militia Bureau with head quarters in Washington.
 | Capt. Pope was relieved in 191i Fby Lieut.. Glen B. Edgerton as En- gireer Officer and the latter serv- cd until 1915. Lieut.. Orchard was lielieyedin. 1911 as Secretary by lIieut. Robert L. Weeks. Edgerton lis now a Lieutenant Colonel and lis District Engineer for Rivers and IIIarbors with headquarters at Rock l Island, Ills. Lieut.. Weeks is not | listed in tie Army Register, Tn 1913, Weeks was replaced by Lieut. L A. Kunzig. In 1915, Edgerton was relieved as Engineer Officer Iby Lieut.. Joe c. Mehaffey, ano Lieut.. Kunzig by Mai. w. P. Da- lyison. Kuazig is now a Lieuten- ant Colonel of Infantry and sta toned at Fort Washington, Ma lMaj. Davispa is no longer in ths Army and ,s believed to have died
 War Disrupts Board
 This was the officer personne of the Board when the. World Wa era was ashered in. In 1917, Col Richardson was promoted to Brig. adler General of the Nationa Army. Cart. w. H. Waugh, En- gineers, O., R. o. relieved frs Mai. Dawson and shortly after. [ ward Lieut.. Mehaffey. Waugh , duties as Secretary and Disburs , ling officer were then taken ove, : by Capt. John Zlg, O. R. O., ana l formerly assistant engineer of tn, 5 Board. About this time, head . lduarters of the Commission wer, } moved to Juneau from Valdez.