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- - THE CHILKOOT POST.- -
Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska,
Published without expense to the go vernment;>~.
Vol. 5,
Friday, July 17th., 1925.
50? Quarterly. rearriy.
GOVERNOR GEORGE A. PARKS AND MAJOR GENERAL HARRY TAYLOR TO" VISIT POST.
Honorable George A.Parks, Governor of Alaska, Major General
Harry Taylor, Ciief of Engineers, Colonel Wilds P,Richardson, retired,
formerly head of the Alaska Road Commission, Colonel James G, Steese,
Alaska Road Commission, and Major L.E.Oliver, Engineer Corps, will
visit Chilkoot Barracks August 1st.
General Taylor is on a tour inspecting the roads and trails of
Alaska and accompanying him is Colonel Richardson, retired, formerly
head of the Alaska Road Commission, who spent a number of years in
Alaska.ani is familiar with its needs and transportation problems.
Colonel Richardson was the engineer in charge of construction
when Chilkoot Barracks, formerly William H,Seward, was built and is
well and favorably known throughout the Territory.
Governor Parks and General Taylor will review the troops of
this command August 1st.
SENATOR BINGHAM PLEASED WITH MEN AND POST.
After a flying visit to Alaska, Senator Hiram Bingham, of Con
necticut, arrived in Seattle last Saturday and said; M I did not go
to Alaska to form any conclusions for either branch of my committee
interests, but I am mighty glad I went for I can form more intelli
gent conclusions. I visited the Army Post at Chilkoot Barracks, near
Haines, and must say the men there are in'tip-top shape, a fine lot
garrisoning it, and the Post is fine”. Senator Bingham who is a
member of the committees on Territories and Army Posts, inspected
this Post just prior to leaving for the states last week.
ACTIVITIES OF U. S.ARMY* ---By GENERAL PERSHING.
A large number of young men in the prime of life will be out
of doors this summer, devoting from two to six weeks of their time
to military training. This military training began with the clos
ing of our colleges and schools in June and will end about the middle
of September, with July and August as the busiest months.
Most of these young men in uniform will be civilians, spending
their vacation period in their country’s service. We shall have the
maximum number of civilian soldiers to receive military training since
the World War. Prior to 1917 there was scarcely any of this sort
of work. Cur history has been one of unpreparedness with six im
portant wars, not to mention the skirmishes involved in winning this
continent from the original inhabitants; and the people seem deter
mined to have a reasonable number of trained men available should an
other emergency arise.
The various groups in this service will be assembled in some 46
camps for civilians on 240 military reservations, large and small,
scatered all over the United States. The War Department is endeav
oring to place these camps as close to all centers of population as
possible and every effort is made to accommodate the training period
to the time that can best be spared by civilians from office, shop
and farm. Fortunate, the slack time in commercial life is most suit
able for military training and for the coordinate developement of a
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