. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. s now. retired .uid living at ease and comfort inLos .geles. Cal. Mr. Chase was l)ornat Monroe. Ohio, in lf36. so he is now76 years old, 61 years of which werespent following railroad work, 45 of themwith the liurlington system. Like manyother i)rominent railroad men Mr. Chaseentered the service as a train boy on theSullivan Railroad of New Hampshire,which he left to become a machinist ap-prentice in a manufacturing establish-ment in Vermont. When his apprentice-ship was ended he went South and for atime worked in the South Carolina Rail-road shops at Char

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. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. s now. retired .uid living at ease and comfort inLos .geles. Cal. Mr. Chase was l)ornat Monroe. Ohio, in lf36. so he is now76 years old, 61 years of which werespent following railroad work, 45 of themwith the liurlington system. Like manyother i)rominent railroad men Mr. Chaseentered the service as a train boy on theSullivan Railroad of New Hampshire,which he left to become a machinist ap-prentice in a manufacturing establish-ment in Vermont. When his apprentice-ship was ended he went South and for atime worked in the South Carolina Rail-road shops at Charleston. S. C. Thewar excitement moved him to the De-troit Locomotive Works, where he re-mained till 1868. when he entered theemploy of the Chicago. Burlington &Quincy Railroad at Aurora. 111., as Afterwards he became round-house foreman on the same road, andpassed through the grades of locomotiveengineer, roundhouse foreman, mastermechanic and finally general mechanicalinspector. Obituary. Wl \.\t H, We reg

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