Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-27
VETERAN CONDUCTOR
ON CENTRAL RESIGNS
s. B. Chapman Leaves Service
After Thirty-Seven Years
on L aims
TWENTY NINE ON IOWA CENTRAL
At n Years of Age Mr.. Chapman Will
Retire From Service, and Enter Sol
diers' Home-Has spotess Record
With Company, and Not Scratch
Against Him-A Fine Old Man.

Beam" Chapman, for twenty nine
years conductor on the Iowa Cen
trail. twenty-one years in the passen-
ger service and for thirty-seven years
in railroad work. sent in his resigna-
ton to Assistant Trainmaster Il. H..
Morley, at Oskaloosa, today, and by
tonight will have become Il member of
the Iowa soldiers home. Mr.. Chap
cause he wants a rest, and he thinks
that his long service and advanced
age entitle him to one
MIR. Chapman worked on the Illinois
Central out of Dubuque, before he
came to the Central having begun
king when mere boy. When he
entered the employ of the Central,
nearly thirty years ago, he was given
a freight run, and held it for eight
years. For the past twcnty-one years
he has been on passenger. and four
years has had the Marshalltown-P Peoria
run on trains 3 and 4.
Has Fine Railroad Record.
Mr.. Chapman is one of the fine old
men of the Central, and has a railroad
record that any Ins;a can be proud Of
There is not as much as d scratch of
the pen against him, according to the
statement of company officials--his rec
ord stands spotless. Mr.. Chapman also
has Il good war record, and was a
member of Company f, Twenty first
Iowa, a Dubuque company. He left
his train for the front, and served
three years and three months. He
endured the hardships of the fortysix
days campaign before Nicksburg,
where he lay in the rifle pits all that
time. For the entire period of his
enlistment he was never sheltered for
nights rest by building. Despite
the exposure he underwent he came
out of the service with good consti-
tuition, and for a man of II years en-
joys remarkable health.
In Old Peoples Building.
The old peoples building at the sol
diers home will be the new home of
MIR. and Mrs. Chapman. The quarters
there are very pleasant and the old
conductor is looking forward to a less
strenuous life than that of a railroad
man. Mrs. Chapman's health is not of
the best and it is largely on her ac-
count that the home is broken up.
Conductor Will Webb took Mr.. Chap
mans run out of here this morning.
The run will be bulletined, however, in
the regular way, and taken by some
one of the older men on the road.
Makes "Mose" Feel Old.
at makes me feel old" said "Mose"
Arquette, when informed by a T.-R.
reporter that his old side partner had
sent in his resignation. Il pulled Beam
you know, on the Illinois Central, be-
fore we came here" said the old en-
gineer 1--WE were in one of the worst
wrecks you ever saw. and if | hadn't
jumped there wouldn't have been as
much as a grease spot left of me. This
was away back in the early sos, or
maybe in the late sos. l don't just re-
member Anyway we have been rail-
roading together a long time. and
am sorry to hear that Beam is going
to quit guess he's tired out"
Pappe Team Defeats Red Men.
The Pappe base ball team defeated
the Red Men nine at the fair grounds