The death of Clarence Barton in Battle Creek, Michigan, as announced yesterday marks the passing of on: of the old school journalists of the Dana and Greely era, who were powers in the community and did much to mould the public mind, Mr. Barton was especially noted in a field in which he kad: no coni-
Petitors and for several turbulent decades he was known as a power behind the scenes in Wall Street. Few important financial transaetions of past years were undertaken without the calling in of the Editor of the famed "Wall Street Journal" and under his wise leadership he paper became known the world over us the formest financial publication of the United States.
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