The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
Mr.. BARTON'S FUNERAL
Public Services in All
Saints Church at 4
O'clock Today.

The funeral of ex-City Treasurer
William S. Barton will be held this at
ternoon at 4 o'clock at All Saints
Church, where the deceased was a
communicate.
The funeral rites will be directed by
Morning Star Lodge, of which Mr.. Bar
ton was a member. The public service
at the church will be preceded by
prayers at the house. Burial will be in
Rural cemetery.
Rev. DR.. Alexander Vinton and Rev.
G. Lancaster Short of All Saints
Church are out of the city, and Halleck
Bartlett, who has charge of the funeral
| arrangements, will get an out of town
| clergyman to officiate. The honorary
pall-bearers will be representative cit
liens from the official and professional
life of the city and from the Masonic
order
The office of the city treasurer will
close at $3.50 o'clock, and heads of all
the city departments will meet and
march to the funeral.
The bouquet which Mr.. Barton
picked just before his death, and which
was brought to Worcester by The Spy
| correspondent of Rutland, Sunday
| night, was carried to the Barton home
yesterday morning.
These resolutions were adopted in
| common council last night:
| Resolved: That whereas William S.
Barton, formerly city treasurer and col
lector of taxes, has died, in the 18th year
of his age, the city council of the city of
Worcester now put on record the follow
ing memorial of this venerable and dis
| tinguished city officer and citizen.
| He was born in Oxford on the thirtieth
| day of September, eighteen hundred and
| twenty-four. He came to Worcester with
| his parents when child, and attended
the public schools of this city After
! graduating from Brown University, he
! studied law and was admitted to the bar
In 1916. He practiced his profession several
years in this city, and afterwards was
| connected with the Bank of Commerce in
| Boston. In 1872 he was elected city treas
urer and collector of taxes of the city Of
| Worcester, and held this office for twenty
| seven years.
During all this period he was a most
| efficient. faithful and honored worker for
| the best interests of this municipality.
!
| portunity to do good for others. The
| office of tax gatherer has usually some
| thing of unpleasantness about 1t. 1t was
always pleasure, however, to all tax
payers of Worcester to meet Mr.. Barton.
| In the performance of all the varied try
| ing duties of his onerous Office his un-
| falling patience, his great kindness and
his directness and plainness of dealing
endeared him to the hearts of all the cit
| liens of Worcester The conspicuous
fidelity. and Distinguishing ability which
marked all his official acts have set a
| high standard of municipal service in the
] city of Worcester He was a man of no.
bility Of character, frank in al his deal
| ings, generous, sympathetic, full of com
passion, loyal In HIS friendship, and all
| felt him to be their friend. He stood well
the supreme test-he was loved and trust
ed by his townsmen and neighbors. He
was citizen and public servant of the
| truest type, recognized by all as one of
their worthiest fellow citizens, buIwark
to the good name of the city of Worcester,
and an ornament to her civic history
Resolved: That these resolutions be
| extended upon the records of each branch
| of the city council and that a copy be
sent to the bereaved family"