New Britain herald., 1923-02-01
HENRY CLEWS DIES
 IN HIS 83RD YEAR.
Financial Genius in Two Great
 Wars

New York, Feb, i,-lienFy clews il
 dead.
 The citizen and fnaneier whoss
 range Of active consequence m the al
 fairs of his country and the world
 extended beyond the Civil WaF-ir
 the winning Of which, he was eFed'
 tied with a distinguished part by nc
 less than Mr, Lineoln's secretary oi
 the treasury-passed away al his
 home, 27 West 5lst street, at
 o'clock yesterday afternoon, He was eighty-twa last August, He had heeA hed-ridden since early in November when he became ill of pneumonia, Death was directly due 10 chronic bronchitis.
 Until Tuesday last it had been ek- neeted he would recover. Then there was sudden change, He died snr- rounded by his wife, his daughter. Elsie. and the lattor's husband. Herr bert Parsons. and Miss Louise clews. the daughter Of his son, Henry clews. Jr. II was announced tentatively the funeral services will be held satnr- day morning. Interment will be in Woodlawn cemetery.
 Born in England and early headed for the ministry. Henry ciews be- came an intensive American and one Of the worlds ablest and most suc- cessful tinanciers by devotion 10 q simple code described in his famous book. Fifty Years in Wall Street." ih just four words-truthfulness hon. esty. courage, hard work.
 His youth and young manhood. crowded with activities and suc- cesses that are history not only in Wall street and America but among men Of finance everywhere. were spent before many if indeed nor most. of today's big men of Wall street were born.
 There could be, perhaps. no more perspective of the astonish- ing span of Mir. Clews' effectiveness as an American than that embraced in these two facts
 Salmon F. Chase. Lincoln's secre- tary of the treasury, congratulated on the unexpected success of the great 5-20 loan Notation to finance the Union cause, said the credit belonged to Henry Clews in New York and Jay Cooke in Philadelphia.
 In the great war; more than half a century later, Mir. Clews was treas- nrer of the Belgian Relief fund, of the British War Relief club and the Relief fund, being decor ated by the Belgian and Roumanian governments for his distinguished 
 Wealth of Great Deeds.
 Out of the great wealth of his use- as citizen and financier, some of the better known contributions were his assistance to the Japanese government in establishing that em- pire's modern system of finance: or of the committee of seven- ty, which overthrow the Tweed Ring n New York; invention of the stock quotation board used in brokerage off, ices the world over; initiation of the custom of giving clients the names of brokers from whom stocks were pur- shased for them, thus driving much | dishonesty from the business: initia- ion of daily ''sermons' to customers [ md the public; and, not less than I my of these, his quiet. but abounding | harity. In Wall Street no man went o him in vain for help.
 Born in Staffordshire. Aug. 14, 1s40, he son of a widely known pottery MT. Clews was study ng for Cambridge to give his life to he church whan his father brought i'm to America on business trip. truck by the romance of American business pioneering he sought, and re-