Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
IN MEMORY OF JUDGEMILLER
Tribute of Respect by Members of the Dis
trict Bar.
Addresses by District Attorney Davis,
Judge KimbaIl and Simon Wolf
The Committees Report.

Pursuant to a call issued by President
Henry E. Davis of the District Bar Asso-
citation, many members of the local bar
| met in the old Circuit Court shortly after
| o'clock yesterday afternoon to pay trib-
ute to the memory of the late Judge
Thomas F. Miller of the Police Court Mr.
Davis, explaining that the meeting was
! not of members of the bar association,
but of the District bar. invited nomina-
lions for presiding officer, and Judge Ivory
G. Kimbal was unanimously chosen Mr.
W. Meyer Levin being selected as sec
rotary.
| Upon the motion of Mr.. Davis a commit
| tee of nine was appointed to prepare a
paper expressive of the sentiments of the
meeting, the following being named
Henry E. Davis, c. Maurice Smith, S. T.
Thomas Walter Davidge; A. S. Worthing-
| Jere NJ. Wilson and John E. Padgett.
After lew niO.4e.4ts re,i. l.u.ut the
committee, through Mr.. Davis, made it's
report.
Eulogy by Mr. Davis.
Mr.. Davis said: I'm moving the adop-
| ton Of these resolutions, Mr.. Chairman, 1
| do what is not merely duty; DO what is
| to me act of great satisfaction. 1t is
| customary for US to look upon death as
| something fit to be mourned. When We
| lose men like Judge Miller and are called
| to speak of them, that which We have TO
! say of the death of them has a note of
| triumph.
I'VE have had more distinguished men go
out from among Cs-men with endowments
| superior in some respects to those which he
| possessed, but take him for all in all, ne
| was man whose like We shall not look
| upon in a long, long while.
ITO my mind the death of Judge Miller
removes from us Il man who was an eX-
| ample. Those of us who recollect the man
| as he was twenty years ago, and then re-
call how he went yesterday to his last rest
| Ing place, buried beneath the evidences of
| esteem and honor in which he was held,
| can but contrast the two men and pay I'M
| stinted praise to that in the man which
made yesterday possibility. and makes it
| Just and true for us to speak these words
| Of him today.
Mr.. Chairman, the young man, when he
| starts out on his career, is adjured to bear
| in mind the motto, Excelsior That is an
| easy motto to heed. He sees the road be-
lore him and the height to which it leads
1t is not case of Slipping back and re-
| covering; 1t is a case of going on. But the
! true man, the man who makes himself the
| true man, is he who did what Judge Miller
CID Such man has to take for himself
the motto 'Retrorsum.' 1t was out of the
| very pit of Avernus that he had to bring
| himself, and almost daily. though it was
| that his work seemed like that of Sisyphus,
the rolling of the stone to the top of the
I'LL oiHy W nave IL roll OOWn again. in the
| providence of God he landed it on the other
side, and stood himself upon the crown of
| the hill, victorious. in the light of the sun
| and before the eyes of us all.
Mr.. Chairman it would be an imposition
| upon your time and that Of all who hear
me If l should dwell longer upon the
thought that have endeavored to give ex-
| preston to- l say that no juster words
| were ever written of, a man than / here
offer as the expression of this meeting. I
say no man ever merited the praise of his
fellows more than did our, dear brother.
who has gone to his, just reward; and 1
you when l say of him that his life was
more than a mere example-it was an in
Spiration. ~.
The Committees Report.
The report was as follows:
me members of the bar of the District
OF Columbia having met in commemoration
or their deceased brother Thomas F. Mil
Ter, judge of the Police Court of the Dis
trlct of Columbia, who died Tuesday No
vember 2, A. D. 1897 do resolve &C foI
lows: '-'51
BY Judge Miilers death we have been
deprived of fellow-member whose natural
legal talents, developed by wide experience
ana appreciatlve study, rendered sure in
their use by singularly clear and ready
memory, and coupled with an almost I'M
erring sense of justice, made him pre-emi-
nent both as practitioner and as Judge
IN the attachments Of our profession and
their devotion to the interests of his clients
and of the community
endowed by nature with a rare COM
plnat1on of acumen and strong common
sense; gifted with an instinct which made
keenly discriminating Judgment of human
nature one of his most striking character
lStlcs; clear. and correct in his principles
and unswervingly loyal to them; in the
discharge of his duties Justly severe and
wisely merciful; it is not the extrayagance
| OF eulogy to say that no man ever more
completely met the requirements of his DO
sitlon or gave to the public better service,
and that the loss to this community by
his death cannot be otherwise truthfully
described than as irreparable.
ana, exhibiting in his personal life and
character conspicuous loftiness, consist
ency and heroism in purpose and conduct.
he lifted himself over seemingly insur-
1ountable difficulties to the greatest
heights OF worth and esteem, and earned
LOT MS children that priceless heritage,
pure and enviable name
"As his fellow-lawyers and feIlow-citizens
alike, we fondly cherish his memory and
gratefully testify our esteem and affection
for him, and we will cause this expression
OF our estimation of him to be furnished
his family and presented to the courts of
this District for preservation among their
records as deserved recognition of WELL
spent, useful and exemplary life
MIR. VOLTS Remarks.
Mr.. Simon Wolf seconded the motion to
adopt the report, and in doing so feelingly
alluded to the qualities of Judge Miller as
a man rather than of mis- legal abilities,
saying of him that gentler more hu-
name man or judge never lived.
In declaring the motion unanimously
adopted Judge Kimbah took occasion to
say that he looked upon Judge Miller not
only as great lawyer and merciful, just
judge, but also as brother well beloved.
Among those present were Judge A. c.
Bradley, Judge 1. G. Kimball, District At
torney Henry E. Davis, Deputy Marshal
VIM B. Robson, S. T. Thomas, attorney
for the District; Auditor James G. Payne,
r. Ross Perry, A. s. Worthington, VIM. F.
Mattingly, Simon Wolf, c. Maurice Smith,
Randall Hagner, VIM. A. Gordon. VIM. J.
Miller, Nathaniel Wilson. Leon Tobriner,
A. B. Duvall. Joseph Shillfngton, C. H.
Cragin, John c. Head, j. H. Gordon, Jesse
II. Wilson. w. P. Williamson, James F.
Scaggs. Mason N. Richardson, Edwin For
rest. H. w. Sohon, Assistant District At
torney Mullowney James Coleman, Tracy
l.. Jeffords and w. Meyer Levin.