New-York tribune., 1920-12-21
Bishop B,,rcln
Is Stricken on
Street and Dies
scea,lnuss f,sn pace aas,

tisularly remarked upon his ret~gs
from the Lambeth conference last susA
uet.
Those who heard Bishop Ecrch de-
scribe the work, the spirit and tn
rcsults Of that conference felt thas
hey were listening 70 spiritual
lesder Of vision and power We werS
.ooking forward to splendid advance
II shls diocese under ms leadership
snd for the moment 7,e are anable to
se cur way.
only yesterday nc visited the re
:ormstory iu Bedford and confirmed
steven girls who were inmates i Was
stting that this should have been one
4 his Official acts. for ne was Chris
.ke in his compassion for The leaS.
these his brethren
committee 70 Nee.
The standing committee VII. neer
:o.day in the office OF its secretary. -
Wall Street MIR Zabriskie had in
.cnded 10 leave for Colorado to-day
.or the Christmas holidays hu< or
earning of the death OF Sne Bishoo
cancelled his plans.
Mrs. Crawford Douglass. who said
hat she is the wife Of the editor OF
he Rhodes Journal OF Banking and
IN whose apartment the Bishop died
sid last night that the Bishop came
o her home at 11:45 yesterday morn
;ng. The Bishop <old her, she said,
hat ne had just taken q walk from
me cathedral and felt weak. He de-
eded 70 call on her, he said. TO have
asr administer throat treatment, a.
,e had been suffering for Twelve days
from laryngitis.
She had treated nim year ago last
Ialy for q similar ailMert. she ex-
planned. and the Bishop had confidence
n her ability TO effect : cure with her
home treatment She said that she
asd nursed him for several days when
is was Ill last year On that occasion
ne attended him at his home, >
Vest Eighty-eighth Street.
Yesterday, she said, she administered
ne treatment, which consisted of
-eaicine and massage Of the throat.
Converse After Treatment
.Aiter the treatment had been applied
-e Bishop told her that he was feel
IS better. but tribe tired from the
ak. He was seated in an upholstered
hair and she was seated in cane
hair near writing desk. They talked
or about fifteen minutes after the
.reatment. Mrs. Douglass said.
At 1925 the Bishop partly rose from
he chair and fell forward toward the
Aoor. AS ne collapsed she pushed out
Ter hands and held him from striking
The floor, she said. Her maid inn
mediately called the superintendent.
Charles Sumner Burch, who only a
title more than a year ago was elected
% succeed the late David Hummel
Greer as Bishop OF the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese OF New York, was a
graduate of newspaper Office as we'll
= Of the Theological Seminary, and his
he most intensely human OF eccle-
Iastics.
He entered holy orders so late in life
he was forty when he became a
lsacon-that some in the diocesan
-onvention which elected him bishop
ordered If he had had sufficient
s-eparation for the work of supervis-
the most important diocese of the
iscopal Church in America; doubts
ich were quickly dispelled by the
e administration.
Own Account of His Life
ssferring TO this feature of his
-eer, Bishop Burch just alter mis-
ection spoke very frankly to repre-
.ntative of The Tribune and Incl
tally gave in SO doing an account
i his life.
There seems" he said, 'to have
zen some confusion in the minds of
-tsin people as to my preparation.
I. has been stated that I am not quail
led for this Office because my term Of
:srvice in the actual min stry has not
leen Of long duration. | am going TO
ell you men the whole story. and TO
FL il fully, in the hope that / shall
% have to do so again.
4 was born at Pinckney, Mich. My
lsSh in that state was an accident
mean by that i was an accident that
sas not New Yorker. Ny family
{ New York State family. The date
ny BIRTH suppose you want all
c partjculars-was June so, 1916.
- graduated from the University OF
'iehigan with the degree Of bachelor
arts in 1878. While at the univer-
3 | was college correspondent for a
=.ly newspaper. This brought me into
r first contact with your own craft.
Becomes School Teacher
liter graduation I taught school
two years in Detroit. Then
Int to Chicago and engaged in the
colishing business This business
las a family affair. Two of my
srothers were interested, too. At this
Inc my thoughts began to turn def
7sely TO the ministry 7 became q