New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Burial Friday
OF C.. r. Miller.
SsIimes'' Editor
Services To Be at St. James's
Church for Newspaper
man Who ss,1sc,,,nbed Afs.
er Illness of Many Years
With Paper Forty Years
AS Writer He WIS Unusually
Well EquiEired 10 Handle
Wide Range Of Subjects

Haneidi SefV1ce loT CharisS H.. Mil
Ter, for forty years editor of "Thc New
York Times" who died yeaterday at
his home, 655 PARK avenue, will be
held at st. Jamcs's Church, Seventy
first Street and Madison Avenue, Fri
day morning at II o'clock. The Rev.
DR.. Frank CrowdeE viii ofIiciate. Burial
will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr.. Miller had been ill many years,
but only recently forsook his desk in
"The Tines Office. A few days ago
his condition became grave. Dr.. John
H. Richards. of 81 West Eighty-third
Street. family physician, called DR..
Warren Coleman, DR.. Walter Niles and
DR.. Wallace Davis into consultation.
Their combined efforts to save Mr.. Mil
Ter failed. Death came shortly before
noon, with Mr.. Miller's daughter,
Madge, and his son, Hoyt Miller, at his
bedside.
Charles Ransom Miller was born in
Hanover, N H., January IT, l849. He
was the son of Elijah 7. and Chastina
(Hoyt) Miller. He attended Dartmouth
College. receiving an A. B: degree in
1872. He Joined the staff Of "The
after leaving college and served three
years under Samuel Bowles, editor of
that newspaper. In 1875 he came TO
New York and Joined the staff of "The
Times," remaining with that paper
until his death He was appointed edi-
torial writer in 1881, and in 1883 be-
came editor in chief. Later Mr.. Miller
became vice-president and director of
the New York Times Company and a
director of the Tidewater Paper Com
pany.
Had Wide Range of knowledge
In the course of forty years. writ
ing Mr.. Miller dealt with subjects
within almost the entire range of hu-
man interest. He was we'll equipped to
handle much wider range of topics
than can generally be treated even by
a trained and experienced editorial
writer. To him, as editor in chief, usu-
ally fell the function of writing the
leading editorial of the day on its
most important topic. Frequently
this dealt with national and, in later
years, with international affairs. Now
and then he wrote of art and letters
or some lighter topic Of current in
terest.
With law, especially international
law, he had an acquaintance which
might have been envied by most of
those whose daily business it was
to practice it. This equipment was
notably employed in editorials deal
ing with infringement of American
rights between 1914 and 1917 by bel
ligerents in the war. He was thor
oughly sound in knowledge and judg-
ment of finance. National, state and
municipal politics he understood, as
any man in his position must, but he
was more than usually alert to minor
Developments of rev movements in
foreign policies, as we'll as in the ma
jor issues, and the Importance of tho
racial problems of eastern Europe
as related to the war was evident to
him long before the generality Of
American public men had given the
subject attention.
Mr.. Miller's written style was con-
servative, giving evidence Of its
grounding in the classic tradition.
When bidding godspeed to President
Wilson, as he sailed for the Peace Con-
ference in December, 1918, Mr.. Miller
recalled Horace's ode to the ship that
bore Virgil to Athens.
In later years Mr.. Miller dictated
most Of his editorials, though on occa-
sion these were written in one of those
classic hands of editorial tradition
such as few but veteran compositors
the war, informed by telephone of late
news, he would dictate long editorials
over the wire, catching the import of
the news with quick and sure grasp
and setting down its Interpretation
with astonishing speed and facility.
The heavy strain of the war and sub
seouent political controversies were
met by Mr.. Miller with unfagging in
dustry. For a period of almost three
years, covering 1918, 1919 and 1920, he
worked seven days week with scarcely
a holiday. Almost up to the day of his
death his interest. in the days news
vivid, and frequent sugges-
tions came from his sickbed as to the
handling of particular phases Of edi-
torial comment.
Believed In Forceful Editorials
Mr.. Miller was believer in forceful
editorial writing, backed by strong con-
proval Joseph Pulitzer's saying that no
man was worth his salt as an editorial
writer who did not find something in
the paper every morning that made him
damned mad" For the excesses Of
partisan spirit, however, he had little
use. AS head of the editorial page he
never asked man to write anything
that man did not believe.
To his classical scholarship Mr. Mil
ler added wide acquaintance with the
modern languages and literatures.
French, which he learned early in life,
he spoke with fiuency. German he
learned as early and spoke almost as
we'll. Spanish and Italian, taken up
later, he could read we'll and speak
with some fuency. Finally, in 1917,
when sixty-eight years old, he took up
the study Of Russian.
Mr. Miller belonged to the Metropoli-
tan, Century and Piping Rock clubs and
to Theta Delta Chi. He was chevalier
of the Legion Of Honor and of the Bel
gian Order of Leopold and knight
commander Of the Greek Order Of
GeorgeI.
He married on October 10, 1876. Miss
Frances Daniels, of Plainfield, N. H.,
who died in 1908. In 1905 Dartmouth
College conferred on him the degree Of
LII. D., and Columbia University gave
him the degree Of Lift. D. in 1915.
Birth, Engagement, Marriage,
Death and In Memoriam Notices
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