Charles F. W. Mielatz

As an etcher, Charles Francis William Mielatz was an indefatigable seeker after excellence in his art, and it was our own Manhattan Island which gave the best subjects for his inspiration. The Battery, the oyster-boats at the foot of Christopher Street, the Washington Arch, the “Colonnade” on Lafayette Street, when traced by his hand reminded New Yorkers, as they sometimes need to be reminded, that they do not have to visit the older countries to get a glimpse of a quaint and artistic past. Mielatz was also a good painter in both water color and oil, and he was a pleasing companion; with a fund of humor and anecdote which played about interesting reminiscences of his own, from his artistic experiments to his draftsman days in the Coast Survey, and from those to his boyhood experiences in the great Chicago fire. Along with his gifts as raconteur he possessed a clear-headed and discerning judgment of his own regarding men and events.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1920 Century Association Yearbook