Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-25

Chicago, May I'm the halls of the
new ArI Institute Was commenced THIS
afternoon the worlds congress OF Jour
nansIs, me second OF tue series OF great
INVENTIONS OF no,ed men anu women
Nown us the auxiliary congresses oil the
COIuuiUluu exposition.
Inc press congress viii continue
through rne Week. There Will ue Two
or more sessions eacn Gay and the
proceedings VIII close with reugiouS
services next Sunday morning. The
p4esS congress VIII ne most compre-
nerSIye III Its scope.
NeWSpaperS-uSlng the word in it's
DrOadeSt sense, SO us to include ali pub
ucauonS within the general term-nave
us their objects and subjects every
realm OF human thought, and the press
conSress VIII make newspapers the
local POINT OF its delibera tons.
The press congress will be cosmopoH-
tan in its character and personnel
1 romiuent Whites, publishers anu euIJors
rom All parrS OF the globe where the
press is a power will talk of matters
pertaining to all phases OF journalism of
every class.
Foreign and American writer's of ey-
cry class will exchange ideas through
the medium of papers which they will
read, and the congress will be enriched
by the best thoughts of some of the
brightest men in the newspaper world.
All kinds of periodical publica tons
Will receive attention at the hands of
the congress. The daily newspaper, with
Its manlIolu lines OF work, from the
mechanical appliances OF the cOmpos-
ing room to the higher principles that
should govern newspapers policy,
will be reviewed, criticised and admon-
lshed by some of the ablest journalists
of this and other nations.
The newspaper, from types to ethics,
will be the subject of many essays
Religious Journalism, trade journalism,
Journalism and every other
kind OF Journalism will have it's hour,
ii not it's day, in the press congress.
Women in Journalism will be one of
the main features of the congress. Five
sessions OF the congress are given over
entirely to the ladies who brighten and
beautify the profession by their pres
ence and ennOble and enrich it by their
works. Woman as proprietor, editor,
publisher, critic, correspondent, reporter
and business manager will be discussed
in papers by women who by long eX-
perience and successful work have VOL
the right to speak authOritatively on
those topics. The position of women
journalists in foreign nations will not
be neglected.
Women Writers of Japan will be the
subject Of a paper by Mrs. Tim Kato
Takeda, of Japan. Women journalists
in Mexico, Austria, England, France
and other countries will be talked of by
representative women fresh from the
fields of labor about which they will
inform the congress.
Mrs. Potter Palmer threw open her
beautiful home on the Lake Shore drive
today to the visiting newspaper women,
to whom she rendered a reception
from 4 to o'clock this afternoon More
than 1000 invitations were issued for
tIle OccdS1Ou. Iu0 N1S1LOrS were rocolV-
ed by Mrs. Palmer, assisted by Mary
III. Krout, of the Inter Ocean, and
AntOinette V. H. Wakeman, of The
Evening Post.
Some fifty of the leading newspaper
men in attendance at the congress
were also invited and the occasion was
made one of fraternizing between the
great newspaper men and their profess
SiOnal sisters.
This evening at 7:45 o'clock in the
hall of Columbus the press congress
was formally opened with an address
of welcome by Charles c. Bonney, pres.
ident of the worlds congress auxiliary
Then came responses by the delegates
from foreign countries. To these sue
ceeded greetings to the editors of the
world by Chicago newspaper men, with
responses by presidents Of the different
Press associations.
Tomorrow the actual work of the con-
gress will begin with the congress of
press women of the world