Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01

CHICAGO, May 24.-Women once
more had their way in the Art Palace
and 1t was another woman day in the
Press Congress. TO be sure some men
got together in the afternoon to sho w
that the meeting was not altogether
controlled by the fairer sex, and lot
OF publishers had business confer
ence IN d side room, yet it was but a
feeble showing in comparison, anu in
more ways than one the women had
the better of it.
Foo there was not only more of
them, but they took a greater interest
IN the business III hand, discussed the
topics before them with more ANNA
tlol, and naturally drew the larger
audiences. 1t is all we'll enough for
man to boast Of being the superior ami
NAL, but when it comes TO regulating
the affairs of this world, and perhaps,
the next, by means of written essays
or spoken debate he is simply not in it
with woman.
With ID Jew exceptions man looks
and acts i'll at ease IN gather ng like
those auxiliary congresses. He tells
what he thinks ought to be done to
to make the world greater and
better in a halfhearted, h tating
sort of way, as if he really d toted
whether it would make n. real
difference after all what he does think
or say on the subject. He used to put
more force in the thing years ago,
when he and others settled all momen-
tous public questions in the village
lyceum, and vigOrO Isly debated the
proposition, "Resolved, That Napoleon
was greater general than Cesar
But the woman goes at it in differ
ent way. She prepares an essay with
the idea that it is going to heve an i'm
mediate effect on the conditions sur
rounding her, and reads it with a con-
sciousness of determining matters
right there and then. To her the
meeting of which she is factor is a
potential force, which is going to exalt
the good and subdue the evil of it's
own motion, and so she enters into the
thing with enthusiasm and carries it
out with energy. SO it is small won
der that the women have the larger
audiences.
Mrs. Martha howe Davidson pre-
side over the gathering in the Hall of
Washington, and the first paper read
was by Mrs. j. G. Croiv of New York,
her subject being Editorial and De-
partment Work. Mrs. Croly is better
known to the western world under the
name Of Jennie June" and few in
deed are the people in this country who
have not read more or less of her
charming articles from the dav when
Robert Bonner first made them famil-
lar in the New York Ledger. Her
paper was of the didactic sort, and full
OF interest to women seeking the sort
OF information it contained.
Following her Mrs. Linden w.
Bates read a paper prepared by Mrs.
Adele Chretain of California on DIFF
fculties of the Musical and Dramatic
Critic" and then Mrs Barbara N.
Galpin Of Massachusetts gave her ideas
of Woman as the Business Manager
Of Newspaper"
Then new factor in woman's work
came to the front. Mrs. Ida Time
klocker took the subject, "Woman as
Race Reporter" and proceeded to
tell her auditors that sporting writer
need not necessarily be man. Mrs.
Klocker lives at independence. Iowa.
where her father runs a newspaper and
she used to help him. She became the
correspondent of several Chicago
papers, not much Of a job in town
Like Independence, where the cor
respondent is only called on once or
twice year, and paid only for matter
sent in. But one day Williams, who
raised Axtell, Allerton and other
famous trotters, came to Independ-
ence. built track there, esta blished a
stock farm, held big races, and made
it the center for trotting horse news
of the West. Miss Time rose to the
occasion. She asked her Chicago
papers if they wanted trotting horse
news and they said they did So she
proceeded to furnish it to them and
demonstrated in her own person that
a sporting writer need not necessarily
be a man.
A somewhat cognate paper was the
next one, by Cornelia 7. Crosby on
woman as an Authority on Trout
ing" Miss Crosby has written con-
siderably on fishing under the non de
plume of ely Rod" and her paper
was interesting.
The other papers read were:
''Woman as Washington Correspond
ent," by Mrs. Ruth Gardiner, and
"Reportorial VS.. Editorial Work for
Women" by Miss Anna Sanborn of
way, took a different view of the
character and habits of the reporter
than did the Rev. Mr.. Gunsaulus in his
sermon last Sunday night. The meet
ing concluded with discussion of the
topic, department and Editorial
Work. led by Mrs. Lou Chaplin.
The men got together in the Hall of
Columbus at o'clock. Their pro-
gram was as follows: Colum bian
poem, Thomas Brewer Peacock, Kan
sas; ''The Public Press. It's Relation to
Civilization, Henry A. Castle, Senti-
mel, St. Paul, Mimi; review, 1.-THE
Future of the American Country News
paper" Albert Shaw, Review of Re-
views, New York; discussion, A. V.
Dunnell, Danville, N. Y, 'Provincial
Journalism" NJ. W. Kennedy. Put
nam. Conn
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