The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-07
ABOUT KATE FIELD.
A Woman of Much Energy, with n Re-
form Scheme on Hand.

Washington Correspondence Chicago Post
Kate Fields ambition is to round out her
brilliant career as the editor and owner of
a newspaper with 900 circulation or bet
ter-a publication that can be found where
ever the English language is spoken; one
that shall be a power for the elevation of
humanity and an active agent for progress.
1t was with that lofty purpose in view that
she started Kate Fields Washington in this
city nearly five years ago. AT the outset
the most she really hoped for was circu-
lation of 10000 for her weekly; now the linn
ton of her paper at most unpropitiOuS
moment, within a few months of the Barring
cial and commercial calamities stretching in
unbroken procession down to date, but she
is on the whole, satisfied with the results
of her efforts, although. as she confesses,
she sometimes gets very tired and would
like to shut. her eyes and rest for year"
ham, one of the SWEETEST hotels in wash
ington, Kate Field chatted frankly with
the writer the other day about herself.
turesque confusion. Books and papers are
piled high on every bit of furniture in the
stands. bureaus, trunks. chairs and sofas,
and stacked in every corner and every
available foot of floor space And yet it is
evident that the presiding genius has the
whole mass indexed and arranged in her
mind. for If she wants to find a clipping,
an old newspaper file; pamphlet or an
on 1t without a moments hesitation. 1t is
the order of chaos.
H..
Springfield, would describe as a high
domed thinker" She began to take live
personal interest in public questions when
she was eight years old. precociously going
through the exchanges in her fathers edi-
torial room when he was done with them,
and she has been in touch with affairs ev-
cry minute of the time since. She is thor
Ough1y cosmopolitan. Her mental vision
takes in the whole world and there are
few places of note she has not personally
visited, while her list of personal friends
and acquaintance includes half the public
and famous women of two hemi-
spheres. She grappies with any and every
question in which she becomes interested
with the courage and energy of a gladiator.
and, having rubbed against the brightest
minds of the earth, she has acquired rare
confidence in herself. No occasion could
arise she would not feel herself fully
equal to and amply equipped to meet.
Kate Field is now interesting herself
form scheme, which she calls general labor
exchange, not 8dissimilar to an orgariza-
ton existing in Paris, known as the Bourse
du Travail. The labor exchange proposed
reports of the relative condition of supply
and demand in the labor market through
out the entire country. She argues that
there will be more difficulty I'm estah-
fishing cordons Of labor bureaus than in
establishing custom houses and postoffices.
BY means of her exchange she hopes to
be able to prevent the rush OF Workingmen
into communities beyond the power to as
simulate or provide employment She would
have her plan SO perfected that there will
in the labor market In any one point. her
aim being to so distribute labor throughout
the country as tol give employment to the
greatest number BIZ people at the highest
s1eS a y I'd rsa q ana
xYinR &c out To The full 8copa she would