The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-01
EDITORS TRIBUTE
TO KATE FIELD.
William j. Kline Writes of De-
ceased in Glowing Terms.
TRAVELS IN THREE COUNTRIES.
Hospitality of People Here-Says He
viii Es~nember-Knowledge Of Kate
Field-Her Interest in Hawaii.
Her Long Rides Were Injurious.

William J. Kline, editor and publish
er of the Amsterdam IN. W Democrat,
who was in Hawaii for two months
during the early part Of the year, writes
as follows in a recent issue of the Dem
ocrat:
During my absence Of eight months
/ have travelled upwards of $4,000 miles
equal to three-quarters of the dis
lance around the globe. | have visited
twenty-five States in our own great
country, and return with a better con-
ception and appreciation than L ever
had before of its vast extent of terri
tory, its enormous resources and the
wide diversity of it's crops, climate and
industries. l was never so proud as
am today of my own, my native land
the greatest and best country on this
footstool.
have thoroughly enjoyed my rather
extended outing, have met ma old
friends and have made many ones
whom it will afford me much .easure
10 meet again. Everywhere L b been
treated with the utmost kindness and
cordiality and have experienced the
most open-handed hospitality.
have spent couple of months very
delightfully."- on some of the island gems
of the blue Pacific-the land where they
have July weather in January, "the
land where it is always afternoon and
the land that is pining to be annexed to
Uncle Sans domains, as, indeed, [ hope
in good time it may be. While there l
saw the great volcano of Kilauea in
both its active and it's quiescent state
a sight that very few travellers have the
privilege of beholding.
Since my return l have had many let
tiers from friends whom l met during
my travels. These missiVes come from
Europe, the Hawaiian Islands, the Pa
cific slope, Mexico and elsewhere, and
they bring back the pleasant faces of
the companions of many an idle hour. |
But there is one of these faces that | |
shall never see again-that of Miss I
Kate Field. For six weeks we stopped |
at the same hotel in Honolulu, and |
thus became quite well acquainted She |
had planned to visit the volcano of XII
lauea at the same time that 1 went
but was detained in Honolulu by ill
ness. Had she been able to go then, |
cannot help believing that she might
have been alive today. Her fatal illness
was caused by fatigue and undue ex-
posure to rain on the Island of Hawaii.
Such horseback trips as she took ex
haust the energies of strong men, and
delicate woman like Miss Field should
not have been permitted to attempt
them.
rs it not sad about Miss Field?"
writes one of my fellow travellers to
Hawaii, in a letter received today And
she continues: 81 cannot get her out of
my mind. To think of her dying away
off there, with none of her own near
her! 1t seems too bad!"
The Democrat has already spoken of
Miss Fields character and work. She
was brilliant woman, and her letters
from the Islands to the Chicago Times
Herald were widely read and quoted
She was a strong advocate of cable
communication and annexation. II
never knew anybody who spoke or
wrote more conscientiously.
One evening as l was escorting her
% reception 1 said: well, Miss Field,
how do you like this country" ooh,
Inn interested in it, was the careful re-
ply, leaving the impression that she
preferred the States as place of resi- :
lence. She took great pains in gather
ng the material for her letters, and al
ways went to headquarters for her
acts. President Dole, eX-Minister
Thurston, Minister Willis and other
prominent residents were her persona!
friends and companions. In the words
If Harper's Bazaar, "she was a most in
ereSting woman, of many gifts and eX-
energy, versatility and
courage. 1t is said of her that she was
womanly woman always, and per-
1aps that is one reason of her great
and of the kindness in
which she was held by people with
whom her activities brought her in
,ontaect''
shall never forget the pretty picture {
she made sitting in a row boat beside
Captain Pigman of the United States
nan-of-war Bennington, and waving
smiling, aloha, while the stars and
stripes f1oated over her head. on the
9th day of last February, when the
tout ship Australia bore us out of Ho-
lolulu harbor.
Poor Miss Field, I can hardly make (
myself believe she is gone. The news
f her death shocked and saddened me.
She did we'll what she had to do'' r
would be a fitting epitaph for the tomb
Il this talented fellow worker in the
anks of journalism.