The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-20
DEATH OF A NOTED
AMERICAN WRITER.


the INTRODUCTION ana passage by Con
gress of what is known as the Cutler"
Bill. The Grand Army of the Republic
in the. United States recognized her ser
vices and made her an honorary mem
Der of Kit Carson Post, No. ,. of wash
ingcon, and she was presented with a
handsome diamond-studded Grand Ar
my badge by members Of the post.
For her successful efforts in securing
free admission to the United States OF
French works of art intended for exhi-
bition at the Worlds Fair, Miss Field
was decorated by the French Govern
ment with the Order of Arts and Edu-
cation
For six years prior TO her coming to
this country she owned and edited
Kate Fields Washington" with Of
fees in the Corcoran building. 1t was
during this time that she toured the
country occurring in the interests of the
California wine growers, and being sue
cessful in her aim, she was given a
handsome sum by the wine men. but
she won the cordial dislike of the w. C.
T. L. throughout the United States.
As a public woman and writer she
was known all over the world. In Wash
ington she was a recognized power in
the lobby during the Republican adj
ministrations Of the last twenty years.
To the writer. in speaking of her
newspaper, she said:
1t was not a glorious success. but it
was hard work, and 1 wanted a rest
after losing $4,000. so I turned the
key in the door and left l may start
again, but it will be when | have $780,
900 capital behind me-"
just prior to closing her paper she
suffered severe mental strain while try
ing TO break her aunt's will. This was
Miss Fields nearest relative, and when
dying she left her vast property to a
nurse 1t was great expense to Miss
Field, and the impossibility to secure
witnesses from other parts of the coun-
try (the trial was in Rhode Island) re-
suited in her losing the case.
Her latest achievement and the one
she was most proud of was the restora-
ton of John Browns Harper's Ferry
fort
Since her advent in Honolulu she has
written many pithy letters to the Chi
cagO Times-HeraId, which paper had
sent her here to write on-not up-an-
neXation. Her opinion was to be form
ed here, and her letters showed that
she was prosecuting her work faithful
~. She was untiring in her efforts to
get at the bottom of every public mat
ter, and while her letters were not al |
ways fresh news to the people of Ho-
nolulu, the facts were put together in a
manner that added new life to the
subject
She was an excellent conversational
ist and could entertain a room full of /
people with greater ease than the aver
age woman can a half dozen. She was
not demonstrative as a rule, even with
her most intimate friends She was
business woman rather than sentimen-
tai. At the Hawaiian Hotel, where she
roomed her closest friend was Mrs
Mills. wife of the United States Charge
d Affaires and Consul General. They
spent many pleasant hours together
In a volume which Mrs Mills has there
appears on leaf in Miss Fields writ
ing,
May we meet again on our native
heath.-Kate Field"
That was written the day before she
left for her tour of Hawaii. On that
tour she intended to personally investi-
gate the condition of the Hawaiians
and obtain their views of annexation.
Her labors were not complete when ill
ness cut her down.
When the Hall arrived at the wharf
Yesterday afternoon Consul General
Mills was at once notified, and he
promptly visitd the steamer and took
charge of Miss Fields effects and ar
ranged for her removal. Through him
!. detail of men from the Adams came
ashore and carried her to the resi-
ience of DR.. J. S. McGrew, who kindly =
offered every facility for the care of J
he invalid. Much credit is due Mr..
Mills for the promptness with which
he removal was made, and to DIR. Adri-
lnce of the CorOnet, through whose
Miss Field was kept alive :
Until the steamer arrived here. Mr. s
Wills gave his personal attention 10 all
matters of detail of the funeral, which
axes place at 4 p. IN. today from Cen
raj Union Church, at which Rev
Douglas p. Brine will off1ciate. Inc F
an,ains were embaImed by H. H. Will
Jams and will be placed, through the F
=, l,,,,- Of Tobu Fl Patty, in his vault