Evening star., 1896-12-28
FUNERAL OF .skATE FIELD
Tribute to the Memory Of the Talented
Writer.
The President AMenx Thone who
mirer's Estimate Of Her Life.

FuReral services over the remains of Miss
Kate Field were held fl San Francisco YES
terday. Rev. George Walk, rector of Trim
fty Episcopal Church. a former friend OF
the deceased read the burial services OF
the Episcopal Church over the remains.
The building was flied. The interior was
decorated with potted plants and ferns,
while the chancei was banked with floral
offerings. Among the most beautiful was
Mr.. II. H. Kohlsaat's tribute. an urn stand
ing six feet high. of white ehrysanthe-
NUNS with base Of California yielets.
the urn being entwined with 4 wreath of
American Beauty roses, while the top was
nlled with a cluster of roses and chrysan-
themums, the whole bearing the inscrip-
ton:
she represented the best elements of the
press and of the country"
President and Mrs. Cleveland sent a beau
tiful wreath of roses and ferns, tied with
long violet ribbons. The black velvet cask-
ct was entirely covered with a pail of Cali
fornia vfolets, the tribute of Mrs George
Crocker of New York. so .i.-''
AT the conclusion of the church services
the remains were escorted to Odd Fellows
cemetery and placed in the chapel connect
ed with the crematofy. Here the rector
concluded the burial service, the casket
was lowered into the receiving room and
the body prepared for the retOEt. Today
the ashes will be placed In a metallic urn
and shipped east for interment.
Lesson of Kate Fields Life.
Henry e. Helghton of San Francisco,
prominent lawyer and a devoted admirer
of Miss Kate Field, has written the follow
ing tribute to her memory for the Asso-
stated Press:
The great lesson of Kate Fields life and
death is her intense patriotism, which now,
above all other periods, should command
universal respect She was an American
to the core. broad tolerant. without fanat-
lcism or biigotry of any kind, and devoted
TO human freedom on our constitutional
basis. Like Gen. Grant she had Travelled
widely, and had met the most distinguished
thinkers and statesmen of Europe; but
ike him. she returned to her own land
even more deeply imbued than before with
the spirit of our Institutions in their happy
combination of individual sovereignty. state
autonomy ana national unity. The aspira-
tions OF her soul, as expressed orally and
IN the solemnities of her will, were that
her ashes should mingle with her native
soil, and that her individuality should be
respected by the flag. A writer of unusuai
power, she never unsexed herself but in
oeahng with important questions for fully
a quarter of a century she discussed them
as an American woman, intellectual cu1ti-
waited refined and. under condition trte to
hatlonai Ideals. She was familiar with the
pest literature or the world, and conveyed
the loftiest thoughts and the purest sentf-
ments IN language so clear and so telling
that many of her phrases have become mart
OF that popular education Of which she was
SO enthusiastic champian.
omen of her type and clfarac ter tram
ed and armed the bepoes of our reyou-
tionary war in the dark history of the re-
public, such women GofisEcrat ted their chill
dren to their American conceptions of
freedom and of independence; and though
toward the closing Years of the century
patriotic education has dwindled in it's
extent and earnestness, that type of Ameri-
can women is rot extinct, but in any ma
tionai emergency that may arise will be
revived ana reinvigorated by the example
and by the life OF Kate Field
10 this state her services We're at once
valuable and unique. GShe spread the story
OF our ach evements and of our resources
all over the Union With,a practical sagac-
lty that shamed manyigof our citizens.
she anticipated and predicted the mighty
future OF the Pacific coast, She boldly re-
pudiated all narrow, ,aRd transcendental
views which thwartad our progress and
injured our local industries and she bore
her testimony to our capacity for indus
trial. moral and Intellectual development
by pervading the most definite facts with
the blended power of philosophy and pa
triotism.
1T Is fitting, therefore, that the obse-
quies of this noble and gifted woman should
nave feen marked by national rec ognition
ana peculiarly appropriate that they should
have oeen celebrated in the state of Cali
fornia, to which much of her best work
during her later years was consecrated
When the unanimity and fervor with
which the last honorS to her memory have
been paid are correctly realized. it will
prove that not only here, but throughout
the Union: not only through the Union.
but throughout the world she being dead.
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