The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-19

an extremely capable body of women
said Tenement House Commissioner De
be much surprised If they fail to do ex-
ceptionally efficient work. 1t Is easier to
get higher grade of women than men for
sanitary officers. The salary, $1,000 a year.
is higher for the educated, trained woman
than for a man of the same equipment.
Men of equal intelligence. training and
scholarship as the women qualified for this
position can command much higher sal
aries in other fields of work, consequently
the position would have little attraction
for them"
Miss Mary B. Sayles, graduate Of Smith
College. 1t is a gay plume in the cap of
the advocates of higher education that a
large proportion of the appointees are COL
lege bred. Miss Sayles is a teacher by pro-
fession, and is familiar with the tenement
house conditions, having made special in
eaens fr college sbs ba sso
worked for the Brooklyn Bureau of Chari-
ties
DR.. Margaret Brewster, second in per-
centage to Miss SayleS, was born in In
diana, educated in Kansas, and, after study
in Paris, had little success as church
and concert singer. Later she took up the
study of medicine. AT the New York In
Urinary for Women and Children she stud
led and practfced for two years before en-
tering the medical school of Cornell Uni
versity. Cornell conferred upon her the
degree of doctor of medicine. Since her
marriage TO physician of varied tenement
house practice, Dr. Margaret Brewster has
come close TO the poor, and she is in touch
with the prevalent evils that tenement
house law enforcement is expected to eradi-
cate. She is at present assistant physician
In the outdoor patient department. at the
Presbyterian Hospital, where often she has
as many as fifty patients day.
DR.. Gertrude Light is a Milwaukee woman
who, after taking her degree at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin,, entered the post
kins University. She was one Of the first
class of women to be graduated from that
medical school. DR.. Light conducts chill
dren's clinics at Bellevue Hospital
Miss Anna l.. Nevins has studied abroad
and linguist, her knowledge of many
foreign tongues will be of great service in
Barnard College will be represented by
Miss jeanette Moffet. special student in
charge of the department of social eco
nomics at the Paris Exposition of 1900
From the South comes Miss Emily w.
Dinwiddie, graduate Of the University OF
BEEN of the SeW Jerss ana s mas
Board of Childrens Guardians. Miss Din
widdie Is now an assistant agent and in
vestigator the New York Charity or.
ganization Society and compiler of its pres
ent directory of charities.
Xassar College comes to the fore with
MISS Helen ID. thompson, one of its early
A. BIS. Officially connected for some time
with the Charity Organization Society OF
New York, Miss Thompson recently took
the position of sanitary inspector of the
| Civic Sanitary Association of the Oranges
| n. j., which she will leave to take up the
| work of the Tenement House Department
normal school graduate and a teacher
| is Miss Mildred b. Fairfield. She was prin-
| cipal Of the City Training School at Lewis
! ton, Me-, and Manchester, n. III. Miss
Fairfield was recently appointed inspector
/ and supervisor of the Peoples University
| Extension Society of New York
| music teacher and a graduate of the
| New York School of Philanthropy is Mis-.
| Christine l.. kuntz. She is a sister OF
| George f. Kuntz, the authority on jewel.
| and collector of the famous Pierpont Nor
| gan collection at the Museum of Natura
| History.
The uniform which will be worn has mo-
| yet been decided upon.