The Washington herald., 1914-03-27
Who's Who Among Women
Of Big Accomplishments
BY NARY .. MuLLErr.

People had q mania a few years age
for singing a song about Put Ne on al
Buffalo." I intend to repeat the familiar
refrain the next time approach that
city.
And when am ''off" shall make my
very best bow to Buffalo and tell 1t that
II il never did anything else to be
thanked for. 1t at least deserves public
gratitude because 1t was the birthplace
Of Annie s. Daniel.
Any city should be proud to claim I
woman who has done as much good ax
DR.. Daniel has. For thirty-five years
ever since she graduated from q New
York medical college, she has carried
healing and comfort to the poor Of the
East Side tenements.
When she got her diploma she was %
young that It was absurd to think OF
beginning a general practice of her own.
She was a mere slip Of . girl then.
People who engaged their own doctors
would have regarded her with skeptical
amusement
But the managers Of the New York In
firmary for Women and Children knew
q good opportunity when 1t came their
way. They found that this giriish NJ. D.
had not only skill. but health. enthusi-
asm, and a wonderful personality. They
those qualities and they were finding II
hard to discover one.
So they asked yJung DR.. Daniel how
she would like to take the 'out prac-
tice" of the infirmary. The salary was
not munificent. The work was exacting
and disagreeable. 1t meant going into
the crowded tenements day after day
and treating the sick who were too poor
to pay a doctor Of their own choosing.
Small Inducement.
Other women physicians had tried the
work, but they had given II UP as soon
as they could. They wanted to practice
among their own kind" where condi-
tions were pleasanter and fees were
larger. There were no fees at all in this
infirmary out practice; only a salary from
the hospital. and not a big one at that.
But young Dr.. Daniel was made of
different stun. She took the chance Of
fered her. And from that day to this
she has devoted herself. heart and soul
and body. to the poor Of the East Side.
She gives every day, and often all day
long. to the work. And many a time the
night itself is far gone before she Is
back in her own apartment.
In the course of these thlrty-five years
she has treated hundreds of thousands
OF poor immigrants. In order to talk to
learned German. Italian Gncluding various
dialects), and Yiddish, the common Ian
guage of the Jews. Now she is begin
ming to study modern Greek, as We are
having a large influx Of people Of that
nationality.
She has seen hundreds Of wretched,
poverty-stricken immigrants become pros
porous men and women. The children
whose lives she saved when they hardly
seemed worth Faving now stop their auto
mobiles to say to the little doctor hurry
ing along on her errands of mercy:
You don't remember me. DIR. Daniel,
but I shall never forget you"
She isn't the kind OF woman II Is easy
to forget. Her fine head. with its wavy
gray hair: her steady. warm brown eyes:
her strong, kindly face; her whole per-
son and personality. in fact, are unfor-
gettable. It Is said that people-men.
women. and children-on the East Side
know DIR. Daniel better than they know
any other one person.
Strong sunraRiat.
She Is a strong suffragist Last sum-
mer she had TO go to one Of the political
meetings in order to make a plea in be-
half Of the suffragists. The meeting was
IN a room back of a saloon and the place
was crowded with men. I could not help
smiling when she told me, as II II were
seemed to know her.
Know her! OF course. they did. She
hasn't tried to make them know her.