The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
Modest Little Physi-
clan Adored by the
Poor She Has Aided
for Years and Hon
>,ored by Fellows
By EILEEN o'coNNoR.

have registered deeply Embedded impress
sions.
That it is not true that the East Slider
lives in the eongested submerged part of
the city from choice. He wants to escape
those conditions and does as quickly as he
ear.
That the East Side is not static, but
in a state of flux. 1t is as restless, of
movement as constant, as the sea.
That in forty years she has seen IS
per cent. of the population of the East
Side move to more hygienic and congenial
regions in and about New York
That the East Side is richer per capita
this year than it has ever been before
Riches in this instance do not mean a
plenitude of possessions, but that state
which is its forerunner, freedom from
debt.
That the East Side is in a continuous
stage of evolution. The third generation
marks the transition into purely Ameri-
can type of good citizen.
That the regions to which the gradu-
ated East Slider removes are The Bronx,
Staten Island and New Jersey.
Honored BY 800 Physicians.
The friend, apologist, counsellor and
guide of the East Side is DR.. Annie
Sturges Daniel. At the banquet rendered
her by the women physicians and surgeons
Of New York, and at which 800 of the most
eminent healers in the city paid the tribute
of their presence and their speech to her,
DR.. Abraham jacob, who has been called
the Nestor of the medical profession of
New York, said: "0ur distinguished and
ulselfsh little friend has learned more in
the East Side tenements than have some
of us in Fifth avenue mansions" DR..
Gertrude Kelly said of her: $50 dear has
DR.. Daniel become to the residents of the
East Side that her patients refer in the
same breath and tone to God and DIR.
Daniel.'D
Round the brilliant board at which sat
men and women whose names are house
hold words in the temple Of medicine went
the whisper:
81 don't believe the dear little doctor
ever wasted the time getting into low
necl1ed frock before"
She looked very serious, very sur
prised, a little frightened. and to her
neighbors at the table she said: II really
don't know why You are doing all this for
me-"
Made Her Understand at Last.
The three hundred doctors tried to en-
tighten her. By the time they had reached
mats and coffee they had made her under
stan' at least in what light they saw her
illustrations to the crowded
poor In Il" most congested part of the
largest city the world. They toasted
her in wine she could not drink as "The
Friend of the Poor and "Tlre Ministering
Angel of the East Siosr
"How have you accustomed yourself to
the evil smells?' asked dainty practi-
toner
Il didn't notice any SMELLS" responded
the little doctor.
allow have you kept your limbs whole
on those rickety stairs y asked a physician
who goes on his professional tours in his
Limousine.
"They were always strong enough to
hold me-" was the reply of the little
doctor.
"Why have you never tired Of work
among the poor and taken up more lucra-
tive practicef" asked many. To all Of the
1uestioners she made the same answer:
1T has always interested me-"
"Don't you grow very tiredf
81 am seldom tired"
She did not quote from the hospital
records, as others did, that she and her
assistant visited $4,000 homes of sick poor
in New York in one year.
Her official title is head of the outdoor
work of the New York Infrmary for
Women and Children. The fine old hos