It is perhaps natural that the social workers who attend the exhibit
drift back to the central room, where the artist’s pencil has so
sympathetically and vigorously transcribed the writings, which stress
and want and hope and striving spread over the faces of the steel
district, immigrant and native-born alike.
There are also some charcoal sketches of Pittsburgh at night which
did not lend themselves to magazine publication, but reflect
marvelously the smoke and energy of the river valleys.
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Steadfast and resourceful, with a strong body, a kind heart, a
reverent spirit, combining rare judgment with knowledge, a leader
well equipped for the service of her fellows has been lost to the
Pacific Coast in the death of Dr. C. Annette Buckel of Oakland, Cal.
Dr. Buckel was born in Warsaw, N. Y., in 1833. Earning the means for
her medical education by teaching, she rendered efficient service
in the United States military hospitals of the Southwest during the
last two years of the Civil War. She selected and supervised the
nurses, kept records in the absence of clerks, wrote letters for sick
soldiers, obtained furloughs for convalescents, and comforted the
dying.
Dr. Buckel is perhaps better known to readers of THE SURVEY, however,
for her work in other warfare: as president of the first milk
commission in California, which excluded tuberculous cows from the
dairy. In all her work she emphasized prevention rather than cure.
Through her efforts a school of cookery was opened, which resulted
in manual training becoming a part of the public school system in
Oakland. She was a director in the Mary R. Smith Trust from its
beginning, and took a personal interest in each little girl in the
cottage homes. So keen was her concern for handicapped children
that at her death she gave her home that the proceeds might help in
providing special training for such children.