Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1920 — FAMOUS BOWERY IS NO MORE [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS BOWERY IS NO MORE

Prohibition and General Good Things Responsible for Disappearance of Its Oldtime Characteristics. New York’s old-time Bowery Is no more. No final rites have marked its passage, nor has the last requiem been sung, but of recent months the change has been progressing swiftly and noticeably. Only old-timers can remember the "Tub of Blood” and other famous dives, but now even the modern hangouts are disappearing one by one before the advfent of national prohibition. \' Most potent of the changes In. America's former driftway of human wreckage is the virtual disappearance of the “Bowery bum.” A newspaper feature writer recently sojourned on the street for a time, and he reported that the “bums” are now almost all at least casual workers, and that “cash,"" or a sizable roll of the “long green,” abounds.