Davis County Clipper | 1919-02-28 | Page 6 | Famous Bowery is No More

FAMOUS BOWERY IS NO MORE prohibition and general good times responsible for disappearance of its characteristics new yorks old time bowery is no more no final rites have marked its passage nor has the last requiem been sun sung 1 but of recent months the change has as been progressing swiftly and noticeably tice ably 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 advent of national prohibition most potent of the changes in americas former driftway of human wreckage Is the virtual disappearance of the bowery bum A newspaper feature writer recently sojourn ed on the street tor for a time and he reported that the burns bums are now almost all at least casual workers ind and that cash or a sizable roll roil of the long green abounds