Show r a xo v w a cr J E r I er a A i I Lt t L. L Y u Z I m.- m. a s.- s. r The of th Famous 3 J re Ls L C. C Yb r And Now There Are Those Who Would Change Chane ix t i x jr t Name of the Historic Old Thoroughfare Claims r That the Stigma Attached to the Present Name dd r Detrimental to Business Progress and They Blan Blame c cr r t. t t All on the Old Bowery Song But But v AF y Sketched from Life by Herb Roth of QUEER 1 I I Ij II j I FRUtT STAND CAB FOR I WORK woR WOR 1 WONT r WORK K i if F f l lF fi r r A ASo So HE'S HES AFf D pi H HIMSELF IMS LF r 5 I y R Murt i c i PAL BUILD ATs F FROM THE Dr y ARTHUR ARTHU HANGE the name name of the Bowery Co V i As Aswell s W well 11 expect the leopard to change change his spots pots In a rainstorm At intervals intervals ls of af about five years some one ane rises rises to remark as was the case re recently recently re- re re- re that the stigma attaching of yore to t-o the name of New Yorks York's most mast historic thor thoroughfare Is d detrimental to business progress ss Out ut of the dead past a a. sa song g IS is is resurrected and charged with having made the Bowery what it i is 1 to The Bowery the Bowery ran the familiar doggerel They do such things things' and they thet say such things on the Bowery That dear old name name as the late Big Tim Sullivan put it it originated in the fact that as a road raad the Bowery r ran n through Peter Stuyvesant's farm or bouwer Hence it was known as the at th the time wl when en Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington rode its unpaved ved stretch after the British evacuation In No November November vember 1783 For years It was aristocracy's aristocracy's aris aris- toc acy's promenade Society foregathered fore rore- foregathered gathered at Atlantic Gar Garden en and tho Thalia Theatre Then with the invasion of immigrants immigrants grants and the their r petty shops the Uie section section sec sec- tion tian came upon upon evil evl days The rhe fame of the Bow Bowery rY Boys aYS went abroad Visitors to New York Toik felt feIt cheated un un- less they WERE WEKE cheated heated to the thrilling thrilling thrilling thrill thrill- ing accompaniment of the underworld romance in Suicide Hall HaU Mikes 1 and Steve teve Brodle's Brodies Bradle's be toe who press press his his' saloon into gilt edged revenues by Jumping off aff the Brooklyn Bridge World-wide World is the reputation of ot the Bowery Some years ago even in Paris pOpularly Paris popularly pictured as the home hame I of the naughty naughty-naughty Montmartre and its treacherous Apache Apach even Apache even ven in Paris tribute was paid to New Yorks York's street of af a a. million derelicts by th the staging of a production called Danse Darise d de Bowery Time was when every on the Bowery Bowry led Jed to some same sort of separating money parlor Jar for far the luckless luckless luck luck- less les visitor There was the dime museum museum museum mu mu- seum with its ballyhoo outside who hinted vaguely that all the laws of I p physiology had been suspended in the tho case case of Queen descend of the Hindus and the fattest W won wot I Ion on earth Then there was the the- Garbed In the garments of the bl hl art he could tell from the tho bumps your head how haw much money y yc have some same day not day not how haW little yc have hav up upon on leaving him specialist would test your pour heart charge y you u a afee fee that proved he nr nc nt ed no DO nerve nerve test himself And if U protested there ther ve were ugly look fellows ornamenting the h hallway i waiting for far some exercise Chinatown erstwhile spawn spawn place of iniquity is situated at foot foat of the Bowery Its nari nad nan streets twist about like ground roots from which to send 1 sap into the broad braad street of houses hauses and bread lines But the only viciousness that Chi town retains is in its evil s sound evil name The The Thep p police lice have cleaned the district quite completely much so sa that sightseeing are not nat half as much in evide there as they were a few years age agi W When en you visit New York tb th days you cant can't even stir up a n pleasurable half-frightened half from seeing the fake opium jol For a time the rubberneck auto bile companies compani supported sever several l these joints Joints so that their patr pair might not nat be disappointed One Oner r a shackle hackle house in Street ithe i 1 the scene of Georgie Yee's wild tics tics halt half crazed he was poor fell 1 from fram smoking sl so much opium of or third gr grade de the police alice said and a absolutely harmless And so ISO the Bowery Is to today thriving business section Gone Gona dives the the dime museums the e av dies The Bowery now naw has se banks and many business houses unimpeachable probity And the m sn chants want a cant can't take taka away away the Bowery's rich by changing its name tl V say A rose by any other na Ita would smell as sweet True the rose is a a. flower flower flower-a a rose is all tures ture's beauty if it you yau will And Bowery is is tile the Bowery |