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Show What Becomes Of Old New Yorkers? In Bruce Barton's novel, The Making Mak-ing of deorge Groton, which Is now running in tho American Magazine, tho author says: "No one Is old In Now York. They , drain In every year from all parts j of tho country millions of men, i young and vibrant. They stay and work, nnd grow Into middle ago; and then suddenly they vanish. Ono may walk for blocks on Fifth Avenue or Broadway and hardly seo anyone over fifty. Whero do they go to? No ono seems over to dlo; no funerals funer-als clog the traffic. Thoro aro plenty plen-ty of funerals, of course, but you do not notlco t hem as you do In n small town. I have.wandered for hours In tho big woods, wondering where tho blrdB go to when they die; and never yet have I run across tho body of a dead bird. What becomes of old birds? What becomes be-comes of old Now Yorkers? These are twin mysteries to me. I cannot unravel them." |