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Show mm gone N'EW YORK Nov. 20. At the old Bowery Mission, for more than four ilt i ;i(lfH the landing lower East Side, haven for destitute drunkards, lecture cIjs.sw In elementary sociology and philosophy and ducntlonal work nmong the ghetto's women and chll-(lnii chll-(lnii are taking tho place of or supplementing sup-plementing the work done there heretofore here-tofore for men without homes or food. ' Plops, and eats" as, shelter ami food are referred to by the oid-timo deni--. f the Bowery( are oo longer to be Ihs chief eolace aiforded to "iiop tieadp" and "bums" by this famous old lostltutiau. I Directors of the famous place have acknowledged time for more than 'feeding and bheltorlng from night to I night n horde of "floaters" and "boes." I Since its establishment 41 yc.-irs nfn I Bowery Mission workers have been I rushed with seemingly ceaseless ef-I ef-I forts to find food and sleeping room for long lines of those classed as down and out. Now, they say, tho advent of prohibition haa brought opportunity opportu-nity to lift then head! John G. Halllmond, Mission supcrln-itendent supcrln-itendent and Anson C. Baker, secretary, outlined the new situation- "There's ! still pliity of 'hootch' on the BOW- ery," thej id, "and plenty of drinkers drink-ers to cure for. "But H'a harder to get than It used to be. "We huvo almost as many men to look aftor as ever. When the palOOn went It did not take with It drugs and the like. But a fur greator percentage of them are sober, cloar-oyed and clear-bralncd. We are Increasing our 'educational work ajnohS the old j timers who heads usd to bo so Steeped In liquor that they could re- 'tain nothing but the address of tho I Mission. , ".We now have more opportunity to look around, a chance for educational i work among women and to start at I the bottom with the rising genera (tlon." ' SIxty-yenr-old "Christian John" Wcntz, n follower of the Mission for hair his life and still hanging on. added add-ed his word tu that of Mr Halllmond and Mr. linker. "The bum business Is dead," he said. "But if a Kuy had told mo ten years ago that thw day would como when! there wasn't enough boea :ind cokles (on the Bowery to keep thl place busy. and that the (Mission would deeld.. tu 'go to taking care of women and chll-dren, chll-dren, I'd hav uald he'd been 'cokinB' ! himself, or hitting the pipe." oo |