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Show FAMOUS DOWER Y IS NO E- t Prohibition and General Good ",' Responsible for Disappearancei Its Oidtime Characteristics, 1 New York's old-time Bowery i more. No final rites have marl ' passage, nor has the last roquie::. sung, but of recent months the t has been progressing swiftly at., ticeably. Only old-timers can rememlic' "Tub of Blood" and other f: dives, but now even the modern outs are disappearing one by or; fore the advent of national pr tion. Most potent of the changes in.' ica's former driftway of human f age is the virtual disappearan the "Bowery bum." A newspaa?' ture writer recently sojourned o: street for a time, and he reported the "bums" are now almost s least "casual workers, and that "e or a sizable roll of the "long g: abounds. |