O. O. McIntyre //
Times have changed on the Bowery. The 10 cent lodging house is back. During the war and thereafter the price of a “flop” was 25 cents. Mitten Heck’s, The Alcazar, Oscar’s, The Poindexter and Abel Cohen’s have reduced their prices. There is an echo of hard times on this brooding, sullen street. The casual laborers look just a bit more seedy and the overcoats they wore last winter are missing. The cheap rooms are simply large square boxes, open at the top except for a wire grating, with a small door in one side and containing a narrow cot, stool and tiny locker. The suite de luxe is always 30 cents. It has a regular bed, a chair and a looking glass. In the evening the guests sit in the dim lit office looking out upon the wide stretches of the Bowery. They resent conversation and are ever suspicious of each other.
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