O. O. McIntyre // The Bowery is no more! The picturesque midrib of New York’s East Side squalor has flung off tattered garments. Instead of shiny serge, there is now the faint rustle of silk…Gold Tooth Fannie who once lived on the Avenue and fed the poor at dawn from a banjo-torched cart. The Sullivans—Big and Little Tim! Owen Kildare, the Bowery poet. Spike O’ Day who pawned his peg leg each morning and retrieved it at night with a beggar’s spoils…Sophie the Scrubwoman whose life-sized painting now hangs in the Doyers Street Mission. Blind Toots the singer of Chatham Square. Stubby Toliver the Bowery hackman. Salvation Annie! All are gone!
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