New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
DOC. Flood Bids Bowery Goodby
To Wed Love of Boyhood Days
Dainty Old Lady of Green Mountains His One Time
Fiancec, Takes Famous Character of Bygone
Days Back Home to Die Man

Tine moped backward on the Bowery
Yesterday al the benes. Of dainty Old
lady from the Green Mountains Of
Ncrmont; backward until Iiddisl gave
place to Irish; backward through and
beyond the golden days Of "1hc Big
Fellow"; backward almost to the days
OF the Dead Rabbits" and the "Whyo
Gang when the gold brick man met
the trains in Madison Square, when
lop-hatted railroad kings drove hard
trotting bays down the thoroughsare
10 their offices: backward to the bad
old registering BLACK Crook" days.
Just for an hour or so all the genuine
good fellowship that was hidden be-
meath the clustering wickedness Of pre-
Lcxow days returned from the ghostly
past to speed the parting between Doc
+ Flood and the Bowery.
The Bowery almost got" Doc Flood
and had pursued him Tor moro than
forty years. The Brooklyn Rridee vas
an engineers dream. when Doc FIood
came to New York from tne Green
Mountains under his own name OF
Ethan Allen Grcenway, determined that
name should connotc riches and power
before he returned again to the Green
Mountain farm.
Old Love Left Behind
Back on farm not far from Bratte-
horo was Salina Worthington, for
{ whom the world held nothing too good,
but young Ethan Alien Greenway in
tended to sec to it that the world did
its best for her-throush Ethan Allen
Grecnway, OF course. But the young
Vermonte found the world none too
ready to acknowledge its debt and the
CITY most amazingly complex.
His savings dwindled and he drfted
from hotel to rooming house and from
roomine house to lodging house, and
in one of The lattcr-on the Bowery--
the scanty remnant of his capital was
stolen. Then the BoWery began its
stealthy stalking OF Ethan Allen Green
way. lie became a hanger-on in bar
rooms and backrooms, free lunch
marauder, and at last park bench Ish-
mael. Then he got job porter
in a Bowery saloon and for more than
the Rowery.
Porter, bounccr. bartender, sparring
partner tattoocr and lobbygow spelled
the rise and decline Of the young Yer
monter as it did Of the street itself,
and the climactit career made o! hope
full. outstanding Ethan Allen Greenway
slacklpped, gray bearded, ncxt-to-
hopeless Doc Flood
Rounccr in Saloon
He was bouncer in the same saloon
where Owen Frawlcy Kildare. The un-
heralded "Kiplng Of the Rowcry," laid
violent and unpoetic hands upon
chronic violators Of the free lunch
privilege He was bartender in the
Dead House where reckless thirst
was privileged. for nickel paid in adj
vance, to draw fiery liquor from q cask
through rubber hose until compelled
to pause for breath, when. according to
house rules, nickel's worth had been
consumed. II seved glasses and break
age. and only an adept could gulp more
than q swallow or so without pnusc.
The Morgue" also had his services \
as bartender Mt n time when i, was thc
gathering place for crooks Of hign and
low degree. who divided their plunder
IN TIC backroom with mary gun and
knife Gght. He also presided >y;tL
muscular dignity behind the hnr OF ,ne
Ea%'cr street resort toe back roon. Of
which vas known as ..the "Vchot
Room TO which any one with a nickel