Evening star., 1920-01-08
new YORK CITY HAS
BECOME BUMLESS
Accent Rooms in BoWery
Lodging Houses Go Before
i. Cheaper Ones Taken.
BY HERBERT COREY.

NEW YORK, January s-This town
has run clean out of buns. Fact.
HoboS are as extinct as dodos. You
could go over the Bowery with
of the rare old breed Most of the
bsSgars have gone, too. Those that
are left are of the privileged sort, so
10 speak. They arc minus arms or
legs or they are very old.
This sounds incredible, l know. New
York always has been the wintering
place for ycGg, gaycat, panhandle
Al the other shades of tramp and
bum. They f1ocked to the big city
as soon as the rods began to gather
frost under the Pullman cars. Here
they lived in Bowery lodging houses
and mooched a living. Some of them
between times did a little light stick
'nE-up. Most preferred to whine for
niokels, with the bread line for a
safety clutch.
Demand Hisher-Priced Rooms.
Now they have disappeared. The
forty-cent rooms in the Bowery lodg-
ing houses used to be reserved for
the Prince of Wales. Nowadays they
so first The ten and fifteen cent
rooms do not fill up until the best
rooms are gone. The nickel flops are
still patroniZed, of course. but not as
they used to be. The bum population
Of the Bowery has not grown rich or
careful over night But the indecent
poverty of the past has been wiped
cut. The buns explain it themselves:
The closed saloon and the open
job" they say.
Not long ago one Of the philan-
thropic organizations planned a
drive" To open pocketbooks. a series
of plaintive pictures was needed. The
staff photographer was sent to the
parks to snap the city's cast-offs as
they shivered on the benches. But
there were no cast-offs. The benches
were empty. He finally repaired to a
lodging house and hired quartet for
20 cents each to do the bench shimmy.
we got the cush, see" said the
unfortunateS, turning out their pock
ct openings and showing their money.
But you're good guy, and We'll do
this for you"
The Underpaid Teacher.
Secretary Lane called the attention
of the public the other day to the
fact that teachers are drifting out
of a profession which does not pay
them enough to enable them to live
decently. That is undertaking the
real situation. A survey in New Jer-
sey recently disclosed the fact that
a rousta bout-the cheapest form of
manual labor-is paid more than the
average Jersey teacher.
But there is a more serious aspect
10 the situation. 1t is stated that in
a Massachusetts normal school 60 per
cent of the girl pupils come from
homes in which English is not spoken.
These girls are to be the school teach
ers of the future.
What lovely prospect for the
young Americans of tomorrow
Pnrior BoIsheviking Losing Favor.
Dean Manning the other day COM
mented bitterly on the continued fail
ure of the authorities to publish the
names of the parlor bolsheviki. who
"a in hn fcln
with checks. Apart from the fact
that their names would likely mean
nothing to the public-the average
American bolshevik would have. to
his Cat Club to identify him-Man-
ming is right. 1t would discourage
weekend bolsheviking. A little while
ago it was all the go to drink tea in
Greenwich Village and hear a self
determined bunch of whiskers preach
murder. This is no longer being done.
But Mannings comment on the need
OF action recalls to mind the story
Charles NJ. Schwab told at the dinner
of the American Steel Institute the
other day He said that farmer
once tried to sell him a COW. ITS
an awful good cow" said he.
Schwab asked for her pedigree
II don't know who her pa was"
said the farmer. But she's a good
COW"
Il don't know how much milkS she
gives" said the farmer. But I'll
tell you one thing. Mr.. Schwab. She's
an awful good COW. If she's got any
milk she'll give it to you"
Prince In Direct Need.
assisted the other day at what
may prove to be tie springs and
origin of the next great Internal ational
marriage. The press agent for an
organization which deals in philan-
thropy for Europe was talking:
IT want to bring a prince over
here next year" said he. Il think
can marry him to some nice Ameri-
can girl
.'Thatll be nice" I said. Especial
" for the prince"
That's right" said the press agent
seriously. ''There isn't royal family
in Europe that is open to him just
now. He could not get into some of
them-he amt such much of "a
prince. you know-and it would not
pay him to marry into some of the
others. They have no money or
thrones or palaces or anything left"
80 you think it would be "a good
idea for him to marry into some we'll
to-do factory family over here?'
Sure" said the press agent.
But IL the prince in question comes
to America swear I'll tell