On the evening of December 6, 1914, the veteran night watchman at the Central Park Menagerie was making his rounds when he heard Caliph Murphy II roaring from inside the lion house. Caliph II had never roared like that before, so the loud noise caught Louis Seibold’s attention. He looked toward the lion house and […]
Archive for March, 2014
1914: Caliph Murphy II, the Hippo That Saved the Central Park Lion House
Posted: 29th March 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Caliph II, Central Park Arsenal, Central Park menagerie, Central Park Zoo, John W. Smith, Mrs. Murphy, Thomas Frank Hoey
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1897: Superhero Policeman Fogarty and the Crime-Stopping Goats of East Harlem
Posted: 21st March 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Goats of New YorkTags: East Harlem, Goat Town, Goatville, Harlem Market, New York History, Old New York, Policeman Daniel J. Fogarty
The following story is dedicated in memory of the eight people who died in a building collapse in East Harlem, when a leak in a natural gas pipeline laid in 1887 exploded on March 10, 2014. If you’ve read Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” you may recall her describing “the one-story saloons, the wooden […]
