Mary Miner was a proverbial crazy cat lady who lived with about 50 cats in a small, dingy room on Hamilton Street. The room was one of many in a ramshackle tenement called The Ship, a building on the Lower East Side with an interesting history dating back to the 1700s.
Archive for November, 2023
1913: Don, the Talking Dog Who Saved a Life at Brighton Beach
Posted: 7th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Heroes, Dog TailsTags: Brighton Beach, Don the talking dog, Hammerstein's, Hotel Shelburne, John Y. McKane, Martha Haberland, Riccadonna
In December 1910, the New York Times ran a large article who could speak and form sentences up to four words long. The talking dog lived in a small village in Germany with a game warden named Herman Ebers.
The dog, who had a very Germanic name–Don (ha ha)–spoke in German. Which is probably why he refused to speak with the press when he arrived in New York in 1913 to start his American vaudeville tour.
A fun doggie tale, with some fascinating history about Brighton Beach and the Hotel Shelburne.
