When the police began incarcerating stray cats in the jail cells at the Stagg Street station, their mascot cat was none too pleased to share his home with the mongrel intruders. He was willing to put up a good fight to preserve his domain.
Archive for the ‘Cat Mascots’ Category
1921: Minnie, the Feline Mascot of the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights
Posted: 14th July 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Hotel Cats, Hotel St. George, John Middagh, William Tumbridge
The Algonquin Hotel may have had Billy and Rusty the cats, and the Hotel Lincoln may have had Abe the cat, but these male cats could not be mothers. Minnie was not only the mascot of the Hotel St. George, but she was a mother to 160 kittens.
1915: Pussy Suff, the Cheerleading Cat of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association
Posted: 22nd June 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Woman Suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt, Cats of Old New York, suffrage movement
There is a saying that goes, “Cats rule. Dogs drool.” When it came to picking a side during the women’s suffrage movement in Brooklyn, the cat in this story ruled. She picked the winning side–the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association.
