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.
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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
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1904: Fanny and Mike, the Black Cat Mascots of the NYPD Harbor Police
Posted: 6th October 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the Mews, Feline MascotsTags: Cats of Old New York, Harbor Police, NYPD history, NYPD Mascots, Pier 1, Pier A, William Dean
October is Black Cats of Old New York Month!
On September 19, 1904, Captain William Dean of the NYPD Harbor Police contacted the New York Times to brag about the rescue of a large black cat. The cat, which the men named Mike, joined another black cat named Fanny on the Harbor Police patrol boat.
1928: Tiger Lil, the Feline Survivor of the Sinking of the S.S. Vestris
Posted: 24th August 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Seafaring CatsTags: Alfred Dinely, Lamport and Holt, mascot cat, S.S. Vestris, Ship Cat, William J. Carey
“No disaster story is quite complete without the rescue of at least one cat.”–Ithaca Journal, reporting on the sinking of the S.S. Vestris, November 15, 1928
On November 10, 1928, just around 4 p.m., the S.S. Vestris of the Lamport and Holt Line left her pier on the East River in Brooklyn. The steam ocean liner, which transported passengers from New York to South America and Liverpool, was bound for the Rio de la Plata with 128 human passengers, 198 crew members, and one feline mascot.
Nearly one-third of the people on board would not survive the trip. The cat would make it.
