“A single member of this [cat] family has been known, on a ‘rush’ night, to devour three and a half columns of presidential possibilities, seven columns of general politics, pretty much all but the head of a large and able-bodied railroad accident, and a full page of miscellaneous news, and then claw the nether garments […]
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1884: Mutilator and the Legendary Newspaper Office Cats of The Sun
Posted: 15th September 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Charles Dana, Helen Winslow, New York History, Office Cat, The Sun, Willard Bartlett
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1886: General Muff, the Sophisticated Literary Cat of New York’s Upper East Side
Posted: 28th August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: 505 Park Avenue, Cat Stories, Henry Clay Overin, Mary Louise Booth, Mineola Garage, New York History, Upper East Side
May it be long before Muff’s gracious personality requires an epitaph, but when that time comes, the following lines will apply to him as fitly as to the one for whom they were written, the poet Whittier’s cat, Bathsheba:“Whereat none said ‘Scat!’Better cat never satOn a mat, or caught a rat,Than this cat. Requiescat!”–Famous Pets […]
1939: Snooky, the Sophisticated, Salmon-Loving Cat of New York’s City Hall
Posted: 16th May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Fusion, New York City Hall, New York History, Snooky, Tom Halton
On May 3, 1939, one month after popular City Hall cat Tammany died at the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital, an 11-month-old multicolored female cat from Woodside, Queens, made her debut at City Hall. The cat was the pet of City Hall night watchman Tom Halton, who had been greatly saddened by the passing of Tammany. […]
1927: Ranger I and Ranger III, the Mascot Cats of the New York Rangers Hockey Team
Posted: 14th May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Harry Westerby, Hopper Farm, Lester Patrick, Madision Square Garden III, New York History, New York Rangers, Tex Rickard, The Great Kill
New York Rangers trainer Harry Westerby discovered Ranger in the winter of 1927. The little girl cat was cold and whimpering outside the steel door of the hockey dressing room in back of Madison Square Garden III, so Westerby brought her indoors.
1920: Jack Bleeck and Minnie, the Mascot Mouser of a Men-Only Speakeasy
Posted: 11th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Artist and Writers Club, Cat Stories, Cat Tales, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, John Bleeck, New York History
It was a cold November night in 1920 when good luck brought the orphan kitten to the Opera Café at 561 Seventh Avenue (near 40th Street). John “Jack” Bleeck, who had just taken over the place after working as a bartender there for nine years, saw the kitten outside and invited her in.
