This is one of my longer stories — which is why it took me so long to post — but it’s chock full of New York City and Murray Hill history. In July 2013, I wrote about the police dogs of Parkville Brooklyn, who came to America in 1907 and were the first canine police squad […]
Archive for the ‘Dog Tails’ Category
1908: The Belgian Sheepdogs That Came to New York on the Tail End of a Jewel Heist
Posted: 14th August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 70 Park Avenue, Belgian sheepdogs, Carolyn Fellowes Morgan, Claude J. Heritier, David P. Morgan, Murray Hill, New York History, police dogs, Robert Murray
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1917: Zowie, the Beloved English Bulldog of Vernon and Irene Castle
Posted: 1st August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Edward Bliss Foote, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Hubert Townsend Foote, Irene Castle, Major Frederic McLaughlin, New York History, Robert E. Treman, Vernon Castle, Zowie
“Her death last year was the hardest to bear of any – until his came. Somehow I like to think that her little soul was waiting to greet his, so that he mightn’t feel strange or alone in the great world above us. I can see her jumping and running for joy and licking his […]
1908: Kingsley Swan and Yankee Stone, His Champion Bulldog Murdered in Brooklyn
Posted: 17th July 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill, Henry Aldrich Granary, John Spader, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Kingsley Swan, Mabel Lorraine Miller, Robert Graves, Wallabout Bay, Yankee Stone
Although the story of Yankee Stone is not very interesting on its own, Kingsley Swan and the other people and places surrounding the dog and his death in Fort Greene are quite fascinating, and provide a unique look at high society Brooklyn during the Gilded Age. “The good citizens who reside in the aristocratic Clinton […]
1909: Uno, the Cross-Dressing, Mind-Reading Canine Star of the Fifth Avenue Theatre
Posted: 30th May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Dog TailsTags: Apollo Hall, Augustin Daly, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Isaac Varian, J.C. Pope, New York History, Old New York, Peter Gilsey
During vaudeville’s heyday in the late 1800s and early 1900s, animal performances were a dime a dozen on New York stages and rooftop gardens, such as Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre. One of the most famous performing pooches was Uno, a nondescript male terrier that was billed as “The Mind-Reading Dog,” “The Educated Dog,” and “The Dog with a Human Brain.”
