On November 27, 1907, the very first train to go to Brooklyn via the new Battery-Joralemon Tunnel left the Wall Street station in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m. This train carried about 200 men, including officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, engineers, and reporters. Oh yeah, and a mixed-breed dog named Subway Nellie. In my […]
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1907: Subway Nellie, the Dog That Christened the IRT East River Subway Tunnel
Posted: 5th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn Borough Hall, East River Tunnel, Interborough Rapid Transit, Joralemon-Battery Tunnel, New York City Subway, New York History, Subway Nellie
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1908: The Lion Cub That Lived at The Plaza Hotel With Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy
Posted: 18th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Feline MascotsTags: Animal Tales, General Daniel E. Sickles, lion cub, New York History, Plaza Hotel, Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, The Plaza
Once upon a time – June 1908, to be exact – an eccentric pseudo-princess portrait painter named Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy came to New York City, where she lived at the Plaza Hotel with a menagerie of wild animals.
1895: Sport Hopper, the Fox Terrier That Left a Legacy for New York Pets
Posted: 10th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Ida Mosher Hopper, New York History, Samuel Johnson, William DeWolf Hopper, Woodlawn Cemetery
I think it was Sport Hopper, the nine-month-old fox terrier of the Hopper household on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, whose much-publicized burial paved the way for the first pet cemetery in the United States.
1935: Paddy Reilly, the Irish Terrier Host of New York’s Animal Christmas Party
Posted: 20th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 313 East 58th Street, Alice Manchester, Animal Tales, Greenwich Village Humane League, Humane Society of New York, New York History, Paddy Reilly
In previous posts, I wrote about the reindeer on display at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1944, and about the horses that delivered the first public Christmas tree to Madison Square Park in 1912. In this story, I’m going to tell you about Paddy Reilly and the annual Christmas tree and party for New […]
1930: Thanksgiving Treats for the Loyal Fox Terriers of the Lower East Side
Posted: 23rd November 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Alfred E. Smith Houses, ASPCA, Hart Island, New York City History, Potter's Field, Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving story is dedicated to Old Tom and his fox terriers, and to all the other nameless and unfortunate souls who are interred with him on this island of the dead.
