“If, as the Arabs suppose, the spirits of gentlewomen are re-embodied in cats, there is a delicate appropriateness in this dedication of cat fur to the adornment of living gentlewomen.” –The New York Times, October 12, 1890 “What Smart Women Are Wearing” In the 1800s and early 1900s, furs were all the rage in Paris […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cat Stories’
1911: The Corona Cat Farm of Queens That Wasn’t
Posted: 8th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: ASPCA, Cat Stories, Corona Queens, fur coat, Henry Bergh, New York History
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1904: Jerry Fox, the Spectacled Cat of Brooklyn Who Saved Borough Hall
Posted: 27th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn Municipal Building, Cat Stories, Murphy Park, New York History
Recently, I wrote about Tom, the mascot of New York’s City Hall from 1891 to 1908. Tom may have acted as if he were the king cat of New York, but that’s probably because he didn’t know about his feline counterpart in Brooklyn. Jerry Fox, an enormous tiger cat “of striking appearance” who performed heroic […]
1891: Old Tom Cat, the Brazen Pampered Pet of New York City Hall
Posted: 3rd January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines, Feline MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Ellsworth Zouaves, Martin J. Keese, Marty Keese, Matthew T. Brennan, New York City Hall, New York History
It was a cold and wet day in 1891 when the homely tabby kitten with white paws first tried to make New York’s City Hall his manor home. Somehow he got the nerve to march up the steps and enter the front door, saunter down the long hallway, and calmly begin to lick his fur dry.
1922: A Christmas Feast for Woo-Ki and the Pirate Cats of Chelsea Piers
Posted: 17th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Christmas Cat TalesTags: Cat Stories, Chelsea Piers, Chelsea Pirate Cats, New York History, pirate cats, RMS Olympic, Sam Meders
During World War I and World War II, hundreds of cats from all over the world were left stranded on the Chelsea Piers in New York when the troopships they had stowed away on left the harbor without them. The news media called them the “Chelsea Pirate Cats.”
1899: Olympia, the Dewey Arch Cat of New York, and Her Christmas Kittens
Posted: 12th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Christmas Cat TalesTags: Cat Stories, Commodore George Dewey, Dewey Arch, New York History, USS Olympia
Prior to May 1898, 60-year old Commodore George Dewey was a little-known leader of the U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Fleet. All that changed during the Spanish-American War, when Dewey was wired from Washington to attack the Spanish navy in retaliation for Spain’s assail on the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. In honor of his success, New […]
