Posts Tagged ‘New York City History’

1899: The First Professional Dog Walker of New York City

Posted: 29th April 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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Approached by a curious reporter for the New York Times on a cold, wet day in January 1899, the young woman attracting so much attention on Fifth Avenue explained that she was getting paid by the Exchange for Women’s Work to walk dogs. The reporter did some investigating into this curious new dog walker career…

1909: The Monkey in the Red Bathing Suit at Roche’s Beach in Far Rockaway

Posted: 4th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Monkey Stories
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When Martin Ward, the attendant at Roche’s Beach Pavilion in Far Rockaway, Queens, found a tiny monkey in the bathing house, he brought him to the proprietor of the private beach resort. Edward Roche didn’t know what to do with the monkey, so he called the nearby police station for some help.

1925: Dunder, the Carnegie Hill Cat Who Survived a Suicide and Inherited a Fortune

Posted: 27th February 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Mrs. Elizabeth W. Berhm, a kindly widow of about 61 years old, had always devoted herself to animals. She was known in her Carnegie Hill neighborhood as the “cat woman” because her home was always open to stray cats. In her small, two-room apartment at the rear of 172 East 85th Street, milk and kindness were always waiting for any cat that needed it.

No doubt, then, the neighbors must have been shocked to learn that Elizabeth had almost taken the life of her own pet cat, Dunder, while she committed suicide.

1903, 1936: The Dog and Cat Mascots of FDNY Engine Company No. 65

Posted: 19th February 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Dog Mascots, FDNY Horses/Mascots
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In 1903, one of the most popular dog-and-cat dynamic duos of the FDNY were Dan and Nickie* of Engine Company No. 65. Forty years later, Chappy and Henry the pole-sliding cat were the canine and feline stars of the fire company. Here are their stories and photos.

1903: The Dog Bathhouse for High-Society Pups in Harlem

Posted: 5th February 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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When James A. Hogg, a professional rat catcher by trade, opened his new dog bathhouse in Harlem in 1903, it attracted much attention from the press. Sure, there were by this time several hospitals for dogs and other animals. And boarding houses for those wealthy pet owners who could afford it had also been around for years. But a bathhouse for dogs was quite a novel idea, even for a city where dogs were considered a luxury.

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