“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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘New York History’
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
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 […]
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 […]
1880: Hindoo, the Hall of Fame Horse That Raced on Avenue X in Sheepshead Bay
Posted: 6th July 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Coney Island Jockey Club, Dwyer Stables, Hindoo, New York History, Phil Dwyer, Prospect Park Fair Grounds, Sheepshead Bay Race Track
“It is believed there is no track in the country so popular as that of the Coney Island Jockey Club, which lies almost in hearing distance of the ever-sounding seas…The drive to the track through Prospect Park and Ocean Parkway in itself is sufficient to put any one in good humor with himself and the […]
