Part I of a Parkville Precinct Puppy Tale In 1907 the Police Department of the City of New York, under the command of Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham, sent Inspector George R. Wakefield to Paris and Ghent, Belgium, to look into acquiring some police dogs. Police dogs had been gaining popularity in Europe since their first […]
Posts Tagged ‘New York History’
1908: Max, the Hero Police Dog of Parkville, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn, Flatbush, George R. Wakefield, New York History, NYPD, Parkville Police, police dogs
1899: The City-Bred Cats and Dogs of the New Utrecht Kennels
Posted: 5th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn, Cat Stories, Chelmsford Farm, dogs, Flatbush, Frederick Webster, Knickerbocker Field Club, New Utrecht, New York History
Once upon a time, there was a cat and dog boarding house nestled in the thick woods near 49th Street and 10th Avenue, in what was then the town of New Utrecht, Brooklyn, in Kings County, New York. The kennels, advertised as the Chelmsford Stock Farm, were just a stone’s throw from Fort Hamilton Avenue […]
1912: The French Chickens Who Went Down With the Titanic
Posted: 22nd June 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Animals on the Titanic, Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor, Ella Holmes White, John Hall Hutchinson, Marie Grice Young, New York History, Titanic
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland. Of the 2,228 passengers and crew members who had set sail across the Atlantic Ocean to New York, we know that only 705 survived.
What many may not know is that several roosters, hens, and chicks were also making the journey on the ship’s maiden voyage. They never reached their new home in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
1897: Ginger, the “Live Oak” Fire Cat of the Lower East Side
Posted: 12th June 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: Baruch Houses, Black Jake Engine Company, Cat Stories, Engine Company 11, fire cat, Isaac Webb, Live Oak Engine Company, Lower East Side, Metropolitan Fire Department, New York History
In a recent post, I wrote about Ginger, a well-loved fire dog for Hook and Ladder Co. No. 5 of New York’s Metropolitan Fire Department. The following tale is also about Ginger, but this mascot was a fire cat for a historical fire company once called the Live Oak Engine Company. In 1894, an orange […]
1946: The Cat Who Broke Rank with the Dogs of Operation Bow-Wow
Posted: 31st May 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Chelsea Piers, Liberty ship, New York History, Operation Bow-Wow, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Warren P. Marks
On February 20, 1946, the Liberty ship SS Warren P. Marks arrived at Chelsea Piers (Pier 60) on the Hudson River carrying 81 dogs and “one live cat from Bremerhaven, Germany.” The dogs and cat had all been obtained overseas during World War II by American soldiers who wanted to keep them as pets back home.