The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-04
TWO FAMOUS CATS ARE DEAD.
Pete Did Not Long Survive His Conn
pnniOn, Mig.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.


From the Brooklyn Eagle
Pete end Mig, two famouse cats OF
Brooklyn, are dead. Mig died of consump-
tion a few days since and Pete, who was
16 years old, died two days later. AL
though Pete was expected to die at any
time because of old age, it is generally
believed he expired of grief ever the loss
of Mig, whose companion he had been for
II years. These cats probably had the
friendship of more men than any other
cats ever had and although cats usually
find their friends of the human race
among the weaker sex, these two were
never known to have a woman friend
Pete, who was yellow and weighed q
pounds, had lived on the bar of James
Mmphys cafe, at the corner of Broadway
and Berry street, for 16 years. He was an
oVergroxn kitten when he walked into
the place 16 years ago, and because of his
size was suffered to remain. He was
placed upon the bar to be admired by
customers and soon learned how to gain
the admiration of men. He would wan
der from one end of the bar to the other
and submit to having his fur rubbed, the
right way, until he was tired, when he
would walk around the end of the back
bar and there, with as much care as a
hen would move her eggs in a nest, Pete
would push glasses aside to make a space
large enough to lie down in. He was never
known to break a glass. Pete held undis-
puted sway on the bar for six years.
Eleven years ago Mig, who, as his name
indicates did not have a hair that was
not coal black, and who tipped the scales
at % pounds, entered the cafe and ap-
peared to have determined to make his
home there. One cat was believed to be
enough around the place by all but Pete.
Time and again Mig was chased out only
to return. Pete championed his cause and
when Mig was chased Pete would follow
and the two would return together.
Nig's persistence finally overeahe all
opposition and Pete and he thereafter
shared the admiration Of the frequenters
of the place. Mig showed symptoms of
consumption last fall and was given
box under the bar to sleep in. Pete then
left his accustomed perch on the bar to
sleep with Mig in the box, and the solici-
rude he showed for his dying comrade
was touching. He would never eat until
he had picked out the smallest pieces of
meat offered him and placed them tempt
ingly before his sick fellow If Mig would
not eat Pete would stroke his coat With
his tongue. No one had ever had more
gentle and patient nurse than Pete was
to Mig, and when the latter died recently
Pete refused to eat. He lay in the box
alone as though he realized that his oc-
cupation was gone, until two days later,
when he, too, ceased to breathe. Pete
was the wiser and more sagacious of the
he knew everything there was to be
done about the place, except to put the
money that came over the bar into the
cash register, but the old cat appeared
to know which way money placed on the
bar was to go and if a coin was placed on
the polished mahogany board Pete
would brush it off with his paw and al
ways cause it to drop behind the bar,
because he saw the bartenders brush 1t
off the bar with one hand to be caught
in the other On the occasions of sport
ing events or elections, when crowd
gathered about the TICKER, Pete would get
on a shelf under the ticker and watch
the tape as 1t recorded results and would
not leave his perch until the last man
about the ticker withdrew. The cats are
now being stuffed and will occupy their
old places on the back bar. where they
used to sleep.