“He will not permit any familiarity with any one now, except railway mail clerks, and as he stood in the door of an L and N mail car in the Grand Central Station last night he took delight in growling at all passers-by who stopped to look at him.”Ī month later, after a jaunt through Tennessee, St.
His cantankerous nature was on full display: The Enquirer noted that the little dog had put on a few pounds, apparently not able or willing to turn down a handout. Word quickly got around and hundreds of Cincinnati fans crowded the station where Owney held court from his mail car. It was another year before Owney made it back to Cincinnati, just passing through on his way southward. Somehow, Owney made it back from Mexico and arrived in Chicago in time to be displayed at the World’s Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World’s Fair) in the U.S. McLean.’ Before the dog’s departure for Mexico last night the local Post Office clerks had engraved a silver medal which was added to the already large list now belonging to the dog.” Among the several dozen medals which dangle from Owney’s neck is one engraved as follows: ‘Cincinnati Enquirer, J.L. “He is said to be an expert train jumper and has frequently displayed this skill by leaping into the mail car after the train has started. A month after leaving Cincinnati, Owney was in San Francisco, heading toward Mexico: In 1893, Enquirer publisher John McLean clipped a solid silver tag onto Owney’s cape and the newspaper reported Owney’s journeys almost daily for the next couple of weeks.
That tradition was upheld every time Owney passed through Cincinnati.
Even so, the cape got so overloaded with additional medals that the Albany clerks removed and saved most of them each time he reappeared in upstate New York. It got to the point where so many medals graced his leather strap that Owney could barely lift his head, so the United States Postmaster General, John Wanamaker himself, gave Owney a sort of cape on which to display his medals. The Albany clerks asked their colleagues around the country to report in whenever Owney showed up and thus began a tradition of hanging a medal on the dog’s collar as a souvenir of his travels. In addition, Owney fiercely defended the mail sacks and would let no one except a mail clerk get anywhere near.Īlthough always returning to Albany, Owney hopped outbound mail trains continually. Mail clerks noticed that no train carrying Owney was ever in a wreck, so they began to think of the pooch as a good-luck charm. If it doesn’t come up to his standard he turns in disgust and lies down out of the way of the working clerks.” If the landscape suits, Owney remains in this position for hours. His bed is under the counter, and during the day his favorite pastime is at the door with his paws braced upon the sides, viewing the country. He disdains coaches and Pullman sleepers, and will ride in nothing but mail cars. The fast run just suited him, and since then he has been on the go from one end of the United States to the other. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the clerks took Owney on a New York Central mail run: The mail clerks shared their lunches with the little mutt and he found the mail sacks quite satisfactory for bedding down, so Owney hung around. All we know is he showed up one day in the post office at Albany, New York.
His apparently tangled pedigree is a mystery. No one knows how Owney came into this world. I did miss their newest single “ Box of Bones” from their upcoming new release “ Our Bande Apart” which will be released on 09/24/21.Over the years, a long list of celebrities visited Cincinnati, everyone from Oscar Wilde to Lily Langtry and the Marquis de Lafayette, but few caused a sensation equal to a scruffy “tramp dog” known as Owney. I was more than happy with the song selection and frontman Stephen Jenkins said they were changing up the setlist as the show went on. They played all the hits fans wanted to hear, as well as some deep cuts. They came on stage shortly after 8pm and played a great variety of songs from their long-spanning career. Third Eye Blind were one of my first canceled concerts when Covid-19 hit in the spring of 2020 and now they are one of the first ones back. Paul and just down the street at Promenade Park a huge crowd gathered to see Third Eye Blind live as part of the Promedica Summer Concert Series. At the stadium, the Mud Hens were playing St. Downtown Toledo was buzzing Thursday evening.