Miracles (NY Chronology) & Non-Miracles (Chicago Public Library)

[Sam Clements]

Larry said <Unfortunately, they were closed down
some time between 1896 and 1975, although anymore there's a nice
non-dog wagon that sells Moghul food.>

And you know that the food the  Moghul wagons sell contains no DOG  how?
Done an analysis lately?

SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Miracles (NY Chronology) & Non-Miracles (Chicago Public
Library)


> At 10:41 PM -0500 10/29/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> >    Here's yet another--a double this time--without money or credit.
These
> >are the "miracles," mind you:
> >
> >THE NEW YORK CHRONOLOGY
> >by James Trager
> >New York: HarperResource
> >2003
> >
> >Pg. 304 (1906):  The "hot dog" gets its name by some accounts from a
cartoon
> >by Chicago cartoonist Thomas Aloysius "Tad" Dorgan, 29, who shows a
dachshund
> >inside a frankfurter bun (see Feldman, 1867), but New Haven vendors have
> >reportedly been selling frankfurters from "dog wagons" to students
> >at Yale dorms
> >since 1894.
> >
> >Pg. 703 (1971):  The Big Apple gets that name as part of a publicity
campaign
> >organized by New York Convention and Visitors Bureau president Charles
> >Gillett, who revives a nickname first popularized more than 40 years
> >ago by _Morning
> >Telegraph_ reporter John J. Fitz Gerald (who had heard it used at New
Orleans
> >by black stablehands in reference to New York's racetracks).  The name of
a
> >popular dance in the 1930s, it was used by jazz musicians of that era to
mean
> >New York City.
> >
> >    There are a few errors.  TAD was from San Francisco, not Chicago.
But in
> >these brutal few months, where Bruce Kraig gets credit for my "hot dog"
work
> >and his own book promotion is incredibly wrong, where my "Big Apple" work
is
> >either forgotten or ignored by the New York Public Library, the New-York
> >Historical Society, the Gotham Center, and former mayor Ed Koch,
> >these are miracles.
> >
> Other minor errors in these reports:  (i) "Fitz Gerald" consistently
> spelled "Fitzgerald"; (ii) use of the present perfect in Trager's
> first paragraph falsely implying that those legendary Yale food
> wagons have been continuously purveying hot dogs for over a hundred
> years up to this afternoon.  Unfortunately, they were closed down
> some time between 1896 and 1975, although anymore there's a nice
> non-dog wagon that sells Moghul food.
>
> Larry
>