Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-04

Europe, where people are free to
spend their money IA they please,
and not run the risk Of such imper
tinrncc ns the Bradley Martins
have been subjected To-.
The very large majority Of PEG
pie here are Of the conviction that
Dr. Rnin-fnrd has made IA very ~.
riou- mistake. One consideration.
they say winch should have prompt
ed him To- withhold his hand D.. that
it is Mrs. Martin, aud not her has
band, who Is giving the entertain
mcnt, and that IT is not proper or
gallant for man to criIicise a.
woman's doings.
while it is said that Rector
Rainsford did not mention Mrs.
Bradley Martin specifically, yet his
words were taken IA leveled at her,
and he has not denied that the in
ference is correct. Society people
say, 'Imagine if you can such an
attack upon society in London or
Paris
And they point to the fact that
last year Count Castellane, who
married Anna Gould and her mil
lions, gave one of the most extrav-
agant entertainments that even
that giddy city has ever seen. The
suffering among the poor is as
great, perhaps, in Paris as in New
York, and yet SO far from being
condemned for making this osten-
tatiOus display the Counts liberal
ity was applauded as Offering a di-
rect stimulus to trade in Paris in
all its branches. People here say
that the Rainsford doctrine would
not be popular in Paris or in any
city in Europe.
Mr.. Sherman, her father, it is
said, was a frugal, hard-fisted,
hard headed old chap. He was a
cooper by trade, but dealt largely
and had made money in bagging.
His home was in Troy, N. Y. In
the days of Mrs. Bradley Martins
father the many questionable meth
DDS of enriching the few at the cost
of the many with which the pub
lie is now so familiar had hardly
been invented. Mr.. Sherman's
fortune, it is said, was amassed by
honesty, patience, frugality and
self-denial. OF course, Sherman
did not make all his money in kegs,
barrels and bags.
AS he accumulated he invested
in real estate judiciOusly and other
property and it doubled and trebled
in value until at his death be left
Il great fortune.
The expense attending the ball
given by Mrs "Willie" X. Wander
bilt (now Mrs. D. z. III. BelmOnt) n
few years ago was over S250,OOO.
The costumes, for which it is
said 100000 was spent, were gor-
geous. Mrs. Vanderbilt got hers
from Paris at big price, but most
of the outfits were made here.
Willie X. appeared as the Duke de
Guise.
After the Vanderbilt ball the
newspapers went into the cost of it
extensively. Lanouth, a dress
maker on Fifth avenue, said he
made $50 dresses at a cost of S40.-
900. He employed 40 dressmak-
ers and sewing women constantly,
night and day, for five weeks, and
paid them thousands of dollars.
They were all poor, needy women,
glad to get the work, and wished
for a Vanderbilt ball every week
in the year. Three other dress
makers took in S5l,910, and kept
over $50 sewing women busy for
several weeks.
Klunder, the florist, said he had
decorated the homes of Princes
and Ambassadors in Paris during
the Third Empire. but never had
he seen the floral decorations on
such a regal scale as at the Van
derbilt ball. He received $4,000
for the flowers, and told how he
distributed the money among hum
dreds, even down to the humblest
gardener who welded the spade
and trowel.