The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-11
LEADERS IN "THE SWIM"
som ching About Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
ley Marlin. of the Big Bali.

som ching About Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
ley Martin, of the Big BAH.
New York, Feb $50 much has been
said about the fancy dress ball TO be given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin at the
Waldorf Wednesday night on scale of
magnifcence not attempted in this coun-
try for a number of years past that people
are interested in knowing just who Mr..
and Mrs. Bradley Martin are.
Unlike his wife, Mr. Bradley Martin
cares little for the society of the 100, al
own circle of friends, among whom he Is
known as good fellow, kindhearted and
studious. He is ever ready TO open his
purse for the poor.
his wife's entertainment is characteristic.
Mrs. Bradley Martin invites WhOmsoeNer
she pleases and spends what she likes but
her husband makes one condition. Ola
| friends must not be ignored. Men and Wo-
men whom he has known all MS lie, ana
who have been passed in the race Tor
wealth and success by luclier persons, are
as welcome at the Bradley Martin enter
tainments as the most brilliant society
leaders.
AZ the ball on Wednesday there will be
many guests-strangers TO the Drllllant
and rich company-who were once hlGh IN
society, yet whom few care 20 invite now
adays But Mr. Bradley Martin does not
forget them, outclassed or decayed as they
may be, and the single condition ne I'M
BRADLEY Martins father was Henry T.
Martin, an Albany merchant Ihere We're
hve children to divide his wealth when he
died, but Bradley, the eldest, received a
I larger proportion than the others. ms
| fortunate son has not been idle all MS
| life BEFORE his marriage he went into
| the oil business at Albany ana showed
| considerable ability although 1t was an
unfortunate period for speculation in OIL.
Ne was an aide on the staff of Gov:
| Fenton and Col. Elliott Fitch Shepard
was another. When Col. Shepard was TO
| be married to Miss Margaret Louise an
| derbilt he sent for his friend Bradley Mar
| tin to be his best man.
Miss Vanderbilts dearest frlend was
/ Miss Nellie Sherman, TAN, handsome
| girl of her own age. So Miss vanderbilt
| invited Miss Sherman to be best girl at
| It was under these auspices that the
| present Bradley Martins became acqualnt-
| ed. Mr. Martin had never met MISS Sher-
! man before the Shepard-V anderbilt we'd
| ding Within two months after that event
| he led her to the altar.
| Her father, Isaac II. Sherman, was then
] a merchant and exporter considered Wen
! to do but not exactly rich, even for those
/ days. He was not cooper, as has been
Mt. sherman bought and exported bar
| rel starves and grew Tich-how rich NOT
| even his friends and neighoors knew until
| he died and left as an agreeable posthu-
| nous surprise to his heirs fortune of
| something like ten millions of dollars.
| This was about fifteen years ago, after
! fifteen years. She and her husband had
| been active in society during that period,
! but were not regarded exactly as social
The accession of any considerable part
| of $1,000 600 to the exchequer of a family
/ of high social ambitions and no small
| gifts for shining in society. will often be
/ found to effect important changes in their
/ mode of living. 1t was so with the Brad
! lev Martins Within a reasonable time
/ after the death of Isaac II. Sherman his
! daughter was the proud and charming hos
! tess of an establishment comprising one of
| the costliest shooting boxes and the finest
/ deer shooting in InVernesshire, Scotland.
Among the young noblemen who came
| to Bal-na -Caer, the Bradley Martin estate
/ in Scotland, was the youthful Earl of era
/ ven who became the husband of COrnelia,
] eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin.
An elder son, Sherman, IS also married,
/ and the second son. Bradley Martin, Jr.,
! is an Undergraduate at Harvard.
! After Bradley Martin gave up business
he developed a passion for sport-shooting,
| Deer stalking is his favorite occupa-
! ton, and the magnificent estate owned
by the Bradley Martins in Scotland was
purchased on account Of the splendid
sport TO be had on its 10000 acres. There
the husband of the New ork society lead
er has rivers rich with salmon and trout;
there are forests Astounding with deer, and
coVerts Carefully guarded by gamekeep-
ers) stocked with pheasant and grouse.
The Bradley Martin stables are famous
for their booded hunters and fine hacks,
and. while the husband delights in the
country house for the sport to be obtain
ed on the estate, the wife Is equally well
pleased with it, on account of her house
parties, made possible by the excellence
of The shooting and hunting.
One hobby OF Bradley Martins has been
described. He has another as dissimilar
to the first as could be imagined. He col
In glass cabinets at his house on West
Twentieth street, there Is a magnificent
collection Of watches, dating from the
invention OF timepieces TO the present
period. Among them are watches that
have belonged to emperors kings and
popes. The collection is especially rich in
specimens of the beautiful French
watches OF the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries; there are jeweled and enam-
eled time-keepers that once were worn by
the courtiers of la grande monarque,
which are as exquisite as any enamel Of
Petitot.
lily was out of town and carried away
several of the best watches In the col
lection, but they were afterward recov-
The care of his wife's estate and his
own, the dictatorship in several trust
companies, sport of every kind his watch
collections, and his charities make the
life of Bradley-Martin by no means as
idle as II has been reported TO be.
He is not "A parVenu. His own family Is
a respectable one. and he IS related to
some of the bluest-blooded families in the
country. He Is a cousin of Gen. Town.
send OF Albany, bead Of one of the Oldest
colonial families IN the United States.
Bradley-Martin Is about IS years old.
He looks younger. He Is modest and re-
firing, and dresses neatly and plainly.
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-Mlsapprehension.-'' am satisfied that
there are more than FIVE thousand starry
ing people herein the city"
~ think you oVerestimate." said the
conservative man THE men you have
seen az the RESTAURANTS and lunch coun-
ters feeding themselves with both hands
wero not starving. IL is just a habit
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