The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
These Women Married Money in Eng
 land.


 But in 1887 a rumor, for some time persistent, that they had married in the British capital was confirmed. Vic toria had won John Biddulph Martin, a really immensely rich banker, and Tennessee had won Sir Francis Cook, baronet, Viscount Montserrat of Cintra and head of a vast banking house with headquarters in London and branches in Lisbon and Oporto. Portugal. MT. Martin was a philanthropist as we'll as a millionaire; so was Sir Francis, though on a smaller scale, and the American wives of both of them-"so- ciaI reformers'' of the type Victoria, the good Queen. was hardly supposed to approve--had been presented at court
 In short, much as they had accom- plished in New York, they had accom- plished infinitely more in London. They had done this, of course, by the adoption of tactics very different from those which had won for them here: in fact. they had to change their play" in order to win; but they had never abandoned their liberal idea, and they had then strated, or later did start. a periodical in London to exploit them Since then Mrs. Martin has visited New York several times. Once she came to America to sue a big newspaper and a former chief of police for libel. In lS9Z anu III loOf ShC CaAHC tO Auti AOA the Presidency and also to lecture on such topics as "Oh, Marriage, How Many Sins Are Committed in Thy Namew Nobody paid much attention to her, though a skillful press agent did get her plans into the papers.
 once MT. Martin came with his wife, and then he caused 1t to be published that the Chaflin sisters were really of collateral descent from both George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. and of direct descent from Scottish king who lived some centuries ago. After Mir. Martins death. a few years since, Victoria said 1t was her tnten- ton to return to America to live per manently, but she never has. Her daughter. Zula Maud. amazingly nam ed, has done some featuring along the lines that were her mothers chief standbys in her years of greatest &C., tivity. The Chahin sisters have been mixed up in much litigation. One suit that aroused some attention was brought against the British Museum by Mrs. Martin to find out who had presented that institution with two volumes bearing upon the Beecher- Triton case.
 Amazing as were the English match es made by the Claflin sisters. 1t could not be said of the men who married them that American dollars had any thing to do with the case. There was plenty of wealth involved, but the wealth was British pounds sovereign
 Nor should the fact that the wealth has been American in the majority of cases lead to forgetfulness of the fact that in the aggregate the European wealth married by American girls has amounted to many millions. Accord ing to a carefully made up compara- tive table, compiled two or three years ago, the total dover of the four hun dred and more American girls who have married titles was then about s2Os, 900, 900; the wealth of the titled husbands aggregated nearly half as much, or $100.000, 900; $10S, 100000, then may fairly be said to represent the net price the fathers of Uncle Sam's daughters have had to pay for their titles.