Bradley-Martin, Mr.
Bradley-Martin mansion
Brady, Diamond Jim
Brady, Mathew
Brann, William Cowper
Brant, Sebastian
Breakers Hotel
British Society for Psychical Research
Broadland Properties Limited
Brodie, Steve
Brown, Henry Cordis
Bryan, William Jennings
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe
Burrowe, Beekman Kip
Butt, Archibald
Butterick’s Patterns
Cabot family
Carlton House Terrace
Carnegie, Andrew
Carolus-Duran, Emile
Carrere and Hastings
Cather, Willa
Chaplin, Charlie
Charles II, King of England
Charles the Bold
Chicago Journal
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Winston
Civil War, U.S.
Clarendon Hotel
Clay, Henry
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton and Russell
Cliveden
Cliveden Set, The (Rose)
Clouet (painter)
Cockburn, Claud
Columbia College
Columbian Exposition (1893)
Columbus, Christopher
Conkling, Roscoe
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court, A,
Conservative Party, British
Consolidated Gas and Electric
Choral Society
Cooper, Peter
Copley Plaza
Corcyra
Cranach
Crockett, Albert S.
Crockett, Davy
Croker, Richard
Crooks of the Waldorf (Smith)
Cuba
Curzon, Lord
Cushing, Mr.
Cust, Henry
Daguerian Miniature Gallery
Daisy Miller (James)
Dakota Apartments
Damrosch, Walter
d’Astorga, Comte
d’Astorga, Count Pedro
d’Astorga, Jean Jacques
David, Arthur C.
Davis, Jefferson
Debs, Eugene V. Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Dewey, George
Dickens, Charles
Douglas, Stephen
Dreiser, Theodore
Dryden, John
Dunne, Finley Peter
Earle, Ferdinand
Edward VII, King of England
Emerson, Isaac F.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empire State Building
Eulalia (infanta)
Fads and Fancies (Mann)
Ferncliff
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant
Flagler, Harry
Flagler, Henry M.
Flagler, Ida Alice
Fleischmann, Julius
Fletcher, Horace
Force, Madeleine Talmage, see Astor Madeleine Talmage Force
Force, William
Fountain of Love (Story)
“Four Hundred,”
Frederic, Harold
Frelinghuysen, Frederick
Frenzied Finances (Lawson)
Frick, Henry Clay
Future in America, The (Wells)
Garvin, John
Gary, Elbert
Gates, John W.
George V, King of England
Germany, Nazi
Gibbes, Charlotte Augusta, see Astor, Charlotte Augusta Gibbes
Godkin, E. L.
Goelet family
Golden Bowl, The (James)
Gould, George
Gracie Mansion
Grand Hotel (Baum)
Greeley, Horace
Greeley-Smith, Nixola
Griffiths, Clyde
Guggenheim, Benjamin
Haan, R. M.
Hailey, Arthur
Halleck, Fitz-Greene
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hardenbergh, Henry Janeway
Hardy, Thomas
Harper’s Bazaar
Harriman, J. Bordon
Harrison, Benjamin
Hathaway, Anne
Havemeyer family
Hay, John
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Head, Franklin H.
Hearst, William Randolph
Hendrick, Burton J.
Henry, Prince of Prussia
Henry I, King of France
Henry IV, King of England
Herbert, Victor
Herford, Oliver
Hever Castle
History of the Great American Fortunes (Myers)
Hitler, Adolf
Holbein, Hans
Hone, Philip
Honoré, Bertha
Hornaday, William
Hotel (Hailey)
Hotel Astor
Hotel del Coronado
Hotel Knickerbocker
House of Commons, British
House of Mirth, The (Wharton)
House of Representatives, U.S.
Houston, Sam
Howells, William Dean
Hubbard, Elbert
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hunt, Richard Morris
Huntington, Collis
Huntington family
Illinois Central Railroad
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Ireland
Irving, Washington
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Ismay, J. Bruce
Ivanov, Eugene
Jackson, Andrew
James, Henry
James, William
Janson, Cobb, Pearson and Company
Jefferson, Thomas
Jefferson Market Police Court
Johnson, Edward
Journey in Other Worlds, A ( J. J. Astor IV)
Kaltenborn, H. V.
Keeler, Christine
Keene, Foxhall
Kennan, Mary Lily
Keppel, George
Kidd, William
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, Lord
Komura, Jutaro
Kossuth, Louis
Lambert, John
Lamb House
Langhorne, Nancy, see Astor, Nancy
Langhorne
Lapidus, Morris
Lawrence, T. E.
Lawson, Thomas W.
Leaves of Grass (Whitman)
Lehr, Elizabeth
Lehr, Harry
Leiter, Joseph
Leng, John
Lick, James
Lick House
Liebling, A. J.
Lincoln, Abraham
Lind, Jenny
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Livingston family
London Daily Mail
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Louis XIV, King of France
Lusitania
McAllister, Ward
Mackay-Bennett
McKinley, William
Macmillan, Harold
Macy’s
Madison Square
Maine
Majestic
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mann, William D’Alton
Margharita, Queen of Italy
Martin, Frederick Townsend
Martin Dressler (Millhauser)
Massachusetts, University of
Melba, Nellie
Menschen im Hotel (Baum)
Meredith, George
Metropolitan Hotel
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Opera House
Michael, Grand Duke of Russia
Millhauser, Steven
Mills, Isaac
Milne, Berkeley
Morgan, Anne
Morgan, J. P.
Morgan, Pierpont
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morris, Lloyd
Morton, Levi P.
Murray Hill Republican Club
Muschenheim, William C.
Myers, Gustavus
Napoleon, Emperor of the French
Nation,
National Trust
Nevill, Dorothy
New Netherland Hotel
New York American,
New York City, N.Y.
New York Globe
New York Herald
New York Life Insurance
New York Public Library
New York State Legislature
New York Sun,
New York Times,
New York Tribune,
New York Yacht Club
Niagara Falls Power
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
Nicolson, Nigel
Noma,
North American Review
North Star (yacht)
Nourmahal,
Old King Cole and His Fiddlers Three (Parrish)
Olmsted, Cotton Mather
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Olympia
Oppel, Albert
Orford, Lady
Osborne
“Oscar of the Waldorf”
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
Pacific Fur Company
Paderewski, Ignace
Palace Hotel (Brown’s)
Palace Hotel (Ralston’s)
Pall Mall Magazine
Palmer, Potter
Palmer House
Palm Garden
Panama
Parrish, Maxfield
Parton, James
Passing of the Idle Rich, The (Martin)
“Paul’s Case” (Cather)
Peerage, Debrett’s
Pepita (dancer)
Pershing, John J.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philippines
Ponce de Leon Hotel
Profumo, John
Prohibition
Pryor, Roger
Pullman Sleeping Car Company
Rainsford, William Stephen
Ralston, William Chapman
Recamier, Juliette
Red Cross
Remains of the Day, The (Ishiguro)
Remington, Frederic
Representative Americans
Republican Party
Revenue Cutter Service
Ribblesdale, Lord
Richardson, Amy Small
Richmond, George Chalmers
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rodin, Auguste
Rogers, Isaiah
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, James, Mrs.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rose, Norman
Ross, Ishbel
Roswell Pettibone Flower
“Round of Visits, A” ( James)
Royal Poinciana Hotel
Russell, Lillian
Sackville, Victoria
Sackville-West, Lionel
St. Mary’s Hospital for Children
St. Regis Hotel
Santos-Dumont, Alberto
Schermerhorn, Caroline Webster, see Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn
Schermerhorn family
Scientific American
Scott, Winfield
Sebright, Olive
“Secret of Olympus, A” (W. W. Astor)
Selfridge, H. Gordon
Senate, U.S., Commerce Committee of
Sforza, a Story of Milan (W. W. Astor)
Sforza family
Shakespeare, William
Sherman, Isaac
Sherry’s Restaurant
Ship of Fools, The (Brant)
Sirena
Sister Carrie (Dreiser)
Smith, Joe
Soviet Union
Spanish-American War
Spring-Rice, Cecil
Standard Oil Company
Stanford University
Stead, William
Stetson, Charles A.
Stewart, Alexander Turney
Stewart, Robert
Story, Thomas Waldo
Story, William Wetmore
Straus, Isidor
Strong, George Templeton
Stuart, Gilbert
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Syracuse Herald
Tashafin, Yusuf
Temple Emanu-El
Teutonic (ship)
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Theory of the Leisure Class, The (Veblen)
Things I Remember (Martin)
Thompson’s Two-Bit House
Times (London)
Times Square
Times Tower
Titanic,
Titian
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Todd, Sarah, see Astor, Sarah Todd
Town Topics,
Tremont House
Triangle Shirtwaist factory
Trinity Church
Trollope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
Umberto, King of Italy
United States Steel
Valentino (W. W. Astor)
Vanderbilt, Alva
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Reginald
“Vanderbilt Alley,”
Vanderbilt family
Veblen, Thorstein
Verne, Jules
Victoria, Queen of England
von Herkomer, Hubert
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Fifth Avenue)
Bradley-Martin ball at
closing of
design of
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Park Avenue)
Waldorf Hotel
Wall Street panic (1893)
Washington, George
Webster, Daniel
Weed, Thurlow
Week
Wells, H. G.
Western Union Telegraph
Wharton, Edith
White, Stanford
Whitehall
Whitman, Walt
Widener, Harry Elkins
Willing, Ava Lowle, see Astor, Ava Lowle Willing
Willings family
Wilson, Derek
Wilson, Woodrow
Wings of the Dove, The (James)
Winnepesaukee
Withington, Lothrop
Witte, Sergius
World War
World War
Wounded Amazon, The (Strong)
Yerkes, Charles T.
Zangwill, Israel
Zola, Emile
*In addition to lodging, the so-called “American Plan,” soon offered by hotels across the country, included breakfast, lunch, early dinner, later dinner, tea, and supper and not only every meal but every dish on the menu. Even a down-market establishment like Thompson’s Two-Bit House in Portland, Oregon, offered three kinds of meat at breakfast, dinner, and supper. The owners instructed guests to eat up and “get the wrinkles out of your bellies.” In a century of gluttony and food bolting, dyspepsia preceded obesity as the national affliction.
*A member of the high-toned Cabot family of Boston had also met up with a Jewish trip wire in the genealogical underbrush. His hired researcher, soon after abruptly dismissed, had traced the Cabot origins back to some tenth-century Lombardy Jews. (See Leon Harris, Only to God [New York, 1967], 4.)
*After granting a rare interview, Caroline Astor instructed her maid to offer Nixola Greeley-Smith, a reporter for the New York World, a $2 tip for her trouble. The reporter was Horace Greeley’s granddaughter, and she had a ready answer (much polished in the retelling). “Will you deliver a message exactly as I give it to you?” she said to the maid. “Tell Mrs. Astor she not only forgets who I am, but she forgets who she is. Give her back the two dollars with my compliments and tell her that when John Jacob Astor was skinning rabbits my grandfather was getting out the Tribune and was one of the foremost citizens of New York.”
*Only two years before these negotiations, William Waldorf had given a big dinner in London on the night [Jack’s] sister, Mrs. James Roosevelt, lay dead in the city. Perhaps in retaliation the following year, when Mrs. William Waldorf’s body was being returned to this country for burial, Av
a and the Mrs. Astor appeared at the opera together. Society was shocked at the impropriety.” Lucy Kavaler, The Astors (New York, 1966), 155.
*By 1913, when he published a second book, a memoir titled Things I Remember, Martin had changed his tune. “I cannot conceive why this entertainment should have been condemned…. I was highly indignant about my sister-in-law being so cruelly attacked, seeing that her object in giving the ball was to stimulate trade, and, indeed, she was perfectly right…. Many New York shops sold out brocades and silks which had been lying in their stock-rooms for years.” Man-about-town Martin sometimes supplemented his income with fees from the management for steering customers to the Plaza Hotel.
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