*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.