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Show LIVED SECLUDED IN BUSTLING CITY Death of Manuel Martinez, the Hermit of Broadway; End of a Bemark-ably Bemark-ably Strange Oareer. NEW YORK. July 30. "The Hermit of Brondway," as Manuel Martinez, a Spanish gentleman, had como to bo known because be-cause he had lived In a hotel on Broadway Broad-way for tho last thirty years In such seclusion se-clusion that he never learned English and almost never spoke with anyone, died today. He was SS yearn old and, according accord-ing to ono of his two nephews, who wcro practically the only people with whom he ever held conversation, he withdrew from contact with men and selected Broadway as his hermitage after traveling travel-ing In many pnrts of tho world to find escape from a religious atmosphere. For months at a time ho Is known to not have left his room and on the rare occasions occa-sions that he did so. It was only to sit dumb in the hotel corridorn and watch the people walk to nnd fro. |