The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-23
Death of the oldest Paris DANDY.

Msjor Fraser is dead; Major Fraser, an old
dandy, who from 1927 to 1861 Inhabited Paris,
and who, when IN town, was rarely TO be seen
elsewhere than on that small but choice section
OF the bo,lera, d which extends from tho Cdlussco
d'Antn 20 The huo Latte. Who WAS Major
Fraser The PaIisianS would reply that he WAS
q tashiOnsbe eccentric EnSlishman, who dressed
Oddly rode well, loved 10 make quocr wngeTs,
and WAS a member Of the Jockey Club. But his
history Is curious, and 70" people knew It.
Major kFrlser was the grea,-grandsOn OF tho
Simon Lnzd Lov8t executed for high treason Ia
the reign Of George L..
Some of his family then settled in France and
tooh service in The Freuch army. Major FrSers
father emigralcd 10 POTagll il l7JO, and took a
Portu9uese wife. The issue OF this marriage made
It's way ia the world. Two daughters, yet living,
are the wives Of rich nohlemeH. The ono Is the
MaTquise de Bombellcs, and the other the Mar
Guise de Gurgallo, OF Naples; one son was Sec
reiary of embassy in Austria; the other, Henry
EIskine Frazer, Was the Major Frazer who has
just gone 10 his grave He was born a. BidDoH,
in Portugal, where no lived up 20 the ago Of ec-
ven years.
He had then los, both flasher and mother,
and was committed 90 tho care Of VI. de leJ-
seltern the tutor OF Prince Felix de Sclgart.
zenbGTg. The two pupils were seat together
90 Russia, whore they entered tbs mlul,y
service Gas cadets. Their f'inndsh'p, dainy
thus carry, wac continued IN Paris The
Major used to be loud ui rcyOullug how he
took part in the blttlc OF LeipIic, and ro'c
into Paris with his regiment OF Russian hus-
sars. But of late years he left or telling
these stories, because they made him Out 10
be older than no wished 10 b. thought, and he
was a singulary well preserved man tJr his age.
He LETT the Russian service IN 1927, with tho RANK
of major, and ever after lived in Paris ,
In an apartment in the large house on
the boulevard des I.alcns, belonging 20
the MARQUIS Of HertlOrd. The furniture
of these rcems was simple, and not in proportion
TO the high rent OF lodgings in that quarter.
There was little ta be seen In them beyond an
iron bed, large map, bearsuD, a few books,
large assortment OF polished boots, and barrel
OF Cyprus wine always on tap Tor the aceommO'
datiOn of friends.
One day, when his bed was broken, he replaced
il by a coffin, in which he was wont 10 say that
he slept better than in bed, because he was not
liable % tumble ont whom disturbed by tho night
mare, 10 which lac was very subject. He once
made q bet with Lord Henry Seymour that he
would ride 10 Brussels and back in thirty six
hours, and he did it. Another time he rode for
wager 10 COmpiegne and back every day for
six day running.
With all this he was an accomplished scholar :
he babituay capped Latin verses with jules
Janip, and was the friend Of Alfred de Musset,
Beuuet and ROmieu. lie was member OF most
of the gambling clubs in Paris, but never paye /
himself. Notwithstanding his eccontrc and, a5
many supposed, frivolous lie, he had aprlctical
taste for the industrial pursuits OF he presentage
He was a director of several railways, aud died
ultimately from feyer caught in Portugal,
whittier he had gone to organize q company
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