Connecticut western news., 1873-05-30
The Laces of q Princess.
What it Costs to Supply a Russian Noble- wOman's WardrObe-Laces Two Huu- dred Years of Age.

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 wOman's Wardrobe-Laces Two Huu-
 dred Years of Age.
 The suit of Madame Olga de Maluta Fraloff against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, which was first begun ill February, 1870, in the United States Circuit Court in the Southern District of New York, is gain on the calendar for trial. This case presents some points of singular and romantic interest. It may be re- membered that the plaintiffs attorneys sued the railroad company for $75, ,000 damages for the loss of certain laces or lace dresses taken from the trunks or baggage of the Baroness de Fraloff while on a journey from Albany to Niagara in November, 1869. The case was tried but was not decided in Feb ruary, 1870, the jury disagreeing as to the amount of damages which should be paid by the company, six deciding in favor of the full amount claimed by the plaintiff, and six varying in their opinion from $1, ,OOO to $5,OOO.
 In her deposition the lady said My name is Olga de Maluta de Fraloff. My maiden name is Manziref. I am a resident of Russia and have estates in different countries. My husband is in the active army of Russia, colonel of dragons, of the Cavalry of the Grand Duchess Catherine. I think he has been made general lately.
 "I am of the highest and oldest aristocracy of Russia, of the Princes of Tartary. am the adopted daughter of the Princess Manzireff, my aunt, now dead"
 She said the lost laces were inherited from her grandmother and four aunts. They were all antiques. None were of mesh or pattern now made. They were all from two to two and half centuries old.
 "I left six of my trunks in London, and brought six with me. I had many valuables besides my jewels, such as cashmere shawls, fur cloaks, Siberian sables, toilet of ermine furs, and one of astrakan, white cashmere opera cloak embroidered with gold, and twelve or fourteen hats from Paris, dresses of velvet, of silk, and of muslin. Several handsome silk dresses, made in Paris, ready for the laces to be sewed on them when worn. My dresses were always made in that manner. I also had six dozen pairs of dress kid gloves and fou1 dozen pairs of riding and travelling gloves.
 "I valued the laces at $2OO, 900. had the laces complete for five different dresses. Each set peculiar, and all its faces complete for the skirt, corsage hair, and mantilla, and for some tunics o41 4c o,,fe The lady described the six dresses she wore as follows :-
 "My bridal dress had three founces Each founce was two feet in width. Il was of Mechlin lace; sometimes through mistake called regency lace. do not mean it was made in Mechlin not by any means. It was of the Mech lin mesh. antique Malines it is some times called. There was in this set al the laces for the corsage, the hair, ant mantilla.
 'The second dress was of old poin d'Angleterre. Two founces, cape O. fchu, and some smaller laces. It wa of the Elizabethan period. The Queer of England is the only person in thu world who has any lace like it.
 "The third dress was of Flemish lace also very old, two hounces two and half feet wide, also laces for the corsage mantilIa and hair. The small laces o this set were very valuable.
 "The next dress had five founces o point d'Alencon, not modern point, no the point which was revived by Napo leon l., but the antique lace made tw hundred years ago, first in Alencon.
 "The fourth dress was of some Rus sian lace, like that made in the lac schools of Russia established by Pete the Great.
 "The fifth dress was of Flemish lace and the laces of the sixth dress wer similar, but I am not sure they were c the Flemish stitch"
 New York lace experts who had see and examined the dresses confirm he statements as to the quality and valu of the laces, and the loss is heavy eve to 8 Russian princess.