New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05
now WOETHS BILLS We're PIID.
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Ms Hoogcr -, Tie Ptiodcybp Tctg0JI.
The Empress was dreS ed FOR ti.Ha 10y Madame
NignCni, but finding that each of her dresses was
copied and reproduced some hundreds Of times over
she resolved 10 try Il new artistic icnce she went
to Worth. and was so pleased with his skill and
taste that She speedily contracted Il bill of some
S2OOOO. This bill. when sent i'm. was Submitted to
the Emperor Now Napoleon H., WITH all ms gem
cToaity, could do mean thing on occasion, So he
drew ms pen across the uIll, wrote check for inst
half the amount. and instructed his chamberlain 10
demand receipt in full. Warned by this cyprri-
ence, Worth sent in his accounts t. the radiCg
ladies of the Court, aud found that, though they
were exceedingly ready to run mp bills some of
which had been standing for years. they were 10y no
means ready 10 pay them. In fact. a sort Of com
blnatlon was formed. whose watchwOId was, No
settlement with WORTH" What was the uniortu-
nate dIessnaker to do; He co1d no; very well sue
whom were the wives of amba- and 80 beyond
the reach OF the law while If he commenced legal
proceedings against The rest, he would nialihlY lose
the custom OF the Court, and rum himself III the
process. Yet the sums owing to him were 10y no
means trfng. One ladPs bill amounted to
$4,000 another to 4 II, 900 and there was scarcely
one of the Court bellies that owed him lees than
$4,000
In his dilemma he hit upon an expedent worthy
of a Down East Yankee or Philadelphia lawyer.
One morning the newspapers OF Paris announced
that owing to financial complications, NcsSrs.
Worth and Bobergh there were two of them IN
those days had disposed of their business to NJ.
u OF Vienna. NJ. y male his appearance,
took charge of the establishment and at once set
himself to the task Of collecting all outstanding
din Guilty. This weigbty financial operation once
completed, a second paragraph appeared in the
newspapers to the elfect that the negotiations with
NJ. u, OF Vienna. having failed to reach a salts
factory conclusion. Messrs. Worth and BObcTgh
would be forced 10 continue to carry on their BUSH
ncss themselves. do not think that NJ. Worth ever
found 80 much dhculty in collecting his bills
again. though there is legend current of how a
certain eccentric lady of rank, who owed HIM far
more than she could pay, compounded matters with
him by taking MIN 10 the opera with her AS the
lady in question then occupied one of the most prom
inent boxes in the house. he talk excited by this
action on her part was something tremendous.
Even in these later days have heard of one of his
forewomen being present at a State ball at the
Palace of the Elysee given under the Presidency of
Marshal de MacMahOn, her invitation ticket having
been procured in tie same manner and for the same
reasons tho seat in the opera-b for the
head of the honse. Verify 1t is not bad thing TO
be leading Partisan dressmaker.
There are not so many as ono would think.
Worth keeps his Olden supremacy after all these
years by dnt of his exquisite eye for color and his
marvellous fertility Of invention. The great trouble
of the other houses is that they stereotype their
styles You will SEQ Mrs. BIS blue dress repeated
green for Mrs. A., and in garnet-red for Mrs c. and
In chesnut-brown for Mrs. d., and through all
the letters of the alphabet and the hues of the rain
how