New-York tribune., 1919-12-05
T.. S. Heiress Asks
More Cash So She
Can Marry Prince
French Officers Income i'm
Polish Army Inadequate,
Says Frances Lawrence i'm
Appeal to N. Y. Court

Because the income of Prince Andre
Poniatowski amounts to only 10000
francs (S4,000) year, Miss Frances
Alice Willing Lawrence, his American
finance, through Stewart & Shearer,
her attorneys, pctitioned the Surro-
gates Court yesterday to increase her
allowance from the estate of her father
so she can maintain herself and hus-
band in fitting manner.
Prince Poniatowski is the son of
Prince Andre Poniatowski, who mar
ried Miss Elizabeth Sperry, of San
Francisco. He, his two brothers and
his ather fought in the French army.
and the prince, who is to marry Miss
Lawrence, is now a lieutenant in the
First Regiment Of Polish artillery.
Miss Lawrence, who is nineteen years
old. is living with her mother, Mrs,
Francis c. Lawrence formerly Susan
Willing), in Paris.
Miss Lawrence in her petition for n
larger allowance referred to the 10000
francs year income Of Prince Andre
as "entirely inadequate to support him.
self and your petitioner" She said
that her only income is what she re-
ceives from the estate of her father.
Income Is Nearly $4,000
The United States Trust Company
guardian Of the property left for Miss
Lawrence, reported that this trust
amounts to 100000, producing an in
come of $4,000 year. In addition, the
company holds trust fund created for
Miss Lawrence by her grandfather
Francis Cooper Lawrence, which yields
between $4,000 and $4,000 a year, and
which the trust company allows to &C.
cumulate. Miss Lawrence asks that the
court order that she receive all the
income that accrues from her trust
funds.
Miss Lawrence set out in a schedule
just what she expected it to cost her
to maintain herself as Princess
Poniatowski. AS against the 10000
francs o the prince, her list totaled
100000 francs as her tentative annual
contribution to the domestic copartner-
ship. The schedule of Miss Lawrence
read: rent, 10000 francs; servants,
| $500 francs; food bill and household
supplies, $4,000 francs; doctor. dem
tist, etc, 5000 francs; clothing and
wearing apparel, with luxury tax,
28.6O0 francs; autom obile and chauf-
feur, $4,000 francs; summer vacation
and travelling expenses, 10000 francs;
recreation and amusement, 5000
francs; incidental expenses, 10000
| francs.
Mrs. Lawrence, mother Of the prin-
cess-to-be, added her statement to the
petition Of her daughter in which she
said she approved of Miss Lawrence's s
engagement to Prince Poniatowski, who
had been friend Of Miss Lawrence
since her childhood, and volunteered in
the French Army when he was seven
teen years old. Owing to the great in
crease in the cost of living in France,
said Mrs. Lawrence, and the taxes she
is required to pay, she will be unable
from her own income to contribute to
the support Of her daughter after the
latter's marriage in the spring of 1920.
Mrs. Lawrence therefore joins in the
request Of Miss Lawrence for the in
creased allowance. The mother added
that she had spared no expense in car
ing for and maintaining her daughter
and that the friends and acquaintances
Of Miss Lawrence are people of the
highest standing.