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Show AFMTBIRTY YEARS. A Former New York Belle who Married a South American Croesus. SHE NOW COMES BACK A WIDOW. Her Wedding Passed Into History as tho "Diamond Wedding" Sho Wore Eings Valued at $100,000. New York, Sept. 5. Countess Frances Fran-ces Aurelia Bartlett Yon Grimier, who arrived in the Cuban steamer Yuiuurl Monday, is at tho Tark Avenue hotel for a stay of several months in the city. She is better known here by the name of her first husband, whom sho married at St. Patrick's cathedral on Oct. 13, 185!). That wedding, which has passed into history as tho ''diamond wedding," was perhaps the most brilliant ever celebrated on this continent. The bride was a beautiful young woman, the . daughter of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Bartlett, United States navy, and the groom a Spanish uoblenian of reat wealth, Don Estaban Santa Cruz e Ovieda, a descendant of one of the companions of Columbus and a man of forgeous ideas about spendiug money, or weeks before the wedding all classes of society were talking about it. Don Estabau had given his tianceo rings valued at $,'j0,000) other jewels costing nearly as much more, besides eighty gowns of various styles and of great beauty. Among them was the wedding gown, which cost $.000, and four others costing $3000 each. It was said that Don Estabau spent over $150,-000 $150,-000 in preparation for the wedding. When the day came all New York tried to get into the cathedral, where Archbishop Arch-bishop Hughes celebrated the wedding. The newspapers of the day devoted great space to it, and Edmund Clareuco Stedman wrote some famous verses about it. After Don Ovieda's death his widow married Count yon Grimier. Countess von Grumer is now a widow, about 50 years of age, tall, slender and white-haired, with traces ofA'r former beauty left. Sho is living iuTiie City of Mexico surrounded by air tho luxury her wealth enables her to command. |