The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-09
"DODlE" GROUSE.
Nine-Year-Old Girl Who Needs $1,000
n Year for Her Support.

NEW YORK, Nov. S.-Little Dorothea
Edgarita Crouse-who is nine years old,
ard would rather be called "Dodie" than
all the rest of it-spends more money per
year than the whole family of an average
professional man in New York OF course
she does not spend it herself. A curly
headed little girl in the full enjoyment of
her dolls has no time to go around spend
ing $500 every year. but the referee ap-
pointed for that purpose has reported that
$500 Is the proper annual allowance for
this girl, who was not even known to be
his daughter when Daniel Edgar Grouse
died in Syracuse and left a. fortune of
10000
1t would puzzle most people to spend
S150 a week on a nine year-old child. Dolls,
doll dishes and dolls clothes wouldn't take
up any appreciable amount of ii, and as for
sum would pay for these in ordinary cases.
This, however, is TO ordinary case. This is
not a nine-year-old girl of dolls and doll
two pig tails to her shoulders; no. in
deed. Tbis- Is a much more important
young lady. Her expenses embrace sala-
German, French, Italian, music and art;
laundress. cook and other attendants and
se.yantS sansa, So Dorothea r Ed Edgarita Grouse
actly. She calls the house mamma s."
The cook and laundress also think mann
ma IL their mistress; but they are wrong.
1t took threats of lawsuit to bring the
next of kim heirs of millionaire Grouse
to compromise with the woman who
could prove she was his wife. Eula III. Po-
tulicks, who afterwards became Mrs. Kos
terlitz, Is the mother of the rich little
girl When Grouse was alive he passed for
"A bachelor, and not until his widow came
forward with her lawyers and her docu-
ments all in proper shape was il known
that the millionaire had wife and child
After the compromise, which will eventu-
ally give the child s2,000600, the New York
Security and Trust Company was ap-
pointed general guardian of the estate of
the infant.
The company received from the execu-
share which the little girl was entitled to
under the settlement, $40 052. 72. There is
an accumulation of income from this of
sllS4o.Zo, and II is estimated that the in
come for the ensuing year will amount to
S23333 In addition to this there is ex-
pected further sum for the child from
Mr.. Crouse's estate which will eventually
increase the little ones income to $50 600 a
year.
Grouse died in 1892, and since that time
the little girls mother has testified before
spent nearly SIS 1000 on the education of the, the
she M s,sa calls herself ,Dodie;" is an extraordi-
three or four languages, plays sings. draws
and dances. According to evidence adj
duced before the referee, she has a coach
man and carriages. Between driving and
being prepared for the station She will oc
cupy when she Is young lady with two
millions in her own right, this poor little
ricn g1rl cannot get much time for dolls,
skipping rope or other delights of normal
children. Referee Austin, in his report to
the surrogate says that $500 a year is
not an excessive , ss, allowance. all He also rec
ommends that so, 450 be repaid the mother.
she having spent that amount for the
child maintenance and education so far