Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08
JOHN J. ASTOR. 4. NEEDS
S75.27 A DAY TO LIVE
Mrs Dick Sets Expenses Since Birth at $S6O34: Toys In
cluding Lions and BubblerS Required With
PiUolDS at $50 Each

John Jacob alive. amused and in good
health
The total cost of keeping the postum
nous son of the late Colonel Astor in
fitting state was sS6,03421.
His mother received from the es-
tate in that time s60,360.07 for his
maintenance.
Besides the taxes and other infan-
tile expenses which were listed in the
accounting she filed last April. when
she sought to convince te court that
small boy just had to have more
than $4,000 a year, Frs. Dick goes
into details concerning clothes and
, toys In the new accounting.
John Jacobs clothes cost $5,790, and
as he grew older he put away the
toys of his babyhood and demanded
something more mature and more eX-
pensive. So in December, 1913, he got
speaking book" fifteen disks for
n music box, three 'roly-polies'' and
two boxes of horns and balls.
Arrives at Go-Cart Stage
BY the following June he had got
to the go-cart stage, which meant $40
more, and he also had to have a pail,
sand scoop and other beach toys, u
Mother Goose, donkey, a railway and
book on animal land. His ideas con-
/ tlnued to expand and his mother
sought to catch up with them again
in the following December.
She got him. a toy camel for $50,
toy lion for SIS, goose for $3.50
bear for $3.75, another donkey for
50, lamb for $3.50 and a duck for
In the course of time August, his
birthday month, came around and
found John Jacob disconsolate amid
the ruins OF his donkeyS and his lions
and his camels. There was gift pie
for twenty guests which cost SIS, and
John Jacob got five rollomobiles at
$l5, three bears on wheels for $12, five
hoops for $40, a seesaw for $5, a soap
bubble blower for 81, and a magic
fishpond and athletic slides for $50
FOR a Few days he was almost as hap
p" as the urchins a few blocks east
who blew soap bubbles from a clay
pipe and had contractors saw horse
for seesaw.
one reason why John Jacob had
to exercise caution in his teetering is
evident from his tailor's bills. One
of them probably arrived about the
time he did. 1t was for dress costing
$123.50, which was bought in June,
1912, two months before John Jacob
could protest. A month later a job
lot of clothes was bought for S1O2. and
bcioiS JOHn jacob knew whether he
was wearing a blue bow under his
chin or pink one, his clothes had
cost $3.50.
Before he was five months old win
ter came and of course John Jacob
needed some more things. So he got
d mink robe costing $3.50, and an every
day ermine robe that cost only s1S5.
In the following September his mother
got chance to get two pillows with
a pillowcase thrown in at Bangor. Me.
she bought them for 800.
In May, 1914, John Jacob began
to strut around in rompers He had
| four pairs and they cost $4.75. He
liked them full as we'll, probably. as
the S5 coat he got at the same time or
the hat that cost S16.50.
| By the time 1t began to get really
cold again little John Jacob was in
a sad state, for the robes of last wear
would not do at all. So his mother
got him one made of 200 mink skins
for $500 on January 2, 1915. and a
muff which cost s30
From the time of his birth down
to the present date of nv marriage
to Mr.. Dick. his residence was with
me at $40 Fifth avenue" says Mrs.
DICK, and he always has been and
now is under my personal care and
supervision. Until the time of my mar
rtage TO Mr.. Dick he and myself con
stituted the entire family and occupied
$40 Firth avenue and shared its ac-
commodations, apartments and the SER
vice there provided. The establishment
: SO occupied was maintained at great