Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-31 | Page 3 | Baby Astor Needs $29,000 Yearly to Spend

Baby Astor j Needs $29,000 Yearly to Spend ! John Jacob Astor, Aged 4 Years, Has $5750 for Clothes and Toys. i NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Approxi- j match' $29,000 a year was ex- j pemled from November 13, 1912, to December 31, 1915, for the support ami maiutenance of John Jacob Astor, the 4-year-old sou of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, according to an accounting filed hero today by the child's mother, now .Mrs. William ii. Dkk. Clothes and toys cost $5730; physicians' physi-cians' services, $oo23; attorneys' fees, $1000; income tax, $2720, while Mrs. Dick said' the baby's share of keeping up the Astor residence in Fifth avenue amounted to the balance. The Fifth avenue home was vacated when the mother became Mrs. Dick, thereby surrendering sur-rendering her Interest Ln the property and a trust fund worth Beveraf million dollars. This was in accordance with Colonel Astor 's will. The baby, under tho will, was left an estate of -$3,000,- i 000. Mrs. Dick enumerated the toys purchased pur-chased for the amusement of her son. On December 9, 1914, Mrs. Dick said, she purchased for him the following articles: ar-ticles: A toy camel, $30; tov lion, $15; Roose, $3.50; bear, $3.75; donkey, $6; lamb, $1.50, and duck, $2. In August, 1915, ho received live rollomobiles at $15; three bears on wheels, $12; five hoops, $10; a see-saw, $5; a soap bubble blower, $1, and a magic fish pond and athletic slides, $20. Besides, there was a gift pie for twenty guests, which cost $18. Mrs. Dick charged the baby with one-third one-third of the expense of maintaining the Astor home in Fifth avenue. I