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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1916 N, 4 . John Nicholas Brown, Whose Fortune Is $20,000,000. v.- - ..i . a . it v id . r i i f ff r i : . m i i mr s . . . t .:: . 3 and They Find It Very, Very Hard, Sometimes Quite Impossible, to on $20,000 a Year, and Here Figures That Tell Live, Are the , A--Xr Courts Just Why ; 't.-:;.-;.- ' ( W '' i- -i . ... ?,:; .. . V' V ' i . ; 3 A T A . ..' j .., '-- .'r";'- Vs - f J . " i.;, Many Millions. vt V ' ' V r . y McLean,, Heir to . J:J A V ; i . ' Meanwhile, Science Says Every Healthy Baby Is Worth $90, and That $1 a Week Rears the Average Poor Child. . . i -- "" : lI m . - if i ' mm tmm mtij i m - - k r " ' x - 6...-- Wdhxmsmmmm I . i i v y.: "irimnm f VA" i: ' f j iVr' :;?A.l 1t;f : a.-- a 'Ai ' - mniiniiifimi nmni ii. gim ... vA - x 'tW:- 1 - . 'l 't- J . - . - AI - : t' . P ''V-- rf A V iu..i.--.-.,..- .v :r--( a - -- . iVl I r v A V : :. r . Ar. F' ' 'i,, '. HAA zt- - U mil ifA w' .t -- - ' '1 j&r -. ? - PAA?I' TV. io- v4, i VA 1 i 1 : ' X. ; j i . These Children Are Not Rich. Poor Children Of ten Are Reared on Less Than One Dollar a Week. ; : ; h-t- t : : Little John Jacob Astor, Who Can't Live on $20,000 a Year (Which Is About $400 a Week). on those poor little rich Mrs. Astor's account shows that who have such a dread- - her son's Income from Dec. 31, 1914, time to make both ends meet, to Dec. 31. 1915. amounted to mora Their wants, it seems, are greater than Ooo or a eeK' ' V--' th An,r.nfir thpv have so much; in reality they have Miss Virginia Bruce Loney of New so HtUe. There is so much in life that York, the daughter of Mr. money cannot buy, and these poor and Mrs. Allen D. Loney, who was little rich children do not know It. orphaned by the sinking of the many American children tania, is a poor little rich girl who who require a fortune merely for has to be allowed $23,000 annually their living expenses. They have for "necessaries- - from her $1,000,000 their own motor cars, with their own estate This little miss's estimated footmen and chauffeurs. They are expenses for one year are the follow cared for by as many as half a dozen jne: expensive nurses, governesses ana House rent 13,000 tutors. They have their own handExpense of school, music, lan- some suites, bedrooms, living rooms, 2.500 guafces. books, etc Recreations, amusements .... 1,500 playrooms and luxurious baths. When 600 Maid they travel they have their own priservants 1.200 Thre other vate car or steam yacht. Food and household supplies.. 4.000 How much does it cost properly to Clothing 3.500 600 Doctors, dentists, etc bring up a rich child? 2.000 Automobile and' chauffeur.... If the notable cases of the Astor Summer vacation and travelbaby, the McLean baby, Lawrence 2,500 ing expense 200 Insurance and storage charges Copley Thaw, Virginia Bruce Loney, 1.000 John Nicholas Brown, the children of Incidentals Frank Jay Gould and others are to .25.500 Total.. J2.1.000 bo PITY A -63 ld . Lusi-Thcrca- re ptamnlp thn annually nearly $75 a day for every Another Princely Spender. Lawrence Conlev Thaw of day In the year. Sundays included Mtpr seems to be the required sum. xew York is another poor little rich John Jacob Astor, the posthumous oy but says he is a "tight-wad,- " son of Col. John Jacob Astor, a vie- - cannot live on $25,000 a year. To tim of the Titanic disaster. Is the most recent example of a poor little Types of the so rich child who is encountering many dreadful difficulties in getting along. Little John Jacob, who Is now in his fourth year, cannot live on $20,000 a year, his present allowance provided In court. This youngster of wealth has obligations with which" a child not so well endowed financially t is not annoyed. $25,000 a Year for Living Expenae. ilrs. Astor's schedule of expenditures for her son, as submitted to the , '' surrogates court, is as follows. ta!;ri j . . AP' . A. . V W.,.'"-w- . years, , after which this earning power decreases, A secretary of the Charity Organi-yea- r s zation Society.; supervising a i lation of 430,000 in one of New York's os congested tenement districts, A. I Jt ls not uncommon for a man A who , "ze along" some- - Ba"s who is earning $6 or $8 a week to : ii it- , ' ? how on an expenditure haye a famiy of four to eight chil. maintain his station as become a as low as a dollar, or- dren he of wealth," .young "gentleman This secretary asserts that each two a week, the. probneeds this much and more, he poor cMd means really the of an expenditure of from Lawrence lem Master Copley also is in- - f,10 to $15 at birth says. Master Thaw's annual budget children and at least $5 ,a little Thaw, Aged 16, Who Says reads as follows: month or for milk extra nourishment. teresting. 15.000 He Is a "Tightwad," but In this con- - The next year clothes and a bed Rent and electricity Directly '. 12.000 Household expenses Can't Live on $25,000 nection, Irving T. Fish- raise the expense to $8 a month, and 1.&00 Kducation when the child goes to school it Is 1.500 a Year. er, professor of political ClothlnK 1 S.600 Automobile economy at Yale Uni- - costing at- least $10 a month, 1,500 Spending money vtrsity, estimates the w .- -r Incidentals, traveling expenses Aalue of any healthy. two are dren the 3,000 and medical expenses daughters of Frank AU DaDies are worta apiece. Jay Gould. When Mrs. Gould secured nTmal naby rich or poor, at $90. to $27,000 not Prof. Total according calculation but his Fisher.' a divorce she was allowed $40,000 " the Prof Fisher bases on the eco- - child of baby's of case for but often the support of her two wealth, brotherless and It is admitted that in the yearly on senliment, of its cost sisterless. needs $25,000 a an ordinary boy, which is young daughters, Helen and Dorothy. The Little nomic worth in the light year and and Its potential more to llv6f whiIe the chIld There is Vincent Walsh McLean. the age of young Thaw, the command community a to pf the DaUp;hter of of such a large sum of money might Every one in New York, Washington poor, who ls usually abundantly possibility. earning blessed with brothers and sisters, has be disastrous to his morals, but Law- - and Denver knows all about the Mc- - Frank Jay Gould, A Baby Is Worth Only $90. rence Copley Thaw Is said to be a Lean baby. His mother was Evelyn economic to exist somehow on from $60 to $120 the Fisher wnose says JYlOtner Prof sole of heiress almost He the Walsh, millions lives model young man. - a valuu or a human being is the differa military life, rising at . 6 in the left by Tom Walsh, a pioneer miner. yyas AJlowed Even m class of the better ence between its potential earningearners ge morning, taking regular exercises. And Ned McLean, the child's father, who have large faml- nowPr and the cost of its mainten- 11 8 tne task cf being personally responsible for the will Inherit all of John R. McLean's $40,000 a properly discounted, caring for the usually emiaren is ance conipoundly neatness and tidiness of his room many millions. most a, The cent. eax best average prob- perplexing 3M. IOr tne at per John Nicholas Brown, who Is now leand clothing, and in other ways disan is "ere 15 years old and the possessor of a earning power of a man lie places at ' In Patchen example: ciplining himself most vigorously. of Supnort avenue, Brooklyn $700 a year. From this Prof. Fisher iuu& iu,vuv,uwu, wt New York inia'DOy IS IDc sun ui xjuwiiru i.- hji iuhc ui borough, v in deducted city, live Mr. and be must years SteL eays J to ' Harry Ken- known as "the richest baby in Amer- - T WO Daughters. Mrs- Frederick T. Miller, who are Thaw, a The earns , child the nothing.which a ica." dall Thaw. a of dozen parents man a has of youngsters. They hiebest earning power But since there may not be more Among other poor little rich chll- o iaa nusoana s $30 a paj .mai ui week might have enabled them bet Children Who Are Rich in Happiness on "Nothing a Year," and Who, According to Science, Are Worth $90 Apiece. ter to care for a smaller brood, yet not one of their dozen would they be willing to part with for any amount r : :AaA - axa - . v.- than as many hundreds of children who "need" so much as $25,000 a for their living ex- as there are thousands of children Premium on $120,000 bond on Mr. Astor's general guard- ianship Federal tax on money received x - since 1311 4. A A - W " ' half-broth- er - - , Handicap of Poverty. "I cannot help feeling that our big family is a great handicap," says Mrs. Miller. "I suppose that children are tent. I want to do what's right by doing my part. I- am strong and healthy, and I am not afraid of pain and hard work. - "Lots Total.. 4 I 1 4 - - - ..$27,593 i " of wealth. 299 (61 17$ popu-pense- . W 225 SO sf r'w d riij'lclan Merchants and other accounts been put at t taxes on home. ....$11,843 cne-thlr- d of household ex9.666 "....i penses tax on $3,000,- Income Federal ' 003 2.544 trust fund 1.255 Attorney's fees 720 Nurse One-thir- -- .. v MttALttNMMMMdh fcAekt4kAfJfc lfcBM4lfc : V ' of. women like me love chil- dren and are willing to have them and. raise them to be good men and women, but there isn't money enough. And they don't know how to to not to have so many. The children don't Ret enough schooling, nor music, nor the things they need to make them 'succeed in the world. "Just look at us! My husband is practically a slave. If he should become sick or lose his work, what would become cf us?" |