The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-23
SHE WANTED A WHEEL
Bu. Her Huiblnd Mas 0bdurate and
Wouldn't Buy Her One.
SO SHE GETS UP AND sKIPs
How a Bicycle. or Rather the Lack
of One. Breaks Up the Once
Happy Home of Honest
William TreRear.

BUTTE, March 22.-The bicycle craze
which has been sweeping the country, has
reached it zenith i'm Butte, and the mar
ried man who refuses TO buy his wife ono
of the very latest two-wheelcd, pneumatic
tired preservers of shoe leather and pro-
motcrs of the sale of aruica and court
plaster, is not wise. Mrs. William Ire
gear. of No. 391 East Granite street, de-
serted her husband to-day for the sole
and simple reason that he firmly refused
TO buy her "a bicycle in face of repeated
and urgent requests, and a happy home
was ruthlessly broken up.
Tregear and his wife have been married
for about nine years and, SO far as their
friends know, nothing occurred seriously
to mar their happiness until quite recent
ly. Mrs. Tregear is about q or % years
old and her husband is seven or
eight years her senior. She is of very
lIgnt-nearted disposition with great love
for all the pleasures and enjoyments of
life, while her husband Is almost exactly
the reverse. Has home was his greatest
pleasure and he spent all of his spare
time III working around ii, and making it
more attractive. He has always had
steady aud remuneratve employment,
and being OF "a saving disposition, he re-
Gently accumulated sufficient money to
build "A neat two-story double brick house
in East Granite street. With an attrac-
tive home, q kind and devoted husband,
an interesting 6-year-oid boy and suffi-
cIent income TO enable her TO enjoy all the
ordinary pleasures of life, one would sup
pose that Mrs. Tregear would be happy
and contented, but she wasn't.
Two or three weeks ago she came to the
conclusion that she wanted a bicycle and
she wanted II bad. With a woman's nat
ural contrariness, the fact that her hus-
band promptly opposed the proposition
when she laid the matter before him,
made her want il that much more, and as
the streets dried up and she saw other
girls and women speeding around on their
wheels. she arrived at the conclusion that
her husband was heartless recreant.
She begged and entreated and cried for
the much coveted bicycle, but the only
result was that her husband became more
forcible in his refusals 10 grant her foolish
request, as il seemed TO him.
She made ono last appeal last night,
which met with the same refusal, and she
then decided that she could no longer live
with n man whose likes and dislikes are
80 widely divergent from her own. The
fact that her husband is working day
shift enabled her easily TO carry out the
plan that she had decided upon, and at 10
o'clock this forenoon a big transfer
wagon drove up TO her front door and all
of the furniture was loaded onto il and
carted away. Mrs. Tregear gave the oper-
ations her personal supervision and every
thing movable in tho house was hauled
away with the exception of her husbands
clothing and pictures of his father and
mother.
Even the carpets were torn up and the
house was lett as bare as an empty barn.
She also took her husbands check for his
months wages. which hc received yester-
day, amounting to more than 500. Every
thing was done 50 quickly, however, that
II attracted little attention. One neighbor
dropped IN and inquired what was going
on and Mrs. Iregear frankly told her that
she was leaving her husband and that 1t
was all because he would not buy her IA
bicycle. She said that she was going to
work for friend for two or three
months, and that at the end of that time
she was going to open up n boarding
house. She added that her sister. Mrs.
Teenie Andrews, who lives on Quartz
street, was also leaving her husband to-
day.
1--WE are getting tired of two cranks,"
she said with n smile and an intimation
that they were going to live together. Her
little 6-year-old boy. Albert, cried SO bit
terly that she finally decided to take him
along with her, although it was her orig
inal intention to leave him with one of
the neighbors for his father. She ex-
planned that she did not take the child
along on account of her love for him, but
for the reason that she feared that he
would cry himself to death. In order that
her husband would know how the play
came up, Mrs. Tregear wrote n long letter
to her husband and left IL with his
things. In the letter she said:
II have left your bed and board and
will never return. BY the time you get
this l will be gone and il is useless for
you 10 look for me. You told me that no
money OF yours would ever get me a BIZ
cycle, | will get one with my own
money. When n husband keeps his
check and will not let his wife handle his
cash or run accounts, it is time for her TO
quit, and am going TO have n bicycle IL
have to sew for it,
After a further recitation of her troubles
she concluded by telling HIM that he could
enter suit for divorce as soon as possible
aud that she would not resist il nor claim
n share in the property.
Mr.. Trcgear IL n well-known miner and
is widely respected. lie was working in
ono of the Anaconda properties for some
time and is now employed at the Glen
garry. lie is known as steady and
sober, Woodworking man and he is meet
ing with good deal of sympathy i'm his
trouble. Mrs. Iregear has been a promi-
ncnt figure IN all of the Renshaw hall
balls, and while she manifested lively
pleasure in such affairs her actions never
aroused any great degree OF suspicion. al
though they were commented on TO n con-
siderable extent by the neghbors. A
young man who is connected with one of
Butte's big mercantile houses. aud with
whom Mrs. Trcgcar was said to- have
eloped, is still in the ca, and he claims to
have no very intimate acquaintance with
the woman. Ii Is probable that she is
still IN the city.
Colin "a Il Caudina e.