Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-03
WANTED BIGGER AUTO.
Mrs. Ethel Glasmann Babcock Sues
For Divorce on Quaint Grounds.

Divorce proceedings instituted In the
Denver courts tell the prosaic ending
to the romance of Mrs. Ethel Glass
mann Babcock, daughter of Mayor
William Glasmann OF Ogden and the
wife OF Frank A. Babcock. Jr. a
prominent automobile manufacturer.
The romance began four years ago
when after an ardent courtshlp of
barely "a hours, the couple were mar
ried. That the love has waned Is elo-
quently expressed in the words of Mrs
Babcock's complaint that while her
husband manufactures autom obiles
by the hundred. he wouldn't even give
her one little dinky runabout."
The Denver Post tells the story Of
the romance as follows:
Mrs. Ethel Glassman Babcock. wife
of Frank A Babcock, Jr., the mill
lionaire automobile manufacturer,
whom she met in Denver and mar
ried In Cripple Greek, has just in
stituted divorce proceedings, alleging
that while her husband manufac-
lures automobiles by the hundred, he
wouldn't even give her one little dinky
runabout" The divorce proceedings
are the sequel to romance that had
its beginning four years ago in Dem
YER resulting In wedding in Cripple
Creek after a strenuous courtship
lasting only As hours.
Mrs. Babcock, then Miss Ethel
Glassman, the daughter OF a promi-
nent politician OF Salt Lake City (sic)
had come 70 Denver In May. 1906, to be
bridesmaid at the wedding OF former
chum, Miss Eleanor White. to Harry a.
Trenholm OF Denver. president of the
II, A. Trenholm Investment company
The wedding took place at the Albany
hotel. where Miss White and her
mother. Mrs Prackwinkle, now OF
Salt Lake. were stopping. Trenholm
also made his home at the Albany
hotel
II happened that Babcock. who has
for several years been general sales
agent for the BabcoclS Electric Carriage
company. was making business trip
through the west and at the time OF the
Trenholm White wedding he too, was a
guest az the Albany.
Babcock and Miss Glassman met on
Monday. and IT was case OF love at
first sight--love so ardent that Il ac-
compllshed In hours what would in or
binary cases take months. Wherever
Miss Glassman went there went Bah
cock also.
Wednesday, two days after their first
nesting. an automobile trip to Colorado
Springs was arranged and they then
decided 10 elope, They went to Grip
pie creek and were in the words OF
Mrs BabcoCk, married in a romantic
spot near heaven"
They went to Chicago to live and for
awhile were happy. Then various diff
fcrences came up and little by little
they drifted apart Mrs Babcock's suit
for divorce comes as the climax Of their
domestic difficulties.
Bahcock makes frequent trips to Den
yer. sometimes coming two or three
times a year to arrange about placing
orders for his machines. The last time
he was here was early in the spring
and he intimated at the time that mat
tors wCrc not running smoothly for him
and his wife He said she was stage
struck" ana that he had allowed her
to go on the stage for a time. but that
she had not made success Of H. Rab-
cock VS. az present in Buffalo. y Y
While Mrs, Babcock gives her hus-
bands refusal to provide her with an
automobile as her chief grievance
against him, she also states that she
believes she has a successful rival" n
woman living in Chicago. the present
home Of Mrs. Babcock