The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-12-24
PRESIDENT WILSON WEEDS
MRS. EDITH BOILING GAIT.
Simple Ceremony at Home of the
Bride-Couple Departs for Hot
Springs-AutO Carries New
Married Pair Across
River to Take Spec
ial Car.

ial Car.
Washington, Dec. 1S.-President
Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait
were married at $3.50 o'clock tonight
and left afterwards to spend their
honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va. The
president and his bride travelled in
private car attached to a special train
leaving here at lilo o'clock, which
is due to arrive in Hot Springs tomor-
row at 8:15 a. m.
At Hot Springs Mr.. and Mrs. Will
son will live at the Homestead hotel
until after New Years day unless
some development should necessitate
the presidents earlier return to the
capital Two of the White House au-
tomobiles have. been sent on ahead and
the couple expect to spend their
honeymoon motoring, golfng and
walking over the mountain trails. Be-
side the secret service guard, the
party was accompanied by one stenog-
rapher. The president will keep in
touch with the White House over spe-
cial wires.
Because the hour of the wedding
was known to comparatively few peo-
pie there was not large crowd in
the vicinity of the brides home, al
though a large police guard had been
provided.
All arrangements for the wedding
ceremony were carried out perfectly,
the president arriving at his brides
home soon after g o'clock and the re-
mainder of the wedding party, which
numbered less than 80, following soon
after. The ceremony was begun. as
had been arranged, at $3.50 o'clock
and was followed by buffet lunch
con. Mrs. Wilson was married in the
travelling gown she wore to the train.
OFF for Hot Springs.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson entered wait
ing White House automobile and
motored to Alexandria, across the Po-
tomac, to take their private car there
and avoid crowd at the railroad
station in this city. They boarded their
car there at 11:40 p. m. and began
their journey to Hot Springs.
The success of the ruse by which
the wedding party got away to Alex
andria was complete. When the White
House automobile pulled away from
Mrs. Wilson's house lines of police
blocked pursuit in all the adjoining
streets. At the union station the pres
idential entrance was fully lighted and
lines of police were spread all about.
Those who were attracted to the sta
ton by the show of preparation were
disappointed while the president and
Mrs. Wilson were speeding to the sta
ton. across the river ten miles away.
After the president and his bride
had departed Secretary Tumulty made
this formal statement on the cere-
mony:
"The wedding was marked by SIM
pllcity. 1t was just such a wedding
as might have taken place in the home
of the humblest American citizen"
The president dined as usual at the
White House at Z o'clock with his
daughters and afterwards drove to his
brides home, about mile from the
executive mansion. A cold, driving
rain whic hswept the city all day
cleared off at sunset. Near the
brides home the crowd was held back
by police lines spread during the af-
ternoon.
Everything was in readiness for the
ceremony when the president arrived
and it proceeded without delay.
Neither the president nor Mrs. Gait
had any attendants and there were no
ushers or flower girls. The army, the
navy and the diplomatic corps were
not represented and the occasion was
essentially what both of the couple
had wished it to be-a home wedding.