New Britain herald., 1915-12-18
WEDDING BELLS FOR
 PRESIDENT TONIGHT
Wlson-Galt Nuptials to Be Held
 in Bride-eleCt'S Home
SPEND HONEYMOON IN SOUTH

tening in White House of His Only
 Grand Daughter, Ellen Wilson
 McAdoo.
 Washington. Dec. 1S.-Everything was ready today for the wedding of President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boll- ing Gait. Guests had arrived, and decorations in Mrs. Galts home, in which the ceremony will be performed tonight were completed.
 Members of the presidents family attended at noon the christening of Ellen Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo and the Presidents only grand daughter. The christening was in the blue room or the White House. The President was godfather and Mrs. Frances B. Sayre, the baby's aunt and Miss Helen Wood- row Bones, cousin of the President were godmot others. The Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, christened the baby
 Calls on Bride-elect.
 The President paid on early morn ing call today on Mrs. Gait.
 After a brief visit the President went to his bank where he spent half
 
 deposit box and going over some &C., counts.
 Room For Presents. One room at Mrs. Galt's has been reserved for wedding presents. Many gifts have come in spite Of the eHorts of the President and Mrs. Gait to discourage giving of presents rom those outside the circle of friends and l relatives.
 A small bale of cotton, sent by a | Texas admirer of the President, came l today.
 To Dine At White House. l The President will dine with mem" l bers of his family at the White House l about D. m., and leave soon after for Mrs Galt's home for the wedding 1 ceremony.
 1 The Rev Herbert Scott Smith, rec
 tor of St. Margaret's Episcopal church
 here, will perform the wedding cere- ! mony.
 l Arrangements for guarding .he 1 house included d division of all traf- 1 fic from the street. Policemen and Se- cret service agents will be about the
 premises. It is understood that the couple will leave for the south shortly | after the ceremony.
 All Guests Present. All of the guests who will be pres 1 ent are in Washington. Mrs. Francis 1 B. Sayre of Williamstown, Mass, the l Presidents youngest daughter; Mrs. i Anne Howe, his sister, and Mrs. Anne l Cothran, his niece, arrived during the I day, and are guests at the White l house. Others who came were Dr.. | William Boiling, of Louisville, Ky, and Rolfe S. Boiling, of Panama, | brothers of Mrs. Gait. Third President Married. Woodrow Wilson is the third presi- dent to be married during his term Of office. President Tyler was the first and President Cleveland was the other. MT. Tyler, like Mr. Wilson was left a widower during his term. Two years later, in 1S44 in New York city he was married to Miss Julia Gar diner who then presided at the White House functions during the last year of her husbands term of office. Grover Cleveland's marriage to Miss Francis Folsom took place in the Blue Room of the executive mansion. It was comparatively a private affair 1 for the invited guests included only l the cabinet members, their wives and 1 8 few friends and relatives of the couple.
 Third in Family. President Wilson's wedding is the third in his family since he took l office. The first White House we'd
 ding of his term was that of his second daughter, Jessie Woodrow | Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayre and theother was that of his youngest
 daughter Eleanor, to Secretary Me- Adoo. The president now has two
 grandchildren, the little son of the
 Sayres and the baby daughter of the ] McAdoos
 The president and his bride both
 at Staunton 59 years ago this month
 and she was born at Wytheville, the
 daughter of Judge and Mrs. William
 H. Boiling and was one child in
 large family. Two sisters. Mrs. Alex | ander H. Gait and Miss Bertha Bol- 1 ling and three brothers, John Ran
 dolph. Richard Winner and Julian B.
 Boiling live in Washington. Rolfe E.
 Boiling, another brother, is manager l Of the Commercial bank at Panama | and another, pr. William F. Boiling, ! lives in Louisville, Ky. A third sister,
 Mrs. M. H. Maury lives in Anniston, 1 Alabama The brides family has been prominent in the history of Virginia ard she herself is a descendant of
 Pocahontas the Indian chiefs daugh-
 ter who married John Rolfe. l Active in Charity.