New Britain herald., 1915-10-07
WILSON TO WED
 MRS. GALT FIRST
 WEEK IN DECEMBER
Ceremony Will Be Private At
 Home Of Bride-EleCt- t-PlanS for Honeymoon Not Completed
THIRD PRESIDENT OF
 US. TO TAKE A BRIDE

US. TO TAKE A BRIDE Col House to Give House Party in e- New York Tomorrow in Honor of
 Wedding Party-NIany Other Social
 Events Planned Congratulations
 Pour Into White House Offices
 Extra Clerks Engaged.
 Washington, Oct 7-President Will son and Mrs. Norman Galt, whose engagement was announced last night z at the White House, will be married probably the first week in December. The ceremony will be private at the home of the bride on New Hampshire Avenue near Dupont Circle.
 Plans for the honeymoon have not been completed, but it was indicated today that the trip might include 8 visit to the San Diego Exposition. s,. The San Francisco Exposition, to which the president also has been invited many times. closes Dec. A..
 Third Time in History.
 
 history president of the United States will take a bride.
 In choosing to have the ceremony performed, not in the White House. but in the home of the bride, MT. Wilson follows a precedent set by President Tyler, who was married in New York in the Church of the As tension. President Cleveland, tho only other chief executive to be mar ried while in office, was married in the White House
 Guests of House.
 President Wilson and Mrs. Galt will < make their first appearance together in public since the announcement of their engagement tomorrow in New York, where they go to house party given by Col. E. M. House. n'~Tomor- row evening they will attend a thea ter party in New York and the next day, on the return toward Washing N ton, will see the second game in the Worlds baseball championship series at Philadelphia. The party will in clude Col. and Mrs. House, Mrs. Galt's mother, Mrs. Boiling; Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, the Presidents cousin; Secretary Tumulty and the Presidents personal physician and naval aide, pr. Grayson.
 Early today a messenger carried a great bouquet from the White House .conservatories to Mrs. Galt's home. Mrs. Gait besieged by friends coming to offer congratulations, and by in reviewers, denied herself to all but her closest friends and declined to add anything to the simple announce ment, formally issued at the White Sh President of the United States were 7sto be married.
 First Of Many Events.
 Tomorrow's party, given by Col. House, will be only the first of many . events which are being planned for the presidential party before the we'd ding.
 Invitations and congratulations be- 9Ngan pouring into the White House offices today in such volume that a special staff of clerks was prepared for assignment to social work only fol the next two months.
 Col. House Informed.
 Col. House, one of the few intimate friends who has known what was <. coming, planned his house party some time ago. Other close friends are planning pre-nuptial affairs, and the White House, which for more thar a year has been observing period o1 mourning, will begin to take on its old aspect of social activities The time of the wedding, coming alIn os at the opening of congress and the return of the diplomatic corps to the capital from the summer embassies s~S&ilI signalize the full swing of the Washington social season, which now will incldue the usual state dinner. md receptions in the executive man sion.
 President Wilson went to his desl early today as usual and was greeted with congratulations by the White House staff and callers, who began Arriving immediately. He received the congratulations with smiles ant words of thanks and evidently was { happy man. His first caller was As sistant Secretary Phillips, of the stat' department. Secretary Lansing fol lowed, and then Senator Salisbury, O Delaware. All the members of the cabinet sent their congratulation! sarly in the day and some of then called later.
 President Wilson is a Presyterial and Mrs. Gait an Episcopalian ant no decision nas been reached as t, which service will be used at the wed ding. Mrs Gait is member of St Thomas Episcopal church here. Wilson to Stay With House. While the president is in New Yorl he will stay with Col. House, but Mrs Galt, her mother and other member pb the party will stay at hotel, Throughout today members of thu kex lContinued on Eleventh Page.)