The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-19
RuNOR STIRS
A N GE R Of HEAD.
OF WHITE HOUSE.
PRESIDENT WILSON WOULD
CHASTISE MAN WHO SAID
HE WAS MARRIED.

New York, Oct. 19.--The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Evening Mail
telegraphs the following story:
"The white House this morning
contained an indignant president,
who, according to reports, threatened
to chastise the newspaper man who
called his flancee. Mrs Norman Gait.
on the telephone this morning and
asked whether she had been married
to the chief executive last night.
1T appears that a Wisconsin news
paper this morning got out an extra
edition announcing that the head Of
the nation was married last night
The story was flashed back to Wash
ington. and somebody called the Gait
home by telephone, succeeded in
reaching Mrs. Gait, and asked whether
The story was true
"As was natural. the Presidents
Ianeee made use OF the newly INSTALL
I'd private telephone which connects
ler home with the White House. and
informed Wilson, who lost no time in
causing an emphatic denial to be
made.
Secretary Tumulsy announced that
here was no occasion for speculation
about the date OF the wedding. At the
proper time he said. it would be an.
nounced. There would be no mystery
about II, he insisted.
mrs Calf now monopolizes the
daily official program of the chief
executive Of the nation. Most of his
leisure time when the President is not
dining with Mrs Gait at the White
House, calling on Mrs. Gait at her
residence, driving with Mrs. Gait,
golfing with Mrs. Calf, or seeing Mrs.
Cali home from church or evening en-
tertainment, he is communing with
Mrs. Calf over the new private wire.
amy one who has encountered the
busy signal for an hour at time in
endeavoring to telephone the residence
OF the prospective bride and the office
OF the prospective bridegroom, will
realize the burden Of that private wire.
"The private wire, a mile in length,
runs from the dressing room of the
President to the boudoir of Mrs. Gait.
At any time either is seized with the
desire to talk to the other, the wish is
gratified simply by lifting the receiver
from the hook. Intervening between
the wish and its realization, there is
no White House switchboard, no cen
hal,' no wrong number no busy,
please call again, no servants carrying
to the phone,
"Ruen the boudoir phone rings in
Twentieth street, Mrs. Gait knows the
President is ON the wire. When the
dressing room phone rings at the
White House the President answers
ID person, as he knows II is not an
other lifelong democrat asking for a
job. And he knows there will be no
accidental or other
wise, on that particular telephone
WIRE
"The order TO install the private wire
was received by the local telephone
last Friday, as the President
md Mrs. Gait departed for New York
The White House instructions we're to
the installation without fail
jefore the Presidents return.
The company accomplished the
work. The President and his fiancee
lad their first talk over the private
wire Saturday night, after Mrs. Gait
eturned home from the dinner at the
White House,
Some time before President Wilson
nd Mrs. Gait are married formal
OF the date and place
viii be made. This was stated semi
today in order to set at rest
nfomded reports that they might be
married. within few days.