The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-12-23

THE PRESIDENT
MARRIES AGAIN.
MRS. EDITH BOILING GAIT BE-
COMES MRS. WOODROW WILL
SONIA QUIET WEDDING.
Washington, December 1S:-Pres-
ident Wilson and Mrs Edith Boiling
Gait were married at $50 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 11:10 o'clock.
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
capitol. Two of the White House
automobiles have been sent on ahead
and the couple expect to spend their
honeymoon motoring. golfing ana
walking over the mountain trails.
Beside the secret service guard, the
party was accompanied by one Ste
nographer. The President will keep
in touch with the White House over
Special wires.
All arrangements for the wedding
ceremony were carried out perfect
ly, the President arriving at his
brides home soon after s o'clock
and the remainder of the wedding
party which numbered Jess than 30,
following soon after. The ceremony
was begun, as had been arranged, at
$50 o'clock and was followed by a
buffet luncheon. Mrs Wilson was
married in the travelling gown she
wore to the train.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the Presl-
j dent and Mrs Wilson entered wait
ing White House automobile and
motored to Alexandria, across the
Potomac, to take their private car
there and avoid crowd at the rail-
road station in this city. They board
ed their car there at 11:40 p. m.
and began their journey to Hot
Springs.
After the President and his bride
had departed Secretary Tumulty
made this formal statement on the
ceremony:
The wedding was marked by sim
plicity, 1t was just such wedding
as might have taken place in the
humblest American home"
The Rev Herbert Scott Smith. rec
tor of St Margaret's Protestant
Episcopal church, of which the bride
/ is a communicant, was waiting be-
meath the canopy to perform the
ceremony, and with, to assist, was
the Presidents pastor, the Rev
James H Taylor Of the Central Pres
byterian church.
Mrs William H Bollinger, the
brides mother, gave her away. The
President stood to the right of the
minister, as customary, and the bride
stood on their left. At once DR.
Smith began the words of the Epis-
copal marriage service, the Presi-
dent making his responses first and
then the bride making hers. After
the bride promised to :'love, cherish
and obey" the President placed the
wedding ring, plain band of gold,
upon her finger, and then, after a
prayer, while the couple clasped
their right hands together. DR. Smith
declared them man and wife.
Hot Springs, Va, December 49,
President Wilson and his bride, the
foomer Mrs Norman Gait. arrived
here shortly after 9 o'clock this
morning to spend their honeymoon.
They were met at the station by a
crowd of several hundred people,
who applauded as they alighted
from their private car. They went
Immediately to the hotel in an auto
mobile.
The distinguished couple, upon
whom the eyes of the nation turned
Sast night when they were married
, in Washington. came here to begin
! their married life in the seclusion of
the mountains of the State in which
both of them were born.