The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-12-24
Wilson and Bride
on Honeymoon
Home Wedding Followed
by Auto Dash While
Crowds Take Bait

Washington, Dec. l8.-President
Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith
Boiling Gait were married here at
$3.50 o'clock tonight with simple
ceremony spoken in the brides
home in the presence of less than
80 guests, virtually all of whom
were relatives. They left at 11:1O
o'clock for two weeks honeymoon
at Hot Springs. Va, where they
will arrive at 8:15 a. m. tomorrow.
They travelled in a special car at
tached to a special train.
70 avoid the crowds the couple
boarded their car at Alexandria,
suburb. The ruse by which the
wedding party got away to Alex
andria was complete. When the
White House automobile pulled a.
way from Mrs. Wilson's house lines
of police blocked pursuit in all the
adjoining streets. At the union
station the presidential entrance
was fully lighted and lines of police
were spread all about. Those who
were attracted to the railroad sta
tion by the show of preparation
were disappointed, while the presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson were speeding
to the station across the river, 10
miles away.
The president dined as usual at
the White House at Z o'clock with
his daughters, and afterward drove
to his brides home. about mile
from the executive mansion. A
cold, driving rain which swept the
city all day cleared off at sunset,
and the evening was cool and pleas
ant. Because the wedding arrange
ments and the hour of the ceremony
had been kept a close secret, there
were few on the streets about the
White House, but near the brides
home the crowd was held back by
police lines spread during the after
noon.
Everything was in readiness for
the ceremony when the president
arrived, and it proceeded, without
music. Neither the president nor
Mrs. Gait had any attendants, and
there were no ushers or flower
girls. Neither the army, the navy
nor the diplomatic corps was re-
presented, and the occasion was
essentially what both couple had
wished it to be-a home wedding.
On the first floor of the brides
home, in two communicating rooms,
a wedding bower had been arranged
with background of farbyanse and
maidenhair ferns which extended
from the floor to the ceiling. Over
head there was canopy of green
in the form of a shell lined with
Scotch heather. In the background
and at the center was placed large
mirror framed with orchids and re-
flecting the scene. Above the mir
ror was spray of orchids across
background of ferns, and the
corners of the canopy were caught
with orchids. American beauty
roses were on both sides of the
canopy, beneath which was prayer
rug on which President Wilson
and Mrs. Gait knelt during the
ceremony.
Just at the hour for the ceremony
the president and his bride appeared
at the head of the staircase, which
was decorated with ferns, asparagus
vines and American Beauty roses.
They descended to the lower floor,
where the guests were grouped
about informally.
The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith,
rector of St. Margaret's Protestant
: Episcopal church, of which the bride
is communicant, was waiting be.
: meath the canopy to perform the
ceremony. and with him to assist
was the presidents pastor, the Rev
, James H. Taylor of the Centra
, Presbyterian church.