The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-12-23
Quiet Simplicity Characterizes
Marriage Of President Wilson

washington, Dec. 18. President
Wilson and Mrs. Edith Bolling-Galt
were married at $3.50 o'clock tonight
and left afterwards to spend their
honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va. Tho
president and his bride travelled in a
private car attached to special train
leaving here at 11:10 o'clock, which Is
due to arrive in Hot Springs tomor.
row at 8:15 a. m.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the presi.
dent and Mrs. Wilson entered wait
ing White House automobile and mo-
tored to Alexandria,, Va, across the
Potomac, to take their private car and
avoid crowd at the railroad station
in this city.
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
capital. Two of the White House
automobiles have been sent on ahead
and the couple expect to spend their
honeymoon motoring, golfing and
walking over the mountain trails.
Besides the secret service guards,
the party was accompanied by one
stenographer. The president will
keep in touch with the White House
over special wires.
Because the hour of the wedding
was known to comparatively few per-
sons there was not large crowd in
the vicinity of the presidents home
although large police guard had been
provided.
All arrangements for the wedding
were carried out perfectly, the presi-
dent arriving at his BRIDES home soon
after o'clock and the remainder of
the wedding party, which numbered
less than 80, following soon after. The
ceremony was begun as had been ar
ranged at $3.50 o'clock and was fol-
lowed by buffet luncheon.
Mrs. Wilson was married in the
travelling gown she wore to the train.
President Wilson and Mrs. Gait
were married in the brides home in the
presence of less than 80 guests, vir-
tually all of whom were relatives.
The president dined as usual at the
White House at Z O'Clock with his
daughters and afterwards drove to his
brides home, about a mile from the
executive mansion. A cold driving
rain, which swept the city all day,
cleared off at sunset and the eve
ming was cool and pleasant.
Because the wedding arrangements
and the hour of the ceremony had been
kept a close secret, there were few
on the streets, but near the brides
home the crowd was held back by po-
lice lines spread during the afternoon.
Everything was in readiness for the
ceremony when the president arrived.
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 present, and the
occasion was essentially what both
of the couple had wished it to be-a
home wedding.
On the first floor of the brides
home in two adjoining rooms, we'd
ding bower had been arranged with
a background of farleyanse and maid
en.hair ferns which extended from
the floor to the ceiling. Overhead
there was a canopy Of green in the
form Of shell lined with heather.
American beauty roses were on both
sides Of the canopy, beneath which
was a prayer rug on which President
Wilson and Mrs. Gait knelt during the
ceremony.
Just at the hour set for the we'd
ding, the president and his bride ap-
peared at the head of the staircase,
which was decorated with ferns, as.
paragus vines and American beauty
roses. .....,.... .,, a..
They decended to the lower floor
where the guests were grouped about
informally. The Rev. Herbert Scott
Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Prot
estant Episcopal church, of which the
bride is communicant, was waiting
beneath the canopy to perform the
ceremony, and with him to assist was
the presidents pastor, the Rev. James
Taylor of the Central Presbyterian
church.
Mrs. w. H. Boiling, the brides
mother, gave her away. The presi-
dent stood to the right of the clergy
men and the bride stood on their left.
At once DR.. Smith began the words
of the Episcopal marriage service, the
president making his responses first