The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-15


had neglected to provide themselves with
black wells could leave their hats. A good
many were so anxious to get to the front
that they neglected this opportunity and
later appeared startlingly brilliant in the
audience chamber.
The crowd packed itself against a bar
rier placed across the hall and there grew
and grew until very nearly II o'clock,
when there must have been almost a
thousand men and women waiting. An
other detachment of guards, with tall hal
herds, came then 10 the support of two
young men in evening clothes. who were
to regulate our entry. One of the young
men mounted the rail and harangued the
crowd on the necessity of going slowly
and not pushing, then they opened small
gate in the barrier and the whole thous-
and tried 10 get through it at once.
"Pianol Piano!" cried the two young men
in distress.
"Piano! Pianor' they protested, pattIng
the air with their hands as if they could
soothe the crowd that way.
The people were let in by installments
and were passed on from doorway to door
way, each guarded by soldiers and inspec-
tors to whom each ticket had to be shown.
In the ante-chamber to the audience hall
a place was screened off and marked
Sanitary Assistance" 1t was a wise
precaution for three persons in our i'm
the audience began Strangely enough,
they were all men, which seemed rather
an infringement on woman's time-honored
prerogative of fainting.
The crowd was interesting; and that
was lucky for we had to wait almost an
hour and a half for the Popes arrival.
There were Germans and French, English,
Irish, Americans, Moravians. some
strangely CARRIED Abyssinians, and at least
one young man from Hungary. We knew
this, because he was one of those carried
out and there was great sympathy ex-
pressed for him because it was whispered
about that he was hungry" There were
shaver monks and sprinkling of prizes S
and nuns, One of the latter gave a bottle
of smelling salts TO the fainting young
man, who promptly drank them, causing
himself much internal inconvenience and
prolonging the discussion as to whether
he was really hungry or only from Hun
gary. There were two Irish ladies who had
come all the way from Dublin and who
were ready to cry because they had for
gotten their rosaries, which they wanted
70 have blessed by the Holy Father One
of them had brought a camp stool, which
she regarded w5th maleYolent eye be-
cause 1t wasn't a rosary.
AS II it needed blessingr she remark
ed. Then she caught sight of a woman
who had at least twenty rosaries over her
arm. The poor Irish lady felt that she
was in a land where ory a strange, for
egn lingo was spoken, so she made signs
and queer interrogative noises to the wo-
man, who replied In a feeble attempt at
French. But that did not prevent their
finding cut that English was their COM
mon tongue. and the woman who was
rich In rosaries gave two to the irish
couple. and their faces were glorifed.
Il had me prayer book" said one of
them, IAN asked me sister If she thought
the blesstn' could be made TO extend, but
she thought not"
Almost everybody had a package of ro-
saries, crucif1xes. pictures, prayer books and
other religious articles. You could spot the
Germans every time, because they carry
these things in brown paper parcels just
as they had come from the shop Two
American girls stood near US; one in hat
and street gown, the other In bright blue
skirt and a white waist, which she seemed
to have vainly endeavored to cover over
with long black face veil which she wore
on her head. OF course they were gig
Cling.
.Pd give 80 cents for your picture" said
the one with the hat.
One of them had gone to St Peters yes
terday morning for the Easter service,
paying 50 for ticket to one of the trib-
unes to hear the music In the meantime
the other one discovered that the hotel
seized upon them at $40 apiece. borrowed
somebody's old face veil and rushed off to
st. Peters for her friend. The friend, in
gorgeous Easter hat and bright blue gown
was waiting for the music to begin when
she was apprised of the new $50 invest
ment. She abandoned her SO seat, slowed
her hat away in the cloak room, draped
the old veil about her head and shoulders
and awaited the Pope
At last he came. 1t was all different
then. The people who had been looking
faint and white braced up, and their
cheeks flushed and their eyes shone. The
American girls stopped gigsling. The Irish
ladies climbed painfully onto the camp
stool and held up their rosaries, and their
hands trembled as they did IL. The young
man from Hungary, who had come back
looking very white and i'll, cheered with
the rest. That first cheer was something
not to be easily forgotten. At first the
crowd could not see anything except the
long, velvet-covered poles on which the
papal chair is carried. These were bought
in from the corridor outside because the
chair was carried through a turn too short
to permit of the use of these long poles.
The Pope walked up the steps 10 the audi
ence chamber, as he does not trust him
slf to be carried up or down stairs in the
gestatorial chair At the entrance the poles
were put in place and then he took his
seat in the chair.
Up to this time nobody could see him
| except the people Immediately around the
! door. Everybody knew he was coming
I however, and every neck was stretched
for the first glimpse of him. 1t came
when his bearers lifted the chair to their
| shoulders. AS It went up there went up
| with IL a shout which was like q roar and
which seemed to have been a very part
| of the lifting of the chair Then came
a scene of wild enthusiasm. The Ger
| mans near us shouted "Hochl hoch
| hochr' The French called "Vlve Il
| Pape! The Italians shouted Wyatt" OF
| something that sounded like It. 1t was
| a medley of cheers. The air broke, not
| into "a mist" but into a hail with them.
| Women shook their handkerchiefs in the
air and men waved their hats. Some Of
| the women cried, not bysterically, but