New-York tribune., 1903-07-30
READY FOR CONCLAVE.
Short Meeting of Cardinals-MasS
for King at Pantheon.

| Rome. July 2e.-At to-days meeting Of the
| Congregation the forms to be used In voting at
the conclave were distributed among the car
! dnals. After the meeting Cardinal Oreglia re-
quested the cardinals to visit their cells and be
| prepared at to-morrow's meeting to present any
complaint which they might have. supersti-
| tious people here find an omen in the fact that
Cardinal Rampolla drew apartment No, 5s,
which in the book Of the lottery stands for Pope.
and consequently they believe that fate has
marked him to be the next Pope. Cardinal Agli-
ardi has given his cell. near the Sistine Chapel
| TO Cardinal Caetoni on account OF the latter's
! illness. Over the door Of each cell has besn
placed the coat Of arms Of the cardinal who is
to occupy it.
Should all the sixty-two cardinals now in
Rome enter the conclave there will be the
largest attendance in history. The conclave
which elected Leo was attended by sixty-one
cardinals Popes have been elected by as few as
nine.
The ecclesiastics who watch the sliding doors
which will be the only means Of commu-
uication between the conclave and the outside
world have been requested to be present at the
Vatican at o'clock Friday afternoon to as
sumo their duties. The sliding doors will only
be opened between and IL 80 o'clock in the
morning and between and o'clock in the
evening.
A CONTRAST OF CEREMONIES.
Rome this morning was the scene of a dra-
matic contrast. While at the Vatican in the
Sistine Chapel, a solemn requiem mass was
being intoned. another and no less solemn
requiem mass was being celebrated in the Pan
theon for the repose OF the soul of the late
King HuInbert. King Victor Emmanuel drove
to the Pantheon to meet the Queen Dowager
Margaret, who was dressed In deepest black
M enter he pan haa he
mass and placed wreaths the tombs Of King
Humhert and King Victor Emmanuel The en-
trance and exit OF their majesties were wit
messed by a large crowd
At II o'clock the members of the Municipality
Of Rome. with the exception OF those OF their
| number who few days ago went to the vati-
can to condole with the Camerlengo on Pope
Leo's DEATH visited the Pantheon and placed
wreaths on the tombs Of the two kings.
In the evening there was a public procession
through the streets to the tombs. 1t passed off
quietly. though thousands of persons witnessed
the demonstration. and the procession itself was
over a mile long Along the route the piazzas
and streets were thronged with orderly specta-
tors who heartily cheered the red shirted Carl
baldian veterans and other representatives of
Italian liberty. All the shops were shut and
there more outward signs OF mourning
than have been seen in Rome in recent years
The procession, which was mostly composed Of
local patriotic societies and bands. pictu-
| rescue The Veterans Corps carried many
banners and Italian flags draped with Grape
besides hundreds OF Treaths which they laid on
the tombs of the two kings at the Pantheon
The general opinion expressed that the
Anti-C -Clericals succeeded in making a successful
counter demonstration against the recent activ-
ity of the Clericals. but that they did so with
out any breach of propriety and without wound
ing the feelings of the Catholics.
; FOREIGN MASS IN sISTINE CHAPEL
The second requiem mass in the Sistine Chapel
| was termed the foreign mass The cardinal
who celebrated 1t was Cardinal Kopp Bishop
Of Breslau. a German, assisted by three foreign
cardinals Cioossens. Archbishop OF Mechlin
Cruscha. Archbishop of Vienna and Perraud
Bishop of Autun, and one Italian cardinal, III
Pietro.
The Vatican. rule, provides a carriage
| being black. but the authorities we're not pre-
! pared for so many cardinals. and were Obliged
/ TO give the last arrivals bay horses.
! Estimates place the cost TO the Holy See of
/ the various ceremonies. from the death of Pope
Leo TO the election of his successor If it takes
place within few days. at 100000.
! Only two cardinals are absent. Cardinal
! Celesia Archbishop of Palermo, cannot leave
| Palermo because OF his health and Cardinal
| Moran Archbishop of Sydney N $ w al
| though he has left sydney. cannot. it is be
| leved arrive here before August 20, when Il is
| supposed, the conclave viii be over Prince
| Chigi marshal Of the conclave visited Cardinal
! Gibbons to-day.