The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-04
THE BALLOTS BLAZE
ANNOUNCING NO
ELECTION
A Second Vote Will be Cast
by the Cardinals
Today.
ROME PEERS BREATHLESS
All Eyes Watch The Tin Tube through Which
the Smoke Signal Ri: es rom The Sistine
ChapsI---RampoIla's Vo e FUN
ored Highes'.
CBy the Associated PreSs.)

Rome. August 1.-The first DAY OF the !
elected. Both this morning and tins al
telnoon all the members Of the Sacred
College, except Cardinals Hcrrero J E,>pi-
nosa, Cretoni. Langenieux ana Coultte,
Who were confined to their cells by illness
entered the Sistine Chapel, where, after
the solemn ritual appointed for the occa-
sion they dropped their ballots IN the
challce. That these gave to no candidate
the necessary forty-two votes was made
known to Rome and the world by the
smoke of burning ballots which issued
from the Sistine Chapel. Tomorrow the
cardinals Will vote again. both morning
and afternoon, but what the chances are
OF their arriving at 4 decision before Mon
day no one can tell.
1t was reported this evening that the
RampOlla party was in the ascendant. but
this cannot be taken as any indication Of
the final result, as the vote OF Pope Leo's
Secretary Of State may be split up or
given in its entirety to some other ear
dinal. Apparently reliable information,
which, however, it is impossible to verify,
Is to the effect that Cardinal Rampolla
received at the first ballot this morning
20 votes, Serafino Vannutelli II, Gotti Z.
Oreglia 5, DipietrO 4, Capecolatro 4, and
Agleiarul 3. The remainder We're scat
tered. Rumor generally assigns Monday
as the most likely day upon which an cleo
ton Will occur.
No one here seriously expected the car
dinals to select a pontiff on the first bal
lot; hence this morning few of the popu-
lace were present in the Piazza OF st.
Peters, though in the immediate neighbor-
hood thereof a thousand troops and
gendarmes stood idle in the shade of the
c0lOnades. In the afternoon the sun
blazed down and ST. Peters at 4 o'clock
was just as deserted as on the day Pope
Leo died.
Soon after 4 O'Clock, however, crowds
began to gather. First came the priests
and monks of all denominations in their
Queer-cOlOred cassOcks. and women from
the poorer parts Of the city carrying or
dragging children with them. BY 5 o'clock
several thousand persons, i"o'''"~ many
American tourists, bands OF pests. anX-
ious Romans Of all classes gathered at
the steps of the basilica, and along the left
side of st. Peters Square. from which
points only was the Sistine Chapel Wis
ible.
Every eye was turned totward the long,
narrow tin tube, with a conical top which
rises crookedly from one end of the chapel.
1t might we'll be an improvised smoke
outlet for a hovel instead of the world
watched beacon which alone can give the
sign awaited by so many millions of peo-
pie.
AS evening drew near the crowd increas-
ed, and Roman princes and princesses
drove up and watched from their car
riages through opera glasses the tin smoke
stack. which glistened in the sun. Prince
Orsini, the head of the Roman nobility,
who shares only with Prince Colomna, the
hereditary right to a stand next to the
Papal throne. sat on the steps of st.
Peters beside an old beggar woman. Like
her he Watched intently for the smoke
signal, but no smoke came.
The bells OF the basilica rang out the
call to vespers, but none went in. The
priests, facing the steps of st. Peters,
prayer books in hands, muttered the even
ing office with an ever watchful eye on
the Sistine Chapel.
The suspense became intense; even the
street urchins who had come in large
numbers to gather the discarded ends of
cigarettes thrown away by the nervous
crowd, stopped their work and gazed to-
ward the chapel.
Several false alarms of S'ecco la efu-
~nlata,' (there is the smoke) caused a
thrill of excitement. Then came a rumor
that a pope had been elected and many
persons rushed to the basilica in order to
get good seats when the announcement
should be made. The impression that a
choice had been reached was heightened
by the appearance C.on the walls of the
Vatican Of a few officials in full uniform
as if for a great ceremony.
When 6 O'Clock doomed out from the
big clock of st. Peters there was a sea
of upturned faces focused with intense an
, ticipation on the Sistine Chapel's crooked
smoke stack. Three minutes later came
another cry Of ecco la efumata This time
it was true. From the central top of the
stack Of the chapel curled out a tiny
streak of smoke. 50 light, so faint that
it was scarcely distinguishable, even
against the deep blue of the ~cloudless
italian sky. From the crowd came a
sigh of relief. Still watching, with craned
; necks, they saw the smoke thicken and
, then die down, and in two minutes all
trace of today's futile voting had van
!, ished into air.
:. Slowly and with much speculation as to
5 what had occurred within the conclave
and the likelihood of an election tomorrow,
the crowds dispersed. The historic method
Of giving the world the only information
!, it is supposed to. get regarding the cleo
ton of a pope had served its purpose with
dramatic ~thoroughness.
During the afternoon workmen were
busy in st. Peters preparing the great
window facing the interior of the basilica
from which the new pope. Immediately at
ter his election. VIA give MS first benedlc-
ton to the Catholic world.
: A number of the diplomatists accredited
to the Holy See have been at the Vatican
during the day, stopping at the wicket