The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02
First Days BallOting Is Without Result RAMP0LLA HAS 20 VOTES Next is Serafin0 Vannutelli
 With 12. Impossible to Foretell Who Will Be Elevated to the Seat of Peter.
 Election May Occur
 II Tomorrow.
RAMP0LLA HAS 20 VOTES

clave has ended and no Pope has been elected. Both morning and this afternoon all the members of the sacred college ex- cept Cardinals Herrera Espinoza, Cre- toni Langenieux and Collie, who were confined to their cells by illness, entered the Sistine Chapel, where after the sol- emn ritual appointed for the occasion, they dropped their ballots in the chalice. That these gave no candidate the neces- sary forty-two votes, was made known to Rome and to the world by the smoke of burning ballots, which issued from the Slstine Chapel. Tomorrow the cardinals will vote again, both in the morning and afternoon, but with what chances of ar irving at a decision before Monday none can tell.
 It 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 it's entirety to some other car dlnal.
 Rampella in Lead.
 Apparently trustworthy information is to the effect that Cardinal Rampolla re- ceived at the first ballot this morning twenty votes Serahno Vannutelli twelve, Gotti seven. Oregia five. Di Pietro four. Capecolatro four, and Agliardi three, the remainder being scattered. Rumor gen erally assigns Monday as the most likely day on which an election will occur.
 No one here supposed the Cardinals would select a pontiff on the first ballot; hence this morning few of the population were present in the piazza of St. Peters though in the immediate neighborhood thereof. thousand troops and gendarmes stood idle in the shade of the colonnades In the afternoon the sun blazed down and st Peters at o'clock was Just as de- serted as on the day Pope Leo died
 Soon after 4 o'clock. however. crcwds 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 o'clock several persons including many American tourists hundreds of priests anxious Ro- mans of all classes. gathered at the steps of the basilica and along the left side of St. Peters Square. Only from these points was the Slstine Chapel visible,
 Every eve was turned toward the long, narrow tin tube, with conical top wnicn rises crookedly from one end Of the chapel. It might we'll be an improvised smoke outlet for hovel instead of world watched beacon. which alone can give the sign awaited by so many millions Of peo- pie.
 NODluLy Oh w WdSSA'
 AS evening drew near the crowd in- rreased and Roman princes and princesses drove up and watched from their car riaees through opera glasses the tin smoke stack which gistened in the sun. Prince Orsini. the head Of the Roman nobility, who shares only with Prlnce Co- Ionna. the hereditary right to stand next to the papal throne sat on the steps or st Peters beside an old beggar woman. Like her, he watched intently TOT the smoke signal. but no smoke came , The bells of the basilica rang out the call to vespers. but none went Tn. 1ne priests. pacing the steps of St. Peter s. nraverhooks in hand. muttered the even ing office with an ever watchtul eye on yhe Sistine Chapel. The suspense De- came 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 toward the chapel.
 Several false alarms of "behold II amokes' caused thrill of excitement. Then came rumor that a Pope had been elected and many persons rushed to the hasilica in order to get good seats when the announcement should be made. The inpression that a choice had been reach ed was heightened by the appearance on the walls of the vatican of few officers in full uniform, as If for great cere- mony.
 when o'clock boomed out from the hiq clock of St Peters there was a sea Of ,,nturned faces focused in tense anticipa- lion on the Sistine Chapel's crooked smoke stack. Three minutes later came another cry This time it was true. From the conical top of the stack Of the chape curled out a tiny streak or smoke
 Smoke Tells the Story.
 so light. so faint, that 1t was scarcely nnnn of the cleudless Italian sky. From the crowd came a sigh of relief. Still watch ing with craned necks, they saw the smoke thicken and then die down, and in two minutes all trace of today's futile voting had vanished in flames.
 Slowly and with much speculation as tC what had occurred within the conclave the crowd dispersed. The historic method of giving the world the only intormatio1 it is supposed to get regarding the cleo lion of Pope had served its purpose with dramatic thoroughness.
 During the afternoon workmen were busy in St Peters preparing the grea' window facing the interior of the basihca from which the new Pope, immediately after his election, will give his first oene Aiction to the Catholic world.
 A number of the diplomatists accredited to the Holy Sea have been at the vati can during the day, stopping at the wlcke gate, but not having any communication with those in the conclave. The mos interesting period at the wicket Is wher postal and other communications for the cardinals. conclavists and the others secured within the precincts Of the con clave are received after being examined by the marshal and the governor of thu conclave.
 The latest reports are to the effect tba the condition of the sick cardinals hal somewhat improved The rules or th' conclave allow a cardinal, who is sick, t' leave and even to return if he so desires
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