The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-02
No NEW POPE YET
,r,vALs TOOK TWO BALLOTS
CAV" FOR A PONTIFF
pur NO ONE WAS ELECTED.
.vpolI,A IS REPORTED TO BE IN
THE LEAD.


.1 OreGIia Follow RnmpOIln's
,.d in the order Named--SmOle-
.I, projecting From the sistine
chanel Closely Watched by ThOus-
Cor. the smoke of Ballots.
n,e Aug. 1.-The first day of the
,.-a has ended. and no Pope has
seen elected.
,a+h mis- morning and this afternoon
4. - the members of the Sacred College
",ons cardinals Herrera Y Espinosa,
,.o,oni I.angenieux and Coultie, who
.,ro confined to their cells by illness.
.torod the Sistine chapel, where, after
~. solemn ritual appointed for the
session. they dropped their ballots in
the chalice.
That these gave to no candidate the
necessary forty-two votes was MADE
Known to Rome. and to the world by
The smoke of burning ballots, which Is
.uad from the Sistine chapel.
Tomorrow the cardinals will vote
oo.ip both in the morning and after
noon but what the chances are OF
hair arriving at decision before Mon
day no one can tell.
# was reported this evening that the
Rampolla party was in the ascendant
mt this cannot be taken as any IN
dication of the final result, as the vote
d Pope Leos secretary of state may
s Ne split up or given in it's entirety to
some other cardinal. Apparently re-
/ liable information, which, however, II
+ impossible to verify. is to the effect
that Cardinal Rampolla received at
he first ballot this morning twenty
notes; Serafino Vannutelli. II: Gotti,
4 Oregalia, 5; Dipietro, A; Capecolatro.
and Agleiardi, 3, the remainder be-
\ Ing scattered.
May Elect Tomorrow.
Rumor generally assigns Monday as
The most likely day upon which an
election will occur. No one here Sc
rOusy expected the cardinals to select
ponuff on the first ballot; hence
4 this morning few of the populace were
present in the piazza of st. Peters,
though in the immediate neighborhood
thereof a thousand troops and gendar-
mes stood idle in the shade of the
8wlonnades. In the afternoon the sun
hazed down and St. Peters at o. clock
vas just as deserted as on the day
Pope Leo died.
Soon after o'clock, however, crowds
B began to gather. First came the
priests and monks of all denomina-
tons in their queer colored cassocks,
and women from the poorer parts of
the city, carrying or dragging chill
aen with them. By 5 o'clock sever
thousand persons, including many
american tourists, bands of priests,
anxious Romans of all classes, gather
u at the steps of the Basilica and
dong the left side of st. Peters Square
Iom which points only was the Sis
@e chapel visible.
All Eyes on the SmOkestack.
Every eye was turned toward the
ing narrow tin tube, with a conical
p which rises crookedly from one
cd OF the chapel. 1t might we'll be
lmproVised smoke outlet for a
~el instead of a world-watched bea-
@1 Which alone can give the sign
ssSted by so many millions of peo-
evening drew near the crowd in
usdSed and Roman princes and prin-
.@ess drove up and watched from
lsI carriages through opera glasses
r' TN Smokestack, which glistened in
The SUM-
Fnnce Orsini, the head of the Roman
coylIly' who shares only with Prince
.Oohna the hereditary right to stand
'N TO the PaDal throne, sat on the
eS OF st. Peters beside an old beg
~ woman. Like her, he watched in
nIy Tor the smoke signal, but no
'aoke came.
ne bells of the Basilica rang out
eau OF vespers, but none went in.
priests, pacing the steps of st.
't :, s. prayer books in hand, mutter-
ue evening office with an ever
-yO''lu III eye on the Sistine Chapel
suspense became intense; even
street urchinS, who had come in
se number to gather the discarded
a -e Vi cigarettes thrown away by the
M gus crowd, stopped their work
s sazed toward the chapel.
Were False Alarms.
$SsVeral false alarms OF "Ecco la
1ullala' C'there is the smokey caus-
thIlll of excitement. Then came
1"lor that a Pope had been elect
RsH anu many persons rushed to the
NAL IN order to get good seats
MAIL me announcement should be
hS ne impression that a choice
tse pseH reached was heightened by
a. uPpearance upon the walls of the
tor1, "u OF few officials in full uni
WI DIS If for a great ceremony.
biz T clock doomed out from the
sa5 soch OF st. Peters, there was a
|.' ters, W upturned faces. focused in in
char.r anticipation, upon the Sistine
nrr.S crooked smokestack. Three
F"u1eS later came another cry OF
ms Ia efumata" This time it was
srsT, from the conical top of the
trsrV vi The chapel curled out a tiny
hat 'u oi smoke, so light, so faint
sye1 vas scarcely distinguishable
rons, against the deep blue of the
'u1leSs Italian sky.
s'" tie Smoke at Last.
h. 0ts, me crowd came a sigh of re.
H., yum watching, with craned necks
H. 4 ga" the smoke thicken and Their
N tu and in two minutes all trace
n into futile voting had vanish
4, w and with much speculation
eacIa, "hat had occurred within the
l5a w ana the likelihood of an cleo.
H. M, -''Iorrow, the crowds dispersed
iad' . ~. ORC method of giving tn,
pssd -. I'' only information it is ssup.
P,r. set regarding the election Of
Censt, "tu served its purpose witt
O9ri,.Y thoroughness.
Nsy II ne afternoon workmen were
'N,n1or Pc refers preparing the greai
u ,Laclng the interior o.
nv p6rs 'iica from which tbs
IN viii viii Immediately after his elec.
he catb,i55a 1--WE ms first benediction tC
10 NJ ,,uh5er Of diplomatists accraditad
'o'y zee have been at the vati-