The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
o.Ix Indication that Votes Were
Taken WAS Smoke OF Burning Bal
lots Issuing from n Chimney.
RAMPOLLh POSSIBLY IN LEAD
REPORTED TO HAVE RECEIVED 20
VOTES On THE FIRST BALLOT.
Twelve Said to Have Been Cast for
VannuteIli, Seven for GOtti
and Five for OregIia.

ROME. Aug 1.-The first day OF the con-
clave has ended and no Pope has been
elected Both this morning and this after
noon all the members of the Sacred College
except Cardinals Herrero v Espinosa, Gre
toni, Langenioux and Coullie, who were
confined to their cells by illness, entered the
Sistine Chapel, where. after the solemn rit-
ual appointed for the occasion, they drop
ped their ballots in the chalice. That
these gave no candidate the necessary
forty-twO votes was made known to Rome
and to the world by the smoke of burning
ballots which issued from the Sstine
Chapel Tomorrow. the Cardinals will vote
again, both in the morning and the after
noon. withswhat chances of arriving at a
decision before Monday none can tell. 1t
was reported this evening that the Ram
pOlla party was in the ascendant, but this
cannot be taken as any indication Of the
final result. the vote of Pope. Leos sec
retary of state may be split up or given in
It's entirety to some other cardinal Ap-
parently trustworthy information is to eff
fact that Cardinal Rampolla received at
the first ballot this morning, twenty votes,
SerahnO Vannuttelli, twelve; Gotti seven;
oreglia. five: Di Pietro. four; Capecelatro.
four, and Agliardi, three, the remainder be-
ing scattered. Rumor generally assigns
Monday the most likely day on which
an election will occur.
No one here supposed the cardinals would
select Pontin on the first ballot, hence
this morning few of the populace were
present In the piazza OF st. Peters, though
in the Immediate neighborhood thereof a
thousand troops and gendarmes stood idle
in the shade of the Colonnades. In the aft
ernOon the sun blazed down, and st. Peters
At 1 o'clock was just as deserted as on the
day Pope Leo died.
CROWDS GATHERED.
Soon after o'clock. however. crowds
began to gather. First came the priests
and monks oil 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 thousand people. including many
American tourists, hundreds of priests.
anxious Romans 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 Sistine Chapel visible. Every
eye was turned toward the long, narrow tin
tube with conicaI top. which rises crook
well be an inprovised smoke outlet for a
hOvel instead OF a world-watched beacon
which alone can give the sign awaited by
SO many millions OF people
As evening drew near the crowd increased
and Roman princes and princesses drove up
and watched from their carriages through
opera glasses the tin smokestack which
glistened in the sun. Prince Orsinia, the
head o. the Roman nobility, who shares only
with Prince Colonna. the hereditary right to
stand next 20 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
20 vespers, but none went in. The priests.
pacing the steps of st. Peters, prayer book
In hand, muttered the evening office with an
ever watchful eye on the Sistine Chapel. The
suspense became intense, even the street
urchins, who had come in large numbers
10 gather the discarded ends of cigarettes
thrown away by the nervous crowd, stop
ped their work and gazed toward the chapel.
BEHOLD THE SMOKE
Several false alarms OF behold the
smoke caused thrill of excitement. Then
came rumOr that Pope had been elected
and many persons rushed TO the Basilica in
order to get good seats when the announce
ment should be made. The impression that
a choice had been reported was heightened
BY The appearance on the walls of the Vati-
can of a few officers in full uniform, as If
Tor great ceremony.
When o'clock doomed out from the big
clock OF St Peters there was a sea of up
turned faces focused in tense anticipation
on the Sistine ChapeI's crooked smoke
stack Three minutes later came another
cry. This time it was true. from the con-
leal top of the stack OF the chapel curled
cut q tiny streak of smoke. so light, so
iaint that it was scarcely distinguishable
even against the deep blue of the cloudless
4tdilan sky. From the crowd came a sigh
eI relief Still watching with craned necks
Ihey saw the smoke thicken and then die
coWn and in two minutes all trace of to-
gay futile voting had vanished in fumes.
slowly and with much speculation as to
what had occurred within the conclave,
the crowds dispersed The historic method
Sl giving the world the only information IL
a. supposed TO get regarding the election of
rope had served its purpose with dramat-
thoroughness.
,Ogring the afternoon workmen were busy
a. St Peters preparing the great window
-athg the interior of the baSilica from
sAleh the new Pope. Immediately after his
CtS0n VIII give his first 'benediction to the
Satholic world