Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-15
A. VAST MACHINE.
Where the Congregation of Cardinals
 Are Housed.

Only a small part of the business of the holy see is transacted at the Vati- can. The official organization of the Catholic church is quite as large as that Of the kingdom of Italy, excepting it's army or navy, or any of the minor powers Of Europe, for you must re-
 member that the pope has 8 parish of more than 25O,OOO,O00 souls, which in- cludes every civilized nation and mis- sionary enterprises among the unciy- ilized from the Arctic snows to the jungles of the equator. All this is looked after by q staff Of officials whose names fill a volume of 150 pages, and it includes only those of responsibility The different depart ments presided over by the several cardinals of what is known as the curia, are scattered over the city. The propa ganda fide. which is the most important and has Jurisdiction over all the world except Europe, occupies an immense building on the Piazza de Spagna, and there Cardinal Gotti. the fred pope,' as they call him, because of his enormous power, presides. The congregation of studies is under Car dinal Satolli who lives in new wing of the old Palace of St John Lateran,
 which was occupied by the popes for thousand years before they moved into the Vatican
 A number of the other departments
 nave their offices at the Palace of the Cancelleria, built in 1494 for Cardinal
 Riario who was the power behind the throne until the Borgias obtained con trol of the Vatican and had the
 unique honor of being nephew of two popes-Julius II and Sixtus IV. This huge structure. which was built Of material taken from tie Coliseum and from the ruins of the palaces of the Caesars. is regarded as thc most
 beautiful example of early renais- sance architecture in Rome and the interior court, or patio, which is very large, is surrounded by cloisters sup ported by forty-four granite columns that were originally in the theater of Pompey. This palace was the seat of the apostolic courts of Justice dur ing the reign of the. papacy in Italy.
 and here the Roman parliament, sum
 Ynoned by Plus Ix in 1S4S, assembled. The Canceilefia. the neighboring church of St Andrew and other buildings in the neighborhood cover IHe ste UT fs0HiptNy S sLIlestISI. III 5Nilltb
 Julius Caesar was assa assinated On one of the sneighboring streetssyou can
 see the columns imbedded in the walls where the. builders briclxed up the spaces between them. The capitals project few inches. and, strange to say, the. carving is preserved without bruise or blemish. e <t
 1t is generally supposed that Cae- .sar was assassinated i'll the Forum, but at that time the senate house was in ruins and Caesar. received the peti- tions of the people temporarily in the 1 theater Of PoInpey.
 What is claimed to be the actual statue of Ponpey. with indelible
 blood stains upon the calf of the leg, stands near by in the chamber of the court of appeals, in the ancient Pal
 ace Spada, where I saw it yesterday, ! surrounded by cheap. modern drapery
 and gilded desks. The. note book of
 q stenographer lay open where it had
 been carelessly placed upon the pc l destal. Through the open door the I click of typewriter could be heard | which was not conducive to reflection 1 One is confronted by these startling anomalies everywhere nowadays, as IT told you in my letters from Spain l but it is difficult to adjust yourself to ! thenl.-W. F.. Curtis in Chicago Rec ord Herald.