The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-22
GPOPES BODY
 LIES IN STATE
 AT ST. PETERS
aRemains Escorted Tn Process sion to Catafolgne. WIIL BE ON VIEW
 FOR SEVEN DAYS
  Holy Fathers Own Wishes Will Simplify Services.

Rome, Aug. 2z-The body of Pope tPiux x was taken from the throne aroom of the Vatican today to tht sChapel of the sacrament. St. Peter s where it will lie in state until tn, cereTn onies which end with the inter nent in the crypt of the great cathe EdraL
 Ns In accordance with the wishes of thu kPope expressed in his last days, the kthree days lying in state in the throne kroom has been dispensed with. This ceremony heretofore had been simpl. kfor the benedt of the nobles of tn. kChureh and State. Such things had always been most distastefu1 to the k1nan who never forgot that he was kborn a peasant
 T So at o'clock this morning tht kFranciscan confessors who have had Echarge of the body since death for maIIy relinquished 1t to the priests o1 tfhel Apostolic Chaunber.s Time was all flowed for the rela4fves to saya fare Ewe1I prayer and then. attired In full bpontifica1 robes. the body wss trans gferred.
 Ahead of the. bier walked process siou of clergy, carrying a cross and Eandles- Surrounding it and imme- diateIy behind were the papa1 guards Behtnd them were twenty-dve Cardi- their suites. AR&er them came other prelates Of lesser degree, all in their Eobes Of off1ce Last of all came the nobles of the Church and representa- lives Of the patrician families Of Italy.
 The procesaSpn slowly wound it's way stairrway to St Peters There the procession advanced to the Chapel of the Sacrament, where the body was Hepos1ted upon a lofty bier within the chancel, before the altar. There so1- kun abeolutfon took place and the h11w l..
 In accordance also with the wishes bDf the pontfH, the ancient ceremony oi Existing the red papal shoes was dis pensed with
 The body will lie in the chapel for nearly seven days and in this time knasses will be celebrated continuously by high Church dignitaries.
 Romes Aug. 11--[Delayed in trans kznlssfon1 Twenty three cardinals met E1ate today in the first congregation of hcardfnals to arrange the temporary koveFnment of the church and prepare Ifor the conc1ave in Septenb when a successor to Pope Plus x will De leIected.
 Cardinals AGartineM and Di Pietrc twere unable to be present because of kl1nesA Cardinal Seraphin Vannutelli hdean of fhe Sacred College, attended posed, the duties of the dead were per korunsd by Cardinal AgliardI After Hak1ng the oath to maintain secret t&hefr discussions. "even to the shed Fding of bIood.'' the cardinals perform led the traditional ceremony of break kug tho ~fshernan's ring" The rite Ehowever, was not fully carried out.
 By the rules of the Sacred Col Hege. the ring should be bFoken and R&ter reset and presented to the new Pope Today, afber each of the mem EOers present had Identified the ring ii kyves found that none had the strength ho break it even though a hammer Eas employed. The cardinals finally hecided that the symbolicaI ceremony would be properly observed if the %yrnbo4 of office was scratched and khis was done
 It was learned that the testament lof the late Pope provides that the maintenance of about 400 children made orphans by the earthquake in mdassina in 1908. The Pope's sister Anna. who collapsed when the Pontiq Adted, was better today and inquired h.bout the arrangem ents for the fu- neral Saturday. She insisted upon kneeIfng in bed to pray for the de- barted soul.