Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-02-03 | Page 1 | Fifty-Three of Scared College Enter Conclave

THREE fifTY Of SACRED COLLEGE ENTER GONG lAVE Cardinal OConnell O'Connell From Froni the United States Expect Expect- Expected ed to Arrive Saturday or Sunday May Be Too Late ROME ROE Feb 3 By the the Associated Press three three Fifty members of ot th the sacr sacred d college ass assembled In the historic Sistine chapel today to cast th their ir first ballots In the election of the new pope The doors of the Vatican were closed yesterday with the old centuries-old ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony to rem remain in so until the new ponti pontiff pon pan tiff ti is chosen Cardinal Marini arini who has influenza was taken into the Vatican before the doors were closed It had been thought he would be unable to attend He did not parti participate In the opening ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies remaining In bed Four ballots will be taken daily dally Instead in instead Instead In- In stead of two two as as' hits as-hits hits has been the rule rufe it is learned through the Irish college and confirmed In other quarters The number and issue of the successive ballots will be be evident to the people congregated outside St. St Peters by the customary vote burning a n. common iron stove having been installed Just outside the limits of the long lines of 01 cardinals' cardinals thrones in the chapel Two sacks of straw lie nearby nearby nearby near near- by this is used to color the tho smoke of the burning voting papers dark darle smoke indicating to the crowds watchIng watching watch- watch Ing th the chimney that there Is still no election and light vapor that a new pope reigns The The- first vote it Is thought will be merely in the nature of at a test of the drift of ot sentiment Progress after that however Is expected to be fairly rapid Cardinal Gasparri and others having Indicated their belief beliet that the conclave will not be long lived There Is much Interest in Rome inthe Inthe in inthe the effort of ot Cardinal OConnell O'Connell archbishop archbishop archbishop arch arch- bishop of ot Boston to reach here In timeto time timeto to participate in the voting The steamship Presidente Wilson on which he is is' is isa a a passenger is not expected in Naples before Saturday the New York offices say not before Sunday and itis it itIs ItIs Is feared that he ma may be disappointed as he was In 1914 when Pope Benedict was elected while the cardinal was speeding toward Rome the seaport seaport seaport sea sea- port In an automobile Prince Chigi marshal of ot the c con con- n- n dave clave and Cardinal Gasparri Gaspard the Camerlengo Camerlengo Camerlengo Ca- Ca or acting head of ot the church have taken precautions to prevent the results of the various ballots from leaking out before the conclave Is over Greatest care was taken in securing the doors and reinforcing the partitions partitions partitions parti parti- which shut the area of ot the conclave conclave con con- clave dave from the rest of the palace AUthe All AU the attaches have been impressed that discretion shall shaU be exercised In the choice of at the personnel of ot the staff so soI that no leak is possible I The need for this was shown yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day when it was reported that a newspaper newspaper news news- paper correspondent had virtually I closed arrangements with a waiter walter to take over his place In an effort to gain first hand knowledge of the proceed proceed- ings