Vatican Motors

The Assistant Equerry of the Apostolic Palaces was at Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds.

Despatches from Rome last week indicated that His Holiness no longer uses his carriage drawn by a team of brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive--in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants.