Part 5 (1/2)
Just plain ordinary geese and a few ganders held up
a train on the Milwaukee road to-day and forced
their owner, Nepomcyk Kucharski, 1287 Fourth Avenue,
into district court.
=Cause and Result=
Because Harry A. Harries, 24, 2518 North Avenue,
wanted two dollars for a license to marry Anna
Francis, 17, 4042 Peachtree Avenue, his aged mother
is dying this morning in St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Sometimes, particularly in follow or rewrite stories, probable results become the feature.
=Probable Results=
That immediate intervention in Mexico by the United
States will be the result of the Villa raid last
night on Columbus, N.M., is the general belief in
official Was.h.i.+ngton this morning.
Another feature often played up in leads is the means or method by which a result was attained.
=Means=
A sensational half-mas.h.i.+e shot to the lip of the cup
on the eighteenth green won to-day for Mrs. Roland
H. Barlow, of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia,
over Miss Lillian B. Hyde, of the South Sh.o.r.e Field
Club, Long Island, in the second round of the
women's national golf champions.h.i.+p tournament at the
Onwentsia Club.
=Method=
Working at night with a tin spoon and a wire nail,
Capt. Wilhelm Schuettler dug 100 feet to liberty and
escaped from the Hallams.h.i.+re camp sometime early
this morning.
Often it is necessary to feature the name:
=Name=
Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa, archbishop of
Bologna, Italy, was to-day elected supreme pontiff
of the Catholic hierarchy, in succession to the late
Pope Pius X, who died Aug. 20. He will reign under
the name of Benedict XV.
=Name=
President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt have selected
Sat.u.r.day, Dec. 18, as the date of their marriage.
The ceremony will be performed in Mrs. Galt's
residence, and the guests will be confined to the
immediate members of the President's and Mrs. Galt's
families.
Even the place and the time have to be featured occasionally.
=Place=
New Orleans will be the place of the annual meeting
of the Southern Congress of Education and Industry,
it was learned from a member of the Executive
committee to-day.
=Place=
Chicago was selected by the Republican National
committee to-night as the meeting place of the 1916
Republican national convention, to be held June 7,
one week before the Democratic convention in St.
Louis.
=Time=
Monday, Sept. 20, is the date finally set for the
opening of the State Fair, it was announced by the
Program Committee to-day.
=105. Form of the Lead.=--The grammatical form in which the lead shall be written depends much on the purpose of the writer. Some of the commonest types of beginnings are with: (1) a simple statement; (2) a series of simple statements; (3) a conditional clause; (4) a substantive clause; (5) an infinitive phrase; (6) a participial phrase; (7) a prepositional phrase; (8) the absolute construction.
=106. Leads with Short Sentences.=--The value of the first two kinds is their forcefulness. Often reporters break what might be a long, one-sentence, summarizing lead into a very short sentence followed by a long one, or into a number of brief sentences, each of which gives one important detail. Such a type of lead gains its force from the fact that it lends emphasis to the individual details given in the short sentences. Note the effect of the following leads:
OAK PARK HAS A ”TYPHOID MARY”
The epidemic of fever that has been sweeping through
the western suburb since the high school banquet
more than a month ago was traced yesterday to a
woman carrier who handled the food in the school
restaurant.
George Edward Waddell, our famous ”Rube,” fanned out
to-day. It was not the first time Rube had fanned,
but it will be his last. Tuberculosis claimed him
after a two-year fight.
If Mrs. Mary McCormick sneezes or coughs, she will
die. Her back was broken yesterday by a fall from a
third-story window. Thomas Wilson is being held
under a $5,000 bond pending her death or recovery,
charged by the police with pus.h.i.+ng her from the
window.
=107. Lead Beginning with a Conditional Clause=--The lead beginning with a conditional clause is valuable for humorous effects or for summarizing facts leading up to a story. As a rule, however, one must avoid using more than two such clauses, as they are liable to make the sentence heavy or obscure.
If Antony Fisher, 36, 1946 Garden Street, had not
written Dorothy Clemens she was a ”little love,” he