_that is_, _viz._, etc., when introducing an example or an
illustration.
=Right.=--The mob seemed to hold him responsible for
two things, namely--the lost key and the barred
door.
=68. Lists of Officers.=--In giving lists of officers, put a dash
between the name of the office and the officer. Thus:
|The newly elected officers are: President--O. N. |
|Homer; Vice President--Abner King; Secretary--David |
|Thoeder; Treasurer--Mark Bronson. |
=69. Dialogue, Questions and Answers.=--In quoting questions and
answers, proceedings of public bodies or trials, and dialogue generally,
put a dash between the _Q._ or the _A._, or the name of the speaker, and
the statement made. And make a new paragraph for each speaker. Thus:
_Q._--Are you a resident of Montana? _A._--I have
been for four years.
=70. Slowness of Speech.=--Put a dash between words or phrases to
indicate slowness or hesitancy in speech. Thus: "These, he said, were
his--er--wife's slippers."
7. Parentheses
=71. Political Parties.=--In legislative or congressional reports in
which the political affiliation of a member, or the state or county from
which he comes, is given, enclose the party, state, or county name in
parentheses: as, _Mr. Smith (Dem., S. C.)_, _Mr. Harris (Jefferson)_.
=72. General Usage.=--Avoid the use of parentheses within sentences. Two
short sentences are better than one long one containing a parenthetic
expression. A sentence having a clause within marks of parentheses can
generally be cut into two sentences and for newspaper purposes made more
effective.
8. Quotation-Marks
=73. Direct Quotations.=--Quotation-marks are used to set off direct
quotations printed in the same type and style as the remainder of the
story. A quotation coming within a quotation is set off by single
quotation-marks; and a third quotation coming within single
quotation-marks is set off by double marks again. Do not fail to put
"quotes" at the end of a quotation. This very common error, failure to
include the "end quotes," is a source of great annoyance to printers and
proof-readers.
=74. Quoted Paragraphs.=--When a quotation includes more than one
paragraph set in the same type and style as the context, put
quotation-marks at the beginning of each paragraph, but omit them at the
end of every paragraph except the last. In this way the quotation is
shown to be continuous. As a rule, a quotation of more than one sentence
is written in a separate paragraph. When the quotation is to be set in
smaller type than the body of the story, all quotation-marks at the
beginning and end of the paragraphs are omitted.
=75. Quotations and Summaries.=--When reporting a speech or interview
and alternately summarizing and quoting verbatim, do not include in the
same paragraph a direct quotation and a condensed summary of what
precedes or follows. Make a separate paragraph for each. Thus:
|"Shall we continue to listen to a wandering voice as|
|imbecile as our condition?" said the speaker. "When |
|this voice recently was removed from the counsels of|
|our government, we thought, good easy souls, that we|
|had got rid of it forever. Has Mr. Bryan proved |
|himself so good a prophet in the past that we can |
|afford to trust him in the future? Personally, I |
|have never believed in Mr. Bryan's wisdom, and I |
|grant him sincerity only because the point is not |
|worth arguing." |
| |
|Mr. Eastbrook said, amid applause, that to say the |
|nation is too big or too proud to fight in |
|self-defense is absurd. To say that a mob of a |
|million or so of untrained citizenry could leap to |
|arms and put to flight the bullet-tested soldiery of|
|Europe is worse than puerile--is murderous |
|stupidity, he declared.... |
=76. Books, Plays, etc.=--Enclose in quotation-marks the titles of
books, dramas, songs, poems, stories, magazine articles, toasts, and
lectures.
=77. Newspapers, Vessels, etc.=--Do not quote the names of newspapers,
magazines, paintings, vessels, cars, or animals.
=78. Slang and Technical Terms.=--Enclose in quotation-marks slang and
technical terms that are supposedly unfamiliar to the reader.
=79. Nicknames.=--Do not quote nicknames of persons or of characters in
plays or novels: as, _Ty Cobb_, _T. R._, _Heinie Zim_, _Becky Sharp_,
etc.
9. The Apostrophe
=80. Possessive Case.=--Use an apostrophe and an _s_ to indicate the
possessive case singular, no matter whether the word ends in one or two
_s's_: as, _Burns's house_, _Furness's hat_.[51] Use the apostrophe and
_s_ to indicate the possessive case plural when the plural does not end
in _s_: as, _men's meeting_, _children's shoes_. Use only the apostrophe
to indicate the possessive case plural when the plural ends in _s_: as,
_boys' hats_, _ladies' outfitter_. In names of corporations, cases of
joint authorship, etc., where two names are equally in the possessive
case, put the apostrophe, or the apostrophe and _s_, only after the name
nearest the thing possessed: as, _Farmers and Merchants' bank_, _Allen
and Bowen's "Classical Mythology_."
[51] Occasional exceptions to this general rule are found,
where euphony would be violated by the additional _s_:
as, Ulysses' son, Moses' staff.
=81. Possessive Pronouns.=--Do not use the apostrophe before the _s_ in
possessive pronouns: as, _its_, _hers_, _theirs_.
=82. Contractions.=--Use an apostrophe in contracted words to indicate
the omission of letters: as, _couldn't_, _he'll_, _you're_.
10. The Hyphen
=83. Compound Words.=--Put a hyphen between the members of a compound
word. Words compounded with the following prefixes and suffixes are
generally hyphenated: _able-_, _brother-_, _by-_, _cross-_, _-elect_,
_ex-_, _father-_, _great-_, _half-_, _-hand_, _mother-_, _open-_,
_public-_, _quarter-_, _-rate_, _self-_. In particular, hyphenate the
following words:
able-bodied
attorney-general
balk-line
base-hit
base-line
basket-ball
brother-in-law
bucket-shop
by-law
by-product
court-martial
cross-examine
ex-president
father-in-law
full-back
goal-line
goal-post
good-by
great-grandfather
half-back
half-witted
home-stretch
judge-elect
kick-off
kick-out
law-abiding
life-saving
line-up
mail-box
man-of-war
mother-in-law
office-seeker
old-fashioned
post-mortem
post-office
president-elect
quarter-back
quarter-stretch
second-rate
shop-girl
short-stop
side-lines
so-called (a.)
son-in-law
spit-ball
to-day
to-morrow
to-night
84. Words Written Solid.--Words compounded of the following prefixes and
suffixes are generally written solid: _a-_, _after-_, _ante-_, _anti-_,
_auto-_, _bi-_, _demi-_, _-ever_, _grand-_, _-holder_, _in-_, _inter-_,
_intra-_, _-less_, _mid-_, _mis-_, _off-_, _on-_, _over-_, _post-_,
_re-_, _-some_, _sub-_, _super-_, _tri-_, _un-_, _under-_, _up-_,
_-ward_, _-wise_, _-with_. The following should be written solid:
anyone
anyway (adv.)
anywhere
awhile
baseball
billboard
bipartizan
bondholder
carload
classmate
corespondent
downstairs
everyday (a.)
everyone
fireproof
football
footlights
footpad
gateman
holdup
inasmuch
infield
ironclad
juryman
landlady
lawsuit
letterhead
linesman
midnight
misprint
misspell
nevertheless
newcomer
nonunion
northeast
northwest
Oddfellows
officeholder
oneself
outfield
pallbearer
paymaster
postcard
posthaste
postmaster
rewrite
saloonkeeper
schoolboy
schoolgirl
semicolon
shopkeeper
sidewalk
skyscraper
snowstorm
southeast
southwest
taxpayer
typewriter
upstairs
=85. Words Written Separately.=--Write the following as two words:
all right
any time
back yard
every time
ex officio
fellow man
half dollar
half dozen
half nelson
mass meeting
no one
pay roll
police court
per cent
pro tem
some one
some way
squeeze play
=86. Compound Numbers.=--Compound numbers between twenty and a hundred,
when spelled out, should have a hyphen: as, _twenty-one_, _forty-three_.
=87. Word Division.=--When dividing a word at the end of a line, observe
the following rules:
1. Do not break a syllable: as, _cre-ditable_, _attemp-ted_, for
_cred-itable_, _attempt-ed_.
2. Do not divide a monosyllable: as, _mob-bed_, _tho-ugh_.
3. Do not separate a consonant from a vowel that affects its
pronunciation: as, _nec-essity_ for _ne-cessity_.
4. Do not divide a diphthong or separate two successive vowels, one of
which is silent: as, _bo-wing_, _pe-ople_, for _bow-ing_, _peo-ple_.
5. Do not separate a syllable that has been added to a word by the
addition of an _s_: as, _financ-es_.
6. Do not divide hyphenated words except at the syllable where the
regular hyphen comes: as, _pocket-book_, _fool-killer_.
7. Do not make awkward divisions: as, _noth-ing_, _crack-le_.
8. Do not begin a line with a hyphen.
9. As a rule, avoid dividing a word at the end of a line and never
divide one at the end of a page.
10. Abbreviations
=88. Abbreviations Avoided.=--Abbreviations should as a rule be avoided.
The coming of the typewriter into journalism has created a tendency to
write out all words in full.
=89. Personal and Professional Titles.=--The following personal and
professional titles are abbreviated when preceding proper names:
Adjt. Gen.
Brig. Gen.
Capt.
Col.
Dr.
Gen.
Gov.
Gov. Gen.
Hon.
Lieut.
Lieut. Col.
Lieut. Gen.
M.
Maj.
Maj. Gen.
Mlle.
Mme.
Mr.
Mrs.
Prof.
Rev.
Rt. Rev.
Sergt.
Supt.
=90. Use of Titles.=--Use personal titles under the following
restrictions:
1. Do not use _Mr._ before a man's name when his baptismal name or
initials are given.
=Not Good.=--Mr. A. B. Crayton of Belleville was a
guest at the Horton house to-day.
=Right.=--A. B. Crayton of Belleville was a guest at
the Horton house to-day.
2. After a person's name has been mentioned once in a story, his
initials or Christian names are omitted thereafter, and a _Mr._ or his
professional title is put before the name.
=Right.=--Prof. O. C. Bowen of Atawa was a speaker
at the local Y. M. C. A. to-day. Prof. Bowen chose
as his subject, "The Four Pillars of State."
3. If a person has more than one professional title, the one of highest
rank should be used. If he has two titles of apparently equal rank,
choose the one last received or the one by which he is best known among
his friends.
4. _Mrs._ always precedes the name of a married woman, _Miss_ that of an
unmarried woman, no matter whether the initials or Christian names are
used or not.
5. In giving lists of unmarried women, precede the names with _Misses_,
taking care always to give the full Christian name of each woman.
6. In giving lists of married women, _Mesdames_ may introduce the names,
though present usage prefers _Mrs._ before each name.
7. When mentioning a man and his wife, put it _Mr. and Mrs. William
Black_, not _William Black and wife_.
8. Do not use _Master_ before the name of a boy.
9. Before a _Rev._ preceding the name of a clergyman always put a _the_:
as, _the Rev. T. P. Frost_. If the clergyman's initials are not known,
write it, _the Rev. Mr. Frost_, not _the Rev. Frost_.
=91. Names of the Months.=--Abbreviations of the months, except March,
April, May, June, and July, are permissible when followed by a numeral
indicating the day of the month, but not when used alone.
=Right.=--Richard Malone, who was injured in an
automobile collision Sept. 18, died at the county
hospital to-day.
=Wrong.=--The time of the meet has been set for a
date not later than the middle of Sept.
=92. Names of the States.=--Names of states, territories, and island
possessions of the United States are abbreviated when preceded by the
name of a town or city: as, _Pueblo, Col._; _Manila, P.I._
=93. Miscellaneous Abbreviations.=--The following abbreviations are also
in good usage: _Esq._, _Inc._, _Jr._, _A.B._, _Ph.D._, _M.D._, _U.S.N._,
etc., when used after proper names; _a.m._, _p.m._, _A.D._, _B.C._, when
preceded by numerals.
=94. Forbidden Abbreviations.=--The following abbreviations may not be
used on most newspapers:
1. Christian names: as, _Chas._ for _Charles_, _Thos._ for _Thomas_.
2. Mount, Fort, and Saint: as, _Mt. St. Elias_ for _Mount Saint Elias_,
_Ft. Wayne_ for _Fort Wayne_.
3. Railroad, Company, Brothers, etc.: as, _New Haven R. R._ for _New
Haven Railroad_, _National Biscuit Co._ for _National Biscuit Company_.
11. Numbers
=95. Dates.=--Observe the following rules concerning dates:
1. Write year dates always in figures: as, _1776_.
2. Write month dates in figures when preceded by the name of the month:
as, _July 7, 1916_. When the name of the month does not precede, spell
out the date: as, _Bills are due on the tenth_.
3. Do not write the day before the name of the month: as, _the 25th of
December_ for _Dec. 25_.
4. Do not put a _d_, _nd_, _st_, or _th_ after a date: as, _Sept. 7th_
for _Sept. 7_.
=96. Money.=--When mentioning sums of money, use figures for all amounts
over one dollar; spell out all sums below a dollar: as, _$5.75_, _fifty
cents_. But if in the same sentence it becomes necessary to mention sums
above and below a dollar, use figures for all.
=97. Street and District Names.=--Spell out street, ward, district, and
precinct names designated by numbers: as, _Second ward_, _Tenth
precinct_.
=98. Sporting Records.=--Use figures for sporting records: as, _10 feet,
5 inches_; _Time, :49-3/5_; _18-2 balk-line_.
=99. Beginning of Sentences.=--Do not begin a sentence with figures. If
impossible to shift the number to a later place in the sentence, place
_about_ or _more than_ before the figures: as, _More than 14,000 persons
passed through the gates_.
=100. Dimensions.=--Use figures with an _x_ to express dimensions of
lots, buildings, floors, boats, machinery, etc.: as, _90x125 feet_,
_60-foot beam_, etc.
=101. General Usage.=--Observe the following general rules concerning
numbers:
1. Use figures to express dates, distances, latitude and longitude,
hours of the day, degrees of temperature, percentage, street numbers,
telephone numbers, automobile numbers, votes, and betting odds. In other
cases spell out all numbers under 100, except where several numbers,
some of which are above and some under 100, are used in the same
paragraph. In such a case, use figures for all.
MARKS USED IN CORRECTING COPY
amb = Ambiguous.
and = A bad "and" sentence. Make two
sentences or subordinate one
clause.
ant = Antecedent not clear.
Cl = Not clear.
Cst = Construction faulty.
Coh = Coherence not good.
Con = Wrong connective.
Consult = Bring copy to instructor for
discussion.
delta = Delete.
dull = Dull reading; put more life into
the story.
E = Error.
ed = Editorializing; too much personal
opinion.
FW = "Fine writing."
Gr = Bad grammar.
K = Awkward; clumsily expressed.
ld = Poor lead; revise.
P = Punctuation wrong.
pt = Point of view shifted.
qt = Make this a direct quotation.
rep = Same word repeated too much.
rew = Rewrite.
sent = Use shorter sentences.
Sl = Slang.
Sp = Bad spelling.
SU = Sentence lacks unity.
T = Wrong tense.
unnec = Unnecessary details; omit some
of them.
tr = Transpose.
W = Wrong use of word.
? = Truth of statement questioned.
¶ = Begin a new paragraph.
No ¶ = No ¶ needed.
_| = Indent.
[Horizontal
parentheses] = Put the words together as one
# = Separate into two words.
[Upward slanting
equals sign] = Hyphen needed.
CORRECTIONS
[Illustration: Hand mark-up of copy to be corrected.]
CORRECTED PROOF
[Illustration: Hand mark-up of corrections on proof.]
PROOF-READERS' MARKS
Cap Capitalize.
lc Lower case; small letter.
delta Delete; omit.
stet Restore the words crossed out.
^ Insert at the place indicated.
[. in circle] Insert a period.
/,\ Insert a comma.
\"/ Insert quotation-marks.
=/ Insert a hyphen.
X Imperfect letter.
9 Letter inverted; turn over.
¶ Make a new paragraph.
No ¶ No paragraph.
# Put a space between.
[Breve] Smaller space.
[Horizontal
parentheses] Close up; no space needed.
\/ /\ Badly spaced; space more evenly.
[Breve] Quad shows between the words; shove down.
wf Wrong font.
tr Transpose.
__
| Carry to the left.
|__| Lower.
__
| | Elevate.
// Straighten crooked line.
lead Add lead between the lines.
delta lead Take out lead.
(?) Query: Is the proof correct?
TERMINOLOGY
=Ad Alley.=--The part of the composing room where the
advertisements are set.
=Add.=--Late news added to a story already written or printed.
=A. P.=--Abbreviation for Associated Press.
=Arrest Sheets.=--The police record on which all arrests are
entered.
=Assignment.=--A story that a reporter has been detailed to cover;
any duty assigned by the city editor.
=Assignment Slips.=--Slips of paper containing assignments the city
editor wishes a reporter to cover. These slips are made out
daily and laid on the reporter's desk at the beginning of his
day's work.
=Bank.=--(1) One of the whole divisions of the headlines, separated
from the next by a blank line; called also a _deck_. (2) A table
or frame for holding type-filled galleys.
=Bank-man.=--A helper in the composing room whose duty it is to
assemble type received from the different linotype machines,
close up the galleys on the bank, and see that they are proved.
=Beat.=--(1) A definite place or section of town,--as the city hall,
the capitol, the police court, fire stations, hotels,
etc.,--regularly visited by a reporter to obtain news; also
termed a _run_. (2) See _scoop_.
=B. F.=--Abbreviation for =bold-face=, =black-face type=.
=Blind Interview.=--An interview given by a man of authority on
condition that his name be withheld.
=Blotter.=--The police record-book of crime.
=Box.=--A rectangular space marked off in a story, usually at the
beginning, for calling attention to the news within the box. The
news is often a list of dead or injured or of athletic records,
printed in bold-face type.
=Break-line.=--A line not filled to the end with letters, as the
last line of a paragraph. In a head a break-line may contain
white space on each side.
=Bridge.=--The raised platform in front of the magistrate's desk in
police court.
=Bull.=--A statement or a series of statements, the terms of which
are manifestly inconsistent or contradictory.
=Bulldog Edition.=--The earliest regular edition.
=Bulletin.=--A brief telegraphic message giving the barest results
of an event, often an accident, unaccompanied by details.
=Catch-line.=--(1) A short line set in display type within the body
of a story to catch the eye of the reader and enable him to get
the striking details by a hasty glance down the column. (2) A
line at the top of each page of copy sent to the composing room
one page at a time: as, "Society," "State," "Suicide." Such
lines enable the bank-men to assemble readily all the stories
and parts of stories belonging together.
=Chase.=--A rectangular iron or steel frame into which the forms are
locked for printing or stereotyping.
=Condensed Type.=--Type thin in comparison to its height; contrasted
with extended type.
=Copy.=--Any manuscript prepared for the press. _Blind Copy_ is copy
that is difficult to read. _Clean Copy_ is manuscript requiring
little or no editing. _Time Copy_ is any matter for which there
is no rush,--usually held to be set up by the compositors when
they would otherwise be idle, or to be used in case of a
scarcity of news. The Sunday paper is filled with time copy.
=Copy Cutter.=--An assistant in the composing room who receives copy
from the head copy reader, or editor, cuts it into takes, and
distributes the takes to the compositors to set up.
=Copyholder.=--A proof-reader's assistant who, to correct errors,
reads copy for comparison of it with the proof.
=Copy-reader.=--One who revises copy and writes the headlines. Not
to be confused with _proof-reader_.
=Cover.=--To go for the purpose of getting facts about an event or
for the purpose of writing up the event: as, "Jones covered the
prize fight."
=Dead.=--A term applied to composed type that is of no further use;
also sometimes applied to copy.
=Deck.=--See _Bank_ (1).
=Department Men.=--Reporters who seek news regularly in the same
places, as the police courts, city hall, coroner's office.
=Display Type.=--Type bolder of face or more conspicuous than
ordinary type.
=Dope.=--Slang for any information or collection of facts to be used
in a story; applied specifically to sporting stories, meaning a
forecast of the outcome, as in a horse-race or a boxing
contest.
=Em.=--The square of the body of any size of type; used as the unit
of measurement for making indentions, indicating the length of
dashes, etc.
=End Mark.=--A mark put at the end of a story to indicate to the
compositor that the story is complete. The two end marks used
are the figure 30 enclosed in a circle and a #.
=Feature.=--To give prominence to; to display prominently.
=Feature Story.=--A story, often with a whimsical turn, in which the
interest lies in something else than the immediate news value;
one that develops some interesting feature of the day's news for
its own sake rather than for the worth of the story as a whole.
Also called "human interest" story. See page 224.
=Filler.=--A story of doubtful news value included for lack of
better news in a column or section of a paper. The so-called
"patent insides" in country weeklies and small dailies are known
as fillers.
=Flash.=--A brief telegraphic message sandwiched between two
sentences of a running story, giving the outcome before it is
reached in the story: as, "Flash--Smith knocked out in
fourteenth round," when the reporter's story has got only as far
as the eleventh round; or, "Flash--Jury coming in; get ready for
verdict," thrust into the body of a story a reporter is sending
about a murder trial.
=Flimsy.=--Thin tissue paper used in duplicating telegraphic stories
as they come off the wire.
=Flush.=--On an even line or margin with.
=Follow Copy.=--An instruction, written on the margin of manuscript,
to the compositor that he must follow copy exactly, even though
the matter may seem wrong.
=Folo.=--An abbreviation for _follow_, marked at the beginning of
stories to indicate that they are to follow others of a similar
nature: as, "Folo Suicide," meaning to the bank-man, "Put this
story in the form immediately after the one slugged 'Suicide.'"
See page 15.
=Form.=--An assemblage of type, usually seven or eight columns,
locked in a chase preparatory to printing or stereotyping.
=Fudge.=--A small printing cylinder and chase that can be attached
to a rotary press; used for printing late news. See page 18.
=Future Book.=--The book in which the city editor records future
events: as, speeches, conventions, lawsuits, etc.
=Galley.=--A long, shallow, metal tray for holding composed type.
From the type in this tray the first or _galley proof_ is pulled
for corrections.
=Galley Proof.=--An impression made from type in a galley.
=Gothic.=--A heavy, black-faced type, all the strokes of which are
of uniform width.
=Guide Line.=--See _Catch Line_ (2).
=Hanging Indention.=--Equal indention of all the lines of a
paragraph except the first, which extends one em farther to the
left than those succeeding.
=Head.=--Abbreviation for _headline_.
_Drop-Line Head_
SECOND YEAR OF
THE GREAT WAR
OPENS TODAY
_Pyramid Head_
Clash between Germany
and Russia Occurred
August 1, 1914
_Cross-Line_
END NOT IN SIGHT
_Hanging Indention_
First Anniversary Finds
Little Change in Relative
Strength of the Two
Opposing Forces.
=Hell-box.=--The box into which waste lead is thrown for remelting
in the stereotyping room.
=Hold.=--An instruction written at the beginning of copy or proof,
instructing the make-up man in the printing room to hold the
article, not print it, until he has received further orders.
=Human Interest Story.=--See _Feature Story_.
=I.N.S.=--Abbreviation for International News Service.
=Insert.=--One or more sentences or paragraphs inserted in the body
of a story already written, giving fuller or more accurate
information.
=Jump-head.=--A headline put above the continuation of a story begun
on a preceding page.
=Justifier.=--A short story of little or no news value inserted at
the foot of a column to fill it out evenly.
=Justify.=--To make even or true by proper spacing, as lines of type
or columns on a page.
=Kill.=--To destroy the whole or a part of a story, usually after it
has been set in type.
=Lead.=--The initial sentence or paragraph of a story, into which is
crammed the gist of the article. See page 68.
=Lead.=--Thin strips of metal placed between lines of type to make
the lines stand farther apart, and hence to make the story stand
out more prominently on the printed page.
=Lower Case.=--(1) A shallow wooden receptacle divided into
compartments called boxes, for keeping separate the small
letters of a font of type; distinguished from the _upper case_
which stands slantingly above the lower case and contains the
capital letters; hence (2) the letters in that case.
=Make-up.=--The arrangement of type into columns and pages
preparatory to printing.
=Make-up Man.=--The workman who arranges composed type in forms
preparatory to printing.
=Morgue.=--The filing cabinet or room in which are kept stories and
obituaries of prominent persons, photographs of them, their
families, and their homes, clippings of various kinds about
disasters, religious associations, big conventions, strikes,
wars, etc. See page 9.
=Must.=--A direction put on the margin of copy to indicate that the
story must be printed.
=Pi.=--Type that has been so jumbled or disarranged that it cannot
be used until reassembled.
=Pi Line.=--A freak line set up by a compositor when he has made an
error in the line and completed it by striking the keys at
random until he has filled out the measure and cast the slug:
ETAOINS
=Play Up.=--To emphasize by writing about with unusual fullness.
=Police Blotter.=--See _Blotter_.
=Pony Report.=--A condensed report of the day's news, sent out by
news bureaus to papers that are not able or do not care to
subscribe for the full service.
=Proof-reader.=--One whose time is given to reading and making
corrections in the printer's proof; not to be confused with
_Copy-reader_.
=Prove.=--To take a proof of or from.
=Pull.=--To make an impression on a hand-press: as, to _pull_ a
proof.
=Pyramid Head.=--A heading of three, four, or five lines,--usually
of three,--the first of which is full, the second indented at
both sides, the third still more indented at both sides, all the
lines being centered. See _Head_.
=Query.=--A telegraphic request to a paper for instructions on a
story that a correspondent wishes to send. See page 240.
=Quoins.=--Wedges used for fastening or locking type in a galley or
a form.
=Release.=--To permit publication of a story on or after a specified
date, but not before. See page 54.
=Revise.=--A corrected proof.
=Rewrite.=--A story rewritten from another paper. See page 218.
=Rewrite Man.=--A reporter who rewrites telegraphic, cable, and
telephone stories, or who rewrites poor copy submitted by other
reporters. See page 219.
=Run.=--See _Beat_ (1).
=Run-in.=--To omit paragraph indentions for the sake of saving
space.
=Running Story.=--A story which develops as the day advances, or
from day to day.
=Scoop.=--Publication of an important story in advance of rival
papers; also called a _beat_.
=Sheets.=--See _Arrest Sheets_.
=Slips.=--Slips of paper hung on the police bulletin board or pasted
in a public ledger, announcing such crimes, misdemeanors,
complaints, and the like as the police are willing to make
public. See page 35.
=Slug.=--(1) A solid line of type set by a linotype machine. (2) A
strip of type metal thicker than a lead and less than type high,
for widening spaces between lines, supporting the foot of a
column, etc. (3) A strip of metal bearing a type-high number
inserted by a compositor at the beginning of a take to mark the
type set by him. (4) The compositor who set the type marked by a
slug. See also _Catch Line_ (2).
=Solid.=--Having no leads between the lines: as, a _solid_ column of
type.
=Space Book.=--A book in which the state editor keeps a record of
stories sent in by correspondents and space writers.
=Space Writer.=--A writer who is paid for his stories according to
the amount of space they occupy when printed.
=Special.=--A story written by a special correspondent, usually one
out of town.
=Stick.=--(1) A small metal tray holding approximately two inches of
type, used by printers in setting type by hand. (2) The amount
of type held by a stick.
=Stone.=--A smooth table top, once of stone, now usually of metal,
on which the page forms are made up.
=Story.=--(1) Any article, other than an editorial or an
advertisement, written for a newspaper. (2) The event about
which the story is written: as, a burglar story, meaning the
burglary that the reporter writes up.
=Streamer Head.=--A head set in large type and extending across the
top of the page.
=String.=--A strip of clipped stories pasted together end to end to
indicate the number of columns contributed by a space writer.
=Style Book.=--The printed book of rules followed by reporters,
copy-readers, and compositors. See page 249.
=Take.=--The portion of copy taken at once by a compositor for
setting up. See page 13.
=30.=--A telegrapher's signal indicating the end of the message;
also put at the end of a story to indicate its completion.
=Tip.=--Secret information about an item of news valuable to a
paper.
=Turn Rule.=--A copy-reader's signal to the composing room to turn
the black face of the rule, indicating thereby that the story is
not yet complete and that more will be inserted at that place.
=U.P.=--Abbreviation for United Press Associations.
=w.f.=--Abbreviation for _wrong font_; a proof-reader's mark of
correction, indicating that a letter from another font has
slipped into a word: as, the _u_ in beca_u_se.
EXERCISES
_CHAPTER V_
Most of the following stories held front-page positions on leading
metropolitan dailies. Explain their story values:
1. Philadelphia, Oct. 31.--With a record of 314 eggs in 365 days, Lady
Eglantine, a white Leghorn pullet, became to-day the champion egg layer
of the world. The little hen, which weighs three and a half pounds,
completed her year of an egg-laying competition at Delaware College,
Newark, Del., and beat the previous record of 286 eggs by 28. The pen of
five hens of which she was a member also broke the American pen record
with 1,211 eggs. The average barnyard fowl produces only 70 eggs in a
year.
2. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 2.--While President Wilson was speaking here
to-day a pair of new fur-lined gloves was taken from the pocket of his
overcoat, which he had hung in an ante-room. It is supposed that
somebody wanted a souvenir of his visit to Kansas. Mr. Wilson missed the
gloves when he started for his train.
3. Richmond, Va., Feb. 20.--Capt. W. M. Myers, delegate for Richmond in
the general assembly, has introduced an amendment to the anti-nuisance,
or "red light," measure, making it unlawful for any woman to wear a
skirt the length of which is more than four inches from the ground, a
bodice or shirt waist showing more than three inches of neck, or clothes
of transparent texture. Delegate Myers said he wished to protect men.
4. Two Rivers, Wis., Feb. 19.--When the Bushey Business College
basket-ball team scored the winning point in the last minute of play
during their game with the Two Rivers team here last night, Anton
Kopetsky was stricken with heart failure. He was taken to the basement
of the building, where physicians started to work over him. In the
meantime a dance was started in the hall where the game had been played.
An hour later, with the dance on in full swing, Kopetsky died. The dance
was stopped and the musicians sent home.
5. Centralia, Pa., Sept. 30.--Forty men are working night and day to
rescue Thomas Tosheski, who has been entombed 96 hours in the
Continental mine here. Food was given Tosheski in his prison to-day by
means of a two-inch gas-pipe, forced through a hole made by a diamond
drill.
6. On the north corner of Darling Street and Temple Alley a little old
woman, white-haired and shrunken in frame, has guarded all day long a
bag of clothes and a feather bed, her only possessions. She was thrown
out of her room at 19-1/2 Temple Alley this morning and she has nowhere
to go.
7. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 20.--Henry Blake of this city has been arrested
by State Policeman Curtis A. Davies on charges of burglary. He confessed
to a string of thefts covering months in the fashionable suburban
districts of the state capital. In Blake's pocket was found a much used
Bible. Circled with red ink was the quotation: "Seek and ye shall find."
8. New York, Feb. 19.--The sale of Peter the Great, 2:07-1/4, by W. E.
D. Stokes of this city to Stoughton J. Fletcher, an Indianapolis banker,
sets a new record for old horses. Not in any country, at any period, it
is believed, has a horse of any breed brought so high a price at so
great an age. Peter the Great is 21 years old and Stokes received
$50,000 for him.
9. Boston, August 31.--Another world eating record is claimed by Charles
W. Glidden, of Lawrence, who sat down at a local restaurant yesterday
and devoured fifty-eight ears of corn in an hour and fifty-five minutes.
The previous record is claimed by Ose Dugan, of New York, who ate
fifty-one ears. Mr. Glidden is ready to meet all comers. He keeps in
condition by eating sparingly of prunes, ice cream, and oranges.
10. Grand Rapids, Wis., Feb. 21.--Two miles north of the city a large
grey fox fought for its life this morning, and lost. Conrad Wittman shot
and wounded him a mile south of Hunter's Point. The fox was trailed by
the dogs past Regele's creamery, when the trail came abruptly to an end.
A search was begun, and a short time afterward the fox was found in a
tree, dead. He had leaped to the lower branches as the dogs were
overtaking him, and died from the gun-shot wound after reaching safety.
11. New York, Feb. 28.--After all negotiations, counter negotiations,
champagne suppers, and "rushing," it seems that Charlie Chaplin with his
justly celebrated walk and his frequently featured kick will hereafter
be exclusively shown on Mutual films. Such announcement was made quietly
but definitely yesterday. The contracts, it is asserted, were signed
Saturday. They provide for a bonus of $100,000 to Chaplin, with or
without his mustache; $10,000 a week salary, and a percentage in the
business. The money is to be paid to-morrow. Chaplin is to have a
special company organized for him by the Mutual, and his brother, Syd
Chaplin, also an agile figure in motion pictures, is to be a member of
it. What price was paid for the brother is not stated. The Mutual
Company already has applied for an insurance of $250,000 on the new
star.
12. Greencastle, Ind., Feb. 22.--Fifty De Pauw University students have
been suspended for the present week because they violated the college
rule against dancing. The students attended a ball given three weeks ago
during the midyear recess.
13. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 16.--Until the other day a horse belonging to
Elias Chute, 80 years old, of No. 2404 Faraon Street, had not been
outside of a little barn in the rear of 1626 Frederick Avenue for more
than a year. Through most of one winter, spring, summer, fall, and part
of another winter the faithful old animal had stood tied in his stall.
His hoofs had grown over his shoes and everything about him showed he
had been neglected in everything but food and water.
_CHAPTER VIII_
_A._ Explain the faults in the organization of the following stories:
_WILSON SPEAKS TO DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION_
Washington, Oct. 11.--The Daughters of the American Revolution
applauded what they regarded as a gallant compliment to his
fiancee uttered by President Wilson in his speech on national
unity at Continental Hall this afternoon.
In that part of his speech in which he served notice that he
purposes to administer the discipline of public disapproval to
hyphenated Americans, the President remarked:
"I know of no body of persons comparable to a body of ladies for
creating an atmosphere of opinion."
Immediately afterward he said smilingly:
"I have myself in part yielded to the influence of that
atmosphere."
The official White House stenographer inserted a comma in his
transcript of the President's speech at the foregoing utterance,
but the members of the D. A. R. thought the President had come
to a chivalrous period. They looked over the President's
shoulders to one of the boxes where sat his fiancee, Mrs. Norman
Galt, with her mother, Mrs. Bolling, and they applauded
tumultuously.
Several seconds elapsed before the President, whose face had
flushed, could wedge in:
"for it took me a long time to observe how I was going to vote
in New Jersey."
The President's hearers just would not believe that he had had
the suffrage issue in mind when he began his sentence, and Mrs.
Galt herself blushed in recognition of the applause.
Mrs. Galt, with her mother and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, had
been taken to Continental Hall in one of the White House
automobiles. The President walked over, accompanied by his
military aid, Col. Harte, and the secret-service men. Before he
left the White House he had stood for several minutes leaning
over the side of the automobile having a tete-a-tete with Mrs.
Galt.
Curious persons passing through the White House grounds thought
it a very interesting sight to observe the President of the
United States standing with one foot on the step of an
automobile talking with a member of the fair sex. They got the
impression from the animated character of the conversation that
Mrs. Galt was disappointed because the President was not going
to accompany her to Continental Hall, and that she was trying to
persuade him to abandon his plan of walking over.
Society people are as much interested as ever in the plans of
the couple, but little has been learned definitely as yet. No
disclosure was made to-day of the date of the wedding, and
similar secrecy has been maintained as to their honeymoon plans.
It is known that the Misses Smith of New Orleans, relatives of
the President, are urging that the honeymoon be enjoyed at Pass
Christian, Miss., where Mr. Wilson and his family spent the
Christmas holidays two years ago. It is believed the President
will not choose a place as far distant as Pass Christian. His
friends predict that if he takes any trip at all it will be on
the yacht Mayflower.
Congratulations of the United States Supreme Court on his
engagement were extended to the President this morning when the
Justices called formally to pay their respects on the occasion
of the convening of the court for the fall sittings. The
Justices were received in the Blue Room. They were in their
judicial robes and all members were present except Justice
Lamar, whose illness prevented.
President Wilson's impetuosity as a prospective bridegroom is
keeping the secret service on the jump nearly all the time. More
frequently than he ever has done in the past, the President
leaves the White House unattended and without giving warning to
his bodyguard.
He did this yesterday when he started for Mrs. Galt's residence,
where he was to be a dinner guest, and again this morning when
he walked down town to purchase a new travelling bag. The
purchase resulted in renewed speculation whether or not the date
for the wedding is imminent.
_LEO FRANK WORSE TO-DAY_
Milledgeville, Ga., July 19.--Physicians who examined Leo M.
Frank in the state prison early to-day said his condition was
much worse. The jagged cut in his throat, received at the hands
of a fellow prisoner, William Green, Saturday night, was swollen
and his temperature was 102 2-5.
Physicians have succeeded in stopping the flow of blood from a
jagged wound made with a butcher knife by William Green, also
serving a life term for murder. The blow was struck as Frank
slept in his bunk.
An investigation of the attack probably will be made by the
Georgia prison commission.
Frank's temperature was as low as 101 Monday noon, but ran up to
102 2-5 Monday night. The wound is an ugly, jagged one.
_BRYAN LOSES TEMPER_
Dallas, Texas, Oct. 2.--William J. Bryan, who formerly held a
government job, has temper.
He took said temper out for an airing here to-day. He was riding
from the railroad station to the hotel with a reception
committee, of which a reporter happened to be a member.
"Do you ever intend to be a candidate for public office?" asked
the reporter.
"I think, sir, if you had any sense you wouldn't have asked that
question," replied the exponent of peace.
"I meant no impertinence."
"Well, it was impertinent. You wouldn't want to answer that
question yourself, would you?"
"Sure I can answer it. I never intend to be a candidate for
anything."
"Well, I don't think any friend of mine would try to get me to
promise never to be a candidate again."
"I didn't ask you to promise."
"Well, that's all right," the ex-premier and the dove of peace
returned.
Bryan was almost kissed again to-day.
B. F. Pace, a peace enthusiast, with outstretched arms and
pursed-up lips, rushed upon the Nebraskan in the hotel lobby.
Bryan blushed coyly, clapped his hand over his mouth and dodged
behind a six-foot Texan.
"Not too fast there!" he warned.
Friends intervened.
Pace has bushy whiskers.
_GUEST AT PARTY ROBBER_
The police are searching for a man known as "Jack Wallace," who
is wanted for robbing W. G. Gaede, 444 West Grand Avenue, of
jewelry valued at $350 at the Auditorium Hotel.
Gaede, who was celebrating New Year's eve, met Wallace and took
him to the Auditorium. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning Wallace
suggested that Gaede retire.
Wallace took Gaede to his room and soon afterward departed. When
Gaede awoke his diamond stud, watch, chain, and charm were gone,
also $20 in currency.
Mrs. Agnes Ackerman of the Morrison Hotel was robbed of a purse
containing $50 while dining at the Hotel La Salle Saturday
night.
_B._ Put the following details in proper sequence for a suicide story:
Ira Hancock
Committed suicide (?) about 10 A.M., Monday.
Used to be wealthy.
Always gave waiters a good tip.
Never quit tipping even when he became poor.
Said tip was part of price of a meal.
Waiters always glad to see him.
Patronized cheap restaurants for the past three months.
Lived at 1919 Washington Avenue.
Age, 29.
Left room Monday morning with only a nickel and a bunch of keys.
Borrowed a quarter from Bob Cranston, downtown friend.
Went together for breakfast at Cozy Cafe, 18 Main Street.
Breakfast cost 25 cents each.
Hancock gave waiter five-cent tip.
Cranston called him a fool.
Hancock unmarried.
9:00 A.M., engaged a dressing room at Island Bathing house.
Bathing beach closed at midnight; Hancock's clothing still in
the dressing room.
Only a bunch of keys in the pockets.
Fired from job at Snyder's Malt house, Saturday night.
Taught girls' Sunday-school class, West Side Baptist church,
Sunday morning.
Body not found.
Lost money dealing in war stocks three months ago.
_CHAPTER IX_
_A._ Correct such of the following leads as need correction. Where the
age of the person, his place of residence, or similar details necessary
to an effective lead are lacking, supply them (paragraphs =100-120=).
1. Adam Schenk fell off the runway at the Fernholz Lumber Yard
on Monday forenoon and landed on his back at a point near his
kidneys on a stake on the wagon, breaking the stake off.
2. Rather than to put the Tuttle Press Company to an unnecessary
expense of appropriating $1,000 that would do neither the city
nor any particular individual a cent's worth of material good,
and assuming also that the city, by virtue of the fact that the
company's original plant was erected on lines provided by the
city's engineer, is in a measure responsible for present
conditions, the city commissioners in conference with S. A.
Whedon of the Tuttle Press Company this morning decided not to
proceed further in the matter of ordering removed the walls of a
big addition to the plant now in process of construction.
3. Roaming hogs was the cause of the recent illness of Mr. T. N.
Davis. The hogs rooted under the wire fence surrounding his
residence and in his effort to get them out he exerted himself
beyond his endurance.
4. At an early hour Tuesday morning, as the beams of the rising
sun were struggling to dispel the uncertainties of a winter
night, the final summons came to Miss Ella O'Harrigan, our
beloved librarian, to join the innumerable caravan that moves to
the pale realms of shade.
5. Again the lure of Broadway, the craving to be among
expensively clad men and women, and a longing to seem of more
than actual importance, have resulted in a fall from a position
of responsibility and trust to one facing the possibility of a
long term of imprisonment.
This time it is a woman; good looking, possessing the knack of
dressing smartly, capable and efficient, and less than 40 years
old. For six years she had been head bookkeeper in Marbury Hall,
an apartment hotel of the best class, at 164 West Seventy-fourth
Street. For more than two years of that time, according to the
prosecuting officials, she has been putting cash belonging to
the hotel into her own diamond-studded purse, whence it was
transferred to the coffers of expensive dressmakers, theatres,
and restaurants, particularly those which maintained dance
floors.
Yesterday afternoon she was arrested, charged with grand
larceny. She raised her hand to her mouth as the detective
tapped her shoulder, and a few minutes later was taken to the
Polyclinic Hospital, to be later transferred to Bellevue. She
will recover from the poison and will have to face in court in
four or five days the charges which she attempted to avoid by
death....
6. Swept by a 33-mile gale, a fire which started in a
three-story frame Greek restaurant on Appomattox Street this
afternoon quickly spread to adjoining frame buildings in
Hopewell, the "Wonder City," at the gates of the Du Pont Powder
Company's plant, twenty miles from here, and at nightfall
practically every business house, hotel, and restaurant in the
mushroom powder town of 30,000 had been wiped out, the loss
amounting to $1,000,000 or more.
7. One man, a bank messenger, was shot mortally and his
assailant wounded, perhaps mortally, two other men narrowly
missed death by shooting, and thousands of persons were
terrorized by an attempted hold-up in the Fourteenth Street
subway station at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and by a chase
which skirted Union Square, continued through a theatre arcade
and ended blocks away.
8. As a result of an old quarrel between two citizens of Leroy,
the melting snow-drifts on the streets of that city ran red with
human blood, Wednesday. John M. Zellhoefer lay gasping his last
breath on the sidewalk, with a fatal bullet wound through the
midst of his body, while over him stood Francis Marion Dunkin,
with smoking revolver in hand.
9. Nothing had been learned by the police last night to
indicate that George de Brosa, who died early yesterday morning
in Bellevue hospital after fatally wounding Allan Gardner, a
bank messenger, and being shot by Walter F. Orleman, another
bank messenger, in an attempted holdup of the two in the
Fourteenth Street subway station Friday afternoon, had an
accomplice.
10. At All Saints Cathedral Sunday morning, Dean Seldon P.
Delany spoke on "Salvation through Self-Sacrifice," taking for
his text Mark viii, 35: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose
it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the
gospel's, the same shall save it."
11. Rachel Green, colored, suffered a dislocated and badly
sprained knee last night while she was attending religious
services at Main Street Colored Baptist church and another woman
began to shout and jumped into her lap.
12. James L. Crawley of Hastings is confined to his home with a
broken arm and lacerated ear. His injuries were received when he
stepped on the family cat and fell headlong down the cellar
steps. The cat was asleep on the top step.
13. John Radcliffe, 16 years old, of Moultrie, had never been
kissed, and in trying desperately to maintain this estate, while
pursued at a barn dance by Mrs. Winifred Trice, Monday night, he
fell out of a door twenty feet from the ground and was picked up
with one arm and three ribs fractured.
14. Charged with having tried to obtain $1,000 by forgery, a
handsomely gowned young woman, who gave her name as Irene
Minnerly, and said she was a telephone operator, and a man who
described himself as Webster Percy Simpson, thirty-six, living
at the Hotel Endicott, were arrested yesterday afternoon as they
were leaving the offices of Fernando W. Brenner, at No. 6 Church
Street.
15. Allen & Co., Ltd., the well-known London firm of publishers,
has been prosecuted for the publication of a novel called "The
Raindrop," written by D. H. Lawrence, on the ground that it is
obscene.
16. Interesting testimony was given before Justice Scudder in
the Supreme Court to-day in the hearing of the suit for divorce
brought by Harry H. Wiggins of Floral Park, a retired grocer.
Mr. Wiggins alleged undue fondness for John Burglond, a farm
hand formerly employed in Mrs. Wiggins' cabbage patch. Mrs.
Wiggins is 53 years old and Burglond 33.
17. S. H. Brannick of this city lost a fine cow last week, the
animal departing this life suddenly after the city had retired
for the evening.
18. Miss Ellen Peterson, a former employee of Miss Josie
Griffin's millinery, 2318 Cottage Grove Avenue, was married
Tuesday by the Rev. Johnston Myers at Immanuel Baptist church.
The couple left immediately after the ceremony for a wedding
trip through the West.
19. Hilda is the daughter of one of the deftest colored janitors
who ever kept a dumb waiter just that. With her father and
mother she lives in a court apartment on the ground floor of No.
195 Main St., and last night she was slumbering blissfully,
wrapped in dreams of a chocolate-colored Santa Claus with
sweet-potato trimmings and persimmon whiskers, when she heard
the window of her room open.
_B._ Comment on the leads to the following stories, rewriting any that
need correction (paragraphs =100-120=):
1. This story dates back eight months, when Mrs. Elizabeth
Hochberger became a patient at the county hospital in Chicago.
She was ill of typhoid fever and in her first night at the
hospital she became delirious. While in this condition she
seized a ten-inch table knife from a tray and in the absence of
anyone to restrain her poked it down her throat. Attendants
attracted by the woman's groans hurried to the bedside. Then an
interne appeared, made a hasty diagnosis, and attributed the
patient's action to the delirium. He administered an opiate.
Several days later Mrs. Hochberger, having passed the crisis of
the fever, began to recover. A week afterward she was discharged
as cured.
From the time she complained of internal pains and to relatives
she recounted a vague story of her delirium at the hospital. She
had a faint recollection of swallowing a knife, she said. To
swallow a knife and survive was improbable, she was told, but
she was advised to see a physician. The first doctor called in
recommended an immediate operation for a tumor. Another believed
she had an acute case of appendicitis.
"It was not until we made our discovery that Mrs. Hochberger
told us of her delirium," said the doctor. "Had I heard it
before making the X-ray examination I would have hardly given it
credence. I have heard of people swallowing coins and pencils,
but this is the first knife ever brought to my attention."
The knife was removed to-day by Dr. George C. Amerson at the
West Side Hospital.
2. If you want a man to love you,
Bear in mind this plan:
Always keep him doubtful of you;
Fool him all you can!
Never let him know you like him;
Never answer, "Yes,"
Till you have him broken-hearted.
Make him guess, guess, guess.
This is the chorus of one of the songs Pearl Palmer, pretty
opera singer, was to have sung when she made her first Broadway
appearance as one of the principals of the opera, "The Princess
Pat." Now she is dead because she carried this philosophy into
her own life, her friends say. Herbert Haeckler, who killed the
young singer and himself Sunday night, had been kept "guessing,"
they said, until his mind had given away.
Eva Fallon will sing the song Miss Palmer was to have sung when
the opera opens to-morrow night. It was postponed from last
night because of the tragedy.
3. A young man by the name of Tom Verbeck, 18 years old, living
in Freeport, who rides a motorcycle, was passing along the
Chicago road, Friday, when he met an automobile driver who was
in distress. The motorcycle man stopped, and when asked to lend
a hand gave freely of his time. He was unsuccessful, however,
and it was decided to have the motorcycle tow the auto into
Freeport. More complications presented themselves, as neither
the auto driver nor the motorcycle rider had a rope to tie the
two machines together. The automobile man solved this problem by
taking off his wool shirt and using it for a tow-rope. The owner
of the auto rode in the buzz wagon into town, and on account of
the darkness it was not noticed that he was shy a shirt. The
motorcyclist towed the machine to the residence of the driver by
way of back streets, and here he unloaded the machine. The shirt
used as a tow-rope was not dismembered by the operation.
_C._ Write the lead to the story the outline of which was given on page
290.
_D._ Write for Friday afternoon's paper an informal lead to the
following story:
Characters: Anton Kurdiana and his wife, Rosa (nee Novak).
Anton's age, 24; Rosa's, 20. Married three months ago. Anton has
a cork leg. Leg cut off above the knee by a train a year ago.
Rosa Novak a nurse in the hospital to which he was taken. Rosa
preparing to get a divorce. Anton did not want a divorce. A
friend of Anton's told him if he would leave the state, Rosa
could not get the divorce. A friend of Rosa's told her Anton was
preparing to leave early this (Friday) morning.
Last night after he went to bed, Rosa hid his cork leg. He
called for help from his bedroom window this morning and the
police came. Bailiff also came and served notice of divorce
proceedings. They live at 2404 Faraon Street, this city.
Cause of divorce, cruelty and non-support.
_E._ Explain the different tones of the following leads and the writers'
methods of gaining their effects (paragraph =119=):
1. "You have stolen my daughter! Take that!"
"That" was a short right jab to the face. Mrs. Anna la Violette
of 6632 South Wabash Avenue was the donor, and William Metcalf,
who had merely married her daughter Elsie, aged 18, owned the
face.
2. Twenty grains of cocaine and morphine a day, eighty times the
amount an average dope fiend uses, enough to kill forty men,
fifteen years at it too,--this is the record of Dopy Phil
Harris, the human dope marvel found to-day by the California
Board of Pharmacy in its combing of the San Francisco
underworld. If poison were taken away from Harris for
forty-eight hours, he would die within the next twenty-four.
3. The winds, whose treachery Archie Hoxsey so often defied and
conquered, killed the noted aviator to-day. As if jealous of his
intrepidity, they seized him and his fragile biplane, flung them
out of the sky, and crushed out his life on the field from which
he had risen a few minutes before with a laughing promise to
pierce the heavens and soar higher than any human being had ever
dared go before.
4. The champion lodge "jiner" is the title bestowed by Mrs.
Jennie Gehret, wife of John D. Gehret, of this city, on her
husband. It is not because she wants to be his wife. She is
suing for divorce, and John's feats as a jiner are the reasons
for her action.
5. And tragedy blurs out their joy again.
Five-year-old Norman Porter of Wadsworth, Ill., wanted a toy
horse on wheels for Christmas, and his nine-year-old brother,
Leroy, wrote Santa for an automobile that would "run by itself."
The wooden horse, its head broken off, lay last night in the
snow at Kedzie Avenue and Sixteenth Street. A few feet away some
children picked up the tin automobile bent almost beyond
recognition. The toys were knocked from the arms of Mrs. James
R. Porter, the boy's mother, when she was struck by an
automobile and the same wheels which crushed out her life had
passed over them.
6. A fair-haired boy in knickerbockers, who chewed gum with
reckless insouciance and indulged in cool satirical comment on
his companion's amateur efforts, yesterday directed a daring
holdup of the Chicago Art and Silver Shop at 438 Lincoln
Parkway, from which silverware and jewelry valued at $600 was
carried off.
7. He is colored, forty-three years old, a laborer, and lives at
No. 440 West Forty-fifth Street, and when he was brought before
Lieut. Fogarty at Police Headquarters yesterday charged with
having done some fancy carving with a razor on the countenance
of Ira Robinson of No. 2004 Clinton Street, he gave his name as
General Beauregard Bivins.
_CHAPTER X_
_A._ Criticize the following stories from the standpoint of accuracy of
presentation. Rewrite the second. (Paragraphs =122-126=.)
_FUTURE WIVES WARNED_
Not since the days of the cave men has masculine assurance dared
issue such an ultimatum to femininity as that just sent by an
organization of students of Tulane University known as "Our
Future Wives" club. The club has as its purpose the dictation of
the dress selection of every woman. It is an organization of
young men who have developed the stern purpose of correcting
female faults and of widening the scope of choice that they may
have in the choosing of wives who will be sensible.
The fifteen students who are members have pledged themselves to
taboo socially every young woman who does not literally adhere
to the list of regulations which the organization has prescribed
as dress limitations. Young women who refuse to be guided by the
ukase of the club will find that none of its members will ever
extend any invitations to them; they will discover, it is
promised, that they have been sadly and most completely "cut."
At its initial meeting the club drew up and adopted a
"proclamation." This document was mailed in copy to every young
woman student of Newcomb College. The young women recipients
read the following:
"1. We will look upon no young woman with favor who spends more
than $15 a year for hats. Only one hat should be worn throughout
the year. We think it possible that hats may be trimmed over and
worn for several years.
"2. No cosmetics should be used. Powder might be used in the
case of a sallow girl.
"3. Perfumes are absolutely under the ban as a needless and
disagreeable expense.
"4. Additional hair should not be bought. It is an extravagance
and is contrary to the purpose of nature.
"5. Not more than $40 a year should be expended for dresses and
suits.
"6. Jewelry, with the exception of a wedding ring, is no
adornment, to our way of thinking. Off with diamonds, rubies,
and pearls, and the like.
"7. Silk stockings are the one extravagance allowed. Scientists
say that silk stockings prevent the wearer from being struck by
lightning.
"8. Five dollars a year is the amount necessary for shoes.
"9. Laces of all descriptions making for an appearance of
frivolity should not be used in dress.
"10. All other necessaries of dress should not cost more than
$25 a year."
_EIGHT COIN-BOX ROBBERS CAUGHT_
In the arrest last night of five men and three women as they
were wrapping piles of five-cent pieces into one-dollar rolls in
an elaborately furnished apartment near Audubon Avenue and 172d
Street, the police have found the thieves who have been
concerned in all the telephone slot-box robberies during the
past three years and have robbed the New York Telephone Company
of thousands of dollars.
The men and women under arrest have used a powerful automobile
in going about the city, robbing the slot boxes with skeleton
keys and files. The men arrested gave the following names and
ages:--Tom Morrison, 21; Nic Marino, 26; Adam Neeley, 25;
William O. Cohen, 30; and Charles Guise, 25. The women were
Della Thomas, 25; Dorothy Price, 25; and Dollie Lewis, 25.
For more than two years the New York Telephone Company has
endeavored unsuccessfully to trap these thieves in their
robberies of the pay stations. Buzzers were affixed so that an
attempt to open them would sound a warning, but, despite that,
the thefts continued. Acting Captain Jones, of the Third Branch,
and Acting Captain Cooper, of the Fourth Branch Detective
Bureaus, who directed the arrests, declare that the women did
the telephoning and opened the coin boxes, and that one of the
men, coming to the booth from the telephone as if to call,
reached in a hand or a small bag and took the coins.
_BREEZE AND RAIN PRODUCER DISCOVERED_
Prof. Marblenut, Dopetown's imminent (correct) scientist, has
arranged to furnish this city with a perpetual cool breeze and
two showers a week, all next summer. The breeze is to be made by
a gigantic electric fan operated by current generated in a plant
on the banks of Little Muddy, at Pigankle Falls. This monster
fan will be made of steel. The showers will be made by an
apparatus built on the same principle as a Chinese laundryman's
face when he takes a mouthful of water and sprays the wash. The
water will come from the river and will be filtered, then
sprayed over the city from the face of a colossal Chinese figure
standing on the left bank of the river above the power house.
Prof. Marblenut is the same man who attempted suicide with a
bakery doughnut when his wife left him last year. A friend took
the deadly thing from him and saved his life.
_BOB LA FOLLETTE STILL INCONSISTENT_
Senator Robert M. La Follette faced an audience of about 300 men
in the armory on Tuesday night. He arrived rather late as if to
so sharpen the appetite of curiosity that his unsavory
oratorical courses might be bolted without inspection and
denunciation of the chef. The Senator was conducted to the stage
and introduced by Assemblyman Ballard. His arrival was greeted
with only an inkling of applause from one corner of the gallery
occupied by a few college students. Near the stage rested Peter
Tubbs and Senator Culbertson, sphinx-like in the desert of
progressivism meditating on the grandeur of past political glory
abused and lost. To the men an occasional political riddle was
proposed by the speaker for solution.
The Senator's speech lasted nearly three hours, two of which
were devoted to ancient history, and one to sharp criticisms of
the Philipp administration. From the beginning of things in
Wisconsin, the Senator traced the growth of democratic
institutions on the one hand and that of corporations on the
other. The alleged incessant struggle for mastery between them
was described with stage sincerity. It appeared, from his
account, that the people were losing ground up to the time of
his birth a half century or more back. And there was a dearth of
honest men and patriotic statesmen in the state until the
Senator was old enough to hold public office....
_CLAUDE OLDS DIES FROM COASTING INJURIES_
Claude Olds, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Olds, Wilson
Street, died at 3:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon at St.
Elizabeth Hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a
coasting accident, related briefly in these columns yesterday.
The lad sustained a broken neck and internal injuries.
Dr. Alvin Scott of the Bowman park commission, who was
instrumental in providing safe toboggan slides for the children
in the city park, has decided since yesterday's fatal accident
to ask the city commission for an appropriation sufficient to
establish a number more of toboggan slides for the accommodation
of children in various parts of the city. He is proceeding on
the very safe assumption that if there had been a toboggan slide
in the Third Ward the fatality of yesterday would not have
happened, for there would then have been no occasion for
children coasting on the hill where the accident occurred.
The unfortunate lad, with his brother, Ernest Olds, and Chester
Graves and Bessie Lamb, were on a delivery sled owned by the
Barnes and Scholtz Grocery Company, sliding down a hill that
extends into the ravine just north of Second Street and east of
Mason. When about halfway down the bob capsized and the little
Olds boy was buried under it. Coasting on hills not especially
prepared for it is dangerous to life and limb. The authorities
should put a stop to it in Bowman, but at the same time the city
should make safe provision for such sport by erecting toboggan
slides similar to the ones in the city park.
_MRS. DOWS SEEKING ADVENTURE_
Mrs. Andrews Dows, whose photograph is reproduced above, says
she believes she is the most adventuresome of New York's society
women, but is tired of the humdrum existence of Mother Earth in
general and New York in particular. She says she thinks she has
run the entire gamut of worldly thrills, but is still on the
lookout for something new. Mrs. Dows declares she has ridden the
most fiery of steeds and taken them over the most dangerous
jumps. She has driven auto racing cars at blinding speed. Once
she captured a burglar single-handed. She has piloted all manner
of water speed craft. Now she declares she is tired of flitting
through the clouds in an aeroplane and is impatiently waiting to
hear of some sort of dangerous adventure that she has not
already experienced.
_B._ What criticism may be made of the following?
An even one hundred reservations have been made for the New
Year's Eve dinner to be served at 11 o'clock in the Venetian
room at the Carman House, and thirty have been made for service
in the cafe. No more can be accommodated in the Venetian room,
but the management will be able to take care of a few more in
the cafe and French room. Those who have reserved places are
planning to make this the biggest New Year's jollification ever
held in Avondale. The management of the Carman also says that
patrons will be given the very best of service.
_C._ Examine the following story for its excellence in keeping the time
relation entirely clear. Show how the writer obtains this clearness and
how he avoids the possibility of libel. (Paragraphs =124-131=.)
_DEATH NOTE BEARS AUTHOR'S TRAGEDY IN LOVE_
Four years ago the love story of Myrtle Reed, the author, who
had immortalized her husband, James Sydney McCullough, in prose
and verse, came to a tragic end when she committed suicide in
"Paradise Flat," her Kenmore Avenue apartment. During the five
years of her married life her "model husband," as she called
McCullough, was believed to have furnished the inspiration for
"Lavender and Old Lace," "The Master's Violin," and other love
stories from her pen.
Mystery shrouded her death and an effort was made to hush up the
suggestion that she was convinced that her husband no longer
loved her. A note addressed to her aged mother was never made
public.
Yesterday in Circuit Judge Windes's court her father, Hiram V.
Reed, sought to have McCullough deposed as trustee of her estate
of about $91,000. Negligence and misapplication of funds were
charged. Mr. Reed's attorney planned to show that Mrs.
McCullough expected to change her will before she committed
suicide.
What purported to be the mysterious note was offered in
evidence. It was typewritten and only two words of script
appeared in it. Judge Windes ruled that it was not sufficiently
identified and rejected it as evidence. The offered note reads
in part:
"Dearest Mother: After five years of torment I have set
myself free. I suppose you'll think it's cowardly, but I
cannot help it. I cannot bear it any longer. Last night
was the twelfth anniversary of our meeting. He was to
come home early and bring me some flowers, and instead of
that he came home at half past one so drunk he couldn't
stand up.
"Last year my birthday and the anniversary of our
engagement were the same way. This morning he went out of
town without even waking me up to say goodby to me or
telling me where he was going or when he would be back.
All I asked of him was that he should come home sober at
half past six as other men do, but he refuses to give me
even this. I am crushed, overwhelmed, drowned.
"I enclose two bank savings books. This is for you and
father and for nobody else under any circumstances
whatever, aside from the provision I have made for you in
my will. I've tried my best, mother. I've tried to bear
it bravely and to rise above it and not to worry, but I
cannot. I loved my husband so until he made me despise
him. I should have done this five years ago, only you and
father needed me.
"You've been the dearest father and mother that anybody
ever had and my being dead won't make any difference in
my loving you. My will is in Mr. Fowler's vault. Oh,
mother, I've loved so much, I've tried so hard, I've
worked so hard, and I've failed, failed, failed, failed.
Forgive me, please. With love always,
"Myrtle."
McCullough was out of the city at the time of his wife's death.
Upon his return he said that she had probably taken her life
while mentally unbalanced.
"Have you any comment to make on the letter written by your wife
to her mother?" he was asked yesterday.
"Oh, I could tell you a long story if I wanted to," said he,
carelessly. "There's nothing to it at all. I could show you
worse letters than that. I doubt if she ever wrote it anyway.
There is no proof. To understand this matter you must know that
my wife's father and her brother have been fighting to get
control over her estate. They didn't get enough to satisfy them
under the will."
Although Judge Windes refused to depose McCullough as
administrator, he ordered him to make a definite report, setting
forth the condition of the property, with a list of all
disbursements. Further, he directed that McCullough should
report from time to time as the court might direct and ordered
him to give a permanent bond of $50,000. The court said that the
trustee's conduct had been improper.[52]
[52] _Chicago Tribune_, July 15, 1915.
_D._ Indicate and correct the faults in the following stories
(paragraphs =131-134=):
1. While Mrs. Stanley Barnes was making fruit salad at the
Baptist parsonage Thursday she lost her wedding ring in it.
Clark Webster was sick Friday morning, and for a time it was
thought that he had eaten it in the salad, but a calmness was
restored in these parts when it was learned that she had failed
to put it on when leaving home in the morning.
2. Hereafter it shall be written by way of simile: "As fair as a
Hinsdale blonde." Rainwater is the answer. Rainwater! Rainwater,
such as used to seep off the kitchen roof into the eave trough
and into the barrel at the corner.
But the Hinsdale water barrel, that has just been completed and
now is in operation, is no mere castoff sauerkraut hogshead. It
cost $30,000, and it gives forth rainwater at a rate of a
million gallons a day. And the dingiest brunette will soon
blossom out in the full glory of the spun-gold blonde. The
chemist person who installed the $30,000 rain barrel says so,
and he claims to know.
It was cited to the women of Hinsdale that the women of the
British Isles are fair, very fair, indeed. What makes them so
fair? The fog. And what is fog? It is rainwater in the vapor.
Hence rainwater will make women fair. Let us, therefore, have
rainwater.
The water in Hinsdale heretofore has been hard. It crinkled the
hair and put the complexion on the bum. It cost more money for
cosmetics to set these complexions right than a couple of
$30,000 rain barrels. But now the seediest lady in the land has
only to make a pilgrimage to Hinsdale and return ready to make
faces at the inventor of peroxide.
3. Last week Tuesday night the henhouse of Mr. Rosenblot, on the
Standard farm, was broken open and 14 hens taken. Also at the
same time five bags of grain and two bags of cattle salt were
stolen. Thursday night his chicken coops were visited and about
40 little chicks taken. Mr. Rosenblot expects his wife and her
mother from Russia next week.
4. The feature of the evening was the dance. Miss Semple's grace
and ease in executing the many intricate steps of the Argentine
tango, hesitation waltz, and other modern dances elicited great
applause from the onlookers. Miss Sheppard of the District
Nurses' Association gave a lecture on first aid to the injured.
5. "Lemme see something nifty in shirts--something with a classy
green stripe," said Dan McKee of Soho Street, as he cruised into
the men's furnishing store of Emil de Santis, in Webster Avenue.
The lone clerk evidently did not notice all the specifications
of McKee's order, and listlessly drew out at random the first
box of shirts his hand touched. Picking the top shirt out, he
laid it before McKee.
"There's something nice," he began.
"Oh, is it?" yelled McKee.
"McKee," said Magistrate Sweeney at the hearing, "what on earth
made you try to wreck that store?"
"I asked for a green striped shirt, judge."
"Well?"
"And that fellow handed me a bright orange one."
"I see," said Sweeney. "But I'll have to make it thirty days."
_E._ The following stories, along with other faults, are lacking in
tone. Correct them in any way necessary. (Paragraphs =136-137=.)
1. The wedding bells peeled joyfully at the home of Mr. H. R.
Drake last Tuesday, when their highly accomplished and beautiful
daughter, Melva, became the blushing bride of that sterling
young farmer, Henry Eastman. The bride's brother, Charlie,
played Mendelssohn's wedding march on his cornet, and
considering the fact he has only had it about 9 months it
sounded good. Rev. Osgood, who has been working through harvest
and picking up a little on the side, performed the nuptials. The
bride's costume was a sort of light gauzy affair and white
slippers and stockings to match. Of course she wore heavier
clothes when they went on their wedding trip. Quite a merry
crowd assembled to see them off, and as they didn't have any
rice some of them got to throwing roasting ears. Henry was
struck under the eye by a large ear and blacked it pretty bad.
They drove right to Larned and stayed all night at the hotel,
and then took their wedding trip to Kinsley and Dodge City. They
have rented the old home place and will be at home next Tuesday.
Melva expects to take charge of Cooper & Jones' cook shack the
rest of the season.
2. The old must die, the young sometimes do. When a young child,
sweet and gentle in temperament, lovable and full of promise, is
cut down in the very hey time of youth, it is unutterably sad.
There is said to be a time for all things and this would seem to
be a time for mourning.
Sunday morning at 4:30 o'clock the Death Angel summoned John O.
Beck, Jr., and bade him leave his playthings and many friends
and come away. It must have been with a sigh of relief that his
spirit took flight from the frail body which had been tortured
for twenty-two long days with the torture of spinal meningitis.
John O. Beck, Jr., youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Beck,
was born on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1903, in Boswell. He
was the youngest of four children--William, Leona, and La Baron
survive him. His was a most beautiful nature, he loved company,
and the childish circles in which he moved were always brighter
and happier for his presence. As a member of the Christian
Sunday School he was always in his place. The little boy will be
missed, not only in the home, but among his playmates and also
amongst the older people of the city.
The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from
the family home. Dr. Frank Talmage, pastor of the Christian
Church, will officiate. Interment will be made in South Park.
3. After the ceremony the guests repaired to the dining-room,
where a wedding dinner was served, replete with the most
luscious viands conceivable by the human imagination. The
turkey, which had been roasted under the personal supervision of
the bride, possessed delectability of flavor impossible of
description. It was the unanimous verdict of the numerous
assemblage of appreciative guests that never before in the
annals of human history had a turkey more delicious, more
savory, more ambrosial, been the object of human consumption.
Both the business office and the editorial rooms of the
_Standard_ were largely and brilliantly represented, and the
collation was interspersed with highly intelligent affabilities.
Constant streams of sparkling repartee rippled across the table,
jocund anecdotes and refined civilities of every variety
abounded, the festivities in every way being characterized by
vivacity, suavity, chivalry, and irreproachable respectability.
4. R. S. George had a narrow escape from sudden death yesterday
morning. George was working on top of an electric pole on Water
St. and Ninth Ave. He was strapped to the pole. He was removing
the bolts that held the cross-bars. The pole was rotten and
George's weight at the top caused it to break. In falling the
pole hit the supply wagon that was standing below, breaking the
fall. Other men working on the job rushed to his aid. Dr.
Mitchell was called. George was taken to the Sacred Heart
Hospital. Mr. George was badly shaken up but not seriously
injured. He is employed by the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power
Co.
5. Bud Lanham, the Corner's miser, who has buried his money for
the last six years near the big ash tree back of Cary's gin,
lost half of it last week. The guilty person has not been
apprehended. Tim Snyder went to Jonesville yesterday and bought
himself a fine suit of clothes and a Ford.
6. Mrs. A. I. Epstein, the soprano soloist from St. Louis, will
sing a symphony known as the "Surprise Symphony" at the concert
by the University Orchestra in the auditorium to-morrow night.
The piece was written by Haydn. The symphony was so named by the
composer on account of the startling effects produced. The solo
part is very unusual, the long pauses and unusual loud chords
make it unlike other music. It has a pleasing effect on the
audience, probably due to its individuality. Mrs. Epstein has
the reputation of being able to sing this kind of a solo. The
foremost critics of the largest musical world pronounce Mrs.
Epstein as an ideal in oratorical singing.
7. Some jealous rascal threw a stone at a buggy in which a
certain young man of Florala and a young lady of Lockhart were
riding last Saturday night. The stone struck the young lady
squarely in the back, and at the same time bruised the left arm
of the young man very badly.
8. Mrs. O. N. Daw is confined to her bed on account of the
recent injury she sustained when she fell from a chair to the
floor. Mrs. Daw was attempting to swat a fly at hand and stood
upon the chair to reach the intended victim. He was further away
than at first anticipated and in an endeavor to reach him she
fell as a result of becoming overbalanced. We trust her injury
will soon give her no further trouble and will soon become well.
She certainly is to be commended for her efforts to swat the
fly, for if more of us did this we would find less disease in
the world and conditions more healthful in general. Besides the
flies are a bothersome pest anyway.
9. One of the most superb affairs that the citizens of Lexington
have witnessed for quite a long while, was brought to bear by
the uniting in holy wedlock of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stewart and
Mr. Louis Monroe Ford. At the beginning, the day was one of
gloom, but late in the morning the clouds became scattered, and
at the noon hour the sun peeped out and streamed through the
windows of the old historic church, adding cheer and enthusiasm
to the superb occasion. Each individual of the bridal party
performed his or her part as perfectly as if guided by a
guardian angel, and the entire performance was one of rare
beauty, portraying all of the accuracy of a piece of well-oiled
machinery.
_F._ The following stories are good and bad. Rewrite any that need
correction. Show why the others are good.
_ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED_
Last Thursday evening the people of the beautiful little village
of Hartford were astounded when they heard the moan and groan of
one of their neighbors, Dr. William Waters, who had the misfortune
of being capsized beneath a small building in the mad waters of
Pigeon River.
While Dr. Waters was out for an evening walk enjoying the cool
breezes on the banks of this beautiful stream he had occasion to
enter a small building which had been erected years ago. Owing
to his enormous heavy weight, and without a moment's warning,
the building toppled over in the river, leaving the doctor in
quite an embarrassing position. The moans and groans from
beneath the little building could be heard from most every home
in Hartford. Had it not been for the never-tiring efforts of
Lewis Johnson and Andy Valentine in moving the building off the
Doctor, rescuing him from the grasp of death, which had clutched
him beneath the building in the mad waters of the river, crepe
would now be dangling from the door-knob of a Doctor's office in
Hartford.
_TIGHT SHOES BALK PAY-DAY LARK_
Mrs. Mary Bogden, 50 West 119th Street, is nearly five feet tall
and weighs 200 pounds. Yesterday she refused to go out with her
husband, Joe, to celebrate his pay day, because her shoes were
too tight. Joe went out alone. When he came home he found his
wife had been arrested for drinking too much. To-day her hat is
too tight.
_KILLS GIRL WHO SPURNED HIM_
Miss Evelyn Helm got her position as cloak model because of the
trimness of her waist, because of her lithe young figure, and
because of her loveliness and vivacity. When she wore a gown for
a buyer, he generally said, "Some skirt!" Therefore she received
a fair salary and was independent. The same qualities that
earned her money, however, attracted the attentions of a man she
did not like--and invoked a tragedy.
The man was gray-haired and big and fat and unromantic, but he
loved the cloak model desperately. He told her so every time he
saw her, but she laughed at him. She knew him as Lem Willhide
"of Kentucky," and she tried to avoid him. He followed her one
day to her room in the home of Mrs. Louise Wendt, 1319 Eddy
Street, and invited himself to call. He wanted to marry her, to
take her home to the "blue grass" country with him, but she
could not be annoyed.
"I ought to be calling you 'daddy,'" she said. "Why, you're
more than twice as old as I. You've admitted you are 52. Go get
a nurse and let me alone."
He seemed to like her spirit. She could not break his
determination, he told her. He might be old, but this was his
first love affair. Again and again she put him off. Always he
followed her, spied on her, called her by phone. She could not
escape him, but he couldn't persuade her to wed him.
Yesterday morning as usual he sent his love message over the
telephone wires--and the girl hung up the receiver and she
sneered in an explanation to the landlady. Later she was
dressing to go out, when the back door of the rooming-house
opened and the man from Kentucky bulged in the doorway.
"You've got your nerve coming into a lady's house without
asking," said the girl.
"I've come to get you," said the man.
"Then you better go back again," and the girl turned away.
The man from Kentucky drew a revolver and shot her in the neck.
She looked up at him from the floor, and he fired four more
bullets into her body.
"If we can't be wed in life, we'll marry in death," the landlady
heard him say, and he shot himself in the head.
Miss Helm died as the police were carrying her into the Chicago
Union Hospital, and the man from Kentucky died later in the
Alexian Brothers' Hospital. Before he went he told Detective
William Rohan that he was a tobacco salesman and a professional
card player.
"I drew for a queen to fill a bobtail flush," he said, with a
queer smile, "but I didn't better my hand."
_CHAUFFEUR'S FEET BURNED OFF_
Herbert T. Middleton lives on Anderson Avenue, at Palisade, N.
J. While driving his automobile along the avenue he saw an
overturned car burst into flame at the roadside, about half a
mile south of Fort Lee. Two men and a boy were struggling to
lift the rear end of the car, and shouting for help. Middleton
hurried to their aid and found that the legs of the chauffeur
were pinned to the ground by the back of the rear seat and
flaming gasoline running over his limbs was burning him like a
torch.
The chauffeur, Amendo Alberti, 32 years old, raised himself to
a sitting posture and tried to direct the efforts of his
rescuers. With the aid of another autoist and several drivers of
passing wagons, they finally got Alberti free. The burning
gasoline had spread upward to his body. It was smothered by
rolling the man in lap robes from the cars.
Dr. Max Wyley of Englewood Hospital, who came with an ambulance,
found that the chauffeur's feet had been almost burned off, and
the burning fluid had seared his limbs and body as far as his
chest. At the hospital Doctor Proctor assisted Doctor Wyley in
an effort to keep him alive. They decided he had one chance in
five of living. If he survives he will be a cripple.
_BLAMES ALL ON WOMAN HE KILLED_
"The woman Thou gavest me tempted me and I did eat."--Adam,
thousands of centuries ago.
Shortly after the world began, Adam sinned--and blamed a woman.
What Adam did in fear of God, a twentieth-century Adam did
yesterday in Chicago--blamed a woman.
Here is the story:
Attaches of a saloon and cafe at 714 North Clark Street were
startled early yesterday afternoon by revolver shots just
outside the door. Rushing into an alley at the rear, they found
the bodies of a man and a woman.
The man was Washington Irving Morley, son of a wealthy
contractor of Kansas City. The woman was Mrs. May Whitney, 29
years old, cabaret singer and mother of a 3-year-old child.
As they picked the bodies up, a letter dropped from the man's
coat. It told everything that need be told about the dead man,
the dead woman, and the dead man's deed.
It was addressed "To Anybody," and read:
This is an awful deed, but this woman is and has been ten
thousand times worse than the vampire of fiction, and may
God have mercy on her soul and mine. Yes, I guess I am
crazy and have been for a year, but she has driven me to
it. I left her in K. C., but she followed me to Chicago
and then to Green Bay and all over.
But it is too late to cry about our mistakes.
I have had my chances, but I have thrown them all away.
Oh, if I had only taken the advice years ago of that
grandest of all men, my father. But I let the three W's
get me--wine, women, and w--. But, young men, remember,
do not get infatuated with a woman of doubtful character.
They never can lead to anything good.
I have had my fling, but now I am going to the great
beyond and I'm going to take the creature with me that
has caused me more bad luck, heartaches, and everything
else. I cannot live with her and I cannot live without
her.
Good-by all. W. S. Morley.
P. S.--My belongings are all in her trunk, which is at
Spangenberg's. I think her mother's address is 123 Pinckney
Street, Somerville, Mass., Mrs. D. T. Whitney.
The bodies were taken to Gavin & Son's undertaking rooms. There
a second letter was found in the man's pocket. It was addressed
to his father, P. J. Morley, in Kansas City, and read as follows:
You no doubt will be horrified, but I couldn't help it. I
have been crazy for a year, and this woman has driven me
to it. You have been the grandest father in the world to
me, and if only I had taken your advice, what a change it
would have made in my life! But it is too late. Good-by,
and may God have mercy on my soul. Yours,
Irving.
P. S.--Father, if you want to do anything, take care of
that boy in Hamburg, Iowa. He will be some boy if he
doesn't inherit too many of his parents' bad faults.
Until recently Morley was a partner in the expressing firm of Ryan &
Morley, Fifth Avenue and Randolph Street.
_SLAIN IN FIGHT ON BRIDGE_
A horrified crowd to-day saw a fight sixty feet in the air on an
arch of the new high-level bridge over the Cuyahoga River in
which Frank Wright, storekeeper for the bridge contractors, was
killed by a fellow workman with an iron bar. The killing was
witnessed by Wright's wife, who was making her way up to him
with his lunch. Police have arrested Jack Browning in connection
with the crime. The killing was preceded by a grim struggle in
which the two men wrestled back and forth on the arch and both
nearly fell into the river several times. After Wright had been
slain his assailant jumped from platform to platform until he
reached the ground and then fled.
_AGED MAN GAINS HEARTS DESIRE_
Joseph Stang has gained his heart's desire. He is dead.
For Joseph Stang death drew aside its mask of horror and
revealed itself the fair prize and ultimate reward of mankind,
impartially awaiting the winners and losers in life. And the
aged man pursued it for a year with patient resolution,
undiverted by the inconsequential parade of the world's affairs.
During the last year Mr. Stang, who was 81 years old, and a
retired real-estate man, living with an invalid wife at 4855
North Paulina Street, made three ineffectual attempts to commit
suicide. His first effort was discovered before he had succeeded
in injuring himself. On Oct. 30 he sent a bullet into his brain
in his bedroom. Persons in the household ran to him and found
him lying on the floor, the revolver beside him. He was placed
on the bed, and during the excitement of telephoning for an
ambulance and a physician, the members of the household left him
alone, believing him unconscious, if not dead. He got out of bed
and crawled to his revolver, which had been picked up and placed
on the bureau. Then he fired another shot over his heart.
He was taken to the hospital, where his wounds, although both in
vital parts, healed rapidly, and he was soon discharged. Because
of his infirmities and the illness of his wife he was later
taken to the German-American Hospital to be cared for.
Saturday morning he told his nurse that he was tired of life.
She cajoled him into a better humor, however, and he ate three
hearty meals during the day. Shortly after supper he was left
alone in his room. He went to his window, which overlooks a
cemented court twenty feet below, and dived out, striking on his
head. He was dead within a few minutes.
Physicians at the hospital declare that Mr. Stang must have
calculated his jump carefully, as a falling body would not
strike head first unless by design.
_DARK STREETS MAKE THREE ESCAPES POSSIBLE_
Policemen on posts in the Bronx have frequently complained to
their superior officers because the turning off of street lights
before daylight often gives burglars and other criminals an hour
or more of heavy darkness in which to carry on their operations
unmolested. The most emphatic of such complaints was made
yesterday morning, after three burglars had escaped from pursuit
at 4:30 A.M.
According to the policemen who attempted to capture the men, all
of the lights in the Bronx were out at the time and heavy clouds
made the streets black as midnight in a country village. The
policemen attributed the escape of the burglars entirely to the
darkness. Not only did the men escape, but they fired revolvers
at the policemen and narrowly missed one of them, who heard the
bullet as it passed his head.
Sergeant Hale and Policeman Regen of the Morrisania Station were
standing in Westchester Avenue near Union Avenue shortly before
4:30 o'clock, when they heard the crashing of a pane of glass.
They ran to Union Avenue in time to see the dim shadows of three
men running from the corner. The two policemen shouted to the
men to stop and fired their revolvers, but the fugitives,
returning the fire over their shoulders, darted down Union
Avenue, separated, and disappeared into apartment house doors.
Policemen Rooney and O'Connell, who were several blocks away,
heard the shots and ran to the scene. The alarm was sent to the
precinct station, and while the four policemen were following
the burglars into the apartment houses, the reserves were
hurrying to their assistance.
Hale and Regen surprised one of the men on a roof and opened
fire on him, but, as far as they could tell in the inky
darkness, he was not hit. As he fled to the roof of an adjoining
house he fired at the policemen, and Hale could tell from its
sound that the bullet passed within a few inches of his head.
The man disappeared into the darkness, and the policemen were
unable to find him again.
Other policemen followed the other two burglars, the reserves
surrounded the block, and many of those living in the
neighborhood who were aroused from sleep by the revolver shots,
joined in the hunt; but the trail of none of the fugitives was
picked up. It was so dark, the searchers said, that they were
not able to see more than a few feet ahead of them at any time.
All agreed that the burglars probably hid almost under the noses
of those who were looking for them, for every roof, alley and
possible hiding place in the block was searched as carefully as
was practicable under the conditions.
The men had thrown a brick through the window in the jewelry
store of M. Baldwin, at Westchester and Union Avenues. They
snatched about $100 worth of novelty objects from the window,
but dropped all of them in their flight. The property was later
picked up from the street.
Many complaints have come to the _New York Crescent_ from all
over the city because there is often an hour or more of darkness
between the time of turning out street lights and daylight. The
lighting companies, it is said, are within the law of their
contracts with the city.
_CHAPTER XI_
Indicate the places at which paragraphs should be made in the following
stories:
_CHARACTER INDICATED BY THE LIPS_
To all daughters of Eve who have leap-year intentions, the
vocational guide and well-known bachelor, William J. Kibby,
to-day offers advice concerning the habits, characteristics, and
dispositions of various sorts of men, which is intended to help
the girls win their hearts' desires without suffering rebuff in
the process. A good deal of what Kibby says is based upon
phrenology. A man who has thin, straight lips is branded a
cold-blooded, stony-hearted creature upon whom the dearest
girl's appeal would have no effect. This sort of man will do his
own proposing, run his own wedding, and rule his household; and
he'll do it more with his head than with his heart. But if the
man of your choice has full, well-formed lips, Kibby says you
may depend upon his capacity for, and inclination to, love. He
also is susceptible to the right sort of feminine approach.
Kibby says the way to tell whether the one you love, loves you,
is by the coloring of the under lip when he is with you. Every
human emotion gives some physical demonstration when it is
aroused. The evidence that love has been aroused is given by the
deep crimsoning of the under lip. If his under lip is
perpetually pale when he is with you, he doesn't love you. If it
is crimson and you want him, grab quick; he won't run. A man
with a broad, square, massive forehead is a good business man;
he can plan ahead, has good business judgment. If the crown of
his head is high and round he is absolutely conscientious, too;
and if the back of his head is well rounded out he will love his
home, his wife, and his children and show them consideration
above everything else in the world. The man whose head is flat
on top, flat and almost even with his ears in the back and
narrow and foreshortened on the front; whose lips are thin,
whose eyes are cold, will not make a good husband in any sense
of the word, says Kibby. The longer a man's jaw-bone, the
greater his capacity for affection, according to Kibby. All
these things are as applicable to women as to men, is the
expert's opinion.
_FASHION MODEL MARRIES ALL IN BLACK_
A black wedding, one of the most remarkable ceremonies ever
performed in this country and one which made even blase New York
sit up and stare, was celebrated at the Church of St. Vincent de
Paul here to-day. It was completely black, and the first wedding
of its kind ever planned made the little fashion model, Eleanor
Klinger, the bride of Ora Cne, a designer. From the limousine in
which they threaded their way among the skyscrapers to the
little church in Twenty-third Street to the handles on the
silver service at their wedding breakfast, everything down to
the most minute detail was coal black. Even the serving men were
black; and everyone with any part in the ceremony wore black,
including black gloves. As the big black car whirled up to the
curb at 9 o'clock, the driver, who had a black mustache, twisted
the black handle on the door and out popped the little bride and
groom. They were dressed in black from head to foot. Cne, a
handsome, stocky young fellow, a little below medium height,
wore a single-breasted black broadcloth suit, cut business style
and fitting close. His collar was black and his string tie and
black silk shirt blended into his black vest. The little bride,
tripping across the sidewalk with her soon-to-be, wore black
silk slippers, a black silk dress sparingly overlaid with black
chiffon. Her wedding veil was a broad strip of black silk edged
and overlaid with black tulle, ending in large bows. This
wedding veil and train are detachable, "so," as the bridegroom
explained, "it can be used either for morning or evening." The
bride's corsage bouquet was of black pansies. After the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Cne sped to their black wedding breakfast at the
Cne apartment in Forty-third Street. There Cne's black valet
served black coffee, black bread, black butter (dyed), black
bass, black raisins, and blackberries. The breakfast room was in
black and white, with ebony furniture and black rugs. The silver
service, from coffee set to teaspoons, was fitted with dull
finished ebony handles. The porcelain service was black with an
edging of white. Cne and his bride will begin a tour of the
larger cities of the country with their visit to Philadelphia
Friday, where Cne will address the Teachers' Institute of
Domestic Science. Later they will go to Fort Wayne, Ind., Cne's
home town, and to Omaha, Minneapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh,
Kansas City and later to the West Coast.[53]
[53] _Kansas City Star_, January 21, 1917.
_CHAPTER XII_
_A._ The following sentences contain pronouns incorrectly used. Indicate
and correct the faults in each sentence. (Paragraphs =147-149=.)
1. While Bill Knight was riding a bucking horse at his store
Saturday he got beyond control and ran against the house and
caused concussion of the brain and they had to kill it.
2. This lunchroom cookery goes on during the second and third
hours of the morning, at the end of which each member of the
class is expected to have their respective duties done and ready
to put in the steam table for lunch.
3. The management of the Majestic Theater are preparing to put
up a number of lights down to the theater. This will be a
permanent fixture and will be very beautiful. It is to be known
as the Great White Way.
4. One difference between a man and a mule is that when a mule
turns his back on a man, he is in the most danger.
5. They passed through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the northern
parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, and after reaching
Montana they visited many different parts of it. One evening
they took their suppers and ate on the Rocky Mountains which
will never be forgotten by the parties.
6. Each of the visitors will be requested to tell of his or her
most humorous experience as a teacher; also the most important
problem which they have met with since they became teachers.
7. It would not be right, after their work in trying to bring
all nations into universal peace, for the United States, in the
first case of this kind, to turn against its own policies and
not listen to the appeal of the South American countries to
arbitrate the dispute for them.
8. Last night I sat in a gondola on Venice's Grand Canal,
drinking it all in, and life never seemed so full before.
9. Tom Wilkinson happened to a very serious accident this week
in trying to put grease on his mule to keep off the flies. The
mule became frightened and jumped, causing him a fractured rib
and dislocated shoulder.
10. The members of Kappa Beta sorority attended the funeral of
Mrs. Owen, at Benton yesterday, the mother of Miss Anne Owen of
Allgood College and a member of the sorority who died Sunday.
11. Driggs, our popular druggist, was covered with dirt Saturday
while putting up a stovepipe, some of which lodged in his eye,
giving him much pain.
12. Cornell's first touchdown was made after less than five
minutes of play. They took the kick-off and with Barrett and
Collins making long gains on every plunge through the line, the
ball was carried straight to a touchdown.
13. Miss Janet Hearn, who went to Marquette and is going to
Carroll also, suggested that each girl wear a white
chrysanthemum tied with blue ribbon when they go to Waukesha.
14. The bride entered the drawing-room on the arm of her father,
who wore a gown of white charmeuse satin, trimmed in Venetian
point lace, and with veil of the same.
15. Either every one is traveling in Italy these days or else
they have much less accommodation than usual.
16. The Du Pont Company is building four lines at their works
near this city and more than 1,000 men are now employed.
17. Birds with beautiful long tail feathers that had traveled
hundreds of miles from the warm countries of Africa sat on their
perches looking homesick for their native forests.
18. When pulling out for Glen Haven with the freight wagon
Thursday morning, Norm Watriss was notified by pedestrians on
the street that his nose was frozen. He gave up the trip, after
explaining that it had started to freeze three times that
morning.
19. The Main Street Methodist Church, at Salisbury, N. C., has
given their pastor, Rev. C. F. Sherrill, a hearty welcome.
20. It certainly will reduce the number of serious accidents in
the way of people being run over, which all desire to see.
21. Suspecting that Patterson had planned his getaway, Foster
ran to a point on the street where he knew he would intercept
him as he emerged from the alley. Both met about the same time.
22. Len French returned Wednesday evening and is greatly
improved since his accident. He was kicked by a horse about two
weeks ago in the face. We are glad that it did not leave a scar.
23. Besides Johnson and Wingers, the detectives found two
half-dollars which only a little while before had been removed
from the mold. When taken to Central police station the two
would have nothing to say.
24. Jack Murphy threatens to sue the Milwaukee Railroad for
damages sustained when he alleges a trunk was thrown out upon
him the first of the week from a Milwaukee train at their
station, which confined him to his bed, he avers.
_B._ Correct the verbs in the following sentences (paragraphs
=150-153=):
1. An eighteen-year-old girl with four younger brothers and
sisters were arraigned in court this morning charged with
running an illicit distillery.
2. An elaborate series of special devotions always take place at
this season in Roman Catholic and Episcopal parishes.
3. All the party had expected to have got to the theater in time
by starting from the house at 7:45.
4. Every one of the 824 people who have been married in Appleton
by Dr. John Faville during the twenty-one years he has been
pastor of the Congregational church have been invited to attend
services at the church next Sunday.
5. In point of attendance it was the largest meeting the
association has ever held, sixty-four members having been
present, representing every part of the country.
6. The owners of the building wish to truly thank all the men
who were good enough to so kindly give their time and means in
the city's cause.
7. Then running up Main Street comes the woman's entrance,
woman's boudoir, lounge, men's entrance, buffet, and a shop.
8. Suits made-to-order can be detected at a glance from the
ready-made kind, and a glance at these suitings will prove that
there is no such qualities to be found in ready-made suits.
9. Obtaining a warrant two days beforehand, Officer Lord was
ready for any emergency.
10. After being put to bed, the hospital notified the West Lake
street police of the man's presence there.
11. The old Populistic following that has been Bryan's strength
in the past have been told by him over and over again that they
have no quarrel with this administration.
12. During the first six months of this year there was exported
to the United States and American possessions from Hamburg,
Luebeck, and Kiel goods to the value of $1,153,000.
13. Being tried three times already for the same offense, he
could not expect clemency now.
14. Thomas admitted that he was intending to seriously propose a
bill forbidding women wearing short or close-fitting skirts.
15. He had worked the play only four times before he had been
caught the second time.
16. The large number of carp in the Fox River this year have
caused a number of local men to become interested in
establishing a fish cannery at Appleton.
17. Neither the amount of the bonus or the salary were mentioned
by Comiskey or Ban Johnson.
18. Entering the historic church a scene of havoc and ruin is
presented--twisted beams and arches, panels and columns of
alabaster crushed into bits and lying around in heaps, the
richly carved pulpit blown to pieces with only a faint outline
of its former wonders remaining.
_C._ The following sentences illustrate faults in cooerdination and
subordination. Correct the errors. (Mainly paragraphs =154-155=.)
1. John Miller had the misfortune to fall on the ice Friday and
break his wooden leg. This will lay Mr. Miller up for some time
as the limb will have to be sent away for repairs or perhaps
necessitates his buying an entirely new leg.
2. Strict attention to business, courteous treatment of those
with whom he comes in contact both in a business and social way,
and always mindful of the interests of his employer, are
qualifications fitting Mr. De Baufer as the logical successor to
Mr. Dodge.
3. Mr. Kennedy was destroying some tanglefoot fly paper that had
been used by burning same near the building, and the wind had
blown a spark into a rat hole and the draft brought the fire up
inside the studding and was hard to get at, but was put out by
the chemicals and no damage done to the building.
4. Work of constructing a Y. M. C. A. hotel costing $1,175,000
and which will provide 1,865 rooms for young men starting a
business life, was begun here to-day.
5. "Three regrettable things were done by the legislature," said
President Charles B. Rogers, Alumni association: "One was the
creation of the central board of education, dormitory
appropriations were repealed, the tuition for nonresidents was
raised."
6. While Mr. William Conklin was exercising his old pet horse
recently, he slipped on the ice, giving the horse a chance to
turn and kick him in the face, whereby a few stitches had to be
taken, but now is quite comfortable.
7. I was on the News when Donovan was on the _Journal_ and in
'87 launched my history of the People's Party, against which the
entire press was arrayed, save the _Staats-Zeitung_, Hessing's
paper, and which won out against the Law and Order party by a
majority of 10,500.
8. Some one entered the cellar at the O. L. Paris home last week
and stole about a peck of pickles. Mr. Paris says that if the
pickles are returned or paid for he will refrain from publishing
the name on an envelope found in his cellar and supposed to have
been dropped by the thief.
9. Mrs. Bordy is an attractive brunette while the groom is
connected with the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company.
10. The difference in the size of the schools is another cause
of the weakness, Oxford being the largest and seems to want
proper control.
11. She married Pancho Villa when he was a bandit and now has
two automobiles, a great many diamonds, and a fine home near the
palace.
12. Uncle Russ Brown and wife were in town and visited the
doctor and had a tooth pulled and also had one of his wife's
teeth pulled.
13. When Mrs. Albert Truskey of this city with her sister Mrs.
Louise Schwendlund of Appleton went to visit their mother who is
seriously ill at the home of her son, John Beckett, in De Pere
last Wednesday, they were greeted by another sister who, it is
alleged to have started a fracas in which one sister is said to
have slapped the other in the face.
14. Mr. Rounds underwent an operation upon his arm about a month
ago and which physicians claim to have been perfectly
successful.
15. Albert Johns upon interfering pushed the two visiting
sisters out of the house, was arrested and later released upon
furnishing a bond for $300 to keep the peace.
16. He was crossing the trestle and when seeing a freight
coming, and being desirous of crossing the track before it came,
he hurried across, and slipped, his foot falling between one of
the cross-ties. He managed to extricate his leg from the tie,
but lost his balance and the other foot slipped, precipitating
himself in his former dangerous predicament, and narrowly
escaped being crushed to death under the train, as he finally
succeeded in freeing himself and jumped across the side just as
the big freight came down the track.
17. Yesterday afternoon the ladies of St. Mary's Guild gave at
Fulrath's Opera House one of the most successful dances ever
held in Savannah. Successful not only financially but also from
society and an enjoyable point of view.
18. People with gray eyes are superficial, frivolous, given to
embrace false idols, running down blind alleys, following false
prophets, thoughtless, inconsiderate, wanting in sympathy,
neurotic, unstable, not firm and deliberate, but rash and
impetuous.
19. Mrs. Berkinshaw was handsome in pale blue hand-embroidered
crepe with a hat of black velvet trimmed with white ospreys and
carried a French bouquet of violets and pink roses.
20. The seat sale for Fiske O'Hara's play at the theatre next
Friday evening is progressing very rapidly, nothing but $1.00
and $1.50 seats being left and a great many of the $1.00 seats
have been sold.
21. Grace Marshall, confined a prisoner in her father's home
near St. Michael's, Md., for twelve years, and who is being
treated at the Henry Phipps Clinic, is improving physically, but
will never fully recover her mental faculties, according to Dr.
Lewis A. Sexton of the hospital.
_D_. The following sentences contain errors due principally to faulty
ellipsis. Point out the faults in ellipsis and correct all errors.
(Mainly paragraph =156=.)
1. Marvin Cloudt and Ferdinand Willie attended the dance Tuesday
night at Mrs. Jamie Kanak's, and hear they enjoyed it well and
caught themselves nice sweethearts.