s in the, etc.--_Tuesday |
|afternoon._ |

| Union labor, horrified by the full |
|realization that the waste of human life |
|in the Triangle Waist factory fire might |
|have been saved had existing laws been |
|enforced, today arranged for a monster |
|demonstration of protest, etc.--_Tuesday |
|afternoon._ |

And so the stories ran for many days until newspaper readers had lost
all interest in the fire. Most of the stories were simply retellings of
the original story with a new bit of information in the lead. People
were ravenous for more details about the fire and the follow stories
supplied them until they were satisfied. Rarely is a fire worth so many
retellings.

A serious accident is often followed up in one or more editions. If many
people are killed or injured, the revised list of dead or the present
condition of the injured always furnishes material for a follow-up.
Sometimes the fixing of the blame, as in a railroad accident, or other
resulting features are used as the basis of the rewriting.

In the case of a robbery the commonest material for a follow-up story is
the resulting pursuit or capture. Very often a final report of the loss,
the present condition of a robbed bank or public institution, or perhaps
the regaining of the booty, makes a feature for a new story. But usually
the follow-up is concerned with the pursuit, capture, or trial. This is
especially true if the original story has been told by an earlier paper
and another later paper wishes to print a more up-to-date story on the
robbery, such as:

| MINOCQUA, Wis., Oct. 22.--It now begins|
|to look as if the bandits who robbed the |
|State Bank of Minocqua early Tuesday |
|morning would make their escape with the |
|booty. (This is followed by a re-telling |
|of the entire story of the robbery and an|
|account of the pursuit.) |

The most usual follow-up of a murder story is interested in the pursuit,
capture, or trial of the perpetrator of the deed. For example:

| Following the discovery of the body of |
|Pietro Barilla, an Italian, of Woodhaven,|
|Long Island, who was stabbed to death by |
|four men,