he |
|sympathies of an attentive audience in |
|the First Presbyterian Church.--_San |
|Francisco Examiner._ |

Although the participial phrase usually gives the summary of the speech,
not infrequently the participial construction is used to play up the
name of the speech or some other fact and the summary comes after the
principal verb of the lead; thus:

| Paying tribute to the memory of |
|President William McKinley last night at |
|the Metropolitan Temple, where exercises |
|were held to dedicate the McKinley |
|memorial organ, Judge Taft told in detail|
|of his commission to the Philippine |
|service and his subsequent intimate |
|connection with the President.--_New York|
|Tribune._ |

=7. Title Beginning.=--There are two reasons for beginning the report of
a public utterance with the speaker's subject or title. The title itself
may be so broad that it makes a good summary of the speech, or it may be
so striking in itself that it attracts interest at once. In the
following examples the title is really a summary of the speech:

| NEW YORK, Dec. 15.--"The Compensation |
|of Employes for Injuries Received While |
|at Work" was taken by J. D. Beck, |
|commissioner of labor of Wisconsin, as |
|the theme of his address before the |
|National Civic Federation here |
|today.--_Milwaukee Free Press._ |

| "The Emmanuel Movement" was the subject|
|of an address by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of|
|the Free Synagogue yesterday |
|morning.--_New York Evening Post._ |

In the following stories the reporter began with the title evidently
because it was so strikingly unusual and also because it was the title
of a strikingly unusual speech by an unusual man. This kind of title
beginning is always very effective:

| "Booze, or Get on the Water Wagon," was|
|the subject on which Rev. Billy Sunday, |
|the baseball evangelist, addressed an |
|audience of over 4,000 persons at the |
|Midland Chautauqua yesterday afternoon. |