what he said. The grouping together of several interviews is
often done less formally. The whole thing may be written as a running
story, and sometimes the names of the persons interviewed are omitted;
thus:

| Proprietors of the big flower shops, |
|the places from which blossoms are |
|delivered in highly polished and ornate |
|wagons, drawn by horses that might win |
|blue ribbons, and where, in the proper |
|season, a single rose costs three |
|dollars, do not approve of the comments |
|made by a dealer who recently failed. |
|Among these sayings was one to the effect |
|that young millionaires spend a thousand |
|dollars a week on flowers for chorus |
|girls who earn twelve dollars a week, and |
|who sometimes take the flowers back to |
|the shop to exchange them for money to |
|buy food and clothes. |
| |
| "That's all nonsense," said one dealer. |
|(This paragraph is devoted to his opinion |
|on the matter.) |
| |
| "We have enough trouble in this |
|business," said another dealer, "without |
|having this silly talk given to the |
|public." (This paragraph gives this |
|dealer's opinion)--_New York Evening |
|Post._ |

(Each paragraph is devoted to a single interview.)

The same paragraph may be done with more local color as in the
following:

| Chinatown feels deeply its bereavement |
|in the deaths of the Empress Dowager and |
|the Emperor of China. Chinatown mourns, |
|but it does so in such an unobtrusive |
|Oriental way that the casual visitor on |
|sympathy bent may feel that his words of |
|condolence would be misplaced. |
| |
| A reporter from this paper was assigned |
|yesterday to go up to Chinatown and in as |
|del