|
|Firemen pumped water from the bottom of the canal |
|and played it on the blazing surface. The loss is |
|estimated at $750,000. |

=133. Relation Words.=--In other kinds of writing there is a tendency to
use relation words, phrases, and clauses freely between sentences and
paragraphs. But in news writing the paucity of such expressions for
subconnection--_moreover_, _finally_, _on the other hand_, _in the next
place_, _now that we have mentioned the cause of the divorce_--is
noteworthy. Editors and the news-reading public demand that the ideas
follow each other so closely and that the style be so compressed in
thought that there shall be small need of connectives between sentences.
It is this demand, plus a desire for emphasis, that is responsible for the
so-called bing-bing-bing style of writing, of which the following is a
fair illustration:

|After killing Mrs. Benton, Wallace, and the Weston |
|boy, Carlton set fire to the Lewis "love bungalow." |
|The wounded were unable to care for themselves. They|
|narrowly escaped death in the burning building. |
|Arrival of rescuing parties attracted by the fire |
|alone saved their lives. |
| |
|A hatchet was the weapon used by Carlton. |
| |
|The slayer escaped after the wholesale murder. He is|
|thought to be headed for Chicago. A posse under |
|command of Sheriff Bauer of Spring Green is hunting |
|the man. |
| |
|The story of the terrible tragedy enacted in the |
|Lewis "love bungalow," where for some years the |
|celebrated sculptor and the former Mrs. Cross had |
|been living in open defiance of the |
|conventionalities, was a gruesome one as it came to |
|light to-day. |
| |
|Carlton is twenty-eight years old. He is married. |
|His wife lived with him at the Lewis home. He had |
|been employed by Lewis for six months. He was |
|formerly employed by John Z. Hobart, proprietor of |
|Hobart's restaurant. He is five feet eight inches |
|t