|
|The fate of Indianapolis is to be the fate of |
|Indiana also, and of the entire Middle West, for the|
|weather man is no respecter of localities, and when |
|he once gets started forecasts with utter |
|abandon.... |
| |
|The Northwest has experienced a drop of 20 degrees |
|in temperature and the cold wave is rapidly sweeping|
|this way. It is due to reach Indianapolis to-morrow |
|morning. The local forecast is for cloudy to-night |
|and Wednesday, with probabilities of rain or snow, |
|and colder Wednesday. It was the same for the state,|
|but rain was predicted for the south part and snow |
|for the north. |
| |
|The temperature in Indianapolis at 7 o'clock this |
|morning was 38 degrees, a drop of 6 degrees being |
|recorded in the last twenty-four hours. The coming |
|cold wave is expected to give this part of the |
|country its first real touch of winter. The |
|temperature hovered near the zero mark in the |
|northwest. The weather bureau reported snow in |
|Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota.[23|]

[23] _Indianapolis News_, October 28, 1913.

To write this second type of story interestingly means that the reporter
must exert himself especially, since the daily routine of weather
reports soon becomes wearing in its monotony,--so much so that one finds
it exceedingly difficult to present with any degree of originality the
same old little-varying facts from day to day. Yet one's readers are
always interested in just this item of news, and one can be sure of
more expectant readers for this particular story than perhaps for any
other single item in the paper.

=224. Deaths and Funerals.=--Stories of deaths and funerals may be
included in the monotonous class of accident news. There is this
additional difficulty in writing death and funeral stories, however,
that in attempting to write sympathetically, appreciatively, of the
person who has died, and so meet the expectations of surviving friends
and relatives, one is running always on the border line of bathos. It is
probably easier to make oneself ridiculous in such stories than in any
other kind of news article. As a res