ing |
|yesterday by Policeman DuPre. |

Or he might have begun:

|Whether the life of a sick patient is worth more |
|than that of a healthy pedestrian may be decided in |
|police court this morning. |

In each of these rewrites it will be noted that the story has been
brought down to the time of the appearance of the paper.

=273. New Features.=--The next thing to seek in the story to be
rewritten is a new feature. Generally this is obtained in bringing the
story up to date. If not, the reporter may examine, as in the
"follow-up," to see whether the first story plays up the best feature,
or whether it does not contain another feature equally good, or one
possibly entirely overlooked. Failing here, he may look forward to
probable developments, as an investigation following a wreck, a search
by the police following a burglary, or an arraignment and trial
following an arrest. Failing again, he may consider whether some cause
or motive or agency for the fire or divorce or crime may not have gone
unnoticed by the other man. Or best of all, he may try to relate the
incident with similar events occurring recently, as in the case of a
number of fires, burglaries, or explosions coming close upon each
other. Whatever course he chooses, he should use his imagination to
good advantage, taking care always to make his rewrite truthful. Here is
the way a few rewrite men have presented their new old stories:

_Result Featured_

| =DEFECTIVE BABY DIES= |
| |
|The question whether his life should have been |
|fought for or whether it was right to let him die is|
|over, so far as the tiny, unnamed, six-days-old |
|defective son of Mrs. Anna Bollinger is concerned. |
|The child died at the German-American hospital, |
|Chicago, at 7:30 last night, with Dr. H. J. |
|Haiselden, chief of the hospital staff, standing |
|firmly to his position that he could not use his |
|science to prolong the life of so piteously |
|afflicted a creature. |

_Connection with Preceding Events_

| =WILD MAN CAUGHT= |
| |
|The wild man who has been frightening school |
|children of