Newspaper Narration is the medium for a rapid account of what has happened. The reporter in "note-booking" or collecting his news, selects those features that will give the fullest account of an affair in the least possible space. These features are used as headlines, if an article is of sufficient importance to demand a prominent place, and are followed by what is known as the "write-up." write-up." This " This "write-up" calls into use, not only every type of narration we have discussed, but also every type of composition as well. The purpose of the reporter is to give complete information in concise and readable form, and thus he employs this wide range of expression. His account of the street-car accident must answer every one of the quintet of queries. Some of these can best be answered by means of exposition; some by description; and some by narration. If a man has been killed, not only will the narration of the accident be told, but a brief biography of the person killed must be given as well. And after this may come a brief argument. Newspaper Narration is, in other words, a narrative combination, calling into play all facilities of expression, but dealing mostly with action, because it is with action chiefly that the news columns of our daily papers are concerned.

The plan of newspaper narrative differs, as might be expected, from that of narrative in general. It is not coherent, and is often not unified. Except for its special purpose, it is bad. This purpose is to construct a narrative which can be cut off at any point (as must often be done in making up a paper) and still give the reader a seemingly complete story. To accomplish this, the reporter writes first the "lead," which contains in a brief paragraph all the main facts of the story. As

July 29. A collision on the P. D. & Q. R. R. last night resulted in the destruction of a freight locomotive, and the death of Thomas Bryan, the engineer.

Following the "lead" come the details, arranged theoretically according to the order of their importance, so that if the "story" has to be "cut," the less valuable paragraphs will go first. In "rush accounts," however, the order is likely to be that in which the details arrive at the office. Such a narrative will give the story quickly, and since it aims to put the important things in prominent positions, it will usually be emphatic. But it is too incoherent to make thoroughly good narrative. A reporter is the first to throw aside this method for a more coherent one when, say, the Sunday edition gives him more time to collect his facts, and arrange his incidents accordingly.

The following illustrations of typical newspaper narration are from the New York Times:

STAYS AT HER POST

IN SPITE OF FLAMES

Mallory Line's Telephone Girl
Keeps Line Open on
Blazing Pier.

Fire that swept the towers and roof of the Mallory Line Pier No. 45, North River, yesterday afternoon, did $5000 damage to the property of the company and destroyed many records. It was fought by one of the finest fire-fighting equipments ever seen in operation here.

But neither the efficiency of the fire-fighting machinery nor the spectacular sight of the flames shooting up from the tower roofs appealed to the watching thousands on West Street quite so much as the part that was played by Charlotte Rogers, the eighteenyear-old girl who operates the telephone switchboard of the company on the main floor

of the shed on the runway of the pier. She could not be persuaded to leave her post until the fire was over, but kept up the steady stream of messages, notifying every official of the line that the blaze had started and keeping the Spring Street office informed of the progress of the fight against it.

The mere fact that the ceiling above her had begun to drip and then to pour a steady rain of the water with which the entire pier was being drenched did not appeal to her as a sufficient reason for abandoning her task. She simply told several of the clerks to fashion out of her small umbrella a shelter of a sort for herself and her switchboard, and beneath this improvised protection she settled down to see to it that the Mallory Line pier should give no "Don't answer' that afternoon.

It was not until the fire was practically out and Chief Kenlon was ready to leave that Miss Rogers consented to do likewise. By that time the officials of the line were all on hand, and she felt relieved of responsibility. It was Chief Kenlon himself who took the same umbrella, and, raising it to shield her from the still steady spray of water, escorted her along the pier and to the street. It was a very wet but still undaunted telephone girl whom he escorted, and the crowd on West Street cheered for all it was worth.

The fire had its origin in the record room in the south tower, possibly caused by crossed wires. General Manager E. A. Kelly hurried from his offices in the north tower, and, with thirty clerks, organized as a bucket brigade, he tried to save the tons of manifestoes, bills of lading, and shipping lists stored within reach of the flames. It was soon obvious that they could not be saved, and Mr. Kelly and his force turned their attention to his own office and its possessions. A line of clerks trotted from there to the adjoining tower, carrying scrap baskets in which were heaped all the contents of his desk and safe, papers of every description, and bills and gold to the value of $50,000. The last of these scarcely had been carried to safety when the flames jumped across to the north tower, and Mr. Kelly's office was soon ablaze.

Tugs towed out two fighters, and prevented the fire from spreading. It was confined to the two towers and fifty feet of the pier's roof, which crashed in without injuring any one, although Chief Kenlon was standing near by at the time.

from its members or its leader until May 8,
when three men staggered into Kennecott
with a thrilling story.

It

They said that when the party attained an
altitude of 12,000 feet, a terrific snowstorm
began, and they were forced to camp.
was impossible, the men who returned said,
to go farther under the existing circum-
stances. Meanwhile, they had been sent
back for additional provisions and fuel al-
cohol. When they left, the party had already
been delayed ten days by the storm.

The message the three men brought back
was that Miss Keen was determined to con-
tinue with the expedition, and that this deter-
mination was shared by every one with her.

Two days later, with the three men as guides, a relief party set out from Kennecott to the aid of the storm-bound climbers. Arctic silence closed around the expedition once more, and nothing had been heard of Miss Keen or her expedition until the telegram came.

Dora Keen, who has won distinction as an
Alpine mountain climber, is the daughter of
W. W. Keen, a noted Philadelphia surgeon.
This was her second attempt to climb Mount
Blackburn. She made the first attempt last
summer, but failed to reach the top.

Mount Blackburn is at the eastern end of
the Alaska copper belt, and is about twenty
miles from the terminus of the Morgan-
Guggenheim Railroad, which has just been
built from Cordova, on the southern coast,
to the Bonanza Mine. It is extremely diffi-
cult of access, and rises 16,000 feet above sea
level. Mount Blackburn was never reached
until Supt. John Barrett of the Blackburn
Mines Company made his way to the base
two years ago.

The account which follows of an army in panic shows how complete, and how vivid, narrative may be made, even when written under pressure, and transmitted by cable. It is from the New York Times of Nov. 6, 1912, and represents what was perhaps the most dramatic episode of the defeat of the Turks by the Bulgarians, in the Balkan war of 19121913: