(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 delicate a way as possible to gather some of the sentiments of appreciation of the merits of Kuang-hsu and his lamented aunt, Tzu-hsi. He was told that he might write a little about the picturesque though nevertheless sincere expressions of mourning that he might observe in Pell and Mott streets.
Mr. Jaw Gum, senior partner in the firm of Jaw Gum & Co., importers of cigars, cigarettes, dead duck's eggs and Chinese delicatessen, of 7 Pell street, was at home. Mr. Gum was approached.
"We would like to learn a little about the arrangements that are being made by the Chinese to indicate their sorrow at the deaths of their beloved rulers."
"What number?" queried Mr. Gum. The question was repeated.
"P'licyman, he know," remarked Mr. Gum sagely.
(So on for a column with interviews and statements from several of Mr. Gum's neighbors.)—New York Sun.
But this is very much like a human interest story—the reporter takes part in it—and we shall discuss that later.