arrow way.--_New York World._ |

=2. Direct Quotation Beginning.--Paragraph.=--You notice that in each of
the foregoing the quoted sentence is incorporated grammatically into the
first sentence of the lead. It is followed by a comma and the words
"said Mr. ----," "was the statement of ----," "declared Mr. ----," etc.
This construction is possible only when the quoted sentence is short and
simple. When it is long or complex, it is well to paragraph it
separately and to put the explanations in a separate paragraph, thus:

| "If the United States had possessed in |
|1898 a single dirigible balloon, even of |
|the size of the one now at Fort Myer, |
|Virginia, which cost less than $10,000, |
|the American army and navy would not have|
|long remained in doubt of the presence of|
|Cervera's fleet in Santiago harbor." |
| |
|This statement was made today by Major |
|G. O. Squier, assistant chief signal |
|officer of the army, in an address on |
|aeronautics delivered before the American|
|Society of Mechanical Engineers at 29 |
|West Thirty-ninth street.--_New York |
| Mail._ |

This same construction must _always_ be used when the statement quoted
in the lead consists of more than one sentence, as in the following:

| "The climate of Wisconsin is as good |
|for recovery from tuberculosis as that of|
|any state in the union. It is not the |
|climate, but the out-of-doors air that |
|works the cure." |
| |
|So said Harvey Dee Brown in his |
|tuberculosis crusade lecture in Kilbourn |
|park last night.--_Milwaukee Free Press._|

It is to be noted that the statement quoted in the lead is never split
into two parts, separated by explanation. The quotation is always
gathered together at the beginning and followed by the explanation.

=3. Indirect Quotation Beginning.=--This method is best adapted to the
playing up of a brief resume of the content of the speech. It is
sometimes called the "_that_-clause beginning" because it alwa