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- John D. Rock, Jr., was having a very easy time of it. He led a worthless life, but father got wise to some of his pranks and decided that he would have to take matters in his own hands for the sake of the family. He sends young Johnnie out on the road to work in the section gang. Father was wise enough to select John Blake as a disciplinarian for his unruly son. It was a sad day for Johnnie when he landed in the railroad camp, for he immediately began to trespass. There lived in the camp one little Nell, the pride of the camp, and the sweetheart of John Blake, the terrible foreman. Johnnie began to make advances to little Nell, who to all appearances, reciprocated his regard. Right there John Blake stepped in and after a few harsh remarks and a little rough treatment he thought the matter was settled, but Johnnie was one of the kind who believe in perseverance, and he kept right on, regardless of the threats of John Blake. This was not only bad for himself, but for little Nell as well. John Blake, in his desperation, after being turned down cold, decided to murder the little girl. With the aid of his assistants he kidnapped her after dark and tied her to the railroad track and got into an engine determined to end it all. The millionaire's son was apprised of the fact and secured a racing car. There followed a race between the engine and the racer to see which would reach her first. Blake had to cross a drawbridge, which was the vantage point, and Johnnie got there first. When Blake arrived the bridge was up, but Blake did not heed it in his mad dash and up and over he went, and down to his destruction.
- A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
- He was skinny and awkward, this hero, and he dressed as only a farmer boy without clothes can dress, but she loved him. And then appeared the villain shadowed by two villainous hirelings. And the villain saw pretty Nell and determined to have her, but our hero, single handed, held him until re-enforced by the constable. Arriving home, Nell finds the villain with her mother. The mortgage must be paid, or out they go. Then, realizing that Nell is the daughter, he offers to take her in place of the money due, giving them five minutes to decide. Then comes the hero. They tell him their trouble. Off he rushes and digs for his buried savings. Deeper gets the hole but fast passes the five minutes; they are up and she must pay the price to the villain, but just in time comes the hero with his savings and the villain is foiled. The lovers go forth, but he leaves her for a moment to gather a flower, when again appears the villain, and kidnaps Nell. But our hero follows and just as she is lowered on a rope over the edge of a precipice he grabs the rope and pulls her up, but the villain knocks him senseless. Tying his feet to the rope they drag him to a tree, telling him that the weight that drags on him is the weight of his sweetheart, and when his arms clutching the tree give out. She will drop to the bottom of the precipice. But, as his strength goes, help comes. Feeling the rope slack, our hero stands erect, resting his aching arms, but Nell slips back again and, as he is dragged along the ground, he clutches the long legs of the villain and drags him with him. The villain, however, has the upper hand and proceeds to pummel our hero, who is finally rescued. Torn and dirty, but every inch a hero, he finds joy in his sweetheart's arms.
- Gertrude Selby, as the little millionairess, rolls into the picture in her big automobile with her arms full of roses. Henry "Pathe" Lehrman and Billie Ritchie both seek the acquaintance of the little millionairess. Henry fails to meet with her approval, but Billie responds to an alluring beckoning from the big automobile. Henry consoles himself with a beautiful pictured lady until the little millionairess again turns up in his neighborhood, whereupon he makes another effort to gain the lady's favor. Mischievous Gertrude ducks the persistent Henry with a hose. His screams bring papa to the rescue and she is hurried off to the hotel. Billie, looking in vain for the lady of the alluring smile, finds Henry's picture and takes possession. Henry claims his own, however, but finally Billy persuades him to sell it and he departs to quench his growing thirst. Henry, with money in his pocket, but with wet clothes, decides he had better be on his way. Luck favors him. He finds Billie in a state that brings forth no protest when he takes back his pictured lady. Billie makes the hotel and starts things going at a pace hard to beat, until Henry arrives. Quiet finally settles over the hotel with Billie in his room with his bottle, Gertrude in her room with her book, and Henry in his room with his pictured lady. The wind plays Henry a low trick, when it blows his pictured lady away. He follows out the window, down the fire escape, in a window and discovers himself in the room of the millionairess. With Henry in pursuit she runs to her father, but finds herself in Billie's room. He is asleep and she has time to crawl under the bed before Henry arrives. Finding Billie asleep and no signs of the girl, Henry continues his hunt. All might have been well if a mouse hadn't driven the millionairess from under the bed, whereupon Billie promptly declares his love and joins in the chase. Driven into the hall the lady starts a riot from one end of the hotel to the other that leaves grave doubts as to whether there is anything left of the clerk, father and guests. Driven to desperation, a harassed guest lays Henry and Billie out with a well-aimed blow for each of them.
- Wife was getting stout, but hubby impolitely told her she was getting downright fat. This hurt her feelings and she went to the bath house to get reduced by the steam process. Meanwhile husband went out for an airing and laid eyes on a swell chicken whom he followed into a bath house. Her sweetheart was Hank, the life »aver, but he didn't know this until it was too late, or until he had to take refuge in the steam room from said Hank's ill temper. Meanwhile Hank was having trouble with his assistant, as the latter paid more attention to Hank's sweetheart than was necessary. Also Hank's pet fish, Oscar, worried Hank, as he bit Hank when Hank was trying to be friendly. Oscar also bit an intoxicated gentleman who was trying to recuperate from the ill effects of liquor in the swimming tank. All these unpleasant features came to a climax when husband came out of the steam room and found his wife flirting with a fat gentleman. In the ensuing excitement a rubbing table got loose with Hank and some cops on it, and rolled out on to the roof and skidded around on the eaves. Wife lost twenty pounds through fright, husband got in trouble, the girl lost Hank and Hank slapped his assistant's face. Very few people have gone swimming there since.
- Where could you find a more toothsome trio to start a movie with than Henry Hash, Stephen Stew and Peter Pye? And where could you find an easier place to start something than at the crackshaft of a Ford ? And now all you have to do is to add three "his wives" and "Moon-struck" Mike, for spice, and things are moving nicely. If you've never had a lion in your front yard or in your library, try a Ford Lizzie. Enter, a private picnic, led by the romantic Mike - he, of the moonstruck soul. Having asked a damsel to ride with him on the speedway, he is turned down cold, whereupon an officer and a "big hippopotamus" give a lively tum to the action.
- Billie enjoys flirting with the ladies, and so does Henry, although he's married. Trouble erupts when both men bring dates to the same beer garden, and Billie's date turns out to be Henry's wife.
- Father, with two other old fossils, was sitting in the park for an airing. A swell dame appeared and the other two edged Father out and went over and got acquainted. Just as they were getting along nicely, the lady's escort appeared. The guilty pair made a hasty exit, but the escort followed them up and slapped their faces. Father was congratulating himself that he remained out of the affair, when the escort noticed him and gave him a slap for good measure. He was knocked into a young chap who didn't like being bumped into. He told Father so, emphasizing his dislike with a smack on the jaw. Father went home and daughter insisted that he meet her new sweetheart. Father was introduced, but the sweetheart was the young chap who had smacked him. Sweetheart was ordered out, but he went home and disguised as a girl to come back to the house. When Father set eyes on him he thought him a girl. So did Hank, the park escort, and they both tried to elope with him. This led to disagreements. A taxi ran away, and Hank was hung up on a hot trolley wire. There was a marriage, but neither Father nor Hank was the bridegroom.
- The star boarder took up more of the wife's attention than any of the others. The husband couldn't stand it and wrote his wife a note warning her she'd find his body at the bottom of the lake. He thought this would make her feel bad, but it didn't--it made her feel so good that she celebrated by flirting with the star boarder. Meanwhile, husband was about to throw himself to the fishes when a strange influence made him walk across the water and into Madame La Rue's, the Mystic of the East. He got a job there as assistant spook and everything went all right until wifey and the star boarder happened to take a look into the future. They got more than one look and saw some unpleasant things. Hubby was in the spook closet and impersonated a spirit so thoroughly that everyone thought they were in--well, not heaven. The star boarder lost his new friend, the husband got back his wife, and the cops copped some other parties. That was the last time husband ever attempted suicide.
- A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets; she chases him down and exacts comic justice.
- Father and son are very much grieved over the loss of a recently-departed one, but they forget their own grief when they find that their neighbors, Mrs. Whosis and her beautiful daughter, are in the same fix. Father and mother are getting along beautifully with their flirtation when the dear little children interfere. Father and Mrs. Whosis decide to take the children to the park and easily get them away by giving them nickels and sending them for ice cream. Father wishes to make quite a hit with Mrs. Whosis and decides that he will purchase a beautiful present for her. He has hardly made the purchase before he is relieved of it by another admirer of Mrs. Whosis who also is trying to make a hit with the new widow. Father, however, gets the necklace back and presents it to the widow and everybody is happy in the end.
- Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Sight of one of the demons by the other in the company of the girl is the high sign for battle. Eggs, bricks or any weapon at hand are made use of in their encounters. Billie scores when he manages to elope with the girl in Henry's "auter." Father's chat with his friend, the sheriff, is rudely broken into by the outraged Henry, and the chase after the runaways starts. Unluckily a tire gives out, but finding himself in front of a tire factory. Billie proceeds to order direct to consumer. Not having the size, the superintendent finally agrees to make it for the persistent Billie, who finally urges forward each process of manufacture personally. Henry, father, the sheriff and constables, hot on the trail, arrive before the completion of the tire. Henry is further infuriated by the ruin of his tire and spanks the girl. Billie, loathe to part with the price of the tire, but compelled to do so in order to get away, finds the chasers surrounding the automobile when he rushes forth. Realizing he has lost out with the girl and "auter" he tries to recover his money. This the superintendent objects to and the argument that follows ends in blows. The chasers arrive in the midst of the fracas and lend a hand to the triumph of Henry.
- His spoilt and pretty daughter Gem and a lively dog make the old chemist's days far from the serene ones his labors in his laboratory require. Left to her own devices, willful Gem selects her unlikeliest suitor and thrusts him upon papa for approval. Aroused, the old chemist endeavors to separate them by locking Gem in her room but is compelled to repeat the forceful ejection of the persistent lover many times over. Determined by papa's refusal, Gem and her lover plan to get even with him. He believes that he has made a wonderful discovery and calls in two of the scientists in his city to test the mixture. Gem and her beau replace it with a harmless mixture, of which the dog approves. Entering the laboratory, the scientists are amazed to find the dog drinking the supposed poison. Fearing his bite, they lose no time in making their getaway. Ever ready for a chase, the lively dog sets determinedly after them. Their frantic efforts to escape result in disaster to all encountered en route. Believing the dog to be mad, a general call is turned in for the police. Gem and her lover rush to the minister's house but he refuses to marry them and tries to give them the slip. The lovers give chase, overtake him at the lake's edge, and force him to perform the ceremony. Driven by the dog to a high bridge, the scientists decide to take to water rather than risk a bite. Not caring for the jump, the dog leaves the bridge and encounters the police, but discovering his mistress, he makes a glad rush to the consternation of the minister, whose fright precipitates the three into the lake, where the dog joins them. The yells of the scientists and the bridal party bring the police to the rescue, and the lake is filled with swimmers whose struggles show little enjoyment in their dip.
- The husband was suspicious when his new wife introduced an attractive-looking stranger as her cousin. He went out to think it over and entered a moving-picture theater. Wife and "cousin" also craved the movies, and entered a theater--the same one where husband was. The drama unfolded on the screen was an exact reproduction of the trio's lives, and troubled the conscience of wife and "cousin" exceedingly. It was also the spark which ignited the suppressed doubt and suspicion in the husband's mind. He started working with his Krupps. "Cousin" started playing hide-and-seek, and wife started bawling. As usual, her tears softened him, and after husband had worked off his ill temper, he forgave her. "Cousin" disappeared, and the only one who was inconvenienced was a nondescript gentleman who was thrown through the screen.
- A fire hose with 100 pounds pressure, some silk hose of summer weight, a theater, the police officer, and two bachelors who flirted to excess, were the disturbing elements in the story. A new wife, who had been an actress and had too many callers, was the cause, and a man shooting up in the air on a stream of water was the effect. There were other effects just as striking and more numerous. It all started when the actress-wife gave a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish tried to horn in on the revelry. Her husband also thought he would have a quiet little party with soubrette Violet Vere de Vere, but she invited him to the same one his wife was giving. As is known, meetings like this lead to murder. The killing started with mere pistols, but rapidly branched out until fire hose, silk hose, cops, explosions, geysers, and volcanoes were in the itinerary. Never since have the bachelors flirted, nor the wife given parties. And also never since has the police captain talked to actresses.
- Catching him in the act of flirting with the housemaid, the wife starts her husband off to the office after exacting a promise that he will telephone her every 5 minutes. The flirt arranges to have his assistant turn in the 5-minute calls to his wife, and starts out for a big day. He turns his attentions to a pretty lady, whose jealous husband appears and gives him the chase of his life, finally catches him, and metes out deserved punishment. Returning home in the midst of one of his substitute's telephone calls, he is compelled to account for both his presence and the condition of his clothes. He tells a hair-raising tale of rescuing a child from being run over by a trolley car. Out for a walk later, the wife insists on going to the moving-picture theater. The jealous husband, also out for a walk, also decides to take in the show. Henry, waiting at the theater entrance in an endeavor to secure a companion for the show, tries his wiles, but is not successful. Billie, arriving with his sweetheart, proposes taking in the show. Henry manages to shut Billie into a convenient doorway, and takes possession of the lady. Escaping, Billie throws Henry out. Recognizing himself, and fearing his wife's anger on discovering his deception, the flirt endeavors to keep her attention on himself. Not successful in this, he tries to make his escape, but finds himself face-to-face with the jealous husband, who has likewise recognized the figures on the screen. A general row follows in which the flirt receives the pummeling of his life.
- The village beauty is satisfied with her beau Fatty until Uncle Tom's barnstormers hit town and she meets Simon LaGree, who aims to make an impression on the country lass by supplying her with passes to the show. Torn with jealousy, Fatty threatens to kill himself, but changes his mind and decides to take in the show too. The entire town turns out to the performance. The little country lass gets a wonderful thrill when he comes before the curtain bowing and tossing her a rose. She forgets Fatty, but he makes his presence known by throwing a pie in Simon LaGree's face. Poor Fatty, believing that by becoming an actor he can win back the affections of the fair maiden, procures a copy of the play, and starts rehearsing. At the Opera House the play is pushed forward by the property man and assistant props, running on through the thrilling escape of Eliza over the ice, the pursuit by the bloodhounds, to the tragic death of Little Eva, whose ascent to Heaven is ruined when the property man slips on the rope that hauls her up, and he lands on the stage. This last blunder is too much for Simon LaGree. He rushes into the wings blaming the breaking-up of the show on assistant props, who, feeling that he is wrongly accused, comes back with his lists. Drawing a revolver, Simon LaGree goes after assistant props. At the sight of the revolver the audience, with the exception of the town sheriffs, who jump bravely onto the stage, beats a hasty and disorderly retreat. Finding the armed sheriffs at their heels, the entire troupe forget their quarrel, take a stand together against the town's sheriffs, and succeed in routing the town sheriffs, temporarily. Hastening home, the beauty and her friends hear the ravings of Fatty endeavoring to become an actor. Believing him to be one of the troupe, they make a rush to drive him out of the house. Frightened, poor Fatty tries to make a getaway through the window, but he falls into a hogshead, which, becoming overturned, starts rolling down the hill. The beauty and her friends start out at full speed after the hogshead. The sheriffs, having cornered the Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe on the edge of a steep bank, see the hogshead and the crowd rushing toward them, and in their efforts to avoid a collision, all are thrown down the bank. The beauty and her friends are heaped on top of the troupe and the sheriffs, the hogshead landing beside them, the force of its fall and weight of Fatty breaking it to pieces. The property man, by some miracle escaping the slide down the bank, looks over the still forms and. grasping a stave of the hogshead, endeavors to bury them as they lie.
- A pretty nurse makes an impression on Billie. Her flirtation arouses the jealousy of the crippled anarchist, who gets even by bouncing a basin on Billie's head. The young interne, also in love with the pretty nurse, makes a date to meet her, but Billie, waiting for another sight of his lady fair, forestalls him. The interne's jealousy aroused, he proceeds to punish Billie. Believing him dead, the frightened nurse and interne make off for the hospital. Found unconscious by a couple of policemen, Billie is restored by a whiff of his beloved gin. He is carried into the hospital, where his head is bandaged and he is prepared for bed. Turning into the ward he is treated by the anarchist. The ungrateful Billie manages to steal the bottle, but is not able to get away with the contents before the arrival of the nurse. Recognizing him, the nurse showers attentions upon him, much to the jealousy of the anarchist, who plants a bomb under the bed of the sleeping Billie. The anarchist, awaiting the explosion, is horrified to discover the nurse sitting on the bed with Billie. He endeavors to drag her away and the bomb is discovered. Thoroughly alarmed, the entire hospital force endeavor to throw the bomb out. In the confusion the anarchist is thrown on the bed of Billie, and together on Billie's little hospital bed they are blown through the roof, finally landing in the lake.
- The stenographer was entirely too pretty for the equilibrium of the office force, and both clerks and the boss found themselves off balance. The boss had the advantage of authority in the office, but unluckily he didn't have the same at home, and when his spouse happened in and interrupted a little conversation he was having with the stenographer, said stenographer went out by express orders of the wife. This didn't help matters, however, as Gertie came back in boy's clothes, got her old job back, and also got Wifey stuck on her. The ensuing trouble is best left untold, with the exception of a secret meeting at the café, an intercepted note, and an important disclosure just at the wrong time. The whole affair would have been far better if Wifey had not attempted to take over the office under her management and Gertie had not imagined she could get away with the men's clothes effect.
- Prior to a visit to a family, a nobleman changes places with his valet.
- Mert, the station agent, loved Al the foreman, and Mert's father, the engineer, loved Al's mother, and Al loved Mert, and Al's mother loved Mert's father. However, Mert's father did not love Al, and Al's mother did not love Mert, so that kept things from being monotonous. Al invited Mert to the soda fountain, but when Mert found that he had no money she suspected that the attraction was Babe the dispenser of liquid refreshment. Herein she wronged Al's honest soul. Al found Mert's father making love to his mother and threw flour at them. Just then the train arrived, and with it Terrible Ted, the He-Vampire. Ma and Pa were sitting a truck, and Al sneaked up and tied it to the train as it pulled out. However, the end of the rope caught his foot and he was hauled along the track till Pa cut the rope and they all came home. Mert was making making eyes at Ted. His idea was to get into the safe while she flagged the train. He and his confederates had almost succeeded, when Mert managed to grab the bad in which they had placed the money and pull it up through a trap in the ceiling. They discovered her and pursued her to the roof. She jumped off, but they got her, and put her in a trunk. They then loaded the trunk onto a passing train. Al and Babe went to the rescue on a handcar. All of them arrived in the Great City, and the trunk with Mert inside was taken to a room. Al and Babe arrived, and Mert, looking out of the window, saw them. She wrote a note which she placed in the water pitcher and threw out of the window. Al snatched a bow and arrow from a child and shot a reply to her. He sent up a rope and Mert lowered the money to him. She then slid down the rope after tying it to the bed, and they all went off on the handcar, pursued by the villains in an auto. But the handcar reached the station first. Ted was not to be foiled, and be subdued them all with chloroform. She grabbed him, threw him off the train, and then returned with the money. Moving Picture World, October 27, 1917
- "Fatty" is in love with a dainty little miss who is somewhat of a coquette, for she shares her affections with one Johnny Boston Beans, much to the chagrin of "Fatty." "Fatty" is given a dollar with which to pay the gas bill, but on the way to the office of the gas company he meets the idol of his dreams gazing wistfully at the goodies displayed in the window of a confectionery store. "Fatty" is sorely tempted, but resists manfully. It is too much however, when Johnny Boston Beans butts in and monopolizes the lady's conversation. "Fatty" falls, and, flashing his dollar bill, he proceeds to treat the fair one. Then to heap coals of fire upon the head of his rival he invites Johnny Boston Beans to accompany them. The dollar is soon spent for ice cream and candy, but poor "Fatty" is up against it for the dollar. When he returns home he feigns sickness to avoid any possible questioning on the part of his mother, and is put to bed. It is then that remorse sets in and he sees terrible visions of himself in a felon's cell. The next morning he sets out to earn an honest dollar to repay the one he has stolen. At the end of a day of toil, however, he has only fifteen cents to show for his efforts. His mother starts to prepare the evening meal and finds that the gas company has shut off the gas. His mother and father force from "Fatty" an explanation and he is forced to confess, adding that he "did it all fer love." This is too much for his parents. "Fatty" hears them chuckling and looks up wonderingly, only to be hugged to his father's breast and to receive his parents' hearty forgiveness.
- The artists were trying to paint September mornings one September morning, but it soon developed into a September evening with a good night attached, when one of them tried to sell a bum painting to a shrewd dealer and the other tried to paint a model against her will. This unpleasantness was soon over, however, and the artists got into a Grecian garden where some dancing girls were running around with a smile and some jewelry on, and a gentleman was trying to take snapshots with a camera. The gentleman and the artists tried to look at the ladies simultaneously and as there was only room for one spectator there arose a dispute as to who should gain the vantage point. This dispute was not polite and the three gentlemen start to chase one another about among the poison ivy and whortleberry vines. The dancers remained unembarrassed, but some conscientious policemen thought they were indecent and attempted to hold overcoats over them out of respect for the public morals. The ladies thought differently and ditched the policemen in the cold lake and went back to dance in the sunlight. Things were almost smooth and delightful again when the art dealer appeared and insisted with a Krupp gun the artist could hardly refuse. The other artist was confronted with some little past professional dirty work that he indulged in at one time, and this little affair was unpleasant. The only ones who remained unruffled were the dancing girls, who continued to sport in the sun.
- Her term was over and she stood on the outside of the prison grasping the few dollars the institution had provided her. She had determined to go straight, but the underworld folks with whom, before her going up, she had rendered service not easily replaced, wanted her back. Her day of release was chalked by the boss of the den which had been her hangout, and his crooks were there to extend the glad hand. These worthies, nosing as friends to the newly liberated, lifted the precious dollars needed for the new start, and the late jailbird found herself under their guidance among her old cronies. The "go straight notion" wasn't entirely killed and they found she had lost her former congeniality. Over strenuous efforts on the part of the boss to revive the old spirit drove her to an attempt to end it all. At this point the hero entered, saved her, persuaded her to live a little longer, and won her heart. She stepped blithely forth to start anew, but met up with the underworld folks again and strong arm methods convinced her of the good policy of joining their operations. She served as an outpost to their burglar jobs with good success, until at a millionaire's home where the haul of the season was due for a gathering, she met up with a mouse. This drove her unceremoniously into the privacy of the home, where she found she was aiding in the sacking of the house of her hero. She turned on her pals, protected the sick mother, returned the family jewels, and then stepped out of his life forever, but being the last one out ran into the lately aroused cops, her exit being badly marred by her efforts to gain headway on the flatfoot hot step of the protectors of peace.
- Reggie was to take his gal Gertie riding. Hank was stuck on Gertie because Gertie had given him an indifferent smile that Hank had taken seriously. When Hank saw Gertie going with Reggie he resolved that they all should die, and he took the chauffeur's place. If Hank had only killed himself, or even Gertie and Reggie immediately, the slaughter would not have been on such a large scale. But when wet pavements, careless pedestrians, cops, traffic, citizens and other impediments get in the way, the result went beyond expectations. Also, Hank tore off the side of a house in which a respectable citizen and his wife were sleeping. They were forced to run out in the yard in negligee. Hank's plan of murder took longer than expected, as he did not reach the pier until after several miles of skidding streets and many squads of pursuing policemen. The delay was worth it, as Hank treated everybody to the biggest thrill of their lives. The auto went straight over the pier, but Hank went under. Reggie and Gertie came up on a tire, but as for Hank, he never did come up.
- Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company's masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband's gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.
- Dan, the Irish Terror, is attracted by the charms of Hot Dog Hattie, but she does not care for him, as her affections are set upon Battling Bull. Both are members of the Stock Yards Athletic Club, and Dan sends Bull a challenge, which is accepted. Dan decides to get a line on Bull's work. He goes to his training quarters, climbs up on a box and peeps through the transom. What he sees there disconcerts him so much that he kicks the box away from under him. The Bull sees him and shuts the transom on his fingers. But Dan escapes. The day of the fight arrives. Dan has arranged for some dirty work, which fails to operate against Bull, and Dan is knocked out. Dan sneaks away from the ring, and takes the gate receipts. He takes them to Hattie, who shuts her up in her own hot-dog booth, and pushes it off down the steep grade of the street. He clambers on top of it and dresses himself there. The booth falls over a bank, and Dan rescues Hattie from the ruins. They are chased, but he manages to board a western-bound train with her. Bull finds a lone hot dog which tells him of her fate. Out west, Dan's prowess soon makes him master of the town. Hattie still dreams of Bull, and when he arrives in town in the guise of a tramp she recognizes him. Bull challenges Dan to another fight. Hattie disguises herself as a cow-puncher in order to be present. She pours glue on the seat in Dan's corner, and revives Bull with dope when he threatens to collapse. Dan is knocked out of the ring and chased down the street, while Hattie and Bull fall into each other's arms.
- The police and fire chiefs are rivals in the bid to win the hand of the mayor's daughter.
- Gertie is an incorrigible flirt. She is sitting on the bank of a lake, and two of her admirers are contending for her favor. She throws a rose into the water and declares, "Who gets the rose, gets me." There is a wet half hour after that. Her sweetheart comes along and asks her to go for a ride in his car. She is delighted and goes into the house to change her gown. While he is waiting for her, Hank slugs his chauffeur over the head, takes his cap and goggles, and gets into his seat. Reggie and Gertie climb into the tonneau and spoon while Hank, as the chauffeur, drives them all over the town. Finally, he drives right off the end of a pier and the joy ride ends in the ocean.
- Bill has had a rough night, and awakes with an awful head. He goes to fish in the park lake. While he is away Fat sees his wife hide a stocking full of money and steals it. Bill catches an alligator and is terrified. Fat on his way to the park sees that the cops are after him. He throws the sock into the water. Bill's hook catches it, and he determines to fish for the mate. A big alligator comes hunting for his little one and chases Bill. Fat tries to rescue him. The alligator leads them to the tank where there are many more of these creatures, and there is a furious mix-up of Fat, Bill, the cops and the alligators, during which Bill's wife adds to the confusion by discovering her money in Bill's pail.
- Sweet 16 was in love with Billie, but her father objected to him as he had other intentions for his little girl. She was obdurate and insisted on her choice. Bill made his usual call and father met him at the door and unceremoniously kicked Bill out, giving his little daughter to understand that Bill was no more to be allowed the hospitality of his roof. Father forgot to cover his tracks thoroughly enough, and also to note the thickness of a wall separating his affinity from Bill's apartment. Bill was an athlete, and in his practicing he slipped from a trapeze and slid gracefully through a wall into the adjoining apartment where papa was just in the act of embracing his affinity. Bill had the goods on father then, as father, in his hasty exit, left his hat behind. So Bill, in possession of the hat, marched in to father and threatened to tell his wife and daughter on him unless he was allowed to marry his daughter. Father had to agree, but hardly did he secure possession of his silk tile before he changed his mind and again told sweet sixteen that Bill was not to be allowed entrance to his house. Sweet Sixteen makes her report to Bill on the sly and Bill calls father to account for his changeableness and urges father to come to his apartment where after a little argument with the fist, father agrees. Everything was moving nicely until the minister accidentally stepped on Bill's foot and demanded the removal of a beautiful silk hat which Bill was very proud of. Bill resented the minister's interference and demanded satisfaction, and so took him to his gymnasium, and was going to trim him, but the minister, in his youth, had been thoroughly trained in the manly art of self-defense and turned the tables on Bill. He thrashed Bill all over the apartment house, out in the street, and so strenuously did they fight that they caved in floors and landed in the basement which was full of water.
- Alice, a poor, hard-working Newsgirl, has one weakness, and that is her admiration for Joe, the handsome leading man of the Tabasca Stock Company. One day she is abused by a competing newsboy. To escape from him she enters the theater and hides in the leading lady's dressing room. While hiding there she finds that Joe, the leading man, is in love with the leading lady and that they are both planning to rob the manager and make their getaway. Alice tells the manager of their scheme and so helps him save his money. He is grateful to her and says he will grant her any wish. Her only wish is to be a leading lady. Her wish is granted and she is made a leading lady in a melodramatic show. On the night of her debut one of the stagehands drops a burning match in the snow (on the stage) which starts a fire and incidentally breaks up the show.
- Kid Cameraflage, the Chief's chauffeur, was secretly married to the maid. She had promised to take good care of him before he married her, but everything was different now, for he was made to do the menial work and become a full-fledged kitchen mechanic to meet the high cost of living. The Chief and his wife were happy. They had a battle every other minute. The Chief gets an order from the Mayor, advising him that all blackhanders must be clean-shaven. This aggravates one of the blackhanders, who picks himself out a well-fed bomb, and wends his weary way to the office of the Mayor. Kid Cameraflage, whose duties varied, was lining up the cuspidors, when he spied the bomb nestling in one of them. Everyone looked on to see the Kid's finish, but picking the bomb up courageously, he flung it out of the window, hitting the blackhanders, and saved the day. "You're fired!" said the Mayor to the Chief. "You're hired!" said the Mayor to the Kid. "You're chauffeur!" said the Kid to the Chief, and so the Chief became the chauffeur, while the chauffeur became the chief. Returning home, the ex-chauffeur and the maid took possession of the Chief's house. Kid Cameraflage fell asleep in Mrs. Chief's room. The maid tried to detain the Chief by fainting in his arms. Friend wife, seeing her husband's arms full of maid, entered her room, and she found the Kid trembling in her clothes closet. Thereupon she, too, fainted. The ex-Chief's bullets send the Kid to the roof, but they all drop through the skylight and land back where they came from. Explanations are in order, and the Kid relinquishes his right to Chiefdom.
- Two men who seek the same girl are switched back and forth in the wedding ceremony.
- Dick and Phil quarrel with their wives and leave their homes in bad tempers. Phil's wife decides to get even and goes forth to flirt on her own account, but is only frightened for her pains. Finally she flirts with Dick and is surprised by Phil and runs home. Dick and Phil quarrel and when separating vow vengeance on each other. That night they meet in a gambling room and Phil tries to cheat Dick, who catches him at it and a fight ensues. The police take a hand and Phil and Dick are chased from the rooms. Phil gets clear, but Dick is hard pressed and only evades the officers by getting in Phil's house, where he hides under the bed. Phil catches him and they fight. The police hear as Alice screams and break in and take a hand. They find there some of the gambling gang and all battle until knocked out.
- Springboard Sally and Mabel Carryflesh pull all the sightseers to their sideshow. Phil and Charlie, in love with Sally, are in despair when they hit upon a plan to try to get her into their booth. They make love to her until Phil opens and reads a telegram addressed to Sally. In it Takeing Ways, attorney-at-law, informs the diver that she is the heiress to $50,000 left by her aunt. To steer Charlie from her, Phil hits on the plan to rewrite the telegram, making Miss Carryflesh the heiress, and when Charlie sees this, sure enough, straightway to Rev. Dr. Jones does he and the weighty one march. When he discovers that Sally is the heiress, he hates Phil. Sally, informed of her legacy, takes a satchel all filled with greenbacks over to her husband's tent, Phil following and receiving a surprise on learning that she is already wed. Consternation follows when he grabs the money and runs away. The entire outfit of side-shows give chase. Phil succumbs when the valise with the coin is taken from him by Sally, and she pins a rose upon his chest as he reclines in peace in the amusement park.
- Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
- Billy, while wearily trudging along the road, sees the San Diego Fair in the near distance. Believing that he might make some money if he could get inside, he steals in under a visitor's coat tails and after wandering through the interesting streets he sits down on a bench to rest. An old rounder sees Peggy and follows her as she runs from him to the store of her friend, an excitable Italian, who pursues her annoyer and punishes him. Billy and the old rounder meet. They are old friends and the rounder laughs when he sees Billy meet two girls and invite them to dinner, for he suspects that bill has no money. Bill, of course, has none, and when the proprietress demands her pay he suggests to the girls that they should pitch dice to see who shall settle. They refuse, and Billy in his efforts to make the old rounder pay up comes to blows with him. The Italian suitor takes a hand in the fight and both are severely beaten by Billy. The girls get the police and Bill is chased through the streets to the Painted Desert, a Fair Concession. He runs to the highest peak of a precipice and defies his pursuers. The Italian hurls bombs at him and for a while Bill catches them and hurls them back at his assailants. At last one well directed bomb shell explodes, and Billy vanishes in smoke and flame only to awake on a park bench. He imagines he is still being persecuted but sees his annoyers are pigeons who literally cover him and when he drives them away he finds two eggs have been laid in his hat. He is annoyed at first, but pockets them when he realizes he has at least got something out of his visit to the Fair.
- The café oven, the proprietor's watch, the cashier, and the chef's irritable temper were among the things that made life unpleasant for the waiter. He and the chef were roommates, but the chef weighed 300 pounds and had a weakness for all the blankets on the bed, so the waiter usually found himself sleeping out where the breeze blew. Both the chef and the waiter loved the cashier. Neither realized his heart affair would interfere with business, but it did to the annoyance of patrons and the displeasure of the proprietor. The climax came when the proprietor's watch wandered into the chef's pocket and the waiter tried to put his mitts into the cash register. On top of this the waiter tried to talk to the cashier when the chef wasn't looking. The latter saw this from among his choppers and saws and started throwing instruments about. He did not realize these things cut until he thought he had killed a man and proceeded to put the body in a barrel. Proprietor, patrons, and waiters all start chasing the chef. All of them fall down cellar except the waiter. He seeks safety in the oven, and is almost incinerated before he is rescued.
- She was a young thing and her father thought her too young to be married, but, as is always the case, she thought she knew better and so her clandestine meetings with her sweetheart, an adventurer. He was nothing more than a janitor, but with his fine looks and clothes he impressed her very much. Her father had a janitor who got fresh with the head janitor and father fired him, but father made a sad mistake when he left the safe open and the said janitor grabbed all the kale in sight and skipped with it without the least compunction. Daughter was married and they were getting along fine on father's money, when she happened to read an article wherein it stated that poor Mr. Broke was busted and had to pawn his furniture to buy bread and eats. She went to hubby and asked him if father and mother could not enjoy their old age with them. Being a good-natured fellow he readily consented to their spending their reclining years with them in their magnificent home. They arrived, but it was a sad reception father got when he looked into the eyes of his deposed janitor, now his son-in-law. Father took a wallop at him and son-in-law raced from the house into jitney and away, with father and the cops in hot pursuit.
- Anne had three suitors, Bill, the choice of her dad, Frank, the choice of her mother, and Johnnie, the choice of her own heart. She stood it as long as she could, and then she took matters into her own hands. She sent Frank word to disguise as a woman, and they would elope that night. At the same time she sent word to Bill to do the same thing. Bill and Frank then eloped with each other, and she ran off with Johnnie.
- When floor walkers have an inclination to flirt, but still know it's dangerous, should they indulge in this pastime? Mr. Rawsberry tried to decide this question, but it was not until a tall gentleman had appeared and gave him a couple of smacks on the jaw that he realized he had decided the wrong way. Mr. Rawsberry went straight to his store and started floor walking. His flirting proclivities again cropped out and he had a misunderstanding with the janitor. He tried to fire the janitor, but the janitor would not be fired, and he went to the Boss. The Boss was the gentleman who had slapped his face in the park. Also he was the husband of the lady Mr. Rawsberry admired, and he knew that Mr. Rawsberry knew that he knew he knew he was. The correct thing to do was to exit, which Mr. Rawsberry did. He didn't stop until he was a block down the street. Fate again intervened when a paper blew out an open window, and Mr. Rawsberry took it inside to accommodate the lady who lost it. The lady . was the Boss' wife again, and before Mr. Rawsberry could get out the Boss came in. The intruder's exit was rapid, but not rapid enough. Mr. Rawsberry had to take refuge in a bath house, but this didn't help, as a couple of bears from the zoo, admiring the bathing girls, had come thither. Also a gentleman who had been indiscreet with the liquor jug was present, and, between him and the bears Mr. Rawsberry's life could have been pleasanter. Everybody got out, including the bears, but Mr. Rawsberry was the only one who didn't get away. He climbed into the first window handy, and not until he was inside and took note of his surroundings did he realize he was back in the Boss' house. The events which now happened to Mr. Rawsberry had best not be recorded.