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- A couple of gay soubrettes dancing a can-can in the street to the music of a hurdy-gurdy.
- A panoramic view of Victoria Island and Hull, showing the awful devastation of the conflagration of May, 1900.
- Several hoodlums set upon an old lady, who is out marketing. She is equal to the emergency, however, and taking two of the toughs, bumps their heads together, in the meantime calling a policeman, who rushes in and carries the two toughs off to jail.
- A tramp has taken possession of a park bench, and is making himself obnoxious to passers-by. A policeman tries to make him move, by clubbing him, and that failing, sets fire to his feet. The tramp takes a seltzer siphon, turns it on his clothing, and calmly extinguishes the fire.
- Two sharpers induce a farmer to buy a box supposed to be full of greenbacks, but as soon as he has paid over his good money, he finds that the box contains nothing but sawdust.
- In spite of a sign "Love-making Not Allowed on the Beach," a certain couple at the resort insisted on using the bench for this purpose. The old beach policeman, however, put up a job on them, and smeared the bench with glue so that when they came around for their usual twilight tete-a-tete, they were caught so tightly that they could not escape.
- StarsJ. Franklin Bell
- StarsLoyd Wheaton
- DirectorJames H. WhiteA crew of railroad workmen are busy along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When the Black Diamond Express appears in the distance, they begin to pull back from the rails to clear the way. As the train approaches their work site, some of them begin to wave at it.
- The bartender of a Bowery saloon on April 1st, puts a bottle of good whiskey under a hat, and places it on the sidewalk. A hobo comes along, and suspecting the time-honored joke of the concealed brick, passes by the hat in disdain. He has hardly done so, however, when the bartender and a policeman on the beat show him the bottle which had been concealed beneath the hat. His chagrin and mortification are very obvious.
- DirectorArthur MarvinStarsAnonymousSherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears. Holmes initially attempts to ignore the event by lighting a cigar, but upon the thief's reappearance, Holmes tries to reclaim the sack of stolen goods, drawing a pistol from his dressing gown pocket and firing it at the intruder, who disappears. After Holmes recovers his property, the bag vanishes from his hand into that of the thief, who promptly disappears through a window. At this point the movie ends abruptly with Holmes looking "baffled".
- A thief pursued by a policeman runs up to the pie-woman and begs a refuge beneath her stand. She grants it, and the police are thrown off the trail. The thief, however, takes advantage of his opportunity, and runs away with the pie stand.
- Uncle Reuben comes along, just as Pat puts his head up out of the coal hole in the sidewalk, Reuben sees the hat come up and thinking it was placed there for him to kick, makes the most of his opportunity. The irate Irishman however, comes out of the hole and gives Reuben a good thrashing.
- Mrs. McCarthy is influenced by the music of a violin, played by a friend who happens in on the evening of the ball. First, she decidedly objects to going, but as the music keeps on, she becomes more and more interested, and finally drops into a jig.
- DirectorJames H. WhiteFour men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be pulling ahead of the others. Soon the contestants begin to hinder one another's efforts.
- A little colored baby is tied to a post on a tropical shore. A huge 'gator comes out of the water, and is about to devour the little kid, when a hunter appears and shoots the reptile.
- The Arizona doctor is more of a wizard than a physician, and the Chinamen and other Western characters who come to him for treatment have fits and see visions before he finishes with them.
- Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.
- A spirited charge by the Cadet Battalion of the Michigan Military Academy.
- The first of a series of five picures, showing how a country boy became a criminal. This scene shows how he secured a position in a grocery store by outwitting and capturing a thief.
- The young man loses all his money at a horse race, and is about to commit suicide when a friend saves him.
- The young man has turned to burglary, and kills a banker who discovers him in the act of robbing his safe.
- Showing the young man in a disreputable resort, where he is arrested by officers of the law.
- The death chair. An accurate and thrilling representation of an electric execution at Sing Sing.
- The census man attempts to learn the age of a Cherry Hill girl, and has a pitcher of beer thrown in his face for his trouble. To complete his misery he is arrested for disorderly conduct.
- An unsually interesting trick picture. Two girls are on a see-saw, having a good time, when the clown suddenly removes the support beneath the board. To his surprise the girls keep on see-sawing and the board does not fall, but remains in the air, without any visible means of support.
- The angry wife has placed a large tub under the bed and is filling it with water, as the scene opens. She covers it with a bedspread to conceal it. Soon her husband comes in much the worse for drink. He throws his hat and coat on a chair, and is about to sit on the bed to take off his shoes, but sits down into the tub of water instead. He gets up soaked, and his wife makes things worse by beating him with a broom.
- Showing the roof of the famous prison. Two convicts are making an attempt to escape. A guard shoos one; but is himself killed by an iron bar in the hands of the other, who succeeds in getting away.
- A spiritualist has materialized a ghost in a cabinet, when a policeman enters with a dark lantern which he turns on the cabinet, showing that it is all a fake.
- Showing revenue cutters and private boats in the lake service in a parade.
- A comical fight between two Hebrews; one a pushcart man, and the other a suspender peddler.
- A structure built for the training of firemen in the use of scaling ladders and rescue work in general.
- DirectorAramBridget tries in vain to start the fire; so she resorts to the kerosene can. She pours the oil on. There is a tremendous explosion and Bridget is blown head-first through the window, while the stove collapses in a ruin.
- A good comedy picture, showing how a small boy interrupted an astronomer's vision, by pouring a bucket of water into the telescope.
- The first race of the seventy-footers, "Rainbow" and "Mineola," showing also other well-known racing craft of the New York Yacht Club fleet.
- An old bachelor and an old maid are making love. His wig catches in her comb. They hear a suspicious noise, and in their confusion they exchange wigs. A minister enters, and is shocked at their appearance.
- A masher ogles a pretty girl on the street. Unfortunately for him, she has a champion nearby, and the masher gets a severe beating.
- This is full of magical effect. The celebrated troupe perform their parts by aid of a magic cabinet. The troupe is comprised of two men and two women.
- A much abused wife is waiting for her husband to come home from the club. A burglar happens by in time to get the beating which is intended for the husband.
- Young soldiers of the Michigan Military Academy in battalion drill, Major G.W. Lowe, commanding.
- Panoramic view of a busy spot in one of America's inland cities.
- An interesting exhibition of Major Matiele's battalion of the 4th Infantry at Fort Wayne.
- Royal Grenadiers and 48th Highlanders in review on the Queen's birthday, before Governor-General Lord Minto, University Lawn, Toronto, May 24, 1900.
- A private yacht under full headway off Sandy Hook.
- Showing the start and finish of the great race won by Kinley Mack.
- An indignant wife catches her husband coming out of a saloon with a strange woman. She has a horsewhip concealed beneath her cape, and proceeds to administer punishment.
- The star-boarder is dyeing his mustache. When the pretty chambermaid comes in, he kisses her, and the dye comes off on her lips. The landlady arrives just in time to catch the poor girl with the evidence on her, and promptly discharges her.
- A burglar is throwing his swag out of a window, when a tramp comes along and captures the booty, much to the burglar's chagrin.
- The tramp sits down to a splendid banquet, which he finds already laid in the haunted house. As he samples each article of food, however, it undergoes a marvelous transformation; and he is left hungry in the end.
- Pierrot, the clown, frightens away the sausage man with a big revolver and steals his wares. The sausages, however, turn into a live dog as Pierrot is about to eat them, and he is paralyzed with fright.
- Troops at Governor's Island get ready to go to war.
- A laughable scene, made by repeating the action of drinking several glasses of beer, so that it appears as if the champion beer drinker had actually put away 30 glasses in rapid succession. After this seemingly impossible feat, the man turns into a keg of beer.
- Fifteenth Infantry in campaign uniforms and equipment, Governor's Island, N.Y.
- A man is asleep in his Murphy bed when a burglar enters the room. The sleeping man wakes up and releases a lever which folds the bed into the wall. He fires a gun through the wall at the burglar, who surrenders.
- Shows a dramatic picture of a brutal execution of a spy by firing squad.