- Suspecting that his California farmland is rich in oil, transplanted Irishman Pat Dugan spends his last penny on prospecting and is richly rewarded when his oil shaft finally gushes. Although Pat's son Jimmie is happy on their modest farm, the elder Dugan insists that his newly wealthy family assume its place in society and sends Jimmie to an exclusive Eastern college. On his first day, Jimmie gets involved in a fight and departs for Long Island, where he opens a flower shop with an Italian named Garbaldi. When Jimmie delivers some shrubs to Lady Blessington's estate, he meets and falls in love with her pretty but poor goddaughter, Joyce Clifton. He also meets his parents, who, hoping to find their son, have come East and rented the adjoining estate. When Pat threatens to disinherit Jimmie unless he marries into society, the young man ignores him and quietly marries Joyce. She soon earns a place in the stubborn old Irishman's heart, however, which greatly pleases his equally stubborn son.
- Pat Dugan puts his last penny into oil prospecting and finds the oil. He deserts the old shack for his idea of what a palace should be and sends Jimmie to college. Jimmie promptly thrashes three of the students and polishes off the policeman who interferes. Then he leaves college for a partnership in a nursery business with a young Italian. Pat moves east and settles next door to Lady Blessington, but supposes the placid old lady who fraternizes with his wife to be the house- keeper. Jimmy turns up and falls in love with Joyce, Lady Blessington's god-daughter and marries her in spite of his father's commands, but when Pat sees how it all comes out he takes the full credit to himself.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- The Dugan family become millionaires when oil is found on their farm in California. The elder Dugan at once buys a high hat and goes in for society without discarding his old clay pipe. This method does not advance him rapidly in the social scale, but he is determined that his son Jimmie shall be among the elect. To this end he fits him out in the most ex-pensive fashion and sends him off to an eastern college. Jimmie stays only one day. Three of the students undertake to chaff him and he thrashes the trio and leaves for good. After he disappears his parents come east and start a search for him. Mrs. Dugan, who does not take kindly to the new life and prefers to putter around in her garden, is greatly pleased when Jimmie is found in partnership with a florist on Long Island. The boy comes to deliver an order next door to where the Dugans are stopping and meets his mother. He also meets Joyce Clifton, a pretty young girl who has only her face as her fortune, but Jimmie promptly falls in love with her. Joyce has a friend in Lady Blessington, the mistress of the estate, but Mrs. Dugan takes her ladyship for the housekeeper. The elder Dugan is still strong for a match with some social leader's daughter, and picks out a wife for Jimmie. He threatens to disinherit the boy when young Dugan objects, but becomes reconciled when Jimmie and Joyce are married and he finds that his new daughter-in-law is a thoroughbred.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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