Steamship Maskionge sails from New York with cargo of stores for Belgian relief. Before sailing the big flag of the Belgian Relief Commission is hoisted, a flag that prevents capture of the vessel as a prize of war. New York society children whose ponies are entered in the Madison Square Horse Show pose for the Hearst-Selig with their mounts. Magic buildings rise on the site of the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition. They are shown in a series of photographs. The German cruiser Leipzig, sent to the bottom by a British fleet, is shown as she prepared to leave San Francisco Harbor on the cruise that ended in disaster. The Dresden, now reported cornered near the Straits of Magellan, is shown just before sailing from Mexican ports to aid in war raids. Washington children gather a mile of pennies for the relief of Belgian homeless. Leaders in the movement are shown in motion pictures. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick returns to New York from France, where he is granted the cross of the Legion of Honor for his services. Louisville club women succeed in instituting a number of improvements in the public schools. They are shown in interesting motion pictures. Havoc follows in the wake of a great storm that sweeps the entire Atlantic Coast. Pictures show the wrecked buildings, sunken boats and torn-up sea walls in the path of the storm while the breaker, driven before the gale, illustrates the terrible strength of the winds.
—Moving Picture World synopsis