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- This film shows the landing of Cardinal Farley at the Battery, the drive up to the cathedral with several near views of His Eminence, many views of the crowds and the other dignitaries and a night view of the cathedral with its 50,000 electric lights outlining the big edifice.
- Mr. Smaltz and Mr. Fish are in love with the same girl. She gives neither much encouragement. Smaltz awakes one morning before his roommate, and dressing himself, goes out to meet his sweetheart. Fish awakes a little while later to find his roommate gone, and sees him from his window spooning in the park with the girl. Fish quickly reaches the spot and asks Mabel to go for a row. She consents. Smaltz becomes furious and plans revenge. He bores a hole in his rival's boat, placing a cork in the hole to which is attached a long string. When Mabel and Fish get out in the middle of the lake, Smaltz pulls the string and the cork comes out of the hole filling the boat with water. The water police set out to rescue them but meet with a mishap. Smaltz jumps into a boat and rescues Mabel and Fish. He changes his mind and kicks Fish back again. Fish is finally rescued and goes after Smaltz. Both are locked up. Mabel goes down to bail them out, but falls in love with the Chief and elopes with him. When they hear the news, Smaltz and Fish fall into each other's arms in a dead faint.
- Hubby goes on a trip. Wifie, in the meantime, rents her home to a newly wedded couple and moves to larger quarters. She wires him the new address, but he never gets it. He returns home late one night, lets himself into what he thinks is his home with his latchkey, and makes himself comfortable. Taking off his shoes, he steps up to what he thinks is his sleeping wife and kisses her. The night previous an announcement appeared, "Beware of an Escaped Lunatic," and the description fits hubby pretty well, so that when the newlyweds discover the intruder in their home they think he is the escaped madman, and things are getting to look mighty black for him when Wifie, from her nearby house, hears the rumpus and comes to his rescue.
- Silas Strong, a woodsman, lives with his daughter, Lona, who is a wild wood sprite, devoted to her father. She is loved by, and loves, Bert Dixon, but refuses to marry him and leave her father. Bert leaves for a trip north. Shortly afterward Broderick, the lumber king, and his son, Fred, visit the camp. Fred is attracted by Lona, and she resents his familiarity. Silas, learning of Fred's attack on Lona, gives him a severe beating. Plotting vengeance, Fred plans with two toughs to do away with Silas. The plan is carried out and Silas is found dead. Lona is heartbroken, and learning the cause of his death, seeks justice. However, money saves Fred, and he is acquitted of all suspicion. Alone, Lona plans to avenge her father's death, and a few days later follows Broderick and Fred to the city. In the city Lona gets employment as a cabaret dancer, and comes face to face with Fred. He, not recognizing her, falls victim to her alluring personality and shortly after gets her a position with his fiancée as nurse to her little sister. When the opportunity arrives, Lona gets Fred in a compromising position, assures his fiancée of his duplicity, and their engagement is broken. Like a wolf, Lona trails him down and whenever given the opportunity, gives him a bad record. Later, he is a marked and ostracized man. He sinks lower and lower, until, one night, he is shot during a raid on a gambling den. Taken home, a nurse is called, and she proves to be Lona, who has been studying in a hospital. Left alone with him, she arranges her hair, etc., as she was in the woods and faces him. She tells him who she is. Weakened and sapped, Fred can stand no more, and falls back dead. Lona has avenged her father's death. Returning to the woods, Lona is greeted by Bert, and they pledge their troth.
- First we see the coast line for a distance of about three to five miles. Then we see our Esquimaux pilot pacing the deck. Nearer shore we watch Esquimaux seal hunters in their native Kajaks or canoes. Then they indulge in some aquatic pastimes. Sitting upright in their tiny cockle-shell boats they give a swift turn and in a second revolve over and under the water and bob up serenely once more, all dripping with the icy water.
- Mary has been doing the Monday's wash while Helen imitates her with her doll's tub and clothes. Mary is called out by her lover. The temptation is too strong for Helen and she meddles with everything in sight, causing a great deal of trouble. Helen's mother returns home in time to punish the wrong-doer, when Mary's fond lover hies off.
- Oscar Piffle, a waiter in a "beanery," loses his job after an argument with Mr. Porpus, a customer. Oscar takes to the park to forget his sorrows, and while sitting on a bench picks up a paper, and sees that the Swelldorf Hotel is in need of a first class waiter. He runs all the way to the hotel, and is just in time to secure the job. He does not make a hit with fellow waiter Mr. Fish, and they indulge in many scraps, Mr. Fish, Oscar always winning. While out for his daily exercise one day, he saves village belle Gertie from being robbed, introduces himself as a pure food expert, and tells her that he is stopping at the Swelldorf. Gertie invites him to call, which he does, only to find Mr. Porpus there. They recognize each other, and Porpus starts to denounce Oscar. Gertie refuses to listen and they ignore him altogether. After Oscar leaves, Porpus continues to tell about him, but Gertie shows him his card and tells him that he is stopping at the Swelldorf. Porpus gets an idea and invites her to go to the Swelldorf for supper. When they are seated at the table, Oscar comes in to wait on them. Gertie is shocked, and turns her back on him. Oscar subtly takes the wallet of Porpus from his pocket, and then tells the headwaiter that he is a crook and never pays his bills. The head waiter presents his bill, and Porpus discovers his loss. The headwaiter thinks it is a put-up job, and he is kicked out of the hotel, but secures two revolvers, and comes back for revenge. The whole hotel is put in a riot by the shooting, and Mrs. Piffle also arrives with a gun. Finally Porpus runs out of bullets, and is subdued, but Mrs. Piffle arises, and pointing her revolver at Oscar's head, leads him away. Gertie is thunderstruck, and faints in Fish's arms.
- Mary Ryan, a woman of the underworld, grows ill from overwork, squalid living conditions, and ill-treatment by her companion, Joe Hand. At night, while he sleeps, Mary secures some money she had secreted, and leaves for Arizona, where she meets Charles Fox, a civil engineer. They become engaged, Mary concealing her past. Hand, in the meantime, has drifted westward and reaches the town Mary lives in. He robs the post office, is discovered, and being chased by the sheriff's posse, seeks shelter in a cottage which proves to be Mary's. They recognize each other. He frightens the girl into hiding him, just as Fox enters for a visit. Mary introduces Hand as her cousin. Hand becomes jealous and angry when he sees the affection existing between the two, and starts telling Fox of Mary's past. Fox angrily makes him stop talking, just as the posse passing the cottage sees the robber through the window. They enter and capture him. As he is dragged off he continues to denounce Mary. She denies it to Fox, and he believes her. However, the girl's conscience troubles her later, and she confesses to Fox, who is heartbroken and leaves her in disgust. Mary writes a farewell letter to Fox and prepares to die. Fox repents and starts to return. From a distance he sees Mary placing a pistol to her head. Rushing in, he seizes her and throws away her weapon, as she sinks in his arms.