This combination of boisterous slapstick and special camera effects is not bad for its time and genre. Some of the things that the characters do to each other are pretty brutal, but it has a cartoon-like style that prevents any of it from being taken too seriously. The visual tricks were obviously meant to be the highlight of the movie, and they are comparable to most of those in similar features of the era.
There isn't much of a story, just an elderly woman who wants to get on a horse-drawn omnibus, whose driver for whatever reason does not wish to stop for her. The battle of wills that follows has a lot of the kind of knockabout slapstick that you often see in early movie comedies. In this case, things get pretty rough, and you can't help rooting for the underdog. It probably doesn't look all that imaginative now, but it has a couple of amusing moments, and its original audiences probably enjoyed it.
There are a fair number of special effects, done with stop-motion and other such techniques. While they don't compare with the camera tricks created by the masters of the era (such as Méliès), they are about as good as almost anything else of the time, and a couple of them work rather well. This kind of feature is mostly a curiosity now, but this is not a bad example of its kind.