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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".