View of a railroad marshaling yard in the United States, filled with idle box cars. The cars had been idled due to the German U-boat campaigns affecting maritime commerce from the United States to its allies in World War I.
Governor Charles Whitman of New York State,poses for the camera on top of a tall building in Albany., New York State. He wears a wool overcoat with velvet collar and a bowler hat of the period. Behind, and above him is seen a large American flag on a flagpole fastened to the building roof. Camera changes angle, showing other buildings below similar in style to the State Capitol building in Albany.
Clip shows a merchant ship at dock in New York. It is idle, awaiting resolution from United States legislators, as the U.S. Senate filibusters President Wilson's call to arm merchant ships (against the U-boat threat from Germany in World War I, before America entered the war).
During World War 1, two men in suits are seen escorting a suspected German spy in the United States. They pose with the suspected spy (who is smiling) in front of a building. They take him into the building.
French actress Sara Bernhardt is wheeled down the gangplank from the French ocean liner Espagne in New York City. She has returned on the passenger ship from a visit to France and the French front during World War 1. She stands up from her wheel chair and addresses the crowd on the dock. Bernhardt drapes an American flag over her lap and over the side of a car in which she is sitting. She committed the profits of her tour in the U.S. to French widows and orphans of the war.
Scenes from the labor dispute and uprising known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. Opening scene shows Sheriff's Deputies firing down upon miners from a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia. One of them is armed with a Model 1917 Browning machine gun. Scene shifts to group of Union miners, cleaning and adjusting their rifles and shotguns. One wears a metal Army helmet. Several more pose for the camera, holding their guns. One of them also wears an Army steel helmet. They check the actions of their weapons. Closeup of one in a steel helmet. Next scene shows miner families leaving the area in horse-drawn wagons. Change of scene shows a group of men boarding a railroad train car. An armed U.S. Army soldier in uniform stands nearby. The final scene shows Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan County, posing with U.S. Army Brigadier General Henry H. Bandholtz.
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