Firemen and civilians gather around and try to extinguish fire on a building in Chicago, Illinois. A priest Reverent Matthew Canning, who also conducted a personnel fight drive against gangsters in his parish, near the building talks with fireman. Firemen accompanied by priest, search for dead bodies and survivors in the fuming rubble of the building.
A rare bird Shoebill comes to the National Zoo in Washington DC. The only one of its kind in America costs $ 5000. The bird in its cage at the zoo walks and looks outside the cage. It is fed by a man and drinks water.
Worn out paper money worth U.S. $1,500,000 is destroyed by treasury officers in Washington DC. Treasury officers untie bundles of currency notes that are in pile on the floor. They shovel bundles of cash into an incinerator.
Fisherman and boats at the banks of river on the mouth of Columbia to catch the 'silver horde' salmon fish in Illwaco, Washington. Fishermen employ horse drawn carts submerged up to the neck level in the seawater to pull the fishing nets. Fishermen pull the nets and haul. A heavy harvest of salmon fish trapped in the net appears. Each man carries two fishes and loads them into the carts. Two men use spears to kill the fishes in the cart. Another man kills them in the storage yard.
Several car stunts are performed at a fair. A man drives a car with a partially rounded, open roof. He brakes the car quickly and it rolls back over front on the rounded roof rails. Next scene shows a stunt man being dragged behind a moving car at high speed, then letting go and getting up to walk away. Final stunt shows involves operator of speed cars, and one is injured in an accident during a show in Albion, New York. The referee signals and drivers race their speed cars toward each other at high speed in a game of "chicken", except that both drivers leap from their cars at the last moment and the card have a head on collision. The car drivers are Mike Felber, of Syracuse, with Ernie Fosnaugh of Chicago. Fosnaugh is injured, seemingly having tripped during his leap from the car. It leaves him badly injured after the leap out of his car. Rescue workers arrive and escort the stunt racer off the race track, in an ambulance.
German flying boat Dornier Do-X arrives in New York at the end of its journey. Plane glides in the sky over the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. Several small planes accompany it during the flight. It circles the Statue of Liberty and lands in the bay. Spectators on several boats observe it. Several large and small boats surround the flying boat in the sea. Skyscrapers of New York near the sea shore.
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