Man pushes a steam car with no gear shifts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. George Mershon works on the car, his new invention, which is powered by coal. Smokestack on the hood of the car. Mershon drives away the car on the road.
Men dump cartons filled with scrap glass outside a factory in Columbus, Ohio. Machinery inside the factory forms the walls of each glass brick, and a worker inserts a glass top on each to complete it. A glass block shatters when tested by a machine. A structure made of glass bricks is displayed.
Fire at a forest in Cochran, Oregon. People take the water hose to stop fire. Smoke rises. A man puts out the fire with water. People put sand on the fire.
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.
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.
A nurse on duty in a crowded ward of wounded American soldiers in World War I. She pours some water for one of the patients, whose head is bandaged. She converses with him. The nurse sitting with a wounded soldier on a bench in some gardens outside the hospital. The patient is smoking a cigarette. His left arm appears to be in a sling underneath his hospital coat.
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