An audience of well-dressed people watch as an old man drives the final spike to complete a section of railroad in a rugged part of the Western United States. The scene shifts to views from a train inaugurating travel over the new rail line. It passes between rocky walls and through a short tunnel. View from locomotive as it proceeds around a curve, revealing a long line of passenger cars comprising the train.
Russian children gather around an American Army YMCA worker who throws candy to them, during World War 1. He wears a YMCA symbol on the right sleeve of his uniform. He sits with a small child and gives him a candy to eat. Rural wooden houses are seen in the background. Several boys sit in a row posing for the camera. They are dressed in clothing indigenous to the area. Two wear Cossack-style hats.
Colonel Edward Mandell House in the United States. He is the foreign policy advisor of President Woodrow Wilson. The colonel aboard a ship during World War I.
French soldiers with war dogs in Vosges region of France during World War I. French soldiers with war dogs advance on the front. A soldier covers the mouth of a dog. Leashes are tied around the necks of dogs. The dogs move in trenches and on the field. Bombardment on the field. Smoke arises due to bombardment. A dead body of a soldier on the field. Dogs in the field.
Belgian troops during World War I. The troops march with flags and rifles. A building in the area. Soldiers stand in formation. Trees in the far background. A soldier waves a flag. Another soldier salutes. Soldiers pass with horses.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson at Asbury Park, New Jersey during World War I. The President and his wife, Edith Wilson, come out of a building that is serving as the offices for his "summer white house" during his summer vacation. People gather outside the building. President Wilson and Mrs.Wilson sit in a car and the car leaves.