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- This scene is laid in the parlor of a New York tenement. Two watchers at the wake are smoking and drinking; while the widow is weeping over the coffin. The attention of the three is attracted for an instant, and the supposed corpse rises up. drinks all the beer in the pitcher which is standing on a table nearby, and lies down in the coffin again, The mourners return, and seeing that the beer is gone, engage in a controversy over it. During the scrap the corpse jumps out of the coffin and takes part in the melee.
- The scene is laid in a street excavation, where three Irishmen are at work making ready for a blast. As the scene opens, one of the men is holding a drill, while two others are driving it. Having completed the preparations, one starts off with a red flag to warn passers-by; the second goes off to a safe distance, and the third inserts the dynamite cartridge and lights it. The cartridge, however, explodes prematurely, blowing the Irishman high into the air, with a mass of rocks and debris.
- A dude is requested to hold a baby carriage containing a black baby, while the mother chases her hat which has blown off. The dude's best girl comes along while he is thus engaged, and seeing him taking care of the colored baby, is greatly shocked and goes off in high dudgeon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A panoramic view of rescue work in the eleventh and twelfth wards, beginning at the Church of the Sacred Heart and ending at the Gulf Beach. This vicinity was inhabited by the better classes of laboring men, many of whom can be seen searching in the ruins for the bodies of relatives.
- 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 tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- The star-boarder is dyeing his mustache. When the pretty chambermaid comes in, he kisses her, and the dye comes off on her lips. The landlady arrives just in time to catch the poor girl with the evidence on her, and promptly discharges her.
- The scene is on the seashore. A young man with a Kodak is attempting to steal a picture of two girls in bathing costumes. He succeeds in making one exposure, but the girls see what he is about and set upon him. They take his camera away, knock him down and sit on him. Another girl, who has come up in the meantime, takes the camera and snaps a picture of the young man in this ignominious position.
- The expectant father is seen waiting outside the bed-room door in anticipation of the happy event. A nurse brings out an infant and puts it in his arms; he receives it in high spirits. The nurse then brings out a second baby, which is more than he had looked for. He has not recovered from the shock, when she brings out a third; and he is completely knocked out.
- The proud mother is seated with her baby, as the fiddler and the guests arrive. Then one of the guests puts his high hat on a chair, and goes to the table to drink to the health of the infant. Another guest in the meantime sits on his hat. A row is at once started, and the christening ends in a free fight.
- Uncle Reuben comes along, just as Pat puts his head up out of the coal hole in the sidewalk, Reuben sees the hat come up and thinking it was placed there for him to kick, makes the most of his opportunity. The irate Irishman however, comes out of the hole and gives Reuben a good thrashing.
- Another beach scene. The Kodak fiend is attempting to make a picture surreptitiously of two bathing girls, and is caught as he is about to take his snap shot. One of the girls who is well-built and muscular, gives the photographer a push which sends him forward on his face with the camera under him, crushing it to bits.
- A street scene. A chicken thief comes in on a run with a fowl in his hand. In order to escape the pursuing policeman, he jumps into a coal box which stands outside of an open window. The policeman enters sees the thief in the box, and sits down on the cover to hold him until he 'can get his breath. The chicken thief in the box promptly dashes up the cover throwing the policeman through the open window and making good of the opportunity to escape. The Irish woman in the house throws the policeman out, and beats him with a broom.
- Mrs. McCarthy is influenced by the music of a violin, played by a friend who happens in on the evening of the ball. First, she decidedly objects to going, but as the music keeps on, she becomes more and more interested, and finally drops into a jig.