Rube and Owen, two tramps, come to town and hold up the first person they meet, a banker. To avoid suspicion, they decide to get work. Coming upon a deserted street car they don the conductor's and motorman's uniforms and start the car. The motorman, Owen, becomes peeved because the conductor is collecting all of the fares and makes the passengers board the front of the car and "pay as they enter." Lillian, a tailor's wife, begins a flirtation. While they are fighting over her she leaves. Dorothy, another beauty, gets on the car, and when she leaves the two follow her. She is hound for the tailor's, Lillian's husband, and when she arrives, Larry, the tailor takes her out to dinner. Rube and Owen enter the shop, and, seeing Lillian order some clothes, they hide in some tailor's dummies on the proprietor's approach, and a number of comedy situations follow.
—Moving Picture World synopsis