Quincy, Mass: Submarine L-1, one of the four new type under sea vessels, largest in Uncle's Sam navy, is given official test. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin students hold exposition to show work of their classes. Washington: President Wilson, former President Taft, Miss Mabel Boardman, head of American Red Cross, help lay corner stone for new Red Cross headquarters erected as a memorial to bravery of women of civil war. New York: Steamer Magentic, bearing survivors of crew of steamer Denver lost in mid-ocean, arrives in port. Skierniewice, Russian Poland: Long train bearing Austrian cavalry arrives in front. Lowicz, Russian Poland: Great numbers of Russians are taken prisoners by the Germans and brought to Lowicz. Les Esparges: Red Cross dogs, trained to find men wounded on battlefield, arrive for the hospital corps of the French army. Newport News, Va: Thirty thousand horses purchased for the English army arrive at Newport News and are shipped for the war zone. Charlottesville, Va: Washington Americans keep warm over campfire while waiting turn to bat in spring practice. Cambridge, Mass: New pitching machine invented by Harvard coach is tried out in practice. New York: Latest fashions, posed exclusively for the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon. Annapolis. Md: President Wilson, with Josephus Daniels, visits the Argentine dreadnought, Moreno, off Annapolis and is guest of officers and Ambassador Naon. Riverside, Cal: Explosion of sixty tons of nitroglycerin lifts great wall of limestone and pushes it into the air. Newport News: Battleship Alabama arrives to enforce neutrality as German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich prepares to sail and foreign warships hover ready to sink craft.
—Moving Picture World synopsis