New York, N.Y: Steeple jack crawls along horizontal flag staff of the Municipal Building, 300 feet above the ground to untwist halyards. Houston, Tex: A typical Hawaiian scene is enacted in the palm-bedecked forest of the sunny south, when pretty Myrtle Vail gives her original interpretation of the hula hula. Boston, Mass: Handcuff king crawls out of a straitjacket to the amazement of spectators. Washington, D.C: Suffragists parade around White House, which is carefully guarded by police. New York, N.Y: Onions are accepted as an admission fee to a movie show. Washington, D.C: President Wilson is inaugurated a second term before an impressing assemblage.
—Moving Picture World synopsis