San Francisco: Youthful inventor exhibits model battleship in lagoon at Panama Fair. Starts mechanism, presses button and walk about, turrets revolve and guns fire. New York: Kismet Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine parade in Brooklyn. Chicago: Fire arms taken from persons at police stations are confiscated and taken out into the lake and dumped overboard by the police. Atlantic City: New Jersey's better babies hold carnival at annual show and parade boardwalk where other resort gaiety was. New York: Novel summer fashions shown in gowns especially designed by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon, for Hearst-Selig News Pictorial. New York: Battery F, New York National Guard, holds field day and practice with three inch field pieces. Chicago: Women with saw and hammer put roof on shed when carpenters strike make it impossible to employ other workmen. Oakland, Cal: Daring youth rides on surfboard behind motorboat speeding at 30 miles an hour and gets exciting spill. New York: Woman surgeon rides hospital ambulance in answer to an emergency call in lower east side and aids injured workmen. Serbian Battle Line in Belgrade: Remarkable motion pictures secured by staff photographer Ariel L. Varges show Serbian regulars in the mountain fastnesses carrying on the fighting against the Austrians. Pictures the men struggling through the passes with a field battery and of infantry in the trenches in an actual engagement together with a posed picture of Major Wajo Tankositsch, who caused the great European conflict.
—Moving Picture World synopsis