The evolution of transportation from the coming of Columbus to the epoch of the deadly submarine. We see the exact replicas of the ships of Columbus approaching the new Continent. Then comes the dragpole used in travel by the American Indian. The old days of the prairie schooner are rehearsed, the days of the sailing vessels, the steamboat, the stage coach, the steam locomotive, the trolley cars and elevated systems and finally the hydroplane and the submarine.
—Moving Picture World, July 21, 1917