
Old Ezra Perkins, his wife Matilda, and an English gentleman named Reggie take a "rubberneck" sightseeing tour of New York’s Bowery district. Led by a fast-talking guide, the naive visitors are tricked into a series of staged, dangerous scams that include a fake suicide, broken dishes, a sausage machine accident, and a fake murder in a saloon that makes them flee in terror leaving their money behind.

Edward Dillon
Guide

D.W. Griffith
Reginald O.C. Wittington

George Gebhardt
Chinese

Charles Inslee
Chinese
Anthony O'Sullivan
Chinese

Harry Solter
Chinese

Mack Sennett
Policeman / Waiter