Plot

Bungling Bill and Bloggie steal a letter and a Ford machine, and the owner and the police chase them. After a series of adventures these two bungling men take refuge in the apartment of Carmen Sapho, an adventuress, who holds them up at the point of a gun and searches them. Finding the stolen letter on their person, she reads the contents and learns therefrom that ten thousand dollars is to be shipped from Canarsie station on the limited train that afternoon. She hires them to go to the station and steal the shipment. Arriving in Canarie, they are arrested for illegal train riding and are forced to act as strike breakers during the strike which is then in progress on the road. This strike has been fomented by Malcolm Valentine, a villain, who revenges himself in this way upon the superintendent, who, with Jack Braveheart, a railroad detective, rescued Rena, an operator, from his clutches. Inciting the men to strike, Valentine defies the road, and it was this fact that caused Bungling Bill and Bloggie to choose between six months in jail or brave the anger of the strikers. They choose the latter. Dressed in brakemen attire, they go to take the tickets of the passengers boarding the limited with disastrous results. In the meantime Carmen has come, and learning the address of Daschundsky, the man who is making the shipment, she trails him from his house and sees him enter the bank with a bag. Duplicating the bag, she comes back and follows him into the office of the superintendent, where she switches the bags and is about to make off with the money when Valentine comes into the office. He, too, has learned about the shipment, and knocking the superintendent unconscious, he is about to leave the office with the worthless bag when he sees Carmen. He recognizes her as a woman he deserted and at a refusal to a reconciliation, she allows him to go with a bag filled with newspapers. At the station Valentine realizes he has been tricked and he has two tools board the train to steal the bag from Carmen. She has lost the bag that contained the money by absent-mindedly taking the bag Valentine rid himself of when he found the contents were worthless. The events that follow are fast and furious. The fights on the train with Bungling Bill and Bloggie finally obtaining the bag, the kidnapping of Rena, the race between a train and automobile, the mail bag snapped off the mail crane with two human beings inside, the final roundup of the culprits with the money bag finding its way back to the owner through the ingenuity of Jack Braveheart and his sweetheart, make this a snappy comedy.—Moving Picture World synopsis