- Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
- A tramp who has been hiding underneath a railroad car wakes up while the train is stopped, and follows a pretty girl into the train station. When he flirts with her, the girl's boyfriend becomes angry and provokes a series of confrontations with the tramp. When things calm down, the tramp winds up working at the station's lunch counter, where he soon runs into some new predicaments.—Snow Leopard
- Billy's alarm clock wakes him in the morning and he rolls out of his comfortable berth on the rods of a freight car and makes his morning toilet. A brakeman comes to investigate the sound of the clock, and runs Billy out of the yards. Near the dinky station of Hicksville he is attracted by Dolly, the station agent's daughter, and follows her into the station. The assistant agent has just quit, and after getting acquainted Dad offers Billy the job. He goes to work at once and has many amusing difficulties. Harold, Dolly's sweetheart, buys a new auto, and when it is delivered he rushes up to put on his best clothes preparatory to taking Dolly for a ride. Mr. Fox, a professional automobile thief, arrives in town driving a "flivver." It finally goes to pieces near the station and Fox abandons it. He enters the station and tells Billy he will trade him his auto for a ticket to New York. Billy at once gives him the ticket and goes to take possession of his new car, which Fox tells him is just around the corner. Billy turns the wrong corner, and, seeing Harold's new car standing there, thinks it is the one he has bought and drives off in it. Harold sees him as he leaves with the car and gives chase, finally appealing to the police. Billy finds Dolly and takes her for a ride in his new car. He takes her to a road-house, where they leave the car outside and go in for a bite to eat. Harold and the police find the car at the road-house and go in to capture the supposed thief. Fox, meanwhile, has missed his train, and is strolling about when he sees Harold's new car near the road-house. It looks like a good chance to steal a new car, and he is about to get in when Billy and Dolly, who have unknowingly eluded the police, come out to the car. Billy thanks Fox for selling him such a good car, and Fox tumbles to Billy's mistake. He is about to get away with the car when Harold and the police dash out of the road-house and grab Billy for the thief. Billy points out Fox and tells them Fox sold him the car. The police identify Fox as a well-known auto thief, for whose capture there is a liberal reward, so they take him away and give Billy the reward for his capture.
Moving Picture World, November 3, 1917
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