Reuben Brown, as he plodded on the farm in New Jersey, had one longing, and that was to see New York. With determination he hoarded his earnings until he accumulated quite a roll, and the great day arrives when he bids the old folks a fond adieu and starts Bowery-ward. New York! at last his wildest dreams are to be realized. He emerges from the ferry and is taken care of by a benevolent cab-driver, who carries him to a select hostelry, noted for entertaining the Jersey “come-on.” Here his troubles begin when he uncovers his roll and peels off a bill to pay his fare; but cabbies never make change, so he is “stung.” From here he starts on a “personally conducted” tour of sightseeing, and figuring cab riding an expensive luxury, adopts as his mode of transportation “Shank’s Mare.” He hasn’t gone far before a corner fakir with an electric battery attracts his attention. He tries the shock, and while held captive by the wonderful current, a boy makes off with his gripsack. Finally breaking away, he gives chase and regains his property. Next we find him cavorting in that heterogeneous haven for hilarious hayseeds, The Bowery Flimflammed, b’gosh, as I live, a “lemon.” Further on, he approaches a dime museum in front of which a lion-lunged ballyhoo extols in alluring terms the wonders “alien, alive and on the inside.” Rube enters, and while in the curio hall he falls in the hands of a professor of phrenology; but when it comes to paying for this little attention he receives several bumps not recorded on the professor’s chart Rube finds the Bowery too swift, so hies himself to Central Park where he finds motor cars more difficult to dodge than haywagons. In an uptown restaurant he receives the final jab, when he is done by a young lady whose check he pays. The waiter gives him short change and when he seeks redress he is thrown out of the place, and we finally see him making for the ferry. The boat has just left the slip and the gates are closed, but Rube tries to climb over in his strenuous endeavors to get back to the farm.