John, the station agent, arises for his daily work. He washes from a bucket in the rear of the station yard and goes briskly about his daily duties in the railroad station. The station is filled with passengers waiting for the train. They include people of all types, a group of whispering Russians, a bevy of pretty girls, a gigantic fat woman and an English Lord. John has trouble with all of them, particularly with the English Lord, who tries to butt in when he is talking with a pretty girl. Later, while sprinkling the station floor with a hose, this same pretty girl so attracts his eye that he does not realize where the hose is aiming. As a result everyone in the station is drenched with water. Then a big burly brute, wearing flashy clothes and a long mustache, starts trouble brewing, and the two of them come to blows, dodging in and out around the express room door. Finally, John opens a chute that leads to the coal pile, intending to shove the rival of the girl into the coal. But he is thwarted in his plan, the wily rival pushing John in.