- After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought the land in good faith, sends Prince Niclos to America to negotiate a loan on the king's collateral so that the land can be bought and given back to the people. Kronski goes along with Niclos and his daughter Princess Margot to prevent the loan so that Alexis can sell to a higher bidder. In New York, reporter Tom Kearney, demoted to covering hotels, meets Margot, whom he thinks is the prince's maid, and shows her Coney Island. After Niclos becomes suspicious, Kronski's co-conspirator Baraloff abducts him to an old house in the Bronx. Meanwhile, Margot, upon hearing a reference to Tom as "The Prince of Park Row," delightedly reveals that she is a princess, but their difference in rank depresses Tom, who is now in love. After Tom attempts to rescue Margot, who was caught by Kronski and Baraloff while searching for Niclos, he is captured, but Margot escapes and returns with the police. Niclos' whereabouts are revealed and he is rescued. After the king rewards Tom with the title of Prince of Bellaria, Tom and Margot are free to marry.
- The opening scenes of the picture are laid in the palace grounds of the king of Bellaria where is revealed a plot in which the baron has succeeded in stealing from the people mining properties of a vast value. The accomplice of the baron has fled to America and is hiding in New York City. The king determines to restore the lands to his subjects, and believing the baron lost his fortune in the deal, an innocent victim of the accomplice, sends Prince Nicols to New York to raise gold on his personal collateral. The prince is accompanied by Count Kronski, who is in league with the baron, and by his daughter, Princess Margot, and maid, Berta. Settled safely in New York, the Prince negotiates the loan without trouble, while the count secretly meets the exiled accomplice and the princess falls in love with a reporter "covering" the hotel. The count and the baron, balked in their effort to delay the consummation of the loan, kidnap the prince in a taxicab and make him a prisoner in a deserted house on the outskirts of the city. Alarmed by his absence, the princess goes alone to another rendezvous of the conspirators, whose address she accidentally learned. Her suspicions that harm has befallen her father are confirmed by seeing Count Kronski there, and she forces her way into the place. The reporter, also on the trail of the count, enters the place but is seized by the conspirators as he tries to go to the rescue of the princess, whom he has met at the hotel and with whom he is in love. He is made a prisoner and the count, realizing the game is up, rushes away to the deserted house to extort money from the prince to kill him. Escaping from the house, the princess summons the police, who release and capture the baron. He tells where the prince is held prisoner, and the police, the princess and the reporter reach there just in time to prevent the count from killing the prince. There is a pretty ending when the king, apprised by cable of the plot and its defeat, makes the reporter a prince so he may marry the princess, whose love he won at Coney Island, thinking her only a maid.
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