Trivia

CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Lord Cecil Intervenes. 2. An Untarnished Shield. 3. An Affair of Honor. 4. An American Heiress. 5. The Girl from the West. 6. The Golden Hope. 7. The Holdup. 8. A Partner to Providence. 9. Lord Cecil Plays a Part. 10. Lord Cecil Keeps His Word. 11. The Serpent Comes to Eden. 12. Fate's Tangled Threads. 13. Through Desperate Hazards. 14. A Perilous Passage. 15. In Port o' Dreams.

As of 2009, this is considered a lost film.

According to an article in the Altoona (PA) Tribune of Wednesday, September 9, 1914, entitled LOCOMOTIVES MEET IN TERRIFIC CRASH, an estimated crowd of 30,000 people witnessed two trains on the Pittsburgh & Susquehanna Railroad crash in a head-on collision at 5:00 p.m. on the day before in nearby Philipsburg. There was a big celebration and many bands were playing all day long. The audience included many important businessmen from nearby and their guests. Charles Rowland, superintendent of the Pittsburgh & Susquehanna Railroad, provided both trains, which were scheduled for scrapping.

The local 15-mile rail line where the crash took place was nicknamed the "Alley Popper". The filming of the wreck was directed by the General Manager of Lubin Studios West Coast location, actor/director Romaine Fielding, and although the crash was filmed for the Lubin production The Valley of Lost Hope (1915), the footage was later used in a handful of other Lubin films. The Alley Popper, opened in 1894 to haul coal and passengers, closed down in 1936 for financial reasons but the track remains as of 2019. The location of the point of impact is on the stretch of tracks behind where the Philipsburg Hometown Market stands in the nearby borough of Chester Hill, just southwest of and adjacent to Philipsburg.

Two experienced railroad engineers were hired to operate the locomotives and both jumped to safety about a minute before the impact. Some spectators were only 100 yards away from the crash, and while no humans were aboard either train except for the two engineers, the Lubin company filmed passenger rescue scenes the same day. Just after the wreck, thousands crowded around the wreckage and took away souvenirs of the wreck, both before and after the rescue scenes were filmed.