Buster Keaton as Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy

Vernon Dent as Newspaper City Editor

Richard Fiske as Ted Crissman - Racketeer

Ned Glass as Man in Train Station

Lynton Brent as Henchman

Stanley Brown as Reporter

Bud Jamison as Train Conductor

Dorothy Appleby as Mary Crissman

Symona Boniface as Train Passenger

Isabel La Mal as Mary's Aunt

Eddie Laughton as Train Passenger

Jack 'Tiny' Lipson as Angry Man in Pullman Berth

Eva McKenzie as Ma

Cy Schindell as Al Spumoni, mobster

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Train Porter

Victor Travis as Train Passenger

John Tyrrell as Train Passenger

Dorothy Vernon as Train Passenger