A correspondent of a daily paper suggests that automobiles be equipped with “cow-catchers,” or some device which would throw any unfortunate pedestrian, who happens to be run into, aside, instead of drawing him under the wheels. This suggestion is worth considering. A cow-catcher on an automobile might not be ornamental, but if it would save human life the owners and operators of the machines could stand a little ugliness. Besides, there is sufficient ingenuity among auto-builders to make a device of that kind that would not be positively hideous. If properly constructed it would often save property as well as life and limb. [Illustration: _The_ BILTMORE NEW YORK America’s Latest and Most Refined, and New York’s Centermost Hotel Only hotel occupying an entire city block, Vanderbilt and Madison Avenues, 43rd and 44th Streets, adjoining Grand Central Terminal. 1000 ROOMS OPEN TO OUTSIDE AIR 950 WITH BATH ROOM RATES FROM $2.50 PER DAY _Suites from 2 to 15 rooms for permanent occupancy_ Large and small Ball, Banquet and Dining Salons and Suites specially arranged for public or private functions. JOHN McE. BOWMAN _President_ ] [Illustration: _Reproduced from an actual photograph_ _Rock Ballast, Electric Power, Third Rail, Electric Automatic Signals._ ] “The Water Level Route” “There is a certain solidity and permanence about this concern which smacks of nothing unfinished.” _Albert W. Atwood in Harper’s Weekly_ [Illustration: NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_ and bold text in =equals signs=.