New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-01
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY, JULY l. 1870

character and substance of construction
and interior finish.
The found atoms and cellar walls to bt
started upon two courses of blue stones
of extra size, we'll bedded on the natu
raj ground, and flushed in solid with gooe
cement mortar. ALI the foundations to g
down to solid natural ground, and wher
ever this or its equivalent can not be OBJ
tanned, recourse must be had to pile foun-
dations.
The basement and cellar walls will bt
built with best blue-stone masonry, lalc
in cement mortar; the floors OF cellars
and basement to consist OF layer OF con
crete, consisting of cement, brickbats and
broken stones in due proportions and Of
proportionate thickness fer the different
purposes. The floors to be laid upon this
substratum OF cement will consist o.
bricks, pure cement or wooden flooring,
as the considerations of safety, health and
comfort of the occupants will require.
The ceiling of the cellar, or, rather,
floor of the entrance story, will be con
structed fire-proof, of rolled iron beams
with intermediate brick arches wherever
any remote danger may be appre.
hended, but those sections between the
stores and their cellars will be laid with
wooden joists, the intervals between which
will be counter-ceiled and filled in with q
layer of hair-mortar two inches thick. ALI
the wooden floors of the building which
separate the upper stories will be con-
structed with these same precautions
against the progress or communication OF
fire from one story to another.
The floors of lobby and private en-
frances to the upper stories will be laid
with encaustic E0glish tile, and the rest of
the floors of this and the upper stories of
best narrow North Carolina pine.
All the principal partitions Of entrance
story to be constructed OF brick work.
| The fronts of the stores to consist
mainly of French plate glass of first quail
ty, set in hardwood finish.
| The upper stories will be divided off by
what externally shows as pavilions, into
| fire-proof compartments formed by sub
stantial brick partition walls, but the
| minor subdivisions will be formed by
studded partitions, thoroughly bridged
and trussed where necessary all plastered
| in three-coat work with hard finish, pro-
portionate sornices, pilaster-caps, and GEN.
| ire pieces of ornamental stucco work for
the more prominent rooms.
The outside walls must be stripped and
lathed, preparatory to plastering.
All the windows to have double box
frames and one and three inch thick sash
All the sash of fronts to be in imitation
of French sash, to be glazed with best
crystal sheet-glass of double thickness,
they, as we'll as the rear windows to have
boxed inside shutters. Door frames and
modern-styled interior doors to be one
and three-quar'er inches thick. The
trimmings of windows and doors to con-
sist of heavy and bold mouldings, well
proportional in width and projections,
All the wash-boards to have sub-bases,
screwed to the floors and top holdings.
The roofs and cupola must be framed and
trussed in best and scientific manner. All
the rooms inside the Mansard roof to be
studded out square. Well-secured and
largest sized sky-lights will run for the
whole length of the longitudinal corridors,
SO as to introduce an abundance of light
and ventilation by means of shafts. Or
namental skslights on top of well-holes of
stairs will also serve for this purpose.
Ornamental and heavy marble mantels
for all the principle rooms. All the
hardware required will he of
the best American manufacture,
sufficiently strong for the different pur.
poses, and in elegance graduated tor the
different stories and departments.
Particular attention must be paid to the
successful and substantial execution of
the plumbers work, with galvanized iron
supply-pipes tor Potomac water, sufficient
ly large to feed fre-plugs for two-inch
hose in each and every story. Globe
valves or compression stop-cocks must be
introduced in sufficient numbers to shut
off each story, aud again, each bath room,
or section of the work, independently, so
as to reduce the Inconvenience to the
particular locality where any repairs may
be required hereafter. These stop-cocks
must be connected by tubes with the
waste-pipes, SO as to empty the pipes
without the possibility OF injury to the
building. All the plumbers fixtures, such
as stationary wash-trays, ranges, sinks,
washstands, water-closets, primaries, and
bath-tubs, must be of the best and most
approved patterns and manufacture; all
of them will have Independent, large-sized
stink traps, with trap-screws to afford best
facilities for removing any distractions.
All this plumbers work in upper stories
must be set on lead-ined floors. which |
must be connected by trapped tubes with
the waste-pipes, so as not to expose the
rooms to any contingencies of overflows
by leaks in the connections of fixtures |
with pipes. All the wash-trays and sinks |
to be of soapstone or enameled iron; the |
Wristbands for principal stories to have |
China bowls and countersunk marble |
slabs; for basement, entrance story, and |
and upper stories, the wristbands will |
consist of enameled iron.
The public water closets to have self |
acting hopper closets; the private closets |
to be pan-lever pull closets; all the bath
tubs to be copper planished with seamless |
bottom, to be set on well-boxes, let into !
the lead-lined floors. The plumbers |
work for principal story bath-tubs will all |
be provided with silver-plated cocks, |
plugs, and chains. Lead lined SMALL |
tanks with bells and ball cocks for |
the supply OF cooperating pans of the
coil chambers, SO as to supply moist |
ure to the heated air throughout the
house.
No waste-pipe to be less than two inches,
and no soil Iipe to be less than five
inches, interior diameter, and all to be
securely and we'll connected with and
trapped from the main sewer pipes lead
ing to the canal Three-inch main gas
pipes to be introduced for the supply of
the house, and to be properly graduated
all the rooms, corridors, and
passages of the house, sop-cocks TO be in
troduced in sufficient number, SO as to
enable the gas to be shut off Immediately
from any section of the building where