New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-25

character and substance of construction

} character and substance of construction
and interior finish.
The foundations and cellar walls to b,
started upon two courses of blue stones
OF extra size, we'll bedded on the natu
raj ground, and flushed in solid with goot
cement mortar. All the foundations to e
down to solid natural ground, and wher
, ever this or its equivalent can not be oh
tanned, recourse must be had to pile foun-
dations.
4 The basement and cellar walls will bt
built with best blue-stone masonry, laiG
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 Of
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 couuter-ceiled and filed in with a
layer OF hair-mOrtar two inches thick. All
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 English 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
| tCe-proof compartments formed by SUBJ
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-
portlonate sornices, pilastsr-caps, and GEN.
tire 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 limitation
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-quarer inches thick. The
trimmings of windows and doors to con-
sst of heavy and bold mouldings, we'll
proportional in width and projections,
and graduated for the different stories
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. Weil-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 skylights 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
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 for Potomac water, sufficient
ly large to feed fre-plugs for two-inch |
in md c{n ohn
valves or compression stop-cocks must be
off each story, and again, each bath room,
as to reduce the Inconvenience to the
particular locality where any repairs may
be required hereafter. These stop-cocks
waste-pipes, so as to empty the pipes
without the possibility OF injury to the
building. All the plumbers fixtures, snch
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-lined floors. which
must be connected by trapped tubes with
the waste-pipes, SO as not to expose the
rooms to any contingencies of overfows
by leaks in the connections of fixtures
with pipes All the wash-trays and sinks
10 be of soapstone or enamelad iron; the
for principal stories to have
China bowls and countersunk marble ,
slabs; for basement, entrance story, and
md upper stories, the washstands will t
consist of enameled iron.
The public water closets to have self
acting hopper closets; the private closets
% be pan-lever pull closets; all the bath |
ubs to be copper planished with seamless {
bottom, to be set on well-boxes, let into t
he lead-lined floors. The plumbers {
work for principal story bath-tubs will all {
70 provided with slver-plated cocks, t
bugs, and chains. Lead lined small I
anks with bells and ball cocks for
he supply OF cooperating pans of the
oil chambers, so as to supply moist s
ire to the heated air throughout the s
ouse. r
No waste-pipe to be less than two inches,
nd no soil pipe to be less than five S
inches. interior diameter, and all to be {
ecurely aad well connected with and a
raped from the main sewer pipes lead t
ng 10 the canal. Three-ineh main gas Y
ipes to be introduced for the supply of
he house, and to be properly graduated
throughout all the rooms, corridors, and f.
assages Of the house, sop-cocks 10 be in e
reduced in sufficient number, so as to i
nable the gas to be shut off Immediately !.