New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-28
s REPUBLICAN. TUESDAY. JUNE %, 1870

character and substance OF construction
and interior finish.
The foundations and cellar walls to be
started upon two courses Of blue stones
of extra size, we'll bedded on the natu-
raj ground, and flushed in solid with good
cement mortar. All the foundations to GO
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 be
built with best blue-stone masonry, laid
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
! wooden joists, the intervals between which
will be counter-ceiled and filed in with q
layer of bair-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.
4 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, pilastsr-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 well as the rear windows to have
boxed inside shutters. Door frames and
modern.styled interior doors to be one
and three-quarier inches thick. The
trimmings Of windows and doors to con-
sist of heavy and bold mouldings, well
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. 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 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
hardware required will be of
the best American manufacture,
sufficiently strong for the different pur.
poses, and in elegance graduated for 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
hose in each and every story. Globe
valves or compression stop-cocks must be
introduced in sufficient numbers to shut
off each story, and 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, 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
facilities for removing any distractions.
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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 overaows
by leaks in the connections of fixtures
with pipes. All the wash-trays and sinks
to be of soapstone or enameled iron; the
washstands for principal stories to have
China bowls and countersunk marble
slabs; for basement, entrance story, and
and upper stories, the washstands 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 pipe to be less than five
inches, interior diameter, and all to be
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 |
throughout all the rooms, corridors, and |
passages of the house, stop-cocks 10 be in- |
reduced in sufficient number, so as to |
enable the gas to be shut off Immediately |
from any section of the building where |