New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-29

! 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 eolid with goot
cement mortar. All 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 b
built with best blue-stone masonry, lait
in cement mortar; the floors of cellars
and basement to consist OF layer of con
crete, consisting Of cement, brickbats ant
broken stones in due proportions and o.
q 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 fre-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 aud filed in with q
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.
Of lnhh u nd
frances to the upper stories will be laid
with encaustic Eogiish 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 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-
portionate eornices, pilaster-caps, and CEN
ire pieces of ornamental stuecO 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-quarter inches thick. The
trimmings Of windows and doors to con-
sist 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 aud
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 he 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
tor Potomac water, sufficient
ly large to feed ire-plugs for two-inch
hose in each and every story. Globe
valves or compression stop-cocks must be
in sufficient numbers to shut
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
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,
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 overhows
by leaks in the connections of fixtures
with pipes. All the wash-trays and sinks
to be of soapstone or enameled iron; the
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
20 be pan-lever pull closets; all the bath
ubs to be copper planished with seamless
bottom, to be set on well-boxes, let into
work for principal story bath-tubs will all
20 provided with silver-plated cocks,
bugs, and chains. Lead lined small
anks with bells and ball cocks for
he supply of cooperating pans Of the
oil chambers, SO as to supply moist
ire to the heated air throughout the !
louse.
No waste-pipe to be less than two inches,
nd no soil pipe to be less than five |
inches, interior diameter, and all to be |
ecurely aad well connected with and
raped from the main sewer pipes lead |
ng 10 the canal. Three-ineh main gas
'ipes to be introduced for the supply Of |
he house, and to be properly graduated
all the rooms, corridors, and
passages of the house, stop-oocks 10 be in
reduced in sufficient number, so as to |
nable the gas to be shut off Immediately
rom any section of the building where
ny alarm of fire may be given. All the