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 382 Sloan's Architectural Review and Builders' Journal. [Dec, plated, and fitted up in the best manner The wash-stands will be walnut, fitted up with closets beneath. A wash-pave will be required on the front and a cedar hydrant in the yard, each to have a hose screw nozzle. All material for the plumbers' work must be of the best quality, and extra strong pipe ; the workmanship to be done in a good and workmanlike manner. G A S - V I P E. The pipe for the introduction of the gas will all be concealed beneath the plastering, and of the requisite size for the following number of burners : six ((5) in front parlor ; four (4) in library, and font (4) in dining-room; one (1) in ves- tibule ; one (1) in hall ; two (2) in each chamber of the second and third stories and one (1) in each of the rooms above ; and one (1) to each bath-room, and sec- ond and third story hall ; two (2) in kitchen ; (1) in each Pantry, and one (1) in cellar; all fitted up, tested, and left in a condition ready for the meter and fixtures. Bells. Eight (8) bells are to be provided and hung with strong copper wire and tin tubes. The front door-pull to be bronzed, to correspond with front-door furniture ; all the residue to have lever-chain pulls, with proper cranks, four of which will be bronzed, and the rest porcelain. Spea king-Tubes. A speaking tube will be provided, and fitted up, from the butler's pantry to the kitchen, with mouth-piece and cover. Furnace. A large size furnace will be set in the cellar, of an approved kind, enclosed in a brick chamber, with tin pipe, to convey the hot air to the separate flues, and the gas through terra-cotta pipe to the chim- ney for that purpose. All registers to be of the best kind : those for the first and second stories will be bronzed, and the others japanned. Each room will also require a ventilating register, white enameled. Range. The range in the kitchen to be of medium size, with water back ; built up with pressed brick, and a polished stone- slab hearth. The circulating boiler, of forty gallons, will be galvanized iron with copper connections, with the water back, set on an iron stand ; all fitted up in the best manner. The range to be so con- structed, as to warm the room over it. Grates. A low-down Grate will be set in the library and dining-room, so arranged as to discharge the ashes into ash pits in the cellar. Mantels. A Mantel will be set in the parlor, not to cost less than two hundred and fifty (250) dollars ; one in the library, two hundred (200) dollars ; one in din- ing-room, one hundred and fifty (150) dollars; one in each of second-story chambers to cost one hundred (100) dollars each ; the third and upper sto- ries to have three to cost fifty (50) dol- lars each, all set complete with hearths, &c The owner to have the privilege of furnishing the mantels, and deducting the several amounts herein specified. Finally: The Contractor is to furnish all the materials at his own cost, all to be the best of their respective kinds ; and all the workmanship to be done in a good and workmanlike manner. Conditions, As a Basis of Contract. The work is to be commenced imme- diately after the signing of the Contract ; and to be completely finished, and deliv- ered over to the owner, by the first day of, one thousand eight hundred and