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 366 THE BUILDING NEWS. Anteccommunication, a QUESTIONS. [2543.] Milled Lead.—Will any reader inform me what size sheets of milled lead are usually made ?— G. H. (2544.]—Right and Left Hand Lock.—Will some correspondent of the BurtpiInG News kindly inform me if there is any fixed rule for ascertaining right-hand from left-hand locks? It is the custom of the building trades in some localities to distinguish the different hands thus: In holding the lock with the bevilled side of the bolts towards you, if the bolts come on the left hand it is called a left-hand lock, and if on the right hand a right-hand lock. In ordering some locks a few days ago of an ironmonger, his description of right and left hand locks wae quite the reverse of that given above. I should also be obliged if some one would describe right and left hand rising butts.—A MECHANIC. (2545.])—Ancient Lights.—If I have a row of cottages which for forty years have enjoyed light and air from the garden of a neighbour over his garden wall (say 10ft. high), do I lose that benefit by pulling the cottages down and soon afterwards erecting a ter- race of high houses on the ground ? or has the privilege of light and air become attached to the soil, as I believe lawyers term it ?—PADDINGTON. REPLIES. v [2536.]—Tar Pavement.—Refer to reply 1576, p. 231, Vol. XVII. of the BurnpiInGc News.—NoODE. [2538.]—Colouring Stucco.—James Murray, of Torquay, sends a circular in answer to this question. He says his silicate oxide paint ‘‘ may be used mixed with water for rendering walls impervious to rain and damp. When required for this purpose, it should be mixed with one-third part of thoroughly-slaked lime, and applied with an ordinary painter’s brush—not a whitening brush. The water with which it is mixed should be made hot, and contain one ounce of best London glue, dissolved in four gallons of water. Three coats should be applied at intervals of two days each to render the covering thoroughly effective. When mixed with gas tar, two coats will suffice for ordinary purposes.” —Ep. [2539.)—Area of Sewer.—‘ A Junior Assistant” desires to learn how to calculate the sizes of sewers to drain given areas of the rain which falls thereon. Many persons, from lack of this knowledge, have laid down Sewers too small, but more frequently considerably too large, and much money has been wasted in conse- quence. This last error has also been augmented by supposing that any given quantity of rainfall runs off the surface as fast as it falls thereon, and that sewers should be made large enough to discharge the quantity in the same time that it falls. Now, rain is either light, moderate, or heavy, and therefore is never con- stant in quantity for any given time. It falls some- times lightly for a few minutes only, and barely wets the surface; sometimes moderately for many hours or 2 day from a quarter of an inch to two inches in twenty-four hours, and sometimes heavily for one or two hours from a quarter of an inch to two inches per hour. Hence, a standaid depth of rainfall, in order to regulate the sizes of sewers for removing it, is difficult to determine. Observation and experience, however, have proved that it is desirable to provide for a rain- fall of one inch in depth per hour. Then it becomes a question what sizes sewers should be put down to re- move this from certain town areas. In 1845-46, while I was surveyor of the Westminster sewers, I gauged these sewers, both in wet and dry weather, with the view to determine this. From these gaugings I de- duced results which enabled me to fix the sizes of sewers for draining towns with tolerable accuracy. I found that the discharge of rain from the surface, whatever was the fall upon it, was never so much nor so fast as the fall—that these, in fact, were dependent upon the duration and degree of the fall, the permea- bility, friction, and inclination of the surface, and the porosity of the subsoil. I also found that when rain falls heavily, three-sevenths of it runs off the surface into the sewers as fast as it falls thereon; that three- sevenths continues to run off for some hours after the fall has ceased ; and that of the remaining, one-seventh part is retained in the hollows inthe surface, and evaporates, part is worked up by the traffic into slush, and part is absorbed by the surface soil and the subsoil beneath. Hence, with this result, and having the areas to be drained, the inclinations of the sewers, and the depth of rainfall per hour, “ A Junior Assistant” may easily calculate the sizes of sewers necessary to drain any given areas of the rain falling thereon. Thus, for draining aseries of streets or districts consisting of one, three, six, ten, seventeen, twenty-five, and thirty-five acres, the inclinations for the sewers being 1 in 250, and the rainfall one inch per hour, the sewers should be 6in., Sin. 12in. 15in. 18in. 2lin. and 24in. diameter respectively. ‘‘A Junior Assistant’ should provide a “separate system” of pipes for removing the sewage from the houses, with proper water-traps at all the sink and closet inlets, and ventilating pipes leading therefrom into the soil pipes, which should be carried above the house-tops away from chimney-tops and attic windows. Then the houses would be drained in a sanitary, and not, as now practised, in an insanitary manner. In regard to this, and, indeed, generally “‘on the drainage and sewerage of towns,” see my paper read before the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in February last.—Joun PHituirs, [2540.]—Dilapidations.—I beg to say, in reply to “ E. J. L.’s” questions:—1. It is not a legal notice to serve a notice upon one of the houses as originally granted. The sub-leasing of the property does not affect the notices in any way; it is not, therefore, necessary to serve a notice upon each sub-lessee. With regard to the next query, ‘Is the original lessee (his heirs, executors, or assigns) bound to pass it (the notice) on, and retain his responsibility for all to the original lessor?” No, he is not bound to pass it on. He cannot be compelled, but he will usually do so, because it is to his interest. Asto his retaining his responsibility,that he cannot help : it is a liability which coexists with the duration of the lease. 2. Party wall: The work should be described in the usual way. The notice will give the lessee a motive power—he will see the A, O. and explain the matter that he is bound to rebuild. A. O., if wise, will call in his surveyor to meet B. O.’s surveyor. If they agree, good ; but they may consider that the lessor’s surveyor is wrong in re- quiring the rebuilding : in this event they will proceed under the Dangerous Structures Act. — BANISTER FLETCHER. t [2542.)—Chimney Moving in America.—In reply to “W. H. R.,” I send the following short account (extractel from the Scientific American) of the moying of the chimney referred to:—‘The Cabot Company, of Brunswick, Maine, in order to enlarge their cotton mill, moved their large smoke stack chim- ney—7s{t. high, 7ft. 9in, square at base, and Sft. square at top, containing more than 40,000 bricks, and weigh- ing more than 100 tons—20ft., without rollers or balls, or guys or braces to steady it—one of the greatest feats ever performed in the State. It was planned and carried out by Superintendent Benjamin Greenes, not one of those engaged having ever witnessed the moving of sucha body. It was accomplished by build- ing such ways as are used in launching ships, surfaces planed, and greased, chimney wedged up, and moved by two jack screws in four and a half hours. The flues were disconnected from the boiler at one o’clock p.m., and at half-past nine the same evening the flues were again connected, fires going, and steam up.”—DELTA. ns LAND AND BUILDING SOCIETIES. CuEsHUNT BurmLpING Socrrry.—The accounts of this society for the past year show that the receipts have very much increased, being £4,348, the with- drawals in the same period being £2,635, and the ad- vances £1,490, leaving a nett increase of funds, after paying expenses, of abont £200. Sournenp.—A. public meeting has been held in Southend in connection with the Richard Green Building and Investment Society, the head office of which is in Fenchurch-street, in order to introduce its operation into Southend and the neighbourhood, this society having adopted a system of agencies, affording persons in the country facilities for business with it. Srarrorp Mutual PERMANENT BENEFIT BuILp- ING SomeEty.—The annual meeting of this seciety was held on Thursday week. The report showed that the total amount received by the society during the past year was £8,086 10s., being 35 per cent. in excess of the receipts of the previous year. On ac- count of withdrawals, payments to the extent of £1,858 18s, 8d. had been made, leaving a balance of £12,858 19s. 1d. at the credit of 7524 ordinary shares, and £8,678 6s. 9d. atthe credit of 872 investing shares. On account of advances, £3.347 16s. 7d. had been debited capital account, £771 15s. 3d. of which re- main at the credit of mortgage account. ‘The work- ing expenses amount to £87 8s. 9d., to meet which fees and discounts yielded £144 15s. 9d., leaving a balance of £161 1% d. at the credit of expenses ac- count. At the expiration of the current vear, a second bonus would be declared. in which all mem- bers on the register three months previous to that date would have a right to participate. $$$ $$ LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, THe THAMES EMBANKMENT.— THE DUKE OF JuCCLEUCH VY. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD oF Worxs.—In the House of Lords, on Tuesday morn- ing, judgment was given in the appeal of the Duke of Buccleuch against the Metropolitan Board of Works. In the absence of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford presided, and the other learned lords present were Lord Westbury, Lord Cairns, and Lord Colonsay. The original action out of which this appeal arose was commenced in 1867, and was brought to recover a sum of £8,325, which had been awarded to the appellant by an umpire appointed under the provisions of the Thames Embankment Act (1862), as compensation for taking away a jetty. in which the appellant had an interest, and for the appellant’s interest in certain lands adjacent being injuriously affected by the execution of the respon- dent's works, together with interest on that amount and the costs. At the trial the jury found a verdict in the duke’s favour, and this their lordships upheld. THE AMALGAMATED SocreTy OF CARPENTERS AND Jotners.—On Monday, Mr. M‘Donald moved, in the Court of Queen’s Bench, for a mandamus calling upon the Registrar of Friendly Societies to show cause why he should not register the Amalga- mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners under the provisions of the Trade Unions Act of 1871. He moved on behalf of Terrell Matthews and six other members of the Society, which was established in 1860. The Society, whose head-quarters were in London, had, in 1871, 242 provincial branches, with over 10,000 members, and a reyenue of £29,000. The funds in the hands of the treasurers of, the branches amounted to a total of £17,000. Differences having arisen among the members, they resulted in a split— one section going to Manchester and calling them- selves the Society, the other remaining int London and retaining all the books and papers. It was ne- cessary for the purpose of protecting the funds that the Society should be registered under the Act of last year, and both bodies haying applied to the Re- gistrar (Mx. Stephenson) to register, he refused in each case, founding his refusal upon a rule mado under the Act by the Home Secretary to the effect that no trade union should be registered under a name identically the same as that of another society. In the present instance each body had asked to be registered under precisely the same title.—Mr. Justice Blackburn: If the Registrar had complied with one application, he must have refused the other. He therefore must have given one body a great advantage over the other, although he had no means of deciding which was in the right. I think when the Society has chosen to separate itself, the Registrar may well refuse to register unless the title of one is varied.— Mr. M‘Donald: Assuming that the Manchester sec- tion has split in violation of the rules of the Society, as I think I am justified in doing, I ven ure to submit that the Registrar had no power to refuse —Mr. Justice Blackburn: Are you right in making that assumption? I suppose the Manchester people say that the London people are usurpers.—Mr. M‘Donald admitted that was so, but explained that according to the rules of the Society it was to remain and be governed in London. Those rules could be altered by a meeting of members properly called, but no regular meeting has been held for their alteration.— Mr. Justice Blackburn said he did not think that the Registrar had any power or means to decide whether the mecting had been properly called.—The Court granted a rule nést, copies of which were to be served upon the Registrar, and also on the representative of the Manchester body. > STAINED GLASS. SourHampron. — Three stained glass windows have just been erected over the west door in the Church of 8. Deny’s, Southampton, by Messrs. Buehan & Son, of that town. The subject of the centre window is the Good Shepherd; the smaller windows contain figures of the Evangelists. Lonpon.— Two more memorial windows have, within the past fortnight, been added to the south side of the Church of S. Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall. In each window two events, taken from Holy Scrip- ture, are depicted; in one there is the laying of the body of our Lord in the sepulchre, surrounded by the holy women; also Elisha and the Shunamite woman. In the other window are represented S. Paul before Agrippa, and the Judgment of Solomon. The win- dows are by Messrs, Clayton & Bell. It is proposed to add two more windows during the year. Both are ready for insertion, but one will be on view in the International Exhibition. ———— MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Monpay.—Royat IxstituTe oF Britisn ARcHI- vrvecTs.—Special General Meeting of Mem- bers only. 8 p.m. INSTITUTION oF SURVEYORS. 8 p.m. TuUrSDAY.—INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. 8 p.m. FRipAY.—ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCTATION.—Meeting of Class of Construction and Practice; subject: Plumbing.” 6.30 p.m.—Meeting of Class of Design; subject: ‘ Village Smitby.” 8 p.m. ————_.—— CHIPS. The parish church of Petersfield, Hants, is to be restored, at a cost of £6,000, from designs by Mr. A. W. Blomfield. It is stated that M. Gustave Doré is about to challenge the opinion of the world of art on a grand scale. He has just finished a picture 30ft. long by 20{t. wide, at which he has been working pretty con- stantly for about four years. The subject of this large composition is “Christ leaving the ‘’emple,” and it contains about 400 figures. The members and adherents of the United Pres- byterian Church in Gateshead have determined upon the erection of a church at the junction of Bewick- road and High West-street, to seat between 800 and 900 persons, and the design of Mr. J. J Lish, archi- tect, of Newcastle-upon-‘'yne, has been selected by the congregation. The old market at Lewes, which for some past has been unused, is being rapidly demolished, preparatory to the erection of a new Record Room and other offices for the use of the corporation. The building will be erected from a design by Mr. Card, architect, by Mr. Berry.