1868.] Practical Carpentry and Joinery. 377 wide, with three-quarters (f) of an inch wash, cramped, leaded and bedded in ce- ment. Front Steps and Door-Pieces. The front steps and door-pieces are all to be put up complete, in accord- ance with the design and working draw- ings made for the purpose ; the steps will be moulded, and also moulded solid string with paneled spandrel, pedestals, rail and balusters complete. The octa- gon shafts to the door-piece will be in a single stone, with base and cap, with Tudor arch with panels in the spandrels, supporting a cornice above it. The bal- ustrade above this cornice is pierced through with a cap and Tudor flower, as indicated. The octagon shafts are ter- minated with pinnacles crocheted, with foliated finials. The returns, or jambs, of the stone work are eighteen (18) inches in the doorwa3 r , and paneled with mouldings. The base of the building is plain ashlar, eight (8) inches thick, and two (2) feet high, capped with a string- course that is continued around the windows, with a sub, at the bottom, lour (4) inches high and one and a half (H) inch projection. The upper section of the base, from the string-course to the water-table, will be paneled, sunk two (2) inches, mould- ed and ensped ; the water-table will also be moulded along the bottom, with a wash above. The windows of the first, second and third stories will have moulded jambs, with eight (8) inch reveal, and labeled heads. The third and fourth story win- dow-heads will be connected ; and all the sills will be moulded : and the fourth story formed into a continuous course. The first story windows will have open work between the jambs, as these frames and sashes continue to the floor. The oriel window, in the second story, will be constructed in accordance with the design and the- drawings made to a large scale ; the whole will be well cramped together, as well as to the walls of the building, and finished with a bal- ustrade above. The quatre-foil panels, in ashlar, be- low the eaves, will be sunk four (4) inches and moulded. The gable and the cornice will be enriched with foliage, and executed in the very best manner. No ashlar will be less than six inches thick, and properly cramped to the walls wherever it is found necessary. The window heads and sills on the rear will all be plain, and tooled, as also the rear door-sill and head, and area steps. The cellar windows will all have sills, and be finished with arched heads, with the string-course carried around them. The reveal to these will also be eight (8) inches. A coal-slide will be constructed with proper grade, with a three (3) inch flag-stone, top and bottom, well bedded in cement, with an iron cover, on the top, secured on the inside with hooks and staples. The Brickwork Will be built up behind the ashlar and other stone-work on the front, to the required thickness of the walls, agreea- bly to the drawings and the figures thereon, with well-selected hard brick, and laid with close joints in the best manner. The rear front to be faced with the best quality pressed brick, of an uniform deep red color, all laid in running bond and white putty mortar, and tuck- jointed. All the residue of the brick- work throughout the building must be clone with the best hard burnt brick ; all throughout the basement, including the cuter wall as high as the area, must be built in cement. Tiers will be built with arches in the cellar, to support the partition walls above, and an arch for the vestibule floor. Ash-pits will be built to each of the chimney-stacks, with arches for the hearths, and trimmer-arches will be
