580 Sloan's Architectural Review and Builders' Journal. [Dec. The basement and attic stories will have plain window-sills with moulded facite. Stairs. The main stairs will be continued from the first floor to the Attic, and be constructed with best quality heart- pine step-boards, tongued, glued, and blocked to the risers, and let into the wall-string. The rail will be four and a half (4^) inches moulded, and the balus- ters two and a half (2^) inches, and the newels ten (10) inches, all neatly turned. The shaft of the newel will be octagonal in form, paneled and moulded. The bottom steps will be curved outwards six (6) inches, and the side finished with paneled spandrels, with a door and fitted up with a closet beneath. The private stairs will be constructed in the usual manner for such stairs, and will extend from the basement to the third floor, with doors at each landing. Floors. All the floors will be laid with the best quality, or No. 1, heart Southern pine boards, mill-worked and well sea- soned, hone over three (3) inches in width and one and a quarter () inches thick, all smoothed off after being laid. Closets. All closets throughout the building will be fitted up and fully shelved, and furnished with pin-pails with clothes hooks, wherever necessary. A dresser will be fitted up in the kitchen, with dwarf-panel doors, top and bottom, and drawers in the middle. The butler's pantry will be fitted up with shelving, a draining rack, a nest of drawers and cases for spices, &c. All the materials for the foregoing to be of the best of their respective kinds, and the carpenter work to be done in a good and workmanlike manner; the lumber to be well seasoned, and free from defects of any kind. Roofing. The roof will be covered with best slate of medium size and of varied pat- tern (laid on felt), with at least three (3) inches overlap, and secured with iron nails boiled in oil. All gutters, valleys, and flushings to be of the best quality single cross tin, with the joints soldered on both sides, and painted one coat be- neath and three coats above, all of slate color. The leaders will all be corrugated and put up securely with copper, or double cross tin, socket pipes from gutters, and be furnished with globe basket covers over them. The lower length of the leader to be of cast iron with a shoe. Plastering. All the walls and ceilings will be plas- tered two coats of brown mortar and one coat of white, with marble dust, finished to a smooth polished surface. The ceilings will all be lathed on the naked joists, and receive one coat of brown mortar. They will afterwards be cross-lathed with furring or shingling lath, placed sixteen (16) inches between centres ; the ceilings are then to be regularly lathed and plastered. Stucco-Work. A stucco cornice will be run in the angle of the ceiling of the rooms of the first story, to girt eighteen (18) inches, all of plain mouldings, without enrich- ments. An oval centre-piece will be required in the front and rear rooms three (3) feet long and two .(2) feet wide ; the one in the centre room will be circular, two feet in diameter. A cornice will be run in the hall and ves- tibule, to girt fourteen (14) inches, all of plain mouldings, with centre flowers for the gas-drops. A cornice will also be run in the second story rooms, to girt fifteen (15) inches, and one in the third story to girt twelve (12) inches; this latter applies also to the hall of second and third stories. The mortar for the plastering will be
