Carpenter Work

"The show-window glass is to be put up with out mullion or corner posts; special nickel-plated clips satisfactory to the plate glass insurance companies are to be used.

"The edges of the glass are to be cut, and glass pieces are to be set back of joints to re inforce the same. All to be made water-tight.

"Wire glass of the very best quality, inch thick, solid cast (without selvedge) figured pattern, is to be used for glazing, all the doors and transoms from the halls to the lofts and of fices, all toilet-room doors, fire-escape doors, and shaft windows, and all windows in the court and gable walls on all stories, except where polished as below specified, and for the doors at the first story staircase and doors for basement and sub basement stairs, and for the windows.

"American sheet glass, double-thick, of the very best quality, is to be used for glazing the front windows of the fourth story and above, and all other windows throughout not otherwise specified.

"Bases—All walls, partitions, boxed columns, etc., on all stories, are to have moulded and subbed bases, 8 inches high on the first story, and 6 inches high on the upper stories and in the basement (see detail drawing No. ). All to be of dark straight-grain oak, except for the first story, where they are to be white oak.

"Wainscot—The wainscot in the first story will be of marble as hereinbefore specified.

"Painting and Finishing—All the woodwork throughout is to be putty-stopped in the very best manner, and all iron work and metal work is to be putty-stopped.

"All hardwood, except flooring, is to be stained, filled, and varnished two good coats, and rubbed down, before it is delivered at the build-, ing; and an additional coat is to be applied and rubbed down after all the work is in place; all must be finished in an even and uniform color throughout.

"All the other woodwork, all the iron work, both inside and outside of the building, includ ing iron stairs, elevator doors, iron doors, fire escapes, iron frontwork, interior iron columns, gas meter brackets, galvanized-iron work, trap doors, gratings, fireproof doors and windows, etc., and other work shown and specified, also all roof houses, bulkheads, tank on roof, skylights, ventilators, and vent flues in basement, plumb ing and gas pipes, exposed electric conduits, and all other work as the Architect may direct, are to be painted three good coats of the very best white lead and pure linseed oil, tinted as the Architect directs.

"All the metal ceilings throughout, including the basement and sub-basement, are to be painted three good coats of the same kind of paint, in addition to the prime coat applied un der another contract; and if three coats will not make a satisfactory job, another coat is to be applied.

"All the hardwood work throughout is to be, stained and filled with filler or such filler as the Architect may direct; and three coats of or equally good rubbing varnish of the very best quality are to be applied, to be well rubbed down to a smooth surface.

"Samples of graining and of colors are to be provided for approval.

"Any work not specially enumerated is to be painted, grained, and finished as the Architect may direct.

"On the glass of the transom sash over all the entrance doors, gilt numbers 10 inches high are to be provided, to be done in the very best man ner. Gilt numbers two inches high are to be pro Vided on the glass of all hall office doors, as di rected.

"On all the elevator doors on each story above the first story, numbers in black, 6 inches high, are to be painted as directed.

"All the work throughout must be delivered clean and perfect in every respect.

"Miscellaneous—The plumbing work is to be fitted up as directed; runs and backs for pipes are to be put up where directed; pipes are to be covered with finished casings, fastened with round-head brass screws.

"The Contractor is to do all necessary cutting of work included in this specification for other mechanics, and must finish up after them.

"The Contractor will be responsible for the condition of his work until the completion and acceptance of the building." Sub-contractors are, of course, responsi ble to the contractor for the condition of their work; and if he makes them live up to speci fications as he may expect that he himself will have to do, trouble will be avoided under this specification.

"On completion, all the work is to be left clean. All rubbish and refuse materials must be removed promptly from the premises as fast as they accumulate; and all floors are to be scrubbed twice, and all the glass in the windows and doors must be washed.

"The Contractor must protect his work prop erly, and must deliver the same complete, clean, and in a perfect condition." The last two clauses have been specified half a dozen times before.