. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . nze sup-ported so as to allow the space between it and theroof free of material. In the main ribs the glasssheets are curved and designed to permit of a smoothsurface to the back of the dome. At the back andaround the edges is a sixteen ounce gutter reinforcedwith iron rods. The window filling in partitions between the mez-zanine gallery and the departments is of cast andwrought bronze. The frames, sills, transoms andmullions are of drawn bronze; the pilasters and orna-mentation of cast bronze ch
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . nze sup-ported so as to allow the space between it and theroof free of material. In the main ribs the glasssheets are curved and designed to permit of a smoothsurface to the back of the dome. At the back andaround the edges is a sixteen ounce gutter reinforcedwith iron rods. The window filling in partitions between the mez-zanine gallery and the departments is of cast andwrought bronze. The frames, sills, transoms andmullions are of drawn bronze; the pilasters and orna-mentation of cast bronze chased. The doors are ofmarble frames and jambs with bronze and Britishpolished plate glass. The four bronze entrance door grills, three onKing street and one on Bay street, are of cast bronze,double faced, including the frames, transom barsand transom. The doors have corrugated cast pol-ished bronze saddles reinforced with ribs and swingon steel pivots. Directly inside are light single actionglass doors of gauge drawn bronze with reinforcedbrazed joints. The \estibule doors are of number . AV^-. ten gauge bronze plate and cast bronze frames andedges with cast moulded panels around polishedplate glass. Basement windows on King and Bay streets havecast bronze window frames, including sills, withmoulded hanging stiles and bed moulding; drawnbronze sash rabetted meeting stiles reinforced. Ornamental iron has been used for the guards tocourt windows and doors; grilles to openings leadingto platform in engine room, window frames, stairs;ladders to roof; fascias at all floors in elevator wrought iron has an ultimate tensile strength offifty thousand pounds per square inch, and whereornamental is of heavy bars hand forged. The guards to court windows and court doors areof one by one inch wrought iron, spaced four inchesapart, let four inches into the masonry. The iron windows are of wrought iron with one-quarter inch polished plate glass, and are completewith bronze hinges an
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