. A General View Across the Sections. close up, there being a short space left so that the drip from condensation falls off and does not reach the gutter plate. A new gutter was recently fitted in a house 10 years old that had been constructed in this manner and the bars were all perfectly sound. The sides and one end of the house are sheeted with boards, then waterproof paper, and outside over all is a covering of corrugated galvanized iron. This wall is about three feet high and from this to the gutter the balance is glass. The ventilating is done by the Evans system. The heating arrangement
. A General View Across the Sections. close up, there being a short space left so that the drip from condensation falls off and does not reach the gutter plate. A new gutter was recently fitted in a house 10 years old that had been constructed in this manner and the bars were all perfectly sound. The sides and one end of the house are sheeted with boards, then waterproof paper, and outside over all is a covering of corrugated galvanized iron. This wall is about three feet high and from this to the gutter the balance is glass. The ventilating is done by the Evans system. The heating arrangements are a feature in themselves. There are four 45 horse power boilers of the return tubular pattern. As the system is hot water under pressure the steam dome has been removed from the boilers and the steam space in the boilers entirely filled with 4-inch tubes. The fire first passes underneath the boiler, then back through the lower section of tubes, which are divided from the upper tiers by a firebrick partition built at the chimney end of the boiler, and returning through the upper section passes into the smoke flue and to the stack. This plan has been found to work well and seems to be economical. Each boiler is connected by a separate flue to the stack and can be run independently of the others. This plant can be connected with that of the old houses in case of an emergency. The pressure is obtained from an open tank elevated 20 feet, giving 10 pounds pressure. A 6-inch flow from top of each boiler empties into a 12-inch header from either end of which an 8-inch main carries the water; this gradually reduces to a 6 and then to a 5-inch main as each section is supplied. The mains are carried to the end of the house farthest from the boiler and the water returns through smaller pipes from mani- folds to the return mains at the other end with a fall of ten inches and thence to the boiler. All the pipes are underneath the tables resting on pipe supports screwed into the table le
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