Annual report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council of the City of Chicago . THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 73 well, to be forced up by pnmp in tlie boiler-room. Pipes leadfrom these tanks to fnrnisli water to the kitchen, laundry, water-closets, and bath-rooms throughout. The kitchen, laundry, bakery, and chapel are arranged on thefirst floor of the last-mentioned buildino^. The ofhcers dinino--rooms and bed-rooms, the hospital for males, the dispensary, etc.,are on the second floor. There are yet to be erected the work-shops, comprising sixbuildings, fifty by one-hundred and fifty f
Annual report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council of the City of Chicago . THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 73 well, to be forced up by pnmp in tlie boiler-room. Pipes leadfrom these tanks to fnrnisli water to the kitchen, laundry, water-closets, and bath-rooms throughout. The kitchen, laundry, bakery, and chapel are arranged on thefirst floor of the last-mentioned buildino^. The ofhcers dinino--rooms and bed-rooms, the hospital for males, the dispensary, etc.,are on the second floor. There are yet to be erected the work-shops, comprising sixbuildings, fifty by one-hundred and fifty feet each, two storieshigh, arranged so as to form two enclosures, or courts, twohundred by three hundred feet. These courts will be dividedby a wall from the rear of the kitchen building to the stable will be located centrally, in rear of the principalbuildings, and will be fifty feet square, and two stories high. Aboiler and engine-room, fifty by seventy-five feet, will be built atthe south-west angle of the court, w^ith shafting extending fromthe engine-room through three
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