658 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



3 by 4-inch joists, and will have a 3 by 4-inch hand rail fastened to the wall, both 

 with iron elbows. Under these stairs a flight of similar width, and similarly finished, 

 will be carried from the first floor to the cellar. 



Stairs in library and museum. — Twelve small flights of circular stairs will be car- 

 ried, at the places shown in the plans, from the ground floor and to the galleries of 

 the library and museum. They will be supported on iron, and there will be a trap- 

 door above each of them in the gallery floor, hung on best hinges, which will serve 

 for the purpose of communicating with the galleries. 



Elevators. — In each of the smaller towers at the corners of the main building, 

 elevators, having each three (3) shelves, set three (3) feet apart, and framed strongly 

 together, will be furnished. They will be provided with sheaves, cords, and will 

 have cast-iron counterpoises running in boxes on the four sides of the tower. The 

 elevators will be worked by a crank, and will be used for raising books and other 

 heavy weights from the bottom to the top of the building. 



Doors and their furniture. — All the doors of every part of the building will have 

 semicircular heads, and handsome trimmings and casings, of the same style as the 

 building. 



The central front and rear doors will be made of four thicknesses of 1J inch white 

 pine plank, laid together diagonally. The outside plank will be of the best clear 

 white pine, and the two inner layers of the best merchantable white pine, all perfectly 

 seasoned. The plank will be narrow, and all of the even width of six inches, 

 (6 inches.) The outer layers will be set diagonally, and all beaded and cross-beaded. 



All the plank will be planed, tongued, and grooved, and will be strongly screwed 

 or rivetted together, with white lead in the joints, and painted on all sides. 



The hinges, and key plates, and knob plates, will be of heavy wrought iron scroll 

 work, bronzed in the best manner ; and the doors will be grained white oak, and 

 will be varnished four coats. 



Furniture of apparatus rooms. — The room in the east connecting range behind the 

 east lecture-room, and the room on the same floor in the campanile tower, will be 

 shelved all around, with closets, having paneled doors below, and sash doors above, 

 glazed with good single-thickness American glass. 



Furniture of library. — See plans and sections for the arrangement of the cases. 

 The cases will have sash doors, and will be shelved per direction of architect. The 

 doors will be glazed with good single-thickness American glass, in diamonds, or 

 squares set diamond-wise, or will be filled with wire gauze. All the pillars of the 

 cases will be handsomely turned, the doors and sashes of the best workmanship. All 

 the mouldings in the arches will be well worked, and all the capitals and bases neatly 

 turned, and ornamented with stucco ornaments, or well carved. 



On the ground floor of the library, at every alcove formed by the pillars and cases, 

 a sliding door, handsomely paneled and moulded, 2\ inches thick, filled with ground 

 glass and sash in the panels, will be made to slide between the longitudinal bookcases, 

 so as to shut off the alcove completely from the central aisle. These doors will be 

 fourteen (14) in number, with handsome trimmings, and will each be furnished with 

 an astragal lock, astragal sheaves and sheaveway, of the best description. 



The spaces between the bookcases of the galleries and the ceilings of the aisles will 

 be furred up for plastering. 



Four tables, each fifteen feet (15 feet) long and five (5 feet) broad, to be made of 

 black walnut, will be set along the centre aisle of the library. These tables will have 

 handsome carved legs, and be covered with green broadcloth. 



A small desk of black walnut will be furnished for each of the alcoves. 



The librarian's room, adjoining the library, will have handsome book-cases finished 

 in a style similar to those of the library, with glass doors, &c. All the furniture of 

 the apparatus rooms and library, except where otherwise specified, will be of the best 

 clear, thoroughly seasoned white pine, painted three coats with the best of oil paint, 

 grained, if so directed, to resemble oak, and varnished four coats. 



Museum furniture. — The museum furniture will be arranged per plans and direc- 

 tions of the architect. All the cases will be of the designs shown on the plans, and 

 will be made of the best thoroughly seasoned clear white pine, handsomely carved, 

 turned, and moulded, with caps and bases similar to those of library, and neat 

 mouldings on the arches. The sashes will be filled with the best French cylinder 

 glass. The spaces between the tops of the gallery cases and the ceilings of the side 

 aisles of the galleries will also be furred up for plastering. The cases will vary in 

 width from four to five feet, (4 to 5 feet.) There will be two rows of cases running 

 longitudinally, in the larger spaces between the columns, the whole length of the- 



