BACK PLASTERING 281 



On this floor are three bedrooms each with set basin, beside two 

 toilets and bath, laundry, servants' room and a kitchen, while below 

 stairs are coal and furnace room, cold storage closet, bath houses, 

 another toilet, and boat lockers. From the laundry private steps 

 lead to a separate bathing beach for the servants. The three upstairs 

 bedrooms all have special features. Copper-set stained glass case- 

 ments made of bulls' eyes in an antique design swing into the large 

 corridor, and in one room there is a stained glass window in the 

 centre of the outside stone chimney, care being taken so to construct 

 the two flues that the draughts will not be affected. At either side 

 of the chimney is an outside balcony, and each bedroom has its own 

 set basin with hot and cold water. 



Trunk room on the north includes the generally unused space 

 over the veranda the tie floor beams of which are of nine inch 

 timber and is lighted both by hall and exterior windows set with 

 translucent leaded lights. It is also conveniently reached by a 

 securely locked trap door in the veranda ceiling. 



Over the well, high under the roof, are heavy cambered beams. 



Electric lighting is unique in several ways. On the under side 

 of the ridge is fastened a heavy rusty iron anchor chain from which 

 we suspended an electrolier built from swords and bayonets. Side 

 brackets in inglenook are electrically-tipped stag horns, while at the 

 four corners of the well opening on second story are tapering square 

 edged posts six feet high, capped with plaster heads crowned with 

 electric lights. At the four lower corners, close to the living room 

 ceiling, project gargoyles, copies of those at Notre Dame, from whose 

 mouths hang antique Paul Revere lanterns, modernized by electricity. 

 A startling effect is produced by the shafts of light piercing their 

 pin holes. 



Under the glass hood over the kitchen range is an extra flue, 

 within which an electric fan at the pressure of a button draws up 

 chimney all odors. To economize floor space the boiler is stoutly 

 hung from the ceiling above the range. 



Back Plastering. 



Construction of Sea Boulders is most thorough, and it is an all- 

 the-year house. Stone work is laid in cement, and all wooden exterior 

 walls covered with galvanized iron lath, with three coat work of 

 stucco, the last coat pebble-dashed. The entire house is back plastered 

 on wire lath. All floors are deadened with air spaces, using a mix- 

 ture of cement, coal ashes, and sawdust lighter and better than 

 plain cement for this purpose and two thicknesses of tarred paper. 

 The upper of the two floors on both stories is of hard wood, house 

 trimmed throughout with selected red birch, and lower floor trim 

 stained a rich, dark mahogany, except bedrooms and kitchen, which 



