House and Garden 
passage of fire. And of course there should be a 
faucet with hose connection, conveniently located 
with a hook for hanging hose at its side. 
A fire in a house where two or more automobiles 
are stored would be so expensive, and so dangerous, 
that the greatest care should be taken to guard 
against it. 
The ideal garage would he one built of masonry 
with concrete floors and brick or concrete walls, 
with perhaps a mill framed roof or second floor, if 
it were more than one storey high. The storage of 
gasolene too is important in this connection, and the 
safest way is to use gasolene tanks underground 
outside the house with a pipe leading to a small 
pump just inside, or better still, though less con¬ 
venient, would be to have no connection between 
the tanks and the house, but to pump the supply 
outside into a can and then fill the machine from 
the can. 
A washing-stand should be planned for in some 
convenient place in the building. This should be 
arranged the same as the carriage wash in a stable. 
In a larger garage, where a professional chauffeur 
is employed, there are many conveniences that may 
be added to make the building complete. In this 
type of building a small room should be fitted up as 
a workshop, with a strong work-bench with vise. 
This bench should be 4 feet wide and can be arranged 
with a wide shelf under which is a convenient place 
to store tires which are not in use. Also there should 
be a closet with poles and hooks and shelves or 
drawers for storing rugs or coats, and the many ac¬ 
cessories that are necessary in motoring. 
It is well too, to finish a room in the second storey 
for a chauffeur or perhaps two small rooms one of 
which could be used by a guest’s chauffeur. And 
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there should also be a bath and toilet for their use, 
and there should be some arrangement too for hot 
water. 
1 he plumbing and heating of a motor house 
need careful attention. There should he a sink 
either in the workroom or at the side of the wash- 
stand with hot and cold water and an overhead 
carriage washer should be placed over the wash- 
stand as in a stable. 
The best method of heating the building is by 
either steam or hot water, and, of course, the heater 
should be put somewhere completely away from any 
room where gasolene is likely to be used. 1 his is 
usually most conveniently located in a small room 
in the basement, and the heater may he arranged 
with a small separate coil, which will heat the water 
for the boiler which supplies the plumbing system. 
In the first auto houses a pit was usually made 
either in the workshop floor or in the floor of the 
PLAN OF MR. ALLEN W. JACKSON, CAMBRIDGE, 
MASSACHUSETTS 
