The Private Garage 
the levels of the first floor. There is also a shower 
bath and toilet room just outside the court with a 
closet for rackets, etc. under the robe room on the 
first floor. The floor of the carriage room is of 
granolithic, and laid on a bed of broken stone. 
The floors of the wash-stand and workshop are 
framed with steel beams with concrete construction 
and covered with granolithic floor. The walls of 
all the rooms, except the second storey, and the court, 
show the brick on tbe inside. The second floor is 
of mill framing of hard pine so the entire building 
is about as fireproof as it is possible to make it. 
The workshop is a most interesting part of the 
building, and is fitted with the most modern ma¬ 
chinery for this sort of work, and it is possible with 
this outfit, and the skill of the chauffeur, to make or 
repair any part of an automobile without tbe neces¬ 
sity of ever sending it away to have the work done. 
It contains a work-bench of liberal size, and the 
lathe, emery wheel and buffer, and the drill in the 
corner next the door are all run by a little two horse 
power electric motor, which stands on a shelf over 
one end of the bench. 
The charging of the electric batteries which are 
used both in the electric and gasolene cars is done 
in the garage, by a transformer which changes the 
street current from an alternating one, which is the 
one used in Chestnut Hill, to the direct one neces¬ 
sary to charge the storage batteries. In this room 
are also the oil tanks, in which is stored the lubrica¬ 
ting oil used on the cars and machinery. 
The gasolene is stored in two one hundred gallon 
tanks, which are placed underground at the side of 
the drive, about 50 feet from the garage, and the 
gasolene is pumped into a can with a small hand 
pump. Two small tanks are used instead of one 
large one, so that the chauffeur may be warned 
when new gasolene is needed by the exhaustion of 
half of the quantity stored. The gasolene storage is 
the danger point in the building. 
THE GARAGE FROM THE HOUSE 
