Specifications, conditions of contract, proposals and guarantee for heating and plumbing the Northern Asylum for the insane at Traverse City, Michigan, in accordance with plans prepared by C. M. Wells, Superintendent, and adopted by the Board of Commissioners.

Specifications, conditions of contract, proposals and guarantee for heating and plumbing the Northern Asylum for the insane at Traverse City, Michigan, in accordance with plans prepared by C. M. Wells, Superintendent, and adopted by the Board of Commissioners.

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Advertisement for proposals for the heating and plumbing contract for the Northern Asylum for the insane at Traverse City, Michigan. This advertisement includes the instructions and conditions of the heating and plumbing contract.

Board of Commissioners of the Northern Asylum for the insane.

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Traverse City: Herald Job Printing Office.

29 April 1885

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Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan.

SPECIFICATIONS,
CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT,
PROPOSALS AND GUARANTEE
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HEATING ANDPLUMBING
THB-

NORTHERN ASYLUM
FOR THE INSANE
AT

TRAYERSE CITY, MICHIGAN,
IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS PREPARED BY

C. M. "Wells, Superintendent,
AND

ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
PEEEY HANNAH,
E. H. VAN DEUSEN, M. D.,
ALEXANDEE CHAPOTON, SB., BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
HENET H. EILEY,
MILTON H. BUTLEE.
TRAVERSE CITT:
EZJIALJ) JOB PBiNTrae OFFICE.
1885.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]

Proposals Wanted.
Sealed proposals will be received at Traverse City, Michigan, by the Board of Commissioners of the Northern Asylum
for the insane, until 10 a. m. of Thursday, June 4, 1885, at
which time said ^proposals will be opened, for all labor and
materials required for the
HEATING AND PLUMBING,

either or both, of the Northern Asylum for the insane, at
Traverse City, Michigan, including radiators, steam distribution, hot and cold water distribution, hot water boilers, tanks,
pumps, bath room, lavatory and closet fixtures, etc., in accordance with plans and specifications adopted by said Board.
Said plans and specifications can be examined at the office of the Superintendent, at the Northern Asylum, Traverse
City, Michigan, on and after May llth.
For further information relative to the plans or conditions, address
April 29. 1885.

C. M. WELLS, Superintendent,
TEAVEBSE CITY, MICHIGAN.

By order of the Board of Commissioners.

Instructions to Bidders
AND

Conditions of Contract.
These Instructions and Conditions shall apply equally to
both heating and plumbing contracts if the two are divided.
Bidders are invited to be present at the opening of proposals, at the office of the Superintendent, Traverse City,
Michigan, at 10 a. m. of Thursday, June 4, 1885.
No proposals will be received after the time above
named.
No proposals will be considered unless accompanied by a
bidding bond or guarantee, a form of which is hereto attached, in the sum of five thousand dollars, signed by the
bidders and by two acceptable sureties, residents of the
State of Michigan, or in lieu of the sureties, a certified check
in the sum of five thousand dollars may be deposited with
the Treasurer of the Board.
The successful bidder must give a bond in the full penal
sum named in hip contract for the full and faithful performance
of all the provisions of his contract, said bond to be signed by
the bidder, and by two sureties, residents of the State of
Michigan, and to hold gocd until all the provisions of the
contract have been executed.

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A bond, in amount and sureties to be approved by the
Board, will also be required in accordance with the provisions
of the law therefor, for the payment by the contractor and all
sub-contractors for all labor performed or materials furnished
in the execution of the work under contract.
No bids will be considered unless accompanied by a full,
itemized and fair schedule of prices and quantities of all labor
and materials to be used in the work tendered for, which
schedule when footed, must be the same amount as named in
the proposal.
The proposals, instructions, conditions of contract, plans
and specifications will be made a part of the contract, and be
signed both by the Board and by the contractor.
A form of proposal is hereto attached ; the blanks therein
must be all tilled.
These specifications, the proposal and the bidding bond
must be together inclosed in a sealed envelope, endorsed
"Proposals for Heating and Plumbing Northern Asylum,"
and addressed to C. M. Wells, Superintendent, Traverse City,
Michigan.
Proposals will be received for both Heating and Plumbing, or for either alone. The bidding bond for either portion
of the work to be the same as for the entire work; and the
Board hereby reserves the right to accept in a proposal for
the whole work, the tender for the heating and to reject the
tender for the plumbing, or vice versa.
The right is especially reserved to accept any proposal
or to reject all as the Board shall deem for the best interest
of the State.

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Work shall be prosecuted under the direction of the
Superintendent, in such order and places as he may direct.
His decision on all points of construction, and as to the acceptance or rejection of any materials offered, or work performed, shall be binding.
Any points not covered by the plans or by these specifications, or questions arising in regard to the plans and specifications, shall be referred to the Superintendent, and his decision thereon shall be binding.
An appeal from the decision of the Superintendent may
be made in writing to the Board of Commissioners, and the
decision of the Board shall be final.
In case the contractor neglects or refuses to purchase
materials in time, or of the proper quality, or to perform any
work as directed, or to execute any of the provisions of the
contract, the Board shall have power to purchase such materials, or employ labor to execute such work, and to
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charge the expense therefor and all attendant exoenses to the
contractor, to be considered as a payment of like amount on
the contract, and in the final payment deducted therefrom, or
held against the bond, if in excess of the contract price.
In any case where the quality of the materials or
the method to be taken to execute any work is not shown
or specified, or is indefinite under the plans and specifications, the contractor herein agrees that the contract shall be
construed to call for the best materials in every case rather
than the poorest.
Where the positions of pipes and fixtures are shown by
the plans these positions shall be considered approximate

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and may be varied in order to attain the best results; and no
claim of extra or deduction shall be based on such change.
The general methods for accomplishing results are either
stated in these specifications, or shown on the plans.

In

each and every case where tne general methods do not fully
apply so as to attain the best results, the work must be done
under the direction of the Superintendent.
All material shall be of the very best in the market of
the kind and class called for, and all work shall be executed
by skilled mechanics in the very best workman-like manner.
All pipes shall be run parallel and perpendicular to the
walls, be thoroughly and satisfactorily supported and secured.
Offsets, if made, shall be with true curves.
All holes in walls must be drilled, and, after the pipe is
in position, filled in tight with mortar work, rat proof.
All damage or marring of wood work, walls, plaster,
paint, varnish, glass, or any other part of the building, must
be repaired and made sound and perfect by the contractor.
Any man employed by the contractor may be discharged
by the Superintendent for incompetency, misconduct, smoking within the building, or carelessness in the use of greasy
waste or charcoal furnaces whereby the building may be endangered.
The Board of Commissioners and the Superintendent
shall have the right to fully examine or test, at any time, by
expert or otherwise, any work or material, and for such examinations or tests, the contractor shall furnish all necessary
facilities, labor and appliances.
Any work, which, at any time before the final release of

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the bond, shall be found to be imperfect in any respect, shall
be at once removed, and perfect work substituted therefor?
and rejected material shall be at once removed from the Asylum farm.
In every case where a special or a patented article is
called for, it shall be held to mean that article, or other
equally good to be approved by the Board, and in the case
of patents, the contractor must satisfy the Board that he has
the right to use the proposed patented improvement.
All work either shown on the plans or called for by the
specifications, either or both, shall be fully executed, and if
the plans and specifications disagree, the option shall be with
the Board; and any pipe, valves, fittings, or appliances of
any nature, necessary for the full and perfect operation of
any portion of the heating or plumbing work, according'^to
the intent and scope of the plans and specifications, shall be
furnished by the contractor under the contract price, whether the same is specially shown or called for or not.
Bidders are expected to verify and fully examine the
various places and positions in which work is to be done'
and will be supposed to know all the difficulties to be surmounted in the execution of the work.
Work shall be commenced as soon as is possible, prosecuted with vigor and all be fully completed not later than
October 1st, 1885.
PAYMENTS.

Payments will be made monthly, about the first of each
month, to include all materials delivered and accepted and all
labor satisfactorily completed during the preceding month,
reserving twenty-five per cent of each estimate until the final

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and satisfactory completion of all work called for by the
plans and specifications and its acceptance by the Board.
Payments will be based on the schedule prices furnished
by the contractor, and the contractor shall not be entitled to
payment for any material or labor for which a price is not
named in the schedule until the final completion of the work.
Quantities shall be determined by the Superintendent,
based upon the actual amount of material delivered, and labor fully completed since the preceding payment.
In case the amount of material named in the schedule is
insufficient to complete the work, the contractor shall make
such deficiency good without payment at the time, and in any
case without payment in excess of the contract price.
There shall be no extra payments for furnishing all materials and labor required to thoroughly and completely accomplish all designed to be covered by these specifications,
i. e. no claim for extras will be considered, based on the quality of materials furnished, or the manner or method taken to
execute any work, or for any work or materials required to
fully accomplish and perfect all parts of the work called for
under the contract.
The Board shall have the right to add materials and labor, when not called for by the plans and specifications, at
the prices named therefor in the schedule, or to omit any portion of the work at schedule rates, and any change thus
made shall not invalidate in any degree the contract or bond.

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Specifications for Heating
Apparatus.
THE BOILERS.

The boiiers, viz: two tubular boilers for power, each sixteen feet long, and six feet diameter, and two fire box, drop,
return-flue boilers for heating, each twenty-six feet and four
inches long and eight feet diameter, will be furnished to the
contractor, delivered on board cars at the Traverse City station. The contracLor will move, place and connect the boilers, taking all responsibility of damage to the boilers by accident or otherwise.
The necessary nozzles will be furnished, riveted in place,
but the flanges not drilled.
The domes of the power boilers wiU be furnished, riveted
to the twelve-inch connecting nozzles, but the nozzles not
riveted to the shell.

The necessary holes will be drilled and

the rivets furnished, and the contractor will rivet the domes
to the shell after the boilers are in place.
Grate bars for the heating boilers only will be furnished
by the Asylum.
The contractor will furnish all labor and material not excepted above for setting the boilers, or necessary for their
full and pei'fect opei'ation for all intended uses.

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SUPPORTING HEATING BOILERS.
Under the saddles which support the boilers, prepare a
bed of concrete, six inches thick, made of coarse screened
gravel three parts, coarse sand two parts, and fresh Milwaukee or other approved cement one part.
On each bed of concrete place a dimension stone six
inches thick, two feet wide, and six feet long, the exposed
surfaces dressed and the margins tooled.
On each dimension stone, bed in fine mortar a cast iron
plate one inch thick, sixteen inches wide, and forty-two inches long, the top surface made a smooth plane.
Support each boiler, bedded in putty, on five cast iron
saddles, as shown, the top and bottom plates, ribs and webs
to be not less than one inch thickness of metal, the bottom of
the lower web made a smooth plane, and between each saddle and the iron plate below, place four steel rollers, one and
one half inches in diameter, the leugth of the saddle.
FOUNDATIONS FOR POWER BOILERS.
Build foundations, as shown, of coursed, flat bedded
rubble masonry, laid in the best manner in mortar composed
of one half fresh, approved water lime, and one half quick
lime, with the proper proportion of sand.
BRICK WORK OF POWER BOILERS.
Lay all exterior or exposed surfaces with best pressed
brick, with tooled joint, as in front of Asylum building.
Lay all flame exposed surfaces with one course of best
Jackson or U. S. Fire Clay Co. fire brick at the option of the
Board, with heading courses, all laid tight in finely pulverized

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fire clay, all as shown or directed, using arch and special brick
where necessary.
Furnish for the piers forming the bridge wall, solid
pieces made of fire clay of the dimensions and form shown in
the drawings, and set these together with tight joints.
Lay all other brick work in best selected sound common
brick, in quick lime mortar, laid with air spaces as shown or
directed.
Pave ash-pits with brick on edge, bedded in rich concrete, and grouted with cement mortar to make the pits water tight.
Furnish and place a coping of sand stone, rubbed
smooth, for power boiler exterior walls, one foot and eight
inches wide and six inches thick.
Build the lower portion of smoke flues for heating boilers of rubble stone, and brick work above, all as before specified and shown.
COVERING HEATING BOILERS.

Cover the shells with pure asbestos paper, three thicknesses one thirty-second of an inch each; then two layers of
one half inch best hair felt, separated by thick manila paper,
and outside of all, heavy Russia sheet iron, made smooth and
neat in every particular.
Put the covering on each boiler in six rings, in sections
to admit of removal in parts, and band the joining of the sections and the ends of the boilers with finished brass bands
three inches by one-sixteentli inch, arranged with screws to
draw each band tight into position.
Finish the covering at the front with cast iron moulding,
resting on and fastened to the boiler. At the rear of boilers
turn the Eussia iron down on to the shell.

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COVERING THE POWER BOILERS.

Similarly cover the domes or drums of the power boilers.
Cover the tops of the power boilers with three thicknesses of one-eighth inch pure asbestos paper built into the side
brick walls four inches, then fill in to four inches above the
top of the boilers with wood ashes, on top of which place a
two-inch coating of pipe-covering cement.
Build into the side walls two-inch pine plank above the
covering, sufficient for walks to reach all valves, manholes, etc.
SUPPORTING POWER BOILERS.

For each boiler lug, furnish and build within the wall, in
accurate line and level, a cast iron standard frame four feet long,
and one inch thickness of metal. Face the upper surface of
the standard, and between this faced surface and the lug,
place a roller carriage, made of three steel rollers one and
one-quarter inches in diameter, connected to act as one, all as
per drawings therefor.
BOILER FRONTS.

Furnish a d place fronts, for the power boilers, a design
for which is shown, and the dimensions of which must be followed, but some other design, if satisfactory to the Superintendent may be substituted therefor. The seatings of the
fire and ash-doors must be tight, and the doors must be
provided with proper baffle plates and registers.
GRATE BARS.

Furnish for the power boilers Page's or Hall's shaking
grate bars, at the option of the Board, in six feet lengths, arranged complete.

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OTHER IRON WORK FOR POWER BOILERS.

Furnish for each boiler a dead plate, bearer bars, arch
and check plates, rods for anchoring the front, all necessary
bolts, etc., also back arch frames to support the brick covering arch at rear of the boilers. Rivet to^the rear of each boiler an angle iron to support the ends of the ribs and between
the ribs and the angle iron place a round steel roller one and
one-quarter inch in diameter.
Also for each power and heating boiler furnish an ash
door, about sixteen inches by twenty inches, made heavy in
two thicknesses, the outer thickness to fit tightly the planed
surfaces of a frame set into the wall.
BOILER TRIMMINGS.

Supply each boiler with one water gauge, the gauge barrel to be ornamental, hexagon, finished brass, twenty-eight
inches long, connected top and bottom with boiler with one
and one quarter inch brass heavy pipe, and having three threequarter inch compression gauge-cocks with wood handles and
stuffing boxes, and three-quarter inch brass pipe and cock
from bottom to ash pit for blowing off. Also furnish a threequarter inch Scotch glass tube eighteen inches long, with top
and bottom valves and boUom waste.
Furnish for each power boiler a Crosby improved, or
other approved steam gauge, having brass case and ring,
nickel-plated ten-inch dial, one inch brass connections, registering two hundred pounds and connected with a syphon.
For the heating boilers furnish and connect gauges as
above, but for low pressure, to register ten pounds in quarter
pounds.

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Furnish for each power boiler an improved five-inch Case
and Bailey safety valve, and for heating boilers each a fiveinch safety valve, as above, all brass mounted and gun metal
seats.
SMOKE FLUES.

Make the smoke flues in sizes and positions as shown by
dotted lines on the drawings of number sixteen iron, thoroughly riveted and made tight, let into the brick joints four
inches, lapping on to boilers six inches, and made tight to
boilers and boiler fronts.
Support the round flue with one and one-half inch pipe
rests from the central boiler wall, and the square flue with
three-quarter inch pipe brackets let into the wall of the boiler room.
Arrange a heavy and substantial damper for each boiler,
in positions as shown, so as to be operated by rods, sheaves
and brass pull from the front of the boilers.
HEATING BOILER CONNECTIONS.

Supply steam from each boiler to the drum of the steam
main, through eight-inch wrought pipe with angle valve.
Connect the two boilers at top with six inch wrought
pipe, and in the connection put a straight way six inch valve.
Return condensed water to each boiler from five-inch
return main through four-inch wrought pipe with angle
valve.
Feed through one and one-half inch pipe with one and
one quarter inch branches with valve to each boiler into the
four inch return pipe between the return valve and the boiler, and put in Crane's improved check valves.

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Blow off from extreme end of return main through two
and one-half inch galvanized pipe with cock, the pipe continued outside the boiler room wall to the sewer.
POWER BOILER CONNECTIONS.

Feed through one and one-half inch pipe along front of the
boilers with one and one-quarter inch connections and valves
into the boilers, and put in Crane's improved check valves.
This feed may be a continuation of the feed pipe of the heating boilers, and it is to be extended beyond the power boilers with stop cock to the connection with the sewer, to be
used for a surface blow off.
Blow off through two-inch extra strong pipe, connected
with stop cock into bottom of boiler at front, and carried to
the sewer connection.
All pipe, valves and fittings exposed to view along front
of the boilers will be of best finished seamless-drawn brass.
Connect with five-inch pipe and angle valves, the drums
on the boilers with a common steam drum of eight-inch
wrought pipe, extending over both boilers, and from this
drum supply steam through pipe of proper size branching to
the engines, which will aggregate about one hundred horse
power, to the steam fire pump two and one-half inch, to the
deep well pump, so far as the outside of the boiler room, two
and one half inch, to the boiler feed pump, one inch, to the
laundry, three inch, so far as the inside of the laundry room,
to the hot water heaters two inch, and to the kitchen one and
one-quarter inch so far as the inside of the kitchen room.
The sizes above given are to be considered approximate,
as portions of the work are not yet determined, and may be
varied to meet the requirements of the work as it progresses.

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BOILER PUMP.

Furnish and place a No. 4 Knowles heavy pressure
pump for hot water, bolted to foundation stone slab six inches thick, of proper length and breadth, bush hammered surfaces and margin drove edges, this stone resting on substantial rubble stone foundation built as directed.

Connect this

pump, in steam to high pressure steam pipe, with one-inch
pipe, in exhaust with one and one quarter inch pipe to the
common exhaust leading to the hot water boilers, in suction
with the soft water cistern with two inch pipe, with the discharge pipe from hot water boilers with one and one half
inch pipe, and with the hot water condense tank with twoinch pipe, and in delivering to the boilers as before specified
with one and one-half inch pipe.
Furnish for the foregoing connectious all the necessary
valves, throughway where angle valves cannot be used, for
full operation including strainer and foot valve placed within
one foot of the bottom of the soft water cistern.
CONDENSED WATER TANK.

Furnish a tank three feet in diameter, and six feet ex- .
treme length, heads braced to stand seventy pounds cold water pressure, at which pressure the tank shall be tight, made
of one quarter inch 0. H. number one boiler plate, heads
five-sixteenths inch flange plate, and furnished with one-inch
Scotch water gauge two feet, six inches long, with guards
and with upper and lower one and one-quarter inch valves
with blow off cock.
Support the tank on iron saddles resting on three-inch
stone flag placed within a niche in the boiler-room wall above

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the level of the boiler pump, the niche to be cut out and
lined with brick so as to be substantial and neat in appearance.
Provide inlet one and one-quarter inch at bottom of
tank with steam trap, Walworths number Two, and branch the
inlet to reach the kitchen with one-inch pipe, the laundry
coils with one and one-quarter inch pipe, and the hot water
boilers with one and one-quarter inch pipe, and in each
branch put in either an angle or a gate valve. Also connect
the inlet pipe on the tank side of the steam trap with the return main on the sewer side of the five-inch gate valve, with
one-inch pipe and valve, so as to either fill the tank from the
main, or blow off through the main.
In like manner connect with the hot water boilers with
one and one-quarter inch pipe for service when exhaust
steam is used in the hot-water boilers, all valves to be either
angle or gate valves.
Also connect the tank with the boiler pump as before
specified, and put in one-inch vapor and air pipe with valves
extending to the open air.
THE STEAM MAINS.

Make the steam mains throughout of wrought iron, perfect pipe, of sizes and in positions as marked on the plans.
The twelve-inch main will start at the boiler room from the
center of a twelve-inch wrought iron steam drum, having blank
flanges at the ends, and extending over both heating boilers.
Within the plenums, in a few places, the mains will cut
through or above brick arches, which cutting is not indicated
on the plans.
Put an angle valve in each nine-inch main branch leading
from the basement of the administration building to each wing.

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Pitch the mains in the direction of the flow of the steam,
not less than three inches per hundred feet.
Carry the mains as near the ceiling as possible, raising by
special fittings to a higher level, whenever the down pitch
makes it desirable.
Take all branches from T's looking up, and. no branch
except from an appropriate fitting.

To reduce the number of

fittings on pipe six inches and larger, branches not exceeding
six in number, where near together, may be taken from a single T, through appropriate sized pipe, providing that in this
case, as in all others, expansion and contraction be amply provided for by return bends, swing joints, or other appropriate
method, all to be subject to approval.
At two points in the length of the twelve-inch main, at
each reduction of size of the mains, and at each change of direction, if directed, drip the steam mains by bottom outlets
to the return mains, using one and one-quarter inch pipe for
mains five inches and larger, and one-inch pipe for mains
smaller than five inches. Also continue the end of each main
full size into the return main.
SUPPORTING STEAM MAINS.

Support the twelve-inch main and drum in the boiler
room, from single standard of four-inch wrought iron pipe,
the upper end screwed into a cast iron saddle with convex
upper surface, and the lower end screwed into a cast iron
plate with convex bearing surface to provide for expansion in
the main. Support the lower plate from dimension stone two
feet six inches by two feet six inches by six inches, on six
inches of concrete.
Tie the ends of drum to vertical steam main by using
three-quarter inch rods with turn-buckles for adjustment.

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Truss the steam main between the shop and chapel buildings, using two one and one-quarter inch rods, having turnbuckles for adjustment, and collars at the ends securely clasping the main. Screw the two center struts into a cast iron
saddle supporting the main, and into a cast plate with grooves
on the under side to receive the rods.
Similarly truss the main in crossing the engine room.
Where the steam main crosses the walls of the shop
building, and the outside wall of the chapel building, bed in
putty on top of a stone the width of the wall, two feet long
and five inches thick, a cast iron plate twelve inches by twelve
inches by one inch, and place a cast iron concave roller between each plate and the main. At all other crossing of walls
by the twelve inch main use similar rollers and iron plates,
the latter bedded in mortar on the brick work of the wall.
Through the chapel building, the main will be sufficiently
supported by the walls as above.
Through the connecting corridor, at,d within the base"
rnents, for all mains larger than five inches, use wrought iron
adjustable hangers with concave cast iron rollers to slide on
their axles sufficiently to provide for movement perpendicular
to the main. Support the adjustable bolt of the hanger from
a cast iron knee bolted to the side of the joist, one every eight
feet for twelve-inch pipe, every ten feet for ten-inch and nineinch pipe, and every twelve feet for pipe less than nine inches.
All steam mains five inches and under, and all other
steam connecting pipe for both direct and indirect radiation,
may be supported every twelve feet, with adjustable pipe
hangers screwed into the joists, or with looped, bright chain
made adjustable, or by special device where necessary for expansion and contraction.

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THE RETURN MAINS.

The sizes and positions of the return mains are shown on
the plan s. They will be laid in exact grade, pitching toward
the boilers only sufficiently to empty the pipes if desired.
SUPPORTING THE RETURN MAINS.

Hang all return mains, except the five-inch, from the
pipe brackets on which the indirect radiators rest, by means
of bright chain of appropriate size, made adjustable in its
connection with the radiator bracket, or use pipe hangers.
Where the distance between the stacks of radiators exceeds twelve feet, the mains can be similarly suspended from
the same height from one-half inch pipe, bent to a right angle, one end sulphured into drilled holes in the wall, aud the
other having a foot plate resting on the concrete floor.
Support the five-inch main every ten feet through the
pipe duct, on three-quarter inch pipe bent to a right angle,
let into the wall and resting on the floor as above, running
the horizontal portion of the pipe through a cast iron concave
roller on which the return main will rest.
Within the boiler room, support the main on one-inch
pipe rollers laid on the flagging floor.
At the entrance to the boiler room, put a throughway
valve in the main, and continue the main full size under both
boilers.
INDIRECT RADIATION.

Furnish, place, and connect for indirect radiation, cast
iron, extended surface, pin radiators of the Gold patent, center, planed surface connections and couple-bolted, all in strict
accordance with the sizes, places, and square feet of radiating

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surface marked on the plans, the surface to be counted at
eight and one-half square feet of surface per section.
A sample section can be seen at the asylum, and in
weight, strength, finish, number and length of the pins, this
section will be made the standard.
Join the sections together with paper gaskets, using a
thin mixture of red lead and oil.
Supply each stack of radiators with the Davis, finished,
automatic air valve properly connected and placed in accessible position.
Support each stack of radiators at uniform height on two
three-quarter inch pipe brackets, each bracket made of one
piece of pipe neatly bent to an uniform angle of sixty degrees,
the ends let into drilled holes in the wall, not less than eight
inches deep, and sulphured in.
So far as practicable, the different stacks of radiators in
tbe same line will be brought out to an uniform distance from
the wall, the space between the back of the smaller stacks and
the wall being filled in with galvanized iron laid on the brackets.
ENCLOSING THE RADIATORS.

To enclose the radiators use best twenty-ounce duck,
hung from the plenum ceiling, as per detail, extending six
inches below the bottom of the radiators, and painted on
the radiator side with one heavy coat of silicate paint. The
duck will be tacked to a dressed pine strip, three and one-half
inches by seven-eighths inch, the strip nailed to two-inch by
one-inch strips in turn nailed through the plastering to the ceiling joists. At the angle between the three and one-half inch strip
and tbe ceiling, use one-inch fillet, and cover the duck where

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tacked, with one and one-quarter inch moulding. The duck,
similarly, will be tacked to vertical strips nailed to the brick
wall, and made air tight, the joint and tacking hidden by fillet as above. Make the curtain in two pieces with neatly
sewed vertical joint at one exterior corner, and turn wide hem
at the bottom. Keep the duck from coming in contact with
the radiators by using wire screen guard of number fourteen
wire, two-inch rnesh, eight inches wide, extending from wall
to wall along the ends and front of the radiators.
A piece of duck as a standard can be seen at the office of
the Superintendent.
Paint with silicate paint, two coats, the plastered ceiling
above the radiators.
Where connecting pipes and air valve pipes pass through
the duck, cut away to give a margin of one inch around the
pipe, and neatly and sufficiently rivet to the <iuck a collar of
heavy spun tin or galvanized iron, with hole in the center the
diameter of the entering pipe.
All the foregoing enclosing and placing of radiators must
be done in general as shown and specified, but in detail as
directed, so as to make a substantial, neat and workmanlike
appearance.
Paint neatly on the duck the story and hall heated by the
enclosed stack.
The radiation shown on the kitchen floor of the chapel
building and in the basement of the administration building,
will be indirect, as before specified, supported as in the plenums, with the top of the radiator one foot below the ceiling.
Enclose each of the foregoing stacks with number twenty-six refined, galvanized iron, extending from eight inches
below the ceiling to within ten inches of the floor, riveted and

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made tight, the iron receding from the face of the radiator at
its lower front edge at an angle of forty-five degrees to within six inches of the wall, from which point it will drop vertically to within ten inches of the floor, forming there an opening six inches by the length of the radiator for the admission
of air.
CONNECTIONS TO INDIRECT RADIATORS.

The general method is shown, the steam taken from the
top of the main and entering the front section, using three
elbows and an angle valve for each stack. The return, leaving
the rear section and entering the top of the return main, using
one elbow and one angle valve. Modifications of this general
method may be necessary to meet peculiar situations, or to
provide for sufficient expansion and contraction.
Generally, also, the sizes of the connections are marked
on the plans. Where not so marked, follow the table hereinafter given, or in special cases with long connecting pipes,
make the sizes as directed.
AIR SUPPLY.

Construct boxes of number twenty-six, refined, galvanized iron, riveted and made tight for suDplying fresh air to
the plenums, wherever such are marked on the plans. These
boxes will start with the area of the outside window, which
will be hinged at the bottom, so as to either close the window,
or form part of the boxing, and the boxes will take the sizes
at the ceiling and beyond as marked.
Control the entering air supply at the inside of the plen.
um wall with wooden slide doors.
All brick work must be cut and repaired by the contractor.

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TIN AiR FLUES.

Nine flues leading from the basement of the administration building to rear rooms, will require each a tin hot air
flue, each twelve inches by twelve inches, and not more than
four feet long, to cross the closets near the ceiling at the rear
of the rooms; the tin to be X bright tin.
DIRECT RADIATION.

Furnish and place for the shop building, for the chapel
building, except the kitchen story, for the fourth story of the
administration building, and for the bath rooms where required by the plans, cast iron, vertical loop, direct radiators,
made by the Detroit Steam Kadiator Co., all in accordance
with the distribution and amounts of heating surface shown
by the plans, each loop thirty-six inches in height to be counted as four square feet of heating surface.
Furnish with the radiators for the fourth story, and the
bath rooms open, iron, ornamental tops, bolting the tops to
the radiators, and securely fastening the radiators to the walls
in the bath rooms of the wards. The shop and chapel radiators will be without tops.
For the chapel room, use the Walworth, vertical, fourpipe radiator, with open base and ornamental top, in sizes
and positions as marked.
Enclose these radiators at the ends, and for six inches
from the ends along the front, from the floor to the top of the
radiator, with Russia sheet iron, made tight to the wainscot
ing with nickel, large headed screws, and held to each radiator
at top and bottom with one and one-quarter inch brass band,
passing from wall to wall over the front and ends of the radiator. Also cover over the space between the back of each ra-

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diator and its top with Russia iron, and cover the wainscoting
at the back of the radiators with bright tin.
For each chapel room radiator, cut through the outside
wall just above the shoe of the wainscoting, and put in galvanized iron flues twelve inches by eight inches, turned to
form an opening twelve inches by six inches, looking down on
the outside of the wall. At the interior opening of each flue,
place a tightly fitting register with valves, arranged with rod
and nickel plated cap, to be opened from the chapel room
above the radiators.
Furnish for each direct radiator an all-brass, nickel-plated, wood-handled radiator air valve. Also, furnish for each
radiator a steam and return angle valve of the size required
by the connecting pipe.
STEAM DISTRIBUTION.

So far as is practicable, the sizes and positions of risers
and branches are marked on the plans. Where not so marked,
follow the general scdle hereinafter given, except that for a
long single connection, the pipe may be increased one size at
the option of the Superintendent
For all except the first story of the shops and the bath
rooms, the distribution is generally on the ceiling below the
radiators to be supplied.
Dotted lines on the first story of the shop and chapel
buildings, indicate that the return pipes are carried below the
flagging or other floor. For this purpose prepare a trench in
concrete of suitable size, and re-cover so as to give ready access to the pipe.
Drip each steam riser at its foot with three-quarter inch
pipe for one and one-quarter inch riser, and one-inch pipe for

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risers larger than one and one-quarter inches, and carry the
drip into the return main, or into the return riser below the
water-line of the boiler, except that a short connection supplying a single radiator need not be dripped.
For all steam and return pipes, risers, and mains, which
pass through ceilings, floors, or stud partitions, use Wall
worth's fire-proof floor packing, having frame, ceiling, and
floor plates, and asbestos packing complete.
Off-sets may be made by bending the pipe, but the bending must be done uniformly or symmetrically in both directions so as to present a neat appearance.
AIR CURTAINS.

After the pipes are all in place and covered, make a tight
partition in the pipe duct on the boiler room side at the point
where the duct enters the air tower, by using for the partition two thicknesses of twenty-ounce duck, painted each thickness with one coat of silicate paint, the pipes passing through
the curtain partition, which will be made tight around each
pipe by flanging out the holes in the curtain, and using a
gathering string, so as to allow travel in the pipes.
At the entrance from the fan tower to each air duct, hang
on rollers, curtains of twenty-ounce duck, unpainted, having a
three-inch round stick in the bottom of each curtain, and arranged with pulleys and cords for raising and lowering, all to
be neat and workmanlike and to serve the intended purpose.
VALVES.

For all angle valves, use the Jenkins patent disc throughout, and in each case where an angle valve cannot be properly placed, use Ludlow's best, throughway, single-gate valve.

Valves two and one-half inches and above are to be iron
bodies, brass mounted, with gun metal seats, and swivel discs.
Valves two inches and under to be of gun metal. As a standard the Walworth best valves are named.
The five, six, and eight-inch valves in the boiler room to
have finished flanges to be provided with yokes, and to be in
all respects subject to approval.
The direct radiator valves, and the indirect radiator
valves of the administration building, basement and kitchen
to have rough bodies, nickel plated and rosewood handles.
All valves in the boiler and engine rooms two inches and
under, will have rough bodies, nickel-plated and wood handles.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

In all piping, both horizontal and vertical, the evil effect
of expansion and contraction must be sufficiently guarded
against by methods satisfactory to the Superintendent.
All pipes and mains except risers must drip in the direction of the flow of the steam or water, be placed in exact line,
and to an uniform grade, and with equal bearing on the supports.
No steam or return pipe must in any case corne in contact with wood, or vegetable fibre of any kind.
All pipe unless excepted will be of best and perfect,
standard wrought iron, the size named by its internal diameter, pipe one and one-half inch and larger lap-welded, one
and one-quarter inch and below butt-welded.
All fittings to be best, heavy cast iron of good finish, the
threads clean cut, tapering and uniform, and heavily beaded.
As a standard the Walworth fittings are named.
Black all radiators and connecting branches, risers, etc.,
the boiler fronts, and all other pipes not to be covered, with

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black baking Japan varnish, and in addition, ornament the
radiators of the chapel room with gold bronze in approved
designs, all to be done after the work is in place.
No rubber packing will be used For flanged joints use
Sander's metalic, corrugated packing.
Use flanged unions wherever the necessities of the work
require.
The whole heating system must be constructed so as to
work noiselessly, without snapping or concussion in the pipes.
Test the whole system for tightness and expansion with
thirty pounds of steam pressure maintained at the boilers,
each valve to be tested separately for tightness.
Follow primarily the sizes of pipe as marked. When
not marked the following tables will be the guide.
To supply 40 square feet of surface or less, 1 inch pipe.
62
do
do
do
do
1J
92
do
do
do
H do
do

do

do

2

do

do

170
272

do

do

OX

do

do

424

do

do

3

do

do

do

do

637
928

do

do
do

1215
1630

do
do
do

31
4
41

do
do

do
do

2650

do

4077

do

do
do

do
do
do
do
do

6016
8586
11920
16166
21500

do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
do
do

do
do

2

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

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To d r a i n 40 square feet of surface or less, f inch pipe.
do
77
do
do
1
do
do
do
127
do
do
1*
do
222
do
do
do
1*
do
494
do
do
2
do
do
981
do
do
do
2*
do
1875
do
do
3
do
do
3176
do
do
do
3*
do
5850
do
do
4
do
do 12485
do
do
do
41
do 21500
do
do
5
do

Plumbing Specifications.
COLD WATER TANKS.

Furnish and place with all connections, valves, etc., complete, four tanks in the attics of wings, in accordance with
the plans, each tank twelve feet in diameter, and nine feet six
inches high, made with flanged bottom and top, and vertical
seams on sides, of steel tank plate, one-eighth of an inch full
thickness, riveted with three-eighths inch rivets, one and onequarter inches from centers, tightly calked, and made perfectly tight when overflowing, the tanks all placed on exactly
the same level.
Also in closet of fourth story of administration building,
place a tank as per the foregoing specifications, but four feet
diameter, and nine feet six inches high.

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Overflow each tank through three-inch wrought iron
pipes passing through the roof, having elbow above and close
to the roof, and short piece of pipe beyond the elbow looking
down the roof, and provided at the end with a wire screen
guard. Above the roof fit the overflow pipe with a galvanized collar, running up the pipe under the elbow, and worked
into the slating to insure tightness.
Provide for each tank a three-inch inlet, four inches
above the bottom of tank, with valve, and beyond this valve
join fire service two and one-half inch pipe to the inlet pipe.
From the bottom of each tank take with valve one inch
waste pipe, discharging into the gutter at the eaves.
Provide each service pipe, the sizes of which are marked,
with a valve and a suitable copper strainer.
Make all inlets aud outlets through cast iron saddles riveted on.
Make a manhole fifteen inches by eighteen inches into top
of each tank, with cast iron saddle, riveted to the tank, the
seating surfaces of the saddle and cover to be planed, and
the cover firmly secured with bolts and nuts.
Support the ward tanks from the walls now built for
that purpose, each on seven, seven-inch, wrought iron rolled
beams, each fourteen feet long, the ends resting on four-inch
by sixteen-inch solid oak planks bedded in mortar the full
length of the brick work forming the tank foundation. Similarly support the tank in administration building, on three
five-inch beams, each six feet long.
On the floor under each tank, place a drip pan of number twenty, best, refined, galvanized iron, riveted, soldered,
and made tight, with the sides turned up six inches, so as to
receive all the condensed moisture from the tank; and from

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the drip pan carry one-inch lead waste pipe, delivering with
twelve-inch water seal into the nearest pipe shaft or gutter.
Paint the tanks inside and out, the drip pans both sides
and the beams, each with two heavy coats of iron clad, mineral paint.
Arrange two wooden signal dials, to indicate the depth
of water in the tanks, operated by the means of wire cord
passing over pulleys down through the overflow pipe, or
stand pipe to wooden floats within the tanks, the dials to be
seen at points outside the building as directed, one each side
of the administration building.
SINKS.
Furnish, place and connect, as shown by the plans, best
cast iron, painted sinks, without backs, supported on brackets
and having an opening made through the top of the rim to
the patent overflow, so that the overflow passage can be
cleaned out.
No wood work of any description will be required, except that necessary to bring the brackets out, so as to leave
an open space between the sinks and the wall.
The numbers and sizes are as follows:
'25 sinks,
2 feet 6 inches
by 20 inches
by 6 inches
2 "
2 " 0 "
" 18 "
" 6 "
3 ••
5 •' 0 " '
" 28 "
" 10 "
1 »
3 " 0 "
" 22 "
" 7 "
SLOP SINKS.
Furnish and put up with all connections complete sixteen
best, cast-iron, painted slop sinks, one for each bath room of
the wards except two, furnished with strainer and outlet one
and one-half inches, supported on sink brackets clear of the
wall.

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BATH TUBS.

Furnish and place complete for the bath rooms of the
wards, eighteen cast-iron, best and perfect, painted, sixty-six
inch bath tubs, and for the bath rooms of the chapel building, two bath tubs as above, each tapped with bottom inlets
for three-quarters inch pipe, and connected for one and onehalf inch waste.
Tap through the rims over the patent overflows, to make
openings the full size of the overflow for cleaning out.
Furnish, place and connect for the bath rooms of the administration building, two of Mott's porcelain-lined, sixtv-six
inch, French, bath tubs, with supply fixtures and McFarland's waste and overflow, and hard wood rims, all complete
as per plate 20 D of Mott's 1884 sheet.
WASH BOWLS.

Furnish, place and connect for all the lavatories of the
wards, as shown, cast iron, enameled, sectional, slabs and
bowls complete, as per Mott's plate 96, with brackets built
into the wall, brackets drilled for six screws each, the backs
of the sinks secured to the wall, and all made very firm and
secure. There are eighteen lavatories which will require sixteen double sections, and two single sections, the single
bowls to go in the corners if required.
Furnish as above single wash bowls, two for the general
kitchen floor, and three for the shop building, located as
shown.
Furnish, place and connect, for the administration building, as shown, Mott's best, oval, English, marbled, earthenware washbowls, with Italian marble, countersunk and

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moulded tops, two feet four inches by one foot eight inches
by one and one-quarter inches, and Italian marble, moulded
backs eight inches high, and seven-eighths of an inch thick,
the backs secured with large headed, nickel plated screws,
and the bowls ground to the slabs to make a watertight joint,
and secured by set screws through metai lugs on the bowls.
Support the stands on wood legs with four-inch, moulded and beaded wood rim under the edge of the slabs, the
woodwork black walnut, perfect and highly finished.
Furnish for each bowl, best rubber stopper and chain,
the chain extra heavy for the wards.
WATER CLOSETS.

For the wards furnish, place and connect, complete in
every respect, forty-two of Mott's straight back, iron, enameled, flushing rim hoppers, page-39-B., having two and onequarter inch outlets, and furnished with wooden rim, selfraising seats, with chain, weights etc., page 78-B., all located
as shown by the plans.
With each hopper use Mott's No. 11, after-wash cistern, except that the cistern must be made of wood, dovetailed
at corners, lined throughout with four-pound lead, the lead
not strained or thinned at the corners.

Connect cisterns

with the hoppers with one and one-quarter inch lead pipe,
and put one half inch valve in each supply pipe for shutting
off.

Make the lever extra long to allow the weight and the

chain and pulley connection between the hoppers and cisterns,
to pass either back of the brick wall, or inside a painted and
finished boxing on the wall, so that the chain and weight shall
be inaccessible.

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Bolt each hopper securely to a short, flanged, floor connection, made of cast iron, and connecting with the soil pipe
with calked, lead joints.
Furnish for the shop and chapel buildings four of Mott's
short, flushing rim, best, English, earthenware, ventilated
hoppers, and ventilated, earthenware traps, with enameled
slop safe and hard-wood seat, all complete, as per plate 80B., except that the cistern shall be wood, lead lined, with
.lead one and one-quarter inch connections, all as specified for
the wards.
Make the connection between the trap and the soil pipe
as specified for the ward hoppers.
Furnish for the administration building, five of Mott's
plate 90-B. Inodora. best, English, all earthenware water-closets, with seat and trap ventilation, brass couplings, and
percelain slop safes, and flanged floor connections, which may
be either brass or iron, bolted to the flange of the closets.
Furnish with each closet as above a No. 10 ready supply
cistern with lead one and one-quarter inch service pipe and
lead one-half inch supply pipe with valves, all as shown by
the plate before named, except that the cisterns shall be
wood, lead lined as before specified.

Or, at the option of the

Board, furnish for the administration building Waring's Dececo, all earthenware closets, to be operated by the MeyerSniffen Co. Em Ess cisterns, otherwise as before specified.
Furnish for each closet of the administration building,
sn ornamental, heavy, black walnut, finished and moulded,
hinged seat, without cover, resting on approved legs and
frame.
In general, the wood-work of the cisterns, seats, etc., must
be highly finished, and all lead pipes, or brackets of cisterns

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must be securely fastened to hard wood, moulded, wide
strips, black walnut for the administration building, ash elsewhere, secured to the walls, and in the wards the cisterns
must be placed near the ceiling.
URINALS.

For the wards, use as required by the plans, fourteen
iron, enameled, lipped urinals, flat or corner, with ventilating
hood, flushing rim, brass fan, three-fourths inch supply, and
one-inch waste couplings complete.
For the administration, shop and chapel buildings, use,
as required by the plans, six Armstrong's, best, English,
earthenware, small, lipped, automatic, syphoning urinals, corner or flat, as necessitated by the position ; or, at the option of
the Board, use as above any wash-out, hooded and ventilated
urinal called for.
For each urinal throughout, use the Kelly tank and stop
and waste cock complete, the cock nickel plated, with lead or
galvanized iron three-fourths inch connections, arranged with
large platform neatly set in the floor, connected in best manner to fill and discharge the tank.
In ihe wards conceal the operating chain and cock back
of the wall, or in boxing on the wall, and throughout cover
the platforms with four-pound sheet lead, beaten neatly over
moulded strips on the outside upper surface of the platforms.
For wood backing of brackets, lead pipes, etc., apply the
provisions relating to water closets.
FAUCETS, COCKS, ETC.
All urinal and water closet cistern supplies to be shut off
with brass cocks, nickel plated.

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Furnish all sinks, slop sinks and wash bowls, with Zane's
self-closing faucets, plain, five-eighth inch for hot and cold
water for the sinks and slop sinks, except that the third and
fourth story and kitchen sink and slop sink faucets will be
three-quarter inch, and for the wash bowls, nickel plated,
one-half inch throughout, in cold water only for the ward
bowls, in both hot and cold water elsewhere.
Place faucets for hot and cold water in the basement of
the connecting corridor for drawing water as shown.
Furnish each hot and cold water faucet of first story and
basement, with a neat and suitable air chamber.
Use for painted bath-tub inlets, throughout, the Fuller
three-quarter inch cock, in straight run of iron or lead pipe
for hot and cold water, and for the wards provide each inlet
with lock shield and socket key.
COLD WATER DISTRIBUTION.

Except for the chapel and shop buildings, the cold water
supply will be distributed from the tanks with valve in iron
pipes, the sizes of which are marked generally through the attics.

The branches will reach the sinks three-quarters inch,

the slop sinks three-quarters inch, the wash bowls one-half
inch, the water closets and urinals as before specified or required by the cisterns, the bath tubs three-quarters inch, except for the third story one inch.
In every case not marked or specified, the pipe must be
put in as directed, proportioned amply in size in accordance
with the size last shown, and the sizes at the fixtures.
The lavatories and sinks of the wards will be supplied
with down pipes from the attics, outside the walls, the down-

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falls one and one-quarter inches for third story, one inch for
second story, and three-quarters inch for first story.
The bath, water closet, slop sink and urinal supplies for
the wards will pass down the pipe shafts, one and one-half
inches for third story, one and one-quarter inches for second
story, and one inch for first story, except for the pipe shafts
in divisions A. and No. 1., in which the pipes shall be increased
one size for each story.
Make the sink downfalls of the administration building
one and one-quarter inches for the fourth and third stories,
one inch for the second and first stories, and three-quarters
inch after last branching in the basement.
Make the bath room downfall in the pipe shaft of the
administration building as above, but three-quarters inch for
the first story.
Make the water closet downfall within the pipe shaft of
administration building, one inch for fourth, third and second
stories, three-quarters inch for first story, and continued
three-quarters inch to dispensary.
Take from the water main in the duct a two inch branch
with valve, as hereinafter described, and from this branch,
which must be carried full size to the inside of the laundry
room, supply the bowls, hoppers, urinals and hot water boilers of the shops in sizes as directed. Also take from the water main in the pipe duct as above, with valve, a branch one
and one-half inches for supplying the general kitchen floor,
branching to baths, hoppers, urinal and sinks as shown or directed.
COLD WATER MAINS.

Make the cold water main, starting outside the foundation wall of boiler room, nearest the deep well, and con.

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tinued through the pipe duct, branching at center basement,
with valves in the branches, to risers which supply thb first
wing tanks, of four-inch, cast iron, socket pipe, three-eighths
of an inch thick, to weigh not less than one hundred and
ninety-eight pounds pel twelve-foot length, hubs included.
Beyond the first wing tanks, and for risers to all the tanks,
use three-inch, cast iron pipe as above, weighing not less than
one hundred and sixty-two pounds per twelve-foot length,
with valves at the tanks.
Support the pipe through the pipe duct and basement in
the manner described for the return steam mains, making the
grade the same.
Connect at the boiler room, the water main with the fire
main, and put a valve in the connection.
Take no branchas from the main except a branch to supply the shop building, and a branch to supply the chapel
building, both as before specified. These branches, after
leaving the pipe duct, will each discharge into the bottom of
a length of wrought iron, eight-inch pipe, in vertical position
on the walls as marked, to serve as air chambers, and the discharge will be taken from the same blank flange on the bottom of the eight-inch pipe through which the supply enters.
F I R E PUMP.
Furnish, place and connect complete, except steam supply, best, Knowles' fire pump, in which the following requirements are specially named; steam cylinder eighteen-inch, water cylinder ten-inch, stroke twenty-four inch, suction eight
inches, made with the very greatest care, with planed joints,
finished flanges, and fine finish throughout.

Steam cylinder

handsomely lagged with black walnut and brass bands, hammered copper air chamber, bronze bushing in water cylinder,

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and drawn composition rod, the pump made double cap, and
in.every particular very strong. In all points not specially
named the pump must follow the requirements of Knowles'
fire pumps. Or, at the option of the contractor, furnish the
Smith, Vaile & Co- fire pump, ail as above, except the water
cylinder to be removable, porcelain-lined, and the water piston
rod to be brass covered, and in all other points to follow the
requirements as for Knowles' fire pump.
Set the pump on a rubble stone foundation, laid in water
lime mortar, battered from firm ground up to level of engineroom floor. Above the noor lay two six-inch courses of rockfaced, jointed sand stone, carefully laid, with one and oneball' inch margins at the corners, and cap with two sand or
lime stone blocks, one for each cylinder, each six inches thick,
with fine bush hammered surfaces and margin-drove edges.
The bolts which fasten the pump to the foundation must be
securely anchored near the bottom of the foundation, and pass
through holes in the cap stone larger than the bolts.
Connect the pump with eight-inch, cast iron suction
pipe leading, below frost, to the bottom of the soft water cistern, or an equivalent distance at the option of the Board,
and put in best, approved foot-valve and strainer.
Also connect with the six-inch fire main with valve, and
cross connect between the fire main and the four-inch cold
water main with valve as before named, so that the deep well
pump and the fire pump can work together or singly for either fire or tank service.
Also connect with boiler feed pipe with valve to feed
boilers in case of necessity.
Carry exhaust pipe through roof to the open air.
Attach to one outlet of pump a two-way hose connection.

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FIRE MAINS AND RISERS.

From the fire pump carry not less than six-inch, cast
iron socket pipe through the pipe duct, supported on pipe
brackets as before described, to the basement of the administration building, from which point, branch with four-inch
socket pipe through basements, and outside to reach each
hydrant as located on the plans.
Make the six-inch pipe full five-eights of an inch thick,
weighing not less than five hundred and te« pounds per
twelve-foot length, and the four-inch pipe one-half inch
thick, weighing with the hubs two hundred and seventy-six
pounds per twelve-foot length.
Where one-eighth curves cannot be used, increase the
elbow or T. one size in the sizes smaller than six inches, this
to hold good at the joining of the mains with the risers.
From the main as before described, take two and onehalf inch, wrought iron continuations to the extremes of the
basement as shown, a riser to each of the five, tanks, one riser
each in divisions, A., No. 1., F. and No. 6., and two in the
chapel building.
Connect each tank riser with supply pipe to tank as before described, and close other risers at top with a plug.
From each riser to tanks and elsewhere, take connections
with two-inch, best, approved hose valves, to each story of
the wards, administration and chapel buildings, to the basement of the administration building, and one connection to
attic of chapel building, making thirty for the wards, five for
the administration building, and seven for the chapel building.
Between the upper hose valve and the tank, put in each

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tank riser a Crane, best, patent check-valve, to prevent discharge into tanks daring fire service.
Portions of the mains in the basement shown dotted,
must go under the basement floor, encased in one and onehalf inch of Portland cement, surrounded with three inches
of good concrete.

Dig trenches for pipe outside the building

to even grade, and in refilling thoroughly ram and compact
the earth.
HYDRANTS.

Place and connect as shown, seven Geo. C. Morgan's
patent hydrants, with jackets, brass valve and seal, to bury
four and one-half feet, having two two and one-half inch discharge nozzles each.
HOSE.

Furnish and connect to the hose valves, two-inch, rubber-lined, three-ply, cotton, Baker fabric, fire hose, with automatic couplings, and twenty-inch brass pipes with cocks.
These to be divided between the outlets as directed, an average of sixty feet of hose for each outlet.
Furnish, with automatic couplings, four hundred feet of
two and one-half inch, four ply, fire hose of the novelty
brand, made by the Gutta percha and Rubber Manufacturing
Co., or other approved brand, and two brass thirty-inch pipes
with swivel handles.
WASTE AND VENTILATING PIPES AND TRAPS.

Use throughout, unless excepted, best, extra heavy soil
pipe and fittings, sound, smooth, of uniform thickness, of
a quality that can be readily cut, and to weigh per foot not
less than as follows:

Two-inch pipe two and one-half

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pounds, three-inch pipe nine and one-half pounds, four-inch
pipe thirteen pounds, five-inch pipe seventeen pounds, and
six-inch pipe twenty pounds, all to be asphaltuin coated.
All waste pipes will be continued two feet beyond the
outside wall, or to the sewer head or grease trap where the
waste enters such.
To provide against breakage from settlement of the
building, leave a clear space between the top of the pipes
and the outside walls through which they pass, and a clear
space under the pipes next the outside walls, by laying in
rough walls of brick.
The waste pipes will run without the walls, sink, lavatory and urinal wastes generally falling directly to the basement ceiling before entering the main soil pipe.
The main soil pipes and the urinal wastes will generally be located in the pipe shafts, the latter entering the soil
pipe near the bottom of the shaft.
All waste pipe running horizontally in the basements
will be kept above the floor, fastened to the side walls or ceilings, where such position is possible. Waste pipes, which
must be placed beneath the basement floor, after having been
tested, will be surrounded with one-half inch of Portland cement, then with three inches of good concrete, and t l- e floor
left in its original condition.
Leave fittings as directed for future connections with
kitchen and laundry wastes.
The general system adopted is that of trap ventilation,
the waste pipes continued up through the roof, and having
no traps at the bottoms, the ventilating1 pipes carried through
the roof, all with as few bends or angles as possible.
Make soil pipes and ventilating pipes of soil-pipes, four
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shaft as shown. Into this four-inch ventilating pipe carry
two-inch, trap ventilating pipes from the water-closets; and
from the bath tubs, the urinals, the slop sinks, or other fixtures that may be near the soil pipes, carry ventilating pipes
as above the full size of the trap used.
Make generally other vertical waste and ventilating pipes
two inches, and carry from each trap a ventilating connection
to the ventilating pipe, the full size of the trap used.
Make urinal wastes one-inch, either of lead or galvanized
iron.
Make outlets and traps from the various fixtures, each
and every outlet trapped as near the fixture as possible, in
sizes as follow:
Water closets of wards, three inches.
Other water closets four inches, or by using a reducer
may be three inches.
Bath tub outlets 1^ inches trap Ijinch.
Sink outlets
1£ "
" 1J "
Slop sink outlets 1^ "
" 1J "
Wash bowl
1£ "
" 1 "
Urinal
1
" 1 "
The connecting pipe between the fixture and the waste
pipe, except for water closets, the trap and the ventilating
connections to ventilating pipe, may be of lead extra heavy
and strong, the manner of connection to be approved.
Each trap must be furnished with a brass trap screw for
cleaning out, and every joint between lead and iron pipe
must be made by a brass ferrule soldered to the lead and
calked into the iron.
Each vertical pipe, in addition to its attachment to the
walls, must have a positive, permanent, approved support at
its foot.

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Wherever the plans call for ventilating pipe outside the
walls, put in four inch, standard, wrought iron pipe, galvanized, painted two coats as for tanks, joined at foot with the
underground sewer, and extending through the cornice and
ten feet up and along the roof with wire basket at top.
Into these ventilating pipes, connect the ventilating
branches from traps of sinks and wash bowl in front part of
administration basement, from traps of all fixtures in chapel
building, the connection in sizes as before specified.
Ventilate sinks of special kitchen and wash bowl in
steward's room, back to the ventilating pipe in the pantry.
Continue soil pipe past water closets in the shops full
size up and through the roof, and into these pipes ventilate
the traps of closets, urinals and wash bowls, except that the
ventilating pipe of wash bowl in boiler room can be carried
simply through the outside wall.
HOPPER AND HOOD VENTILATION.
For every tier of urinals throughout in the wards, put up
in the pipe shaft nearest thereto a four-inch, patent, spiral
seam, riveted pipe, made from No. Twenty-six, Birmingham
wire gauge, galvanized sheet iron, together with the fittings
therefor, carried above the roof to the outer air, and connect
the urinal hoods thereto with like pipe of the size required by
the urinal vent.
In each administration building pipe shaft, put a similar
four-inch pipe, and similarly connect thereto the ventilating
hood of the urinals, and the hopper ventilation of the water
closets.
The closets and urinals of the shop and chapel buildings
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to a near chimney flue as directed instead of up through the
roof.
Solder all joints and make the work as tight as possible.
HOT WATER BOILERS.

Furnish, place and connect, complete in every respect, so
as to use one or both with either live or exhaust steam, two
boilers for heating water for domestic purposes, located in
the engine room.
Make the shell ot each four feet in diameter with right
angle at the center, seventeen feet iong measured around the
exterior angle, and nine feet long measured along the interior
angle, of five-sixteeuths inch C. H., No. 1 iron. Make the
tube heads aud exterior heads of best flange iron, one-half
inch thick, so as to give a steam chamber at each end six
inches deep, and put in seven-eighths inch stay bolts, as directed, between the heads, screwed and riveted.
Put into each boiler, with four-inch centers each way,
twenty-five two-inch best, seamlees, brass tubes, iron pipe
size, weighing three and three-quarters pounds per foot, the
center tube to be twelve feet long, the tubes to be expanded
into the heads, so as to make a shoulder or groove on the inside of the heads, and beaded outside.
Near the angle, opposite the horizontal center tube, put
a manhole, having heavy cast iron, faced seating riveted to
the boiler, and heavy faced cover bolted thereto, aud opposite the center vertical tube, put a hand-hole.
Single rivet the boiler throughout with bast quality rivets, in size and spacing standard for the thicknesses of iron
used, and neatly, without scarring the boilers, and tightly
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On upper and lower heads place a man-hole as before described, and through the center of each take the eight-inch
exhaust steam connections, using a flange union, so that the
cover can readily be removed.
Take all other connections with the boiler through castiron saddles riveted thereto.
The boilers must be tested and be tight and perfect at
one hundred pounds cold water pressure per square inch,
both the water space and the stearn space.
Jacket the boilers, complete, in the manner described for
the heating boilers.
Support each boiler, one end looking up, one foot from
the floor, on three neat, heavy, cast iron, approved saddles,
having foundations prepared therefor.
CONNECTIONS TO THE BOILERS.
The connections will be a two and one-half inch feed
pipe near the bottom, a three-inch hot water pipe near the
top, a one and one-quarter inch condense water pipe leading
to condense tank, a two-inch surface blow-off at the top, a
two-inch sediment blow-off at the bottom, the blow-offs connected and leading to the sewer, and the entering and leaving
exhaust steam connections as before named, each with necessary valves or cocks.
Into the exhaust pipes between the valve and the boiler,
connect a two-inch live steam pipe with valve.
Into the two and one-half inch supply pipe connect as
above the return two and one-half inch pipe.
Collect the exhausts from the engines, about one hundred horse power, the deep well pump four inches, from the
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quarter inches, all into one eight-inch pipe, branching with
valves to the bottom inlet of each boiler, and continued in
single pipe from the top of each boiler in eight inch pipe
with valves to the twelve-inch steam main.
Arrange so that the engines and boiler pump can exhaust
to the open air at will. This does not include the exhaust
from the deep well pump.
On the one and one-quarter inch condense pipe leading
to the tank, between the tank and the steam trap, put a vertical glass cylinder three feet long and six inches diameter,
with brass, ornamental top and bottom, hell thereto by brass
clamp rods. Through this cylinder, both entering and leaving the bottom, take all the condense water from the hot water boilers. Arrange to shut it off, and empty it from onehalf inch pipe in bottom with stop cock.
HOT WATER DISTRIBUTION.

Supply each sink, slop sink and bath tub throughout,
and each wash bowl, except for the wards, with hot water
through outlets in sizes as required for like cold water service, and having faucets in size, kind and quality as specified
for the accompanying cold water supply.
Carry one and one-half-inch branch to inside of laundry
room, and leave fittings as directed for general and special
kitchen future connections.
The hot water mains will start from near top of boiler
three and one-half inches, follow the twelve-inch steam main,
suspended thereto, to the inside of the chapel building,
thence pass direct to, and through the attic of chapel, crossing from the roof of chapel to the administration building,
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as directed, thence branch with valves to the ward attics, and
branch to the various fixtures. The trunk ventilating flues
in the attics must not be cut, the pipes passing over or
around each flue.
At every point where a syphoa is formed, either long or
short, in which air can collect, a one-half inch air pipe must
be carried high above the top of the tanks.
Each main branch, except for the shop service, shall be
carried into a return pipe in the basements, passing back
through the pipe duct two and one-half inch, supported as
for steam return pipe, to the cold water inlet as before specified.
So far as practicable the sizes of both main, return and
branches are marked; in othe^ cases follow directions in accordance with the general scale.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Use throughout, wherever an angle valve cannot be used,
the best, Ludlow, single gate, throughway valves, in brass,
iron and composition as specified for steam valves.
Support and fasten all pipe securely and satisfactorily,
with pipe-hooks, or pipe rests to the walls or ceilings, using
ceiling and floor flanges, and in the wards hard-wood finished
strips on the walls, with neat bands over the pipes fastened
thereto.
Enlarge the upper length of all soil and ventilating pipe
which passes through the roof, and on the extreme end put a
wire basket guard.
Every precaution must be taken to thoroughly pour full,
and calk thoroughly with oakum and pure lead, all socket
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All lead work must be put up in the very best manner,
with wiped joints and cleats, so as to be substantial, straight
and neat.
No putty joints will be tolerated.
All pipes which show within rooms must be neatly
blacked.
All cast iron pipes must be made from best, soft, grey
iron, free from sand holes, of uniform thickness, and to have
a bath of coal tar and asphaltum.
All traps, valves, etc., must be put in so as to be readily
accessible for repairs, work under floors to have a portion of
the floor neatly cut out, and fastened with screws.
Wherever practicable make all junctures with Y branches, and use one-eighth curves rather than elbows.
The waste and ventilating pipe system throughout must
be tested, and must be absolutely tight when full of water,
from the lowest outlet to the highest outlet.
Test the cold and hot water mains and returns to eighty
pounds pressure at the pump.
Test the fire mains throughout with the full pressure of
the fire pump at eighty pounds steam pressure.

Accesibilitj of work
Additions
Advertisement
Air chamber
Air curtains
Air flues tin
Air supply
Air valves
Appeal
Bath tubs
Blacking pipes, radiators, etc
Boilers
Boiler fronts
Boiler covering, Heating
Boiler covering, Power
Boiler connections, Heating
Boiler connections, Power
Boilers, Heating, support of
Boilers, Power, foundations of
Boilers, Power, brick work of
Boilers, Power, iron work of
Boilers, Power, supporting
Boiler trimmings
Bond
Brackets for radiators
Branches from mains
Calking pipes
Ceiling plates
Completion of work
Conditions of contract
Coping of sandstone
Curves one-eighth inch
Damage to building
Dampers

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Deduction
Discharging workmen
Drip pan
Drip pipes
Exhaust pipes
Expansion....
Faucets, cocks, etc
Fire brick
Fittings, quality of
Fixtures, positions of
Flanged unions
Floor-packing
Floor packing
Floor-plates
Galvanized pipe
Gauges, steam
Gauges, water
General provisions
Grate bars
Hangers....
Holes in walls
Hose
Hose valves
Hot-water boilers
Hot-water boiler connections
Hydrants
Instructions to bidders
Lead pipe
Lead work
Lettering
Mains, cold water
Mains,
Mains, return
Mains, return, support of
Materials, quality of
Noise in pipes
Offsets
Oil-catcher
Packing
Painting

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PA&E.

Patented articles
Payments
Pipe, brass
Pipes, positions of. .
Pipe, quality of
Pipes, tables of sizes of
Piping
Proposals
Pump for Boilers
Pump,
fire
Putty joints
Radiation, direct.
Radiation, indirect
Radiation, enclosing of
Radiators for chapel
Radiators, indirect, connections to
Rejected work
Risers,
fire
Rollers
Schedule
Signal dials
Sinks
Slop-sinks
Smoke
flues
Spiral pipe....
Steam distribution
Steam drum, support of
Steam-mains
Steam-mains, support of
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Steam traps
Supporting pipes
Tanks, cold water
Tank, condensed water
Tanks, condensed water, connections to
Tanks, painting of
Testing
fire-mains
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Testing steam system
Testing waste pipes
Testing water distribution
Testing work

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Traps
Trusses of steam main
Urinals
Valves
Valves safety
Ventilating pipe
Ventilation of hoppers
Ventilation of traps
Ventilation of urinals
Wash bowls
Waste pipes
Waste pipes, positions of
Water closets
Water distribution cold
Water distribution hot
Wire baskets
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PROPOSALS.
Town, County anil State.)

1885.
jp0 fejerefrij propose, to furnish all the labor and materials of every
kind reguiredfor Heating and Plumbing the Northern Asylum for the Insane, at Traverse City, Michigan, all in strict accordance with Conditions and Specifications for doing
said work, adopted by the Board of Commissioners, a copy of which Conditions and Specifications is hereto attached, and in strict accordance with the plans for doing said work,
on file in the office of the Board of Commissioners, and in accordance with the schedule
of prices accompanying this proposal.
The_Eeating for the sum of
DOLLARS.
The Plumbing for the sum of
DOLLARS.
&nd

.pledge

to enter into a written contract

with the people of the State of Michigan, with good and approved securities, within ten
days after being notified that.

"bid has been accepted.

To C. M. WELLS, Building Superintendent.
Traverse City, Michigan.

GUARANTEE.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we,...

of the County of.

and State of Michigan, are held and firmly bound

unto the people of the State of Michigan, in the penal sum. of five thousand dollars, lawful money of
the United States, for the payment of which sum, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our
heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our seals and dated this

'

day of,

XL. D. 1885.

The Condition of tfc above obligation is such, that, whereas, the Board of Commissioners of the Northern. Asylum for the Insane for the State of Michigan, has advertised for bids or proposals for Heating
and Plumbing the slsylum Buildings at Traverse City, State of Michigan, in accordance with said advertisement, and with the plans and specifications prepared for the same, and on file in the office of said
Board of Commissioners, and whereas,
ha

by bid or proposal made subject to the condition

of the advertisement inviting the same} agreed to abide by, execute, carry out and perform all the provisions, conditions and requirements in said plans and specifications and advertisement contained for an
amount of money specified in said bid or proposal.
NOW THEREFORE, If the said
in case such bid
or proposal shall be accepted, and the, contract for said Heating and Plumbing, or for either Heating or
Plumbing, be awarded to
by said Commissioners, shall, within ten days after the acceptance of such bid or proposal by said Commissioners, enter into an agreement or contract, in writing, with the People of the State of Michigan,
and deliver the same to the said Commissioners, to perform and execute the said work of Heating or
Plumbing, or of both Heating and Plumbing, and to furnish and deliver all the materials therefor, required by the plans and specifications for the price mentioned in

bid or proposal,

and according to plans and specifications, and also
in

penal bond, in the sum named

contract, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the said Commission-

ers, binding

firmly

to carry out said contract or agreement in manner contemplated

and for the amount of money mentioned in said bid or proposal, to be paid in the manner therein stipulated; then this obligation to be null and void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect-

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