All the stop-cocks have removable handles. They are not kept on as shown in the illustration, but were put on, with the handles at right angles with the pipes, to show them more clearly. From each is a 3/8-inch waste-pipe to empty the part of the pipe beyond the cock when it is closed. These connect with the 1/4-inch pipes g g (finally increased to 1/2-inch) which discharge the waste from all the cocks into the under-drainage.

In the extreme left of the view, the pipe r (of brass, 1-inch) is a safe-waste from a sink, and the large pipe s a steam-heating pipe, canvas-covered.

The range, as is evident from the illustration, is remarkably extensive. It was, of course, made specially for this place, and with great pains. A plate-warmer, t, of iron, stands on the back part. There are two fire-boxes, u u, as already intimated; three baking-ovens, v v; a roasting-oven, w; a broiler, x; and beneath it an ash-bin, y.

The room is very large, and finished in a very substantial and durable, but simple style. The floor is of small, irregular broken chips of white marble rolled in a dark brown cement and afterward rubbed smooth. Around this, next the walls, is a black border five inches wide made of small (5/8-inch) squares of marble; inside of this is a narrower band (3-inch) of similar white marble blocks, and inside of this a single row of black squares. The walls, to the height of nearly four feet above the base-boards, which are of black marble, are finished in dove-colored marble capped by a border of black marble, and above that in white tiles having a simple blue pattern. All the projecting edges of the wall (as those of the piers at each end of the range) are covered by rounded strips of brass, fitted over the edges of both the intersecting faces of tile, and fastened with brass screws driven into wooden plugs inserted in holes drilled in the brick. All projecting face angles of tiled wall throughout the house are finished in the same way. There are several sets of white marble shelves in the angles of the wall, with backs of the same material, and under the windows, opposite the range, is a single shelf of marble, very large, with marble back and ends. It measures about two feet wide by twenty feet long and is two and a half inches thick. The sink shown on the right is cut from a single block of dove-colored marble.

In the butler's pantry, directly over a part of the kitchen, are two sinks of heavy white porcelain, each measuring about 18 x 30 inches, set in Italian marble slabs, with casings of cherry-wood. They have standing overflows, nickel-plated, with flaring tops to secure a more rapid escape of water. The supplies are 1/2-inch, and the waste 3-inch with 3-inch trap, from which is 2-inch vent. One sink has counter-cocks and the other "bibs" with long shanks - in both cases heavily nickel-plated and made specially for this place. Within a casing adjoining one of the sinks is a plate-warmer, consisting of a coil of 1-inch brass pipe, through which circulates hot water from the street-pressure kitchen-boiler having a direct return to the water-back, as already described in explanation of the illustration.

The architect under whose direction the work was done is Mr. Richard M. Hunt; the plumber is Mr. John Toumey.