Eastern Pennsylvania Supply Co.'s line of quality plumbing fixtures was exhibited by Manager W. J. Stout.

The Graff Furnace Co. showed its line of ranges.

Eastern Specialty Mfg. Co.'s "Ivorine" white seats and a complete line of plumbing specialties were shown by F. H. Pratt and A. J. Zwiflieh. Matchbox holders were generously distributed from this booth.

Thomas Savill's Sons exhibited their famous "Swan Neck" faucet being extensively specified by architects throughout the country. "Bob" Savill was in charge.

In addition to the gentlemen manning the various exhibits mentioned above, we met: Messrs. J. A. Campbell and Wallace J. Qua, of the Wolverine Brass Works; D. Haas, Glauber Brass Mfg. Co.; J. C. McHugh, Jenkins Bros.; B. W. Weber, Trenton Potteries Co.; Wm. L. Bernard, Rickersberg Brass Co.; Geo. W. Barr, R. H. Saxton, United States Radiator Corporation; A. E. Kriebel, Vapor Vacuum Heating, Kriebel System; M. A. Walp, A. W. Thompson, Richmond Radiator Co.; Royal C. Williams, Williamsport Radiator Co.

which will cost $50,000.

The $50,000 high school at Palestine, Ill., will be heated and plumbed by the A. W. Murray Co., Hoopeston, Ill., and H. B. Krauel, Danville, Ill., will install the electric work.

The two-story and basement school addition, the erection of which will cost $55,000, will be heated by John O'Neill & Sons, 208 Main St., and Fred Siefert & Son, 207 N. Glendale St., all of Peoria, Ill., will install the plumbing.

M. L. Lester, 800 Main St., Peoria, Ill., is about to start the installation of the heating in the $6,000 residence owned by Mrs. J. L. Ballance and J. Bootorf, Averyville, Ill., will install the plumbing.

Ta meeting held by the Hackensack, N. J., Board of Health on May 20, the president appointed a board of examiners, according to Subject No. 9, Section 1, of the Sanitary Code, which provides that the Hackensack Board of Health shall annually appoint a board of examiners, whose duty it shall be to determine the qualifications of applicants for licenses to engage in business as master plumbers in the village of Hackensack. Said board of examiners shall consist of the plumbing inspector in the employ of the Board of Health, one master plumber and one journeyman plumber, etc.

President Altschuler made the following appointments: James T. Hutchison, master plumber, and Henry Spellman, journeyman plumber, who together with Robert Ballagh, plumbing inspector, will constitute the board of examiners.

finished in white enamel. The flush pipe was 11⁄2-inch brass, nickeled.

No lead bend was used for closet outlet, but instead a special iron fitting with twoinch vent connection as indicated. A wide window at end of bathroom provided sufficient ventilation and light. As will be noted, steel pipe was used for all branches and risers, making absolute screwed joints. The joist space was filled in with soundpreventing material.

Fig. 5 shows a modern shower installed, which space was formerly occupied by an unventilated water closet compartment, which had entry from rear hall. This was entirely ripped out and replaced by this upto-date fixture. This shower has access from large bathroom and the compartment and partitions tiled to match room.

A heavy porcelain receptor is built in the floor and walls, the tile finishing against it at top and sides. A two-inch

iron trap of deep seal was connected to waste and vent as indicated.

The nickel-plated combination shower and needle bath has a 101⁄2-inch tubular shower head, nickel-plated compression valves and check valves and plate-glass door with nickeled frame and handle.

The new bathroom on third floor was also sanitarily equipped, and the old laundry soapstone washtubs in basement replaced by modern porcelain roll rim wash trays.

With these model fixtures installed and new floors throughout the house the building was largely increased, not only in monetary value, but in its healthfulness, and the entire premises took on a new atmosphere. No doubt this installation will be an incentive for the surrounding community, in particular, to investigate its present plumbing and drainage systems and follow out the good and healthy example

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combination pantry faucet with plates. The supporting legs were brass pipes, nickel-plated; and the trap, 11⁄2-inch, of the same material. With floor and walls finished in glazed tile, this pantry outfit was beautiful and sanitary. To the left, Fig. 3, is the kitchen sink, of solid porcelain, with high, integral back and leg supports of the same material. The waste trap and pipe to wall were two inches, brass, nickel-plated. Hot and cold water was supplied through nickel-plated brass, %-inch compression faucets. Special portable drain boards were made to fit the roll-rim sink.

The modern bathroom equipment on second floor is shown in elevation on Fig. 4. The walls and floor were tiled similarly to kitchen and pantry. A heavy porcelain rollrim bath was placed in corner with end and back let into wall, so that tile could finish against it. The waste and overflow from tub was, at exposed end, 12-inch nickeled brass pipe connected to floor trap whose top had access by means of screw cap, flush with floor. The hot and cold combination supplies were built in wall, only the handles being exposed.

The lavatory was of heavy porcelain, with pedestal of some material, and supplied through low-down compression faucets with name plates. A nickel-plated, 11⁄2-inch trap whose outlet extended back to wall was vented and wasted as indicated. The closet was also of heavy porcelain, of siphon-jet flushing rim type. The high flush tank was of large capacity and its exterior

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started by our Larchmont friend. It is indeed surprising what a great improvement results from changing these old, unsanitary baths and toilets, and the owners or occupants are filled with such wonderment that they cannot imagine why they allowed unsanitary conditions to exist for such a lengthy period. The cost of the new fixtures alone in the above-mentioned house totaled $3,000.

Wonderful improvements in the construction of bathtubs have been made during the last quarter century; from the ancient zinc, tin-lined tub with wooden inclosure on up to the sanitary and artistic enameled and

solid porcelain, built-in tub of present-day installations. As a comparison of the present and former bathtubs of the Larchmont house we have reproduced on Fig. 6 sketch showing the tub originally installed. The woodwork in conjunction therewith weighed nearly ten times as much as the sheetmetal interior. By again referring to Fig. 4, showing the up-to-date corner tub, the difference is most noticeable.

Flat and tenement houses (assuming the old definition) are now provided with bathing facilities that could not be supplied years ago to wealthy residents. They had to put up with what was given them,

and no doubt were less concerned about sanitary appointments than the present-day tenant of even a cheap house. In these progressive days the first question generally asked by a prospective tenant is the location of and kind of fixtures in the bathroom. The other parts of the house may be thoroughly up to date, but if the bathroom is not suitable it is passed up to the next "customer," and be he of foreign lands or unacquainted with proper toilet facilities, from the lack of American sanitary education, he no doubt will grasp the proffered lease because the dining-room has a "Dutch" shelf. But in due time he ap