Plumber, Trenton, N. J., writes:

"A party in Trenton is going to have hot and cold water in his house, but he has not much room in his kitchen, and the only place he can put the boiler is over the top of the range, with only 18 inches of room between the top of the range and ceiling, as shown in diagram. The boiler is a plain 35-gallon one. Will you please let me know through your paper if it will work, or if there is another way to fit it up, and oblige."

[There is nothing unusual in suspending a boiler horizontally above a range, and in either "Plumbing Problems," page 203, or in our issue of December 24 1885, may be found two very well arranged sets of horizontal boilers in connection with ranges.

With the arrangement you show in the diagram you send (the accompanying Figure) the circulation will be rather feeble. This may be improved somewhat by putting a "spud" on the boiler at a, taking the return circulation back to the water-back in that manner, as shown by the dotted lines. Then the cold water to the boiler can be fed into it through the usual connection, as shown at b, instead of into what is usually the bottom spud, as you show. The inside cold-water pipe will then be in its usual place, or it may be dispensed with, possibly to advantage, as then the cold water will not be admitted so near the point of outlet. In the pipe b a stop and check should be used, the latter to prevent hot water from being drawn through the cold pipe at the sink, which might follow under some conditions. In a galvanized-iron boiler an extra "spud" can be attached by tapping. Drill a three-quarter inch hole and expand or open it with a drift-pin until the three-quarter pipe tap will enter. This will thicken the edge of the hole sufficiently in the thin iron to get two or three good turns of the thread.]