In front of the roasting fire-place is a closet-screen, six feet wide, two feet deep, and six feet high, to keep all joints very warm. The plan of this screen differs from the common ones; the back, fronting the fire, is covered with iron sheeting; the front shuts in with sliding doors, forming two separate closets, the top being only sixteen inches high, and the lower four feet high, with two iron grated shelves; the doors being kept shut, there is always a regular heat. What renders this screen a perfect desideratum, are the two folding leaves at each end, fastened with hinges and completely inclosing the fire, thereby preventing the smoke escaping, and also the heat from being felt even close to the screen; and the advantage of the whole is, that notwithstanding the immense fire, presenting a surface of fifteen feet square, no inconvenience results from it. (See Cut, page 622).
Lower down is a large cast-iron oven for pastry, six feet nine inches high, four feet nine inches wide, divided into two parts, one above the other, each of two feet opening, one foot nine inches high, and two feet six inches deep, with grated shelves.
Joining the oven there is a French stove, three feet two inches long and two feet four inches wide, with one grating, to boil delicate vegetables.
Above, in the thickness of the wall, is a cistern two feet long, two feet four inches deep, and one foot wide, to keep the large boiler behind the roasting fire-grate constantly supplied with water.
Opposite is a sash window, by which roasts and vegetables for the coffee-room are handed to the waiters; beneath the window is a closet for plates and dishes, the top of which is of cast-iron and warmed by steam, thus dishes are removed from one hot place to another until they reach their destination; the length is four feet eleven inches, and two feet deep, with a sheet-iron shelf inside.
ROASTING RANGE.