New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-01-02

Building for Wage Farmers Chiefly
the WOrk of the ReU. DR.. TyndaH.

After being two and a half years in building the
Emeline York-Tyndall. hotel for sef-supportins
young women. opened its doors yesterday at No .
East 1O2d street. The institution. which Is next
door to the PeopIes Tabernacle and under it's
auspices has ffty-six sleeping rooms only twelve
of which furnished as yet and ITS capacity VIII
depend on whether the rooms are used as single or
double ones The prices for all but ten rooms have
been fixed at from g 80 to s. 70 a week, when two
occuDv one room For the more desira bic rooms
81 50 a week will be charged with two in a room
and s. and IS with all these figures including
board.
Each room contains good sized wardrobe
chiffonier and two iron cots. one of which can be
slid under the other if desired to make more roOm
the two mattresses being placed one on top OF the
other. Before the purchase of the beds inquiries
were made among prospective guests as I" what
kind they would prefer and they all declared N
favor of small cots that could be turned into
touches in the daytime. There are two bathrooms
on each floor
On the ground floor are two large pariors, where
guests will be allowed to receive their friends OF
both sexes and there is a smaller parlcr for the
use of those who want to talk matrimOny and don't
want the public hear There is going to be 4
piano as some one can he found to give H.
and there is already fair sized library Laundry
facilities are provided in the basement and there
will be a couple of sewing machines for those VINO
want to them.
The building was erected at expense of so
500 on land already owned by the church, and the
Ii.
it has cost only about one-third as much as would
ordinarily be expended building of its size and
character. There have been several reasons for
this In the first place. DIR. TyndaI drew the
architects plans thus saving the architects fee.
and in the next he has superintendent all the work.
thereby saving the cost of other supervision
His first assistant has been his brother. Robert
E TyndalI, who took only So month from the
building fund and worked as many hours day
as he could see Mr. TyndaU finished all the
two stories, and with some inexpert assistance
put in the steam fittings and the partitions.
The building. which is five stories in height. is of
concrete faced in front with marble and brick.
and when it was begun there was only other
concrete building in New York. Builders then
made no use the gravel dug out for foundations.
but instead paid SO cents load to have il carried
away and dumped into the sea. DR.. Tyndau walked
one day from 1O2d street up to both street, and
having found a place where large excavations were
being made offered the contractor 81 a load for the
gravel Other builders heard about this and DR..
Tyndall gladly acceded to their suggestion that
they should be allowed TO dump their gravel Oppo-
site No IS West 1O2d street for nothing. This
gravel which nothing, then mixed with
by Italian laborer. at Is cents hour. and
the concrete poured into a frame erected by
unsked labor under the direction of DIR. Tyndall
and his brother The difference in expense be-
tween this and "A brick wall with bricks at so 10
ST. a thousand and brickIayers charging 10 cents
an hour was naturally considerable. and cousti-
tuted the chief economy in this remarkable build
ing.
The tiled floors. too, represent an important saw
ing. Small ceramic tiles being used in all new
buildings. and there is consequently demand for
large ones. DR.. Tyndall found lot Of these in a
warehouse in Brooklyn and bought them for a
song.
The work begun with only 5000 in the treas
ury but the hotel opened yesterday without a
dollar of debt uPon it.
The Peoples Tabernacle decided To use its prop
erty for home for working girls simply because
this seemed to be the most urgent need. DIR. Tyn-
dali, in making inquiries for the purpose of de-
termining the best TO which the property could
be put amazed to find how much had been
done for young men and how little for young
women, and the secretary of the Harlem Young
Womens Christian Association told him that IL
was almost impossible 20 get any one 20 give any
thing for DIR. Tyndau would have ex-
pected it to be the other way. and finding that IL
wasn't he recommended To the trustees OF the
Tabernacle that they do something to remedy the
evil. The Emelne York-Tyndau is the result this
name being that OF Or. TyndaiI's mother
The institution is to be under the manaEement
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert f. Tyndall who will live
in the building.