New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

Young men OF the Fifth and Madison
av. districts. chiefly Presbyterians, led
by William s. Coffin. Gerard Beekmsn
Hoppin, the Rev. Tertius Van Dyke,
son OF the United States Minister TO
Holland, and others, have completed
and will open to-day a s22b,o00 down
town plant for working girls. 1t is
said TO be one of the most splendid
philsnthropies and at the same time
Christian enterprises New York has
seen In a long time.
Narick House is the name OF the
new venture. IL IS a modern hotel for
working girls. 1t runs from Dominick
to Hudson to Spring St. and is a me-
mortal to the late Rev. II. Roswell
Bates, who was pastor of the Spring
Street Presbyterian Church adjoining
and one of the members of the Pres
byterisn company Of young men who
now erect and pay for the useful me-
mortal. He died while on trip to
Peru year or more ago. Under his
psstorate an old downtown church. the
people not knowing what to do with II,
was converted into a community SER
vice centre and a neighborhood house
erected. Hardly work in the city
was regarded as more remarkable or
more useful.
Varick House is six stories in height
and freproof. It contains eighty
rooms. Nine Of these have private
baths attached, and yet can be had by
girls for Sc week, including board.
Prices OF other rooms are 81, with
board. and this rate includes luncheon.
On each floor are shower baths, filtered
drinking water fountains, and the
house provides large parlors, dancing
and dining rooms, gymnasium with
running track. roof garden and a
yard for basketball and games.
Other features are laundry that
can be used at the rate of three cents
an hour and sewing room, where
electric power machines enable girls
TO make their own clothes. Members
of the colony have also the use of the
Neighborhood House.
The character of the building and
the rules of it make II possible TO
maintain sll without charity and so
keep it free from institutional SIN.
Contributing to this end is kitchen
on the roof, where young women may
hold parties and provide their own re-
freshments. The architects of the
building were Hill e. Stout.
The formal opening takes place to-
night. The Rev. Dr.. George AleXan-
der, Of University Place Church; the
Rev. Norman NJ. Thomas, Of the Amer
lean Parish, formerly of the Brick
Church and member of the company
that makes the Varick House possible,
IL
sistant at Spring ST., Will take
mart in the dedication. Visitors will
be on hand in numbers from Fifth
Avenue TO inspect the plant. The pas
tor, the Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, is just
row in Holland on leave, gone there
Tor q short time TO assist his father.
the minister, who suffers from trouble
with his eyes. All sorts of institu-
tional work is carried on from the
Spring Street Church and the Neigh
borhood House.
Three changes Of as many churches
Yesterday indicate what is transpirlng
in religious circles of Manhattan. The
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer,
136th st., near Seventh av., went out Of
existence and became the Zion Metho-
dist Church for negroes. Its former
II,
Amsterdam avs, was purchased by the
Methodist New York City Society, and
will become. as soon as alterations are
completed, the Battery Swedish Metho-
dist Church. About $4,000 and 1000
people are affected by the changes.
Zion Methodist Church was forced TO
move to Harlem because negroes had
left the West Side, and the Methodists
have long searched for home for
Methodist Swedes. The all around
changes seemed yesterday to please
everybody. ,u,..
The Battery Swedish Methodist
Church, the Rev. Einar Larson pastor,
was started in hall in Battery. Park
belonging to the Swedish Immigrant
Home. It moved to oath ST., but finds
that the West Side, in seth ST., is cen
trail TO large numbers Of Methodist
Swedes. Il has 200 members and has
laid by $4,000 to help on the purchase
of the new property.