TUSCALOOSA ONCE MORE. At last, in the spring of 1821, after long and impatient waiting by the citizens, the town or Tuscaloosa was laid off and the lots sold at public sale. The earliest deed of a lot that I find on record is dated October 31, 1821. William Toxey selis to Cincinnatus Lacy, "the east haif of lot 109 in the town of Tuscaloosa, which adjoins lot 108, as by reference to a plan of said town will now presently appear." On this lot now (1898) stands the Merchants' National bank.

 The late Dr. William Cochran, who came to Tuscaloosa in 1817 while he was a child in arms, is the excellent authority for the explanation which follows of the method pursued by the engineers in laying off the town. The surveyors began at the steamboat landing at the foot of the falls,and first laid out a street which followed the old road up the slope from the steamboat landing, in a south-easterly direction to the brow of the hill, where now stand the Baptist church for the colored people and Marion Ward's store. From this point a wide street was surveyed in lines perpendicular to the direction of the river. 'This is our present Market treet. At a right angle with the course of Market street another wide street was made which is our Broad street.

The other streets were laid out conformably to these two main arterles the town. The court house was soon moved back to the old town. A two-story brick building was set up for the purpose at the north-west corner of Market and streets. This building remains. It Union Is held just now by the Allen & Jemision Hardware company.

From this time forward Newtown fell into a slow decline and Tuscaloosa was clothed with new life and thrift. Time and newspaper space would fail me, If I should attempt to write the Interesting subsequent annals of this beauold town. I began with the purpose of giving an account of the beginning and the cradle days of Tuscaloosa and New town. This work I have done. Here, then, I close the record.

W. WYMAN. University of Alabama, Nov. 20, 1898. Henry D.

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1. United States
2. Alabama
3. Tuscaloosa
4. Tuscaloosa Weekly Times
5. 1899
6. May
7. 12
8. Page 4
9. Article clipped from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times

Van Wyek• a Tuscaloosien. Tuscaloosa Gazette, Tuscaloosa has furnished to the world some very prominent -people, and now it transpires that Van Wyck, Mayor 0! Greater New York, was probably bern in this city. For a number of years in the 30s there was a firm doing business here known as Whitfield & Van Wyck, the junior partner being William Van Wyck. who came to Tuscaloosa from New York. In the financial crash of 1836 the firm failed and Van Wyck returned to New York.

He married a daughter of Sam Maverick, a great land • owner of Pendleton district. South Carolina. The Mavericks owned a large lot of property in and around Tuscaloosa, and in later years this descended to the children of Mrs. .Van Wyck. Mr.

Wolsey Van Hoose holds a deed to the square east of the Baptist College which was made in New York in 1831 and signed by the Van.

1. United States
2. Alabama
3. Montgomery
4. The Montgomery Advertiser
5. 1897
6. Nov
7. 06
8. Page 2
9. Article clipped from The Montgomery Advertiser

Wyck heirs one of * Robert Van Wyok, which la the paine of the Mayor-elect of Greater New York. For a number of years Colonel J. M. Van Hoose was the representative of the Van Wyck beira here, tO hial The Gasette is indebted for the above facts. Several old residents af the city remember the Van Wycks, among them Mrs.

Walker, wife of the late Dr. Frederick Walker, and mother of Mr. Peck Walker, Mrs. Peter Cliaton and Miss Kate Walker. If this is the Robert Van Wyck who was born here that is made Mayor of the Greater New York, Tuscaloosa has given a good big man to the country..

1. United States
2. Alabama
3. Montgomery
4. The Montgomery Advertiser
5. 1897
6. Nov
7. 06
8. Page 2
9. Article clipped from The Montgomery Advertiser

“ALABAMA SWING” APPEARS DOOMED!

The above headline appeared in a column of the

Birmingham Age Herald recently. The following
write-up contains a just tribute to the popularity of

ownership by Washington and Lee:

under way at the University of Alabama is success-

ful, the ‘Alabama Swing,” famous war-song of the

Capstone, 1s doomed to oblivion except in the hearts

of some of the Old Guard, who can never forget its 5

stirring measures.

“The so-called ‘Alabama Swing’ is really the ‘Wash- 3
ington and l.ee Swing’ with the title and a few

words changed, and has been used at the university

for more than a decade. Since the phenomenal growth
of the university in recent years, students have risen
up perenially declaring that Alabama needs a distinc-

tive song all her own, preferably with both words and
music written by a 'Bama man, but so far no genius
of ‘lyrical bent has supplied the demand.

“Realizing the need for such a song, the ‘Rammer-
Jammer,” humorous and literary magazine of the
university, in conjunction with Mr. Hugo Friedman,
Prof. Carl L. Carmer, and Champ Pickens, athletic
publicity director, has offered a prize of $50 for the

words and music to such a song, open to all students,
members of the faculty and alumni of the institution.

The ‘Crimson-White,” student newspaper at the uni-

versity, is vigorously co-operating in this movement.
“It will be hard for the students to part with the

old *’Bama Swing’ if a new song is written, for, in

addition to-its sentimental claims, it is perhaps the
livest, snappiest, most collegiate piece of music ever
written. As dance music, it has swept the country
and will probably remain popular for many years.”