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GYMNASIUM OF Y.M.C.A WILL SOON BE COMPLETED Brick Work on Building was Finished at noon Today APPARATUS ALREADY HERE Work Will Be Rushed and "Gym" Will Be Ready In Thirty Days. The Y. M. C. A., members and friends will be glad to know that the wall of the new gymnasium in completed, the brick work being finished today at noon.

The work has been hampered for sometime by the lack of bricklayers and the excessive rain but the carpenters will now take charge and the building will be pushed to completion. Lumber is on the job for the trussed roof and the carpenters started work THis afternoon. After the roof is completed the flooring will be laid, running track built. after which it will only take the coat of paint to make the building complete. There will be plenty of light and ventilation in the new gymnasium.

In addition to the sixteen windows and doors there is a large transom placed over each window. The transoms will insure plenty of open ai: for those using the running track and will also be well ventilated when the track is used as a spectators gallery. The following equipment is on hand ready to be placed, one vaulting pole, a horizontal bar, a parallel bar, a jumping board, a horse, four flying rings, two trapeze rings, four mats, chest weights, medicine balls, wands and dumb bells. The boys are so anxious to use these that the large dressing room has been fitted up as a temporary gymnasium. At the opening of the gymnasium it is predicted that the membership of the association will be doubled,.

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May 5, 1961 Tuscaloosa News

A quit claim deed to the east half of lots 98 and 99 was ordered made to Norfleet Harris. in exchange for a quit claim deed from Norflect Harris to the city for the west half of lots 98 and 99. A resolution was also passed instructing the Mayor to give the YMCA a quit claim deed to the west half of lots 98 and 99 in consideration of the sum of 850. |.

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 from the July 24, 1962 TUSCALOOSA NEWS

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from the July 13, 1915 TUSCALOOSA NEWS

BIG GULLY BY Y.M.C.A. GRADUALLY FILLING IN 

As tin cans, broken bottles and trash of -all kinds, and during the past few days, dirt from the excavations for the Little building are being dumped into the big gully on Broad Street, by the Y. M.C. A., the road on the western side is constantly growing wider and the margin of the gully Is constantly getting closer to the Y. M. C. A. building.

In time, it is hoped, the gully will be completely filled in. The city has, from time to time, expended an aggregate of something like $40,000 in filling In and checking the gully, which could have been prevented at no appreciable cost with a little foresight years ago. It was pointed out today that 'the : first organized effort to combat the ravages of this gully, which then threatened the business section of regard in the city, was a Iittle over 25 years ago, when the citizens subscribed, something like $18,000 for the work that was placed under the direction of Col. Hardaway, who recently buil tthe $3,000,00 lock and dam at Squaw Shoals..

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 Gulch Adjoining Y Building Filled With Hundreds of Rats




 

If a case of bubonic plague should  break out in Tuscaloosa the first place that would have to be looked after would be the big gully alongside of the Y. M. C. A., where the city garbage is dumped.

..Guy Shater, who Is in charge of the government machine shop down at Lock 10, came by The News office Saturday afternoon and asked the writer to gO with him down to the big gully and watch the rats. Walking down 22nd avenue about -halt way to the L. & N. he stopped and suggested that we both stand perfectly still for a few minutes. It was not two minutes till the rats commenced to come out and they soon were all over the dump pile, where the last load of city garbage had been unloaded, making the dirt and trash fly, in an effort to get the scraps that had been carried there in the dump carts.

Small boys amuse themselves by standing on the upper rim of the dump pile and throwing rocks at the rodents as they come out for food. From all appearances there are thousands of the rats in the brush, under the trash that has been heaped over it, and many are going there to watch them. Mr. Shafer says he saw an old hen and eight to ten chickens scratching on the trash pile and the rats and little biddies were mingling together, neither seemingly afraid of the other.




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   Norman have removed their boot aud shoe establishment from "Hornet Row,'' to the store house two doors west of Brady's, on Main street. The Corporate authorities should see to it, that a lamp is placed at the big gully. The foot-bridgo over the ravine is very narrow, and really dangerous, when the nights are dark..

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   12. Before the days of railroads, electricity and all the crush and rush of our recently invented hurly burly in commerce, Tuskaloosa must have been a place worth making a long journey to see. The old regime had here its highest flower of success. Slavery gave its best and its worst to the strange, semimedaeval civilization.

       Money, leisure and social loveliness were unlimited. and so was vice. Both influences have left their indelible marks. The horse- the mule-traders and the negro-traders used to come here in swarms; for this was their paradise during the palmiest days of cotton and slavery. They bought and sold, they, gambled, they brawled, they (fought with knives and pistols.

       And yet from the first and on till now Tuskaloosa has been a center of noble culture, unlimited hospitality and beautiful social and domestic life. The best survives. Slaver. is gone: The drinking, gambling and fighting in their worst forms are but traditions. What is left in old Tuskaloosa is something mightily fascinating, the outcome of most romantic and picturesque experience..

       
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   A STRANGER IN TUSKA. LOOSA. Maurice Thompson Maurice Thompson - Wikipedia

   A drive in its principal streets and along many ol of the country roads about has filled my brain with sketches that will not be easily -erased. I ca recall no American town, with the possible exception of Tallahy. see, Florida, as it was some twenty years ago, in which the forms, the masses, the composition. and the colors of old slavery day: have stood out so perfectly against the beating tide of time. Were I an artist I could revell here for a month or two, making studies of these old lofty-pillared and tree-shaded mansions.

   Were I a poet, what more could I want of inspiration to song than the dreamy, fading lines and shadowy figures of the great bygone civilization which somebow will DO1 disappear from these brown bills and dilapidated mansions? Let it not be understood that Tuskaloosa is dilapidated. I do not mean 10 make that impression; but what is new is new, and what is old is fast gathering the mold and rime of age. Many of the 'typical mansions of slavery times are still well kept up, especially those within the city limits; but out in the country most of them look rathetically forlorn. One handsome and spacious plantation residence, a mile from town, on 8 fine treecovered hill, overlooking all the surrounding country, is now a schocl for colored students. It is built of brick, with the walls stuccoed, and across the broad front runs a grand veranda with massive fluted columns tall and stately, almost imposing seen at a little distance.

   Tuskaloosa turn. It contradicts "I itself at | every says, am old and decrepit;", it says, "I am ¡young, vigorous, wide-awake." Boschee's only C.

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      A re street corner it looks inten. seiy modern, at the next there bangs the film of sixty or seventy years ago. It has a busy cotton oil mill, a clattering oil mill and other flourishing local industries. Three banks do a large business; its merchants and mechanics, its professional men and capitalists are evidently act ve and successful. Yet here are the streets still 10 the condition of country raids; here are the sidew.is.

      dilipi ated beyoud description, ant here everywhere the ne.il of punt makes the houses dun and unsightly. saw many bou - going up, but no work being cove on the streets. A curious phase of transition seems to be 113 progresspassing from, the beautiful, the spacious and the solid to the showy, the cramped and the jiv-suw fiuished. Why dr southerners- let the roomy, massive stately old mat • sions go to decay, and in their places build planing mill Queen Anne band-box houses for homes? I drove out to the State University, a substantial set of buildings in lovely grounds. Not far away is the State Insane Asylum.

      Dr Powers, president of the university, lives in a most attractive and typical southern house just outside of the campus. The Methodists and, the Baptists each have a woman's college here, the latter baving the site, I was told, of the state house, which was here long ago, when Tuskaloosa, from her shady bills beside the Black Warrior river, ruled Alabama with a free hand. Naturally much culture has arrived through many channels to the best people of the town. Wealth has always been here. While the seat of state government remained here.

      it attracted many brilliant men and women, whose families still lend their influence to scciety. The university and the colleges give to the atmosphere a decided literary touch. of to.

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   When tired of the carriage and my driver's free babble, I took leave of both and continued my pleasant explorations on foot. Is it not a stranger's privilege to enjoy what strikes his vision with the sweet shock of the pure and the beautiful in a strange place? Tuscaloosa is a town of beautiful women. Wherever I walked I met them, and could not keep off the wonder of their striking forms or faces. Why is it that this gift of beauty in abundance falls to one town and not to another. some places all of the women seem plain; you see scarcely any memorable countenances, scarcely any forms strongly attractive, while in others a pair of glorious eyes, a figure fit for a sculptor's model and a face of uncommon sweetness and graciousness can scarcely be avoided anywhere.

   Tuscaloosa women are certainly southern in their style. They bear the unmistakable impress of southern breeding, and they are beautiful A stranger with alert eyes In his head and a love of feminine gentleness, sweetness and symmetry of the colonial type in his heart can see and feel this while walking in the streets of the staid and picturesque old town. Before the days of railroads, electricity and all the crush and rush of our recently invented hurly burly in commerce, Tuskaloosa must nave been a place worth making a long journey to see. The old regime had here its highest flower of success. Slavery gave its best and its worst to the strange, semimed aeval civilization.

   Money, leisure and social loveliness were unlimited. and so was vice. Both influences have left their indelible marks. The horse- the mule-traders and the negro-traders used to come here in swarms; for this was their paradise during the palmiest days of cotton aud slavery. They bought and sold, they, gambled, they brawled, they (fought with knives and pistols.

   And yet from the first and on till now Tuskaloosa has been a center of nobl culture, untimited hospitality and beautiful social and domestic life. The best survives. Slaver. is gone: The drinking, gambling and fighting in their worst forms are but traditions. What is left in old Tuskaloosa is something might-| ily fascinating, the ontcome of most romantic and picturesque ex perience..

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   14.  in the Independ.ant. Tuskaloosa is a town of present importance; but its current #ctivities and latest features do not set it apart or give it a significance greatly from that of other southern places in which the new order of things in slowly but surely overcoming the old. But as badge of a faded civilization once worn proudly on the breast of a typica: southern state, this old city has its peculiar beauty, interest and picturesqueness.

       
       

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   15. The Tuscaloosa Community Center, for Negroes, was projected by the Inter-Racial Relations Committee of the Tuscaloosa Religious Council in July of 1945. The plans thus projected were adopted by the Religious Council in September of 1945. At the suggestion of the Religious Council, the city commissioners purchased the Samuel M. Peck home consisting of twelve rooms and ten lotIt near the center of the most densely populated Negro area. The Center was planned and , sponsored to develop interests, but in the main, the following: 11. To create a social agency that could constantly bring together the Negro leadership not only in Tuscaloosa, but of the entire county. 2. To provide a well-rounded recreational center of interest to all ages.

       3. To establish a county library for Negroes that will in some measure fill in the vast defiency of reading material available for Negroes in the county and that will to some extent decrease the discrimination between the provision in the county for library reading opportunities for the white and Negro people. 4.To gradually develop an adult |.

   16. s surrounding it. The Center is located on the Corner of 18th is, Street and 30th Avenue. During my leisurely drives with an intelligent colored coachman who seemed to know everybody', history, I called a bult in front of the plantation home of that de lightful poet, Samuel Minturn Peck. Taking due advantage of the absence of Mr Peck, who was in New York, I sketched the house and surroundings for future reference. It is a quiet, gray, embowered place, of nondescript archi.

       tecture, yet charmingly inviting. The front yard Was aglow with roses and a variety of other flowers. A grand oak overshadowed one end of the house. From my carriage while it stood before the home gate I could see for miles in all directions, even to some billowy mountain koobs against the sweetest of all sky-lines. A considerable plantation surrounds Mr.

       Peck's house, which is cared for by a calored family. Great fields of corn. and oats (und what from a distance looked like cotton) showed excellent agriculture. The mocking birds were singing under the poet's windows. While I listened to their marvelous voices and drew in the sweets of rose--garden and 0- chard and field and wood, I won.

       dered why the southern poet profers the rush and swirl of the metropolis to that restful, dreamhaunted nook, where he has writ. ten so many graceful and hauntingly pretty bits of true song. tried in vain to bribe my driver to face the danger of a dog and look up the colored tenants. I wanted some of Peck s roses to take home with me. What I did take away is an impression of a home that looks just like the nest of a songre- bird, cozy, drab, half hidden in bloom and foliage and altogether attractive.

       These poets of the south, Hayne, Lanier, Timrod, Jackson, Ryan, Requier, Randall, Flash, of the older set now nearly vanished, and the later ones, Robert Burns Wilson, Will H Hayne, Frank Stanton, Samuel Minturn Peck -and a whole bevy of others- -how they have sung the very heart and life of this strange, self-satisfied, half lagging, half hustling, glorious, sun-burnt part of our mighty country ! And how they all, or nearly all, look northward for their patronage! Well, were I a poet, you could never persuade me to leave such a restful, perfumed, rose-em bowed house as yours, O Peck! and go off to New York to be swallowed up in trade, Tammany and turmoil, never, never,.

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          Friedman paid high tribHugo ute to the spirit, morale and the of the high school. He had pep the school football seen he said, and the spirit was games, best he had seen in Tuscathe University, he said, is loosa. The industry in Tuscaloosa which an every year and is building up which runs seven days in a week, almost 52 weeks in the year. now University advertises TuscaThe nothing else does, he loosa as and athletics advertises the said, University in a way which gets in the newspapers daily. columns athletics, he said, the UniverIn will have both lean and fat sity years.

          This year the University So has an excellent football team. the University has a coachlong as staff like the present, howing and a publicity man like ever, Pickens, there will be no Champ for being ashamed of her cause The alumni has bought teams. tickets for Home Coming more -day than ever before. "Bully" Van de Graaff, coach.

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          VERY day in the week and every| night except Sunday night the Y, M. C. A. building is used by the men and boys of Tuscaloosa. Not only has the building been used by the members of the Y.

          M, C. A., but during the past year other organizations have held meetings there. Among these are the Board of Trade, The Library Association, The Civic Improvement Club, The Ladies Auxillary, The Ladies Swimming Club, The Boy Scouts and the latest being the Woman's Suffrage Club, As it was erected by public subscription the directors propose to make it the most useful building in the city. It is already a center of life in Tuscaloosa. In adding the gymnasium the association filled a great need for Tuscaloosa.

          Besides giving the men and boys of the city a place for athletics it furnishes quarters for indoor athletics for three schools, the Uni- versity Pulliam-Brown School and High School. The size of the floor is 50 by 75 feet and furnishes plenty of space for the basket ball games, During the past season many contests were pulled off on this floor and quite a number of visiting teams were brought here for games, In all contests the Tuscaloosa boys have come out with honors and have competed with some of the best teams in the state. The only baseball team of the city is promoted by the association and it can point with pride to many of its former members who are now on professional teams, The Y. M. C.

          A. is instrumental in starting a public library for the city. A library association of one hundred members was formed and two rooms in the building were reserved for use as a library. Over seven hundred volumes have been assembled and are freely used. The reading tables are furnished with thirty of the best magazines and periodicals which are in constant use.

          Mr, A, S. Vandegraaff is president of the library association, The two rooms in the rear of the lobby are now being used by the Board of Trade as exhibit rooms for specimens of all kinds of wood, minerals and products of home industry. The collection of woods is said by experts to be one of the finest in the state. Of the religious meetings held this year the most effective have been the extension meetings or.

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