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^ ' V..-. . V!”-ry.'/. THE ALBANY DAILY HERALD, WEDNEvSDAY, APRIL 25, 19C6. PROGRESSIVENESS A Word That Accurately Describes The Policy of Hofmayer, Jones & Co. V It is scarcely necessary for Chautauqua visitors to be reminded that a spirit of progressiveness has marked the past year- in Albany. Her paved streets, her big new manufacturing plants, her handsome new business buildings, and her elegant new homes all tell unmistakably, of what great progress the city has made. / In Albany’s leading store “progressiveness” has' also been the watch word during the past year. Equally as apparent as the city’s remarkable growth are the wonderful strides this store has made dur ing the past twelve months. i (I In every department, in the size and the elegance of the stocks, and in the management of the store there has been progress—a progress that makes the service of this store more and more satisfactory to its customers. We have labored earnestly, untiringly to make this a modern department store—big, re liable, progressive—a store where the satisfying size and exceptional elegance of its stocks, coupled with recog nized reasonablness of its prices, entitle it to the best trade of the best people of the best section of the South. The st?“e ality Hofmayer, Jones & Company. The Quality Store. Better Soda. _ T heal Ever Customers say our soda is better than ever this year. As we hear the same tiling every year we are inclined to think onr soda , is fast reaching the point of perfection. We certainly try to make it as near perfect as .possible and spare no expense in our efforts as t We use the best of everything in making it and serve it in bright, clean glasses. We do liot stop at the best materials for we employ expert dispensers. Even pure , soda can l>e ruined in drawing. When your spring thirst arrives come to our magnificent soda parlor and drink soda that is delicious, refreshing and satisfying. Hoggard Drug Co., 'Phone 75. EXCITEMENT IT THE BALL PARK. Fan With Cow Bell Pulled by Officer McDonald. ' > Delicious Ice Cream For Warm Spring Days Many people find the first warm days of spring very fatiguing. These : will find our delicious ice cream espe cially refreshing. Expertly Made of Pure Cream. Served Daily in Many Flavors. Albany Drug Co. J. E. MacMillan. "President. tt/. C. Mcritucthcr. Secy. and Treas. If You’re Wise It’s Not to the “Tall Timbers if That you’ll look for building material. Albauy Pressed Stone Co. ’s double-hollow air space concrete blocks are more satisfactory from every standpoint. Albany Pressed Stone Co. Walter Muse, the Offending Fan, Was Struck In the Face by the' Officer, Who Afterward Pullec) His Pistol. Great Indignation on the Part of Spectators. For the space of several minutes yesterday afternoon, the wildest ex citement prevailed in the neighborhood of the grandstands at the baseball park, the result of Policeman W. W. McDonald drawing his revolver and menacing Mr. Jesse T. Muse and the latter's 16*year-old brother, Walter Muse, with the weapon. • • The incident was witnessed by sev eral hundred persons, and many of these immediately surged forward with shouts of indignation and demands that the officer be put out of the grounds. 9 ‘Shame! Shame!” "Put him off the force!” "Send him back to town!” The greatest confusloA and wildest excitement prevailed for perhaps five minutes. Intense indignation was written on the faces of those who par ticipated In the demonstration, and at tention was for the time diverted from the ball game then in progress. A minute before the demonstration occurred Walter Muse had been sitting on the top of one of the grandstands. He was ringing a cow bell and joining In the "rooting” for the home team. Officer McDonald, who states that objection was made by certain parties to -the presence of young Muse on top of the grandstand, ordered him to come down. Muse stated that he had permission to be where he was, but the officer insisted, and a short col loquy between the two ensued. Final ly, however, Muse descended. There is some disagreement as to exactly what followed. Officer McDon ald declares that the young man was impertinent and defiant, but Muse and others insist that he was not. At any rate, Officer McDonald final ly caught hold of young Muse’s trous ers hand and said: "Come on, I’ll take you and lock' you up.” Muse remonstrated and pulled hack, demanding that he be allowed to go, and be given a summons to appear at police court instead of being locked up.' Officer McDonald asserts that Mu*e drew back as if to strike him with the cow hell, but this Muse also denies. At any rate, the officer suddenly, while still holding Muse’s trousers band with his left hand, struck the young man a terrific blow in the face with his clenched right fist. The blow landed under Muse's left eye, cutting through the flesh and making an ugly bruise, through which the blood immediately began to ooze. The officer then continued In the di rection of the small gate between the two grandstand^. Young Muse con tinued to protest and pull back, and at the gate was met by his brother, Mr. Jesse T. Muse, who endeavored to in duce the officer to release his prisoner. Perhaps a dozen persons, including Deputy Marshal J. W. Kemp, were by this time crowding around the pair. Mr. Jesse T. Muse made the state ment to a Herald man yesterday after noon that he was endeavoring to quiet his brother, who was in a passion of indignation. He strongly remonstrated with the officer, begging him to release the young man, and was seconded by several other persons in the crowd. At this juncture Officer McDonald reached his right hand to his hip pocket and drew his revolver. He held the weapon before him in a threaten ing manner, and made some state ment. Whatever that statement was, how ever, was completely drowned In the terrific shout of indignation which im- niedlately burst forth.\ The crowd'wa^ one of the largest ever seen -on the grounds, and men and women rose up as one and shouted their denunciations at the officer. The confusion was terrific, and it seemed certain for a moment that there would be serious trouble. The appearance of the officer’s revolver had the same effect on the crowd that the waving of a red flag in the face of a mad bull is supposed to have. Mayor pro tern. H. A. Tarver was present, and assumed authority in the name of the city. He ordered the crowd hack to the grandstands on threat of expulsion from the grounds, and finally succeeded in restoring something like order. In the mean time, Deputy Marshal Kemp ordered Officer McDonald to release young Muse, who was then given his liberty. Iu view of the state of mind in which the crowd remained, Mayor pro tern. Tarver then told Officer McDon ald that it was best for him to leave the grounds. As the officer passed out of the gate, the crowd cheered. Waiter Muse made the following statement to a Herald man: "I did not make any attempt to strike Officer McDonald. I did ask him to summons me to police court instead of locking me up, as he said he was going to do. I did argue with him when he ordered m6 down from the top of the grandstand, for I had per mission from the baseball players to go up there. I was not thinking of striking him with the cowbell I had when he smashed me in the face with his fist. "I had done nothing improper when Officer McDonald drew his revolver and thrust it Into.my face, threatening to shoot. I did beg him to release my to do ,and told himshrdlu- etaoln shr brother, as I feel I had a perfect right to do, and told him I did not think the case was one which justified him in going as far as he had gone. I made no threats, and was dumbfounded when the officer drew his revolver. My chief concern had been to quiet my brother, and not menace the officer.” Officer McDonald made the following statement last night: “I had been given instructions to keep all persons back of the base lines, and had had to order young Muse bacjc several times. He climbed to the top of one of the grandstands, and several persons a’sked me to make him get down. I ordered him down, and' he told me he dldnt' think I had any right to make him move. I insisted, and after he had talked rather impertinent ly, he came down. He then told me that he didn’t think I had any right to summons him to police court, and I then started to write out a summons. He told me then that he didn’t know whether he would answer the sum mons or not. With that I decided that the only thing for me to do was to arrest him. This I did. Muse then drew back as if he intended to strike me with the cow bell he had in his hand, and I hit him in the face with my fist. "At the side gate through which I started, I was met by J. T. Muse, who blocked my way, and told me I wouldn't lock his brother up. He refused to l.et me pass, and was threatening in Ills words and actions. ; Men' were crowding around me, and I thought It was time for me to draw my revolver. I held the weapon in front of me, but did not point it at anybody. I released young 'Muse when instructed to do so by Deputy Marshal Kemp, who is my superior officer.” Officer McDonald has not yet been relieved from duty. Mayor C. W. Rawson, who is ex-officio chairman of the board of police commissioners, said last night that he would proceed in the matter as soon as charges have been preferred against the officer, and it is asserted with positiveness that this will be done. In the meantime, a petition, numerously signed, Is being prepared and will he submitted to the mayor. It requests that the officer be relieved of duty pending inquiry into the case. Many of those whose signa tures appear on the petition are par ties who witnessed the disturbance at the ball park yesterday afternoon. Bananas, 20c dozen. ’Phone 70. W. E. FIELDS. Today two or three young men, ac tuated by motives rather frivolous, bought a bunch of bananas, hired a little darky to hold them, and sta tioned themselves on Pine street, in front of the Elks’ building. To ev ery passerby they extended a banana and in tones most inviting and cajol ing, enjoined them to partake of their hospitality. No one escaped them, young and old, rich and poor, to all they passed the royal Invitation to "have a banana.” The ladles espfec- ially were made the recipients of their attention. One old colored mammy passed by with an empty basket. It was filled. The soldier boys, the out- of-town visitors, the loungers, all ran the gauntlet. A. B AND A. R. R. ' MAKES BIG JUMP. Capital Stock to be Increased to Over Fourteen Millions. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., April 25.—The Atlanta. Birmingham & Atlantic railroad filed a petition with the secretary of state this morning to increase the capital stock from $100,000 to $14,565,000, di vided into $4,822,000 of preferred stock and $9,7743,800 of common stock. Summer Suggests Straws Straws Suggest Davis & Co. 1.50 to 10.00. 7 hey Fit hat’s It