The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
LAMBS START
JOLLITY RIOT
AT SING SING
OSbOrnc's House Guests See
a Vaudeville Show by
Broadway Actors.
CHANDELIERS ESCAPE
AMID WILD UPROAR

Gay rs are the days, especially the
week ends, a. Sing Sing prisoH-or thirp-
Chirp-un-HudsoU. as some OF the more
sensitive among the more affable gray
clad young gentlemen there now prefer
10 have their old can pus and ivy COW
cred buildings callcd-ncvcr was there
a gaycr week end than the one that
came to a close last evening
And this. despite the fact that Sing
Sins, crowded Us the cells are, before
niehtfau yesterday had these also within
Its walls:
Richard Harding Davis. De Wolf
Hopper. Frank case. Wilton Lackaye,
Jack Hazard. Nlce-Presidcnt Angus
Macdonald or the southern Pacific
lines. Percy Knight, Tee Hee Powers.
the cartuouist; Jack Devereaux. Al
Parker. who used to be an actor In
the original Potash and Perlmutter"
company. but now is in a regular busl-
ness and promises. furthermore. to con-
tnue straight from this time on John
Golden. composer; Wilton Lackaye. Jr,
Regain Hughston.
Calling the supper roll further (:
Howard Estabrook, who once made
threats against n newspaper that orig
inally had threatened to print his name
E-s-t-E-b-r-o-o-k. Bob Milton. Scott
Welch, Charley Prince. Jack Willard,
who played a plain clothes II In
within the Law" for n long time but
Is keeping that fact quiet around Tweet-
Tweet-on-Hudsou, Gus Weinberg, Big
Johnny Slavin, Freddy Santley.
Other In Iockstcp Line.
Still counting heads along the hated
lockstep at Chirp-Chlrp-ou-Hudson yes
II, .,A. V..v,Ll .naA ssMAVVa N~I..l
McManus. Bobbie Schable. Charley
Bowers. Frank Croxton. Henry Rosen-
crantz, Phil ~liuxton. George Leon
Moore, Dodson Mitchell, Rudolph Cam
eron. Frank Belo .er. Tim Daniel Fraw-
ley. John II. Langton. Winsor McCay.
Reuben X. l.. Goldberg and Lambs Car
toonist Joe Keegan.
Thus all the Lambs Club lads who
yesterday entered Sing Sim prison TO
give the hodderndest week end perform
ance that even Sing Sing ever saw have
been duly credited with being among
those present. This much being at
tended to az per promise-and Lamb
George Mooser, too, whose name slipped
the memory for a moment but really
should go in because he got up the whole
show-one now may go on and take up
lesser details.
The sun had scarcely crossed the me-
Yidhn when--but when thinking back
over the events OF the day there comes
TO mind also the name OF Lamb Eddie
Foy. Inasmuch as not only Eddie but
Mrs. Foy and the seven little Foys were
present and were the biggest scream OF
the show the Foys should not be for
gotten.
1t would he easy 20 go on right here
with a chronological report of the hap
penings of the day from the time the
amb left their clubhouse in thirteen
automobiles and skidded north over the
Albany post road TO C~hirp-Chirp II new
names did not constantly bob up.
Four Cars for Props.
Lamb Pat Rooney. for instance. also
was there and made a hit second only
to the Seven Foys and Father And
then one should not overlook Stage
Manager Lamb Tommy Jackson and
Warden Thomas Mott osborne. And
finally Old Lamb Charley Abbott OF the
White Automobile Company ought 10
get a mention, even II Charley didn't
appear on the stage: for IL Charley
hadn't provided three touring cars and
a truck to carry the props to Sing Sing
q lot of actors might have been crowded
q bit on the way up.
Much has been written in recent days
OF commencement celebrities on other
campuses, but never did the boss OF a
Job receive a heartier outburst of APP
plause than did Prexy osborne from his
gray clad hopefuls as he walked across
the ~Chirp-Chirp campus with the newly
arrived Lambs yesterday afternoon.
The Lambs had come to SIM Sing
10 give the first straight vaudeville show
the club ever has given up on top OF a
stage. For more than an hour-the
Lambs automobile peerade had beer
delayed a bit by tires bursting right
in front of roadhouses on the way up
out on the lawn In front of the prison the
Sing Sing band, some of whom are lifers,
and Richard Harding Davis. who lives
near by, had been summing themselves
and swapping experiences.
1t is said that some of the prisoners
and Dick Davis were debating the ad.
visibility of strolling down the post road
20 see what was OBTAINING the Lambs
when out of a cloud of dust that the
rain had missed came their machines
Dick Davis and the lifers gathered about
them and made the Lambs feel at home
Immediately.
Campus Gates Thrown Wide.
Tho band leader-he's a llfer. too. by
the way-raised his baton out on thu
roadway, the Lambs cars got into clos'
chugging formation. Warden Osborne
grabbed Wilton Lackaye by the arm. thu
Chirp-Chirp band struck up Brothel
Lamb JOhn Philip Sousa's High Schoo
Cadets march and the foot and auto
peerade marched through tho abandon
Observation-Disclosures gates 10 tn
prison.
The prisoners all were there. In tier
running seven lines of gray trousered
any old kind OF shirted humans, higf
they sat watching their nattily clad bal