New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Warden Off for Weekly
Visit to His HOme-COn-
viCts Play Ball.
VACATION PLANNED
FOR NEXT WEEK
Welfare League Determined to
Carry on Uplift Whether
He Stays or Goes.

early last evening Tor his home n
Auburn. there to stay until Tuesday.
What he thinks Of the reported plan of
Superintendent of Prisons John b..
Riley to remove him on Tuesday may
be judged from the fact that he plans
to remain at the prison until Thurs
day. testify against Riley's confidential
man, ex-Alderman Patrick II. Nc
Donald, of Albany, on Thursday, and
on Friday start for his vacation. "af-
fairs at the prison permitting"
Beyond announcing these plans Mr..
Osborne has given no public indication
of what he thinks of the result of the
conference Superintendent Riley eX-
poets to have with Governor Whitman
on Monday. when the head of the
Prisons Department is expected to ask
permission TO remove him from Office
Mr.. Osbornes attitude was that of
man absolutely sure of himself and
not Worrying about what the future
NAV hold for him.
There is really nothing that | can
say he said affairs in the prison
speak for themselves. Everything is
running smoothly"
In the prison yard there was the
usual Saturday afternoon ball game.
the swimming pool was in use. and
few prisoners were knocking tennis
balls about. The nervousness that was
TO be felt rather than seen earlier in
the week, when the reports that Os-
borne was TO be removed gained cur
rency, was missing.
All on Good Behavior.
What we are trying to do said
one Of the leaders of the Mutual Wei
fare League, ais to forget that Mr..
Osborne may leave US, and be prepared
Tor It, if he does, by trying to main
tain the strictest sort Of discipline.
"Mr. Osborne, Mr.. Johnson and
every one who has been trying to
make Mr.. Osborne's regime a success
has tried to impress upon everybody
that, even should he go, the boys
would only harm him and harm them
selves and the Thole cause of prison
reform by kicking up a rumpus. |
know that he has told some If the
men to work harder to make good if
that should happen than they are
working now.
"Now, that's sense. Most Of the
men here are not altogether lacking
in sense, even if they have been fools
enough to land here. There may be
a few that may want TO start some
thing, but only a few. Almost any
of the men could tell you who they
are. We will take care of those men,
TO matter what happens.
I'VE don't know, OF course, whether
Mr.. Osborne is going to 90 or not. You
on the outside don't know, to judge
from the papers. We don't like to think
of it. But, no matter what Osborne
does, whether he goes or stay put
down a bet on this as warden or not,
the men here will be with him, and
will try TO do what he wants done the
way he wants il done"
Many of the guards, but not all, feel
toward Osborne as the convicts do.
Some of the oldest men in the service
are among those who say that their lot
| is pleasanter than under the former
wardens.
at was odd at first" said one of
these; at hit me that way, as ! guess
/ il did some of the lags. But it's work
ing out all right. Prison life does not
help some guards. There have been
guards here worse than the men they
+ were here to guard. Some OF these
chaps have been the meanest kind OF
/ grafters; some naturally mean the
/ kind that will kick a puppy or kitten
4 about That kind doesn't fit under the
new scheme of things. 1t hurts them
to be good and they miss their pick
ings.
"Those of the men who never cared
| for a dirty dollar are finding no fault
They don't miss what they never had.
Are there many of the grafters here
now ?"
Ossining Awaits Next Turn.
81 am the keeper of no mans con-
! science but my own. Ask somebody
else"
"Thcn YOU are satisfied"
"Perfectly. Before every mans
hand was against mine if anything
started If he was not actively against
me he was not with me. Now, nothing
starts. If it did every man would be
against those in il and with me. Get
il? That isn't because they love me,
hut because they are locking out for
themselves"
In the village of OssininC. where
the Osborne plan is not oyerpopular'
/ there is d feeling that the scheme to
ciscredit him was checkmated last
week. when the removal of papers from
{ the prison was stopped. There is no
. hint that Mcdonald was a party to any
conspiracy against Mr.. Osborne. but
as the story goes the holding of these
records until they could be copied and
marked for Identification assured Mr..
Osborne that he would not be without
means Of defence against charges that
might be made against him.
OSsininc has a very well defined idea
as to what the charges might be but
Mr.. Osborne will not discuss them.
1t is among the probabilities. how
ever. that they will come up for dis
cuSsion early in the week.