The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-17

New York, July 17-If there ever was joy within prison walls, Sing Sing knew it yesterday. For Tom Brown" came back home.
 It wasn't as Thomas Mott Osborne, millionaire, sociologist or highbroW reformer, that the 1,6o0 prisoners greeted the man who returned to them after an absence of more than half a year.
 It was as "Tom Brown" the man who voluntarily had imprisoned him. self, had got to know what a prison CTS life means, had become warden, had made life worth while living for them, even behind bars, and had gone away under a shadow which they knew was unfair and unjust, but who now was back cleared of all charges and more than ever eager to help them along.
 | So they welcomed him with a whoop and hurrah the like of which probably never was heard before in l the vicinity of g. state penitentiary. place for once.
 Special Train Takes Crowd. At least 500 persons rode up the river from this city in a special train | to take part in the ceremonies. Friends and relatives of the prisoners from other points numbered couple 1 of hundred more. And the Village of Ossining, which is not particularly proud of its prison and generally keeps aloof from it. turned out, too, to swell the, welcoming throng. Nearly 200 convicts were allowed to leave the prison and to take places outside on the public roadway at the end of the prison property to, form the
 first committee of greeting. If thoughts of escape were in the mind of any one of them, they were put
 aside, for not a man made move
 toward freedom. Their guards num-
 bered less than score.
 | Just before o'clock MT. Osborne's automobile hove in sight at>the end of
 the prison property. There was a we'll from the prisoners on the outside that reached back to those within and was echoed five-fold. The men in the dark gray uniforms waved their hands
 and hats, and the populace of Ossin- ing. sitting on the hillsides, joined them. The returning warden beamed delightedly.
 I Leaguers In Line. Then the line of march was formed. First came a convict whose altitude
 was about six feet five inches, dressed as Uncle Sam-whiskers, cigar and all. He was followed by five figures in |black gowns and white wigs-"the Ju-
 dietary Educational Board''--in reality five members of the Executive Com nittee of the Mutual Welfare League, the prisoners organization which From Brown" founded.
 | Next came the "P. K" Principal lKeeper), Fred Dorner, with his assist ant keepers behind him; then tAe members of the prison baseball club in
 uniform, and next Tom Browns Au-
 rora Band," blaring merrily away at
 Hail to the Chief"
 MT. Osborne's automobile was placed in line right here, and back of it marched 12 convicts dressed in the stripes that they once were compelled to wear, marching in lockstep. They lbore a1sign labelled 'The Gold Days" and grinned gayly as they trudged : along:
 The members of the Welfare League followed, and the rear was brought up by a squad of men whom the retiring warden, Dr. Kirchwey, had employed on the roads. They carried a banner with the inscription 'The Deans Road |Gang Greets You"
 A 'Welcome Home."
 This procession marched along the I250 yards from the end of the prison iproperty down to the entrance, where lit turned to the right and entered the Z prison yard. Here big grand-stand, bright with flags and bunting and signs of Welcome Home, Tom Brown" had been erected.
 A number of prominent persons in- lterested in prison reform and the work
 Warden Osborne had done already were in place to greet him. Among these were Dean Virginia D. Glider sleeve of Barnard College, MT. and Mrs Jahn H. Flagler, MT. and Mrs Iw. H. Brown, Mrs. -sobert Ingersoll Mrs. Henry Willard, MT, and Mrs Thomas Chadburne. Mrs. Charles Mer- ritt Field, pr. and Mrs. Frank Nor
 throp, Dr. E. Stagg Whitin and Miss
 Anna Lee.
 The convicts who had not been taken outside to greet the warden-perhaps 400 of them-now had their chance and the riot of noise that they turned
 loose made the outside racket sound
 like a whisper in comparison. The re.
 tiring warden, Dean Kirchwey grabbed MT. Osborne's hand and said l"We're all glad to see you back