New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-06
WE HAIL DIES FROM APoPLE1Y
A FRIEND COMPLAINS OF THE INEBaIArEs HOME
prA~CUARD'S REPLY.

DIR. BLANCHAEDS
The sad case OF wellington T. Hall, I'LL le" oa!s
.co the treasurer of the Casino told in yesterdays
rrrnupe reached a fatal end early yesterday. On
wednesday evening It was found necessary to remove
Mr. Hall to Bellevue Hospital, where he died shor'iy
after A. M The Immediate cause OF his death was
apoplexy: an examination revealed the presence Vi
cot Of blood on the brain. Tho following letter was
received at this Office yesterdays
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
SIR Your article in today's issue relating to the late
Wellington f. Hall and his rejection By tho authorities OF
the so-caed Inebrates' Home az Fort Hamilton Is not
ou correct The facts these At the request OF MI
Halls mother called the place last Saturday AFTERNOON
to make preparation for his admission there to be caeu
as an lnebriate. 1 stated the case to the pcrson IN
charge at that time who, supposed, was the phy sc'
Dr. Blanchard. This gentleman showed me the rooinS
such as wanted the charge for which was $40 week
On the Monday Tuesday following called al the once
OF the place the OF Pears and fuitohs~ anu
requested OF papers for the proper admission OF inc
patient The papers given TO me and the money
s1o received for thirteen board and attendance
and receipt given for the That there might DC
no Mistake the charge eephonod to the institution
before he received money What answer came back
know but from the fact that the clerk received inc
money had j right to suppose It was all right.
Subsequently Mr.. Halls mother and myself went be-
fore Justice ORely at his in Fifty sevenhst' In
whose precinct Mr. Hall lived who, upon odr compa'h
Issued the necessary papers for tho patients comitt az
hands OF an officer with Mrs Hall took him to this
socaed Inebriates Home, and much to my surprise
he was rudey refused admission and the money paid back
to them by Dr. Blanchard. The result OF this was that
his poor mother had take her son back
again to her home Before learning that he had been re-
fused admission called yesterday with friend at the
cate OF the place and asked be let In to see MI Hall
Then was told by Dr. Blanchard that he had not been
admitted there for patients at that price
ts1O and that he had under s2L 1t was then
a Mr.
the officer had gone away the day before.
This action OF DR.. blanchard had very bad enect on
the patient greved necessarily about at his home
so much so 1t became necessary to send him to
Bellevue Hospital for treatment, where be died this
morning soon after his admission. These are the plain
and unvarnished in the and leave 1t with
candid public to Judge for themselves what kind OF
place this so-called Inebrates Home at Bay Ridge IS
New York. July s. 1888. FRIEND.
Dr. Blanchard, Of the Inebriates Home, told
Tribune reporter last night that the friend who PAID
board I'm advance at the Brooklyn Office stated to the
clerk that he had made arrangements for the rcep-
ton of Mr. Hall at the Home. No such arraD &C.
ments had been made. The clerk refused at hrst 10
receive the money, ascertanng by telephone that
that arrang cments were made at tho Home Dr.
Blanchard was satisfied looking at Mr.. Han, that
he was a uDatic, and not IL patient for the Homo.
lie said he regretted that Mr.. Hall was taken there
uselessly but he could not see how tho management
Of the Home blame.