The evening world., 1894-03-16
AFTER MR.FURGUESON
Legislature to Investigate the
Inebriates' Home Affairs.
Prompt Action Following "The
Evening Worlds" Exposures.
"Voters" Colonized for the Use of
the Bosses.

WORD was received from Albany TODAY
that the Legislature will appoint a COM
mittee to investigate the affairs of the
Inebriates' Home, Of Kings County, the
queer institution at Fort Hamilton, which
The Evening World' thoroughly ex-
posed yesterday.
Boss Cornelius Furgueson has nothing
to say about the facts and figures pre-
scented in THE Evening World" Mr..
Furgueson Is not talking for publication
just now.
1t was a surprise to many Brooklyn
taxpayers to learn that $780, 600 Of the city
funds is being paid annually to Corne-
Illus Furgueson for the benefit of his
Inebriates' Home.
Brooklyn citizens have evidently over
looked the law which provided for the
establishment Of the institution. and some
one has been lax in not asserting the
"i:y's rights in the matter. The law
creating the Home distinctly says:
Tho Mayor and City Judge of Brooklyn and
the County Judge OF the county of Kings are
e~x-oflcio members of the Board OF Trustees.
II the Mayor of Brooklyn and the City
and County Judges had acted as the
ii the Trustees, doubtless the reckless
expenditures and e~xtravagances as prac-
tised by Treasurer Furgueson, OF the
Home" would have been curtailed years
Mayor schieren and others of the
city government of Brooklyn may
look into the present state Of affairs
and give their immediate attention to the
drainage Of the Kings County funds by
Furgueson's institution. |
There are many queer circumstances
the Home, which doubtless will be thor
oughly ventilated by the Legislative
Committee.
telry Justice Charles w. Church Is mana
ger. a large boiler and engine plant were
necessary for the structure. These, OF
and other machinery at the Home for
Inebriates were condemned by Trus-
tees F%urgueson and Church and, were
boiler vas exactly what was wanted
for Furgueson's new hotel. 1t Is strange
II the State did not pay for the new
machinery.
Boss ~Furgueson's dog kennels. of which
brief mention was made In The Even
ing World yesterday. are in he stable
yards Of the Home and employees OF
money of Brooklyn and Kings County.
rave charge of the animals,
The law under which the 1nebriates'
ards and those persons committed to the
institution by the police justices of
BROOKLYN shall be confined in the Home
as prisoners for not less than thirty
days. This law is constantly violated,
especially at election time. A horde of
"bummers" are sent up to the Home
shortly before election hay, n after
they serve Furguesons' purpose by being
m~arshalled to the polls under the Fur
gueson banner they are permitted to
take French leave.
The leading citizens OF Fort Hamilton
claim that nearly a hundred illegal votes
have been cast at every election from
the precinct in which the Home Is stu
ated. and the charge Is made that the
inmates of the institution were not only
marched to the New Utrecht polls, but
have been driven over to Gravesend
and Coney Island and loaned for the &C.
casion to Boss McKane.
There are sixty voting precincts in
Fort Hamilton. the third precinct being
the one which includes the Inebriates'
Home for Kings County. The normal
vote Of the precinct is In the n%eighbor-
hood of 90.
At the election in 1892 for Supervisor.
which resulted in a victory for Boss
Furgueson. ninety-two names were regis
tered from the Inebriates' Home. The
vote in the six precincts was as follows:
Precincts ......;...... s
Furgueson Dem.)...... go 1872 e5 ia 1884 e2s
Van Pelt Rep.)........ ia 81 l4 1875 l6 2l9
Total vote for Furgusson. .................. /. 257
Total vote for Van s9
Fursueson's majority. 33s
The vote in the Third Precinct Qn-
ebriateS' Home districD was $3.50,