The evening world., 1894-03-16
after MR.FURGUES0N
legislature to Investigate the
Inebriates' Home Affairs
Action Following "The
Evening Worlds" Exposures.
"Voters" Colonized for the Use of
the Bosses.

Word was received from Albany to-day
that the Legislature will appoint a com
\ mlttee to investigate the affairs OF the
Inebriates' Home, of Kings County, the
| queer institution at Fort Hamilton. which
1.-THE Evening World thoroughly ex-
posed yesterday.
Boss Cornelius Furgueson has nothing
to say about the facts and figures pre-
+ scented In 1.-THE Evening World.' Mr..
Furgueson is not talking for publication
Just now.
1t was a surprise to many Brooklyn
taxpayers to learn that $4,000 OF the city
funds Is being paid annually to Corne-
Illus Furgueson for the benefit OF his
Inebriates' Home.
Brooklyn citizens v evidently over
looked the law which provided for the
establishment of the institution, and some
one has been lax in not asserting the
ci.y's rights in the matter. The law
creating the Home distinctly says:
The Mayor and City Judge Of Brooklyn and
the County Judge of the county of Kings are
s~x.onhcio members OF the Board OF Trustees.
II the Mayor of Brooklyn and the City
and County Judges mad acted as the
law ,5 ps0Y TTsste snd s ss,snded 'h the m 1eeRiess
expenditures and ex~travagances as Praco
tlsed by Treasurer Fursueson,, sd Of re the
Mayor sehlsrsn and an s etheFf Of m the
look into the present state , % a an hrs
drainage of the Kings County funds by
Furgueson's institution. -
There are many queer circumstance
in connection with the management OF
the Home, which doubtless will be thor
oughly ventilated by the Legislative
When Furgueson built his mammoth
hotel at Fort Hamilton, of which hos
telry Justice Charles w. Church is mana
ger, a large boiler and engine plant were
course. cost money. 1t is said the boiler
and other machinery at the Home Ior
Inebriates we're condemned by Trus-
replaced BY a new plant, while the old
for Furgueson's new hotel. 1t is TRANCE
II the State did not pay Tor the ne"
BOSS Furgueson's dog kennels. of which
brief mention was made in The Even
Yards Of the Home, and employees of
the institution, who are paid out of the
moneys Of Brooklyn and Kings County,
haye charge Of the w ahIma' fbe 1nebriates'
Home was created provides that drunk
ards and those persons committed to the
R 1nss,tasiIGn sh sy b the eoh RH,tsdf in 'T the Hem Se
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 day, and after
they serve Furguesons, purpose BY being
m~arshalled to the polls under the Fur r.
gueson banner they are permitted 10
take French leave.
The eading citizens of Fort Hamilton
claim that nearly a hundred illegal votes
have been cas- 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 n loaned for the oc.
casion to Boss McKane.
Fort Hamilton, the third precinct being
the one which includes the lnebriates
Home for Kings County. The norma
vote Of the precinct Is In the neigheor'
hood of 275.
At the election In 1892 for Supervisor
which resulted in a victory for Bos;
Furgueson, ninety-two names were regis
tered from the Inebriates' Home. The
vote in the six precincts was as follows
Precincts .;........... 2 - q % 90
Furgueson tDem. )...... 29 1872 25 ~ li ~
Van Pelt tRep)........ ia 81 IA l5 1866 2lI
Total vote for Furgueson. ...........,...... Leo
Total vote for Van OIL
Furgucson's majority. $751;
The vote IN the Third Precinct On
ebriates' Home districD was 1888.