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

Word was received from Albany to-day
that the Legislature will appoint a COM
m.ttee 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-
sented in 1.-The Evening World" Mr..
Furgueson IS not talking for publication
just now.
1t was n surprise to many Brooklyn
taxpayers to learn that $50, COO of the city
funds is being paid annually to Corne-
Illus Furgueson fof 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 peen lax IN not asserting the
"i.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
If the Mayor of Brooklyn ana the City
and County Judges had acted as the
law provides and attended the meetings
u the Trustees, doubtless the reckless
tND - ilillhlt Go III hllN'S 90 pihN
tisei by Treasurer Furgueson. of the
Home" would have been curtailed years
ago.
.ook into the present state Of affairs
and give their immed ate attention to the
drainage OF the Kings County funds by
Furgueson's institution.
There are many queer circumstances
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
tclry Justice Charles w. Church is mana
necessary for the structure. These, of
course, cost money. 1t is said the boiler
and other machinery at the Home for
Inebr;ates were c2ndemmea by I Jus
replaced by a new plant, while the Old
boiler was 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 dos, kennels; of which
brief mention was made in THE Even
ing World" YESTERDAY, are in the stan;e
the institution, who are paid out of the
moneys of Brooklyn and Kings County.
ave charge of the animals.
Home was created provides that drunk
ards and those persons comm tted 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 day, and after
they serve FurguesCas' purpose by being
m~arshalied to the polls under the Fur
gueson banner they are permitted to
take French leave.
The leading citizens of Fort Hamilton
claim that nearly IA 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 t. 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 lnebriates'
Home for Kings County. The normal
vote of the precinct is in, the neighbour
hood of 27J.
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 fo!lows:
Precincts .......... .. l
Fu"Tuesun Dem 900. 90 1s2 PAS Ia lI 22s
Van Pol, RepD....... ia 81 la l5 Ice 2l9
Total vote for Furguesnn ................. l.267
Total vote FOR Van s9
Furgue5on's majority. 33S
The vote in the Third Precinct On
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