The evening world., 1894-03-16
AFTER MR.FURGUESON
Legislature to Investigate the
In~ebriates' Home Affairs.
Prompt Action Following "The
Evening Worlds Exposures.
"Notcrs" S'oionizcd for the Use Of
the Bosses.

Wyrl was received from Albany to-day
that che Legislature viii appoint a com
mite" 10 Investigate the affairs of the
lurhrIatrs' Home, Of Kings County. the
queer institution at Fort Hamilton, which
THE Evening World' thoroughly eX-
posed Yesterday.
Boss Cornelius Futgueson has nothing
to say about the facts and figures pre-
tented in The Evening World" Mr..
Furgueson IS not talking for publication
just now.
1t Was a surprls. to many Brooklyn
taxpayers to learn that sGO,OOO Of the city
funds is being paid annually 10 Corne-
Illus Furgueson for the benefit of his
ln]ehriatas' Home.
brooklyn citizens have evidently over
looked the law which provided for the
establishment OF the institution. and some
one has pcen lax IN not asserting the
"..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 and the CITY
and County Judges had acted as the
law provides and attended the meetings
ii the Trustees, doubtless the reckless
expenditures and extraNasances as prac-
tisci 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 or aHalrs
and give their immediate attention 70 the
drainage OF the Kings County tuhds ny
Furgueson's institution.
There are many queer circumstance
in connection with the nan a, Ee m ibo OK
oughly ventilated by the Legislative
When Furgueson built his mammoth
hotel at Fort Hamilton, of which nos
telry Justice charles ". Church is mana
ger, a large boiler and engine plant were
necessary for the structure, Ihese. OF
course. cost money. 1t Is said the bo,ier
and other machinery at the home Tor
inebriates were condemned by Trus-
tees Furgueson and church n were
replaced by a new plant. while the o,l
for Furgueson's new hotel. 1t is TRANCE
il the State did not pay for the new
machinery. ,
Boss Furgueson's dog kennels; OF which
brief merton was made in The Even
ing World" yesterday, are in the STABLE
yards of the Home. and employees or
the institution, who are paid out or the
moneys of Brooklyn and Kings county,
have charge of the animals.
The law under which the 1nebriates'
Home was created provides that drunk
ards and those persons committee TO me
Brookiyln 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 Furguesons' purpose by being
marshalled to the polls under the sur
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. blu
have been driven over to Gravesend
and Coney Island and loaned for the oc-
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 %neighbor-
hood of 30.
At the election in 1892 for Supervisor,
which resulted in n victory for Boss
Furgueson. ninety-two names were regis
tered from the Inebriates' Home. The
vote in the six precincts was as follows:
Fu-gueson DEM go. . 27s 1872 2b ia iH 22s
Van Peli (Rep )........ ia 81 ia l5 l6 2ls
Total vote FOR Furgueson, ...............,... !. 2S7
Total vote for Van Peit sl9
Furgueson's majority. ................. S3s
The vote in the Third Precinct On
ebriates' Home district was 3S9.