The sun., 1919-08-05
COPELAND TO URGE
PELHAM DRUG HOME
Commissioner Will Ask To-day
for $4,000 to Go Ahead
With Project.

Disregarding the protests of residents
OF City Island and others dwelling n
the vicinity of Pelham Bay Park Eao
are Directing to the conversion OF The
naval station there into a hospital to'
drug addicts. Health Commissions
Copeland intends to go before the Board
OF Estimate. at a special meeting this
morning. and ask for an appropriated
of $4,000 to enable him to go ahead
with the project.
Answering the charge Of John Kads,
a lawyer of 372 East Forty-ninth stree.
who on behalf of City Island residents
issued a statement Saturday calling 80
per cent. OF the addicts linen and women
of criminal instincts" DR.. Copeland de-
clared yesterday that he has no inten'
ton of sending the criminal addicts to
the Pelham Bay Hospital. The Commits
sloner of Corrections. he said, will han
die these addicts as heretofore.
The Health Department" explained
DR.. Copeland. wants the buildings Il
contemplates using at Pelham Bay PARK
only untIl the middle of next winter We
will be out of them long before summer
colonists will gather for another season
The place will be inclosed by a wire
fence and It will be patrolled by the
Police Department. There has been 10
thought of taking over the whole plsca
Only the hospital buildings will DO ~
quired.
81 understand and appreciate the view
OF the residents in the vicinity OF Pelham
Bay Park who do not want Il used for
housing purposes and are interested y
seeing that II is kept only as park.
want TO reassure these people that our
occupancy is intended to be only TEN
porary."
DR.. Copeland said he knows nothing
OF any new plan to get the Rockefeller
Hospital buildings for Warwick Farm
II don't care about the Rockefeller Hes
pital any more" ne said, 'as Pelham
Bay VIII meet all requirements for th
treatment OF the drug patients"
The special meeting OF the Board o.
Estimate which convenes this morning
at 1880 was called by the Mayor fcr
the purpose OF considering the recon-
mendation OF the Health Commissions
with regard 10 the Pelham Bay Hospital
DR.. Copeland. with Joseph p, Hcnnessy
Park Commissioner of The Bronx Ana
Robert L. Moran, President OF the Board
OF Aldermen. acting as a committee 'ol
the Sinking Fund Commission, made
general inspection tour OF the Pelham
bd9 bNdliOh scSlcIudN hlAci llotH'
Figures recording daily treatment
the Health Departments Worth strssl
clinic show that 1852 prescriptions were
nlled there Sunday and 1883 on Frtcay
City Island residents attended mass
meeting in Thwaite Community Hall ~
City Island avenue last night TO msni'
fest their opposition to the proposal Ths
meeting was attended by men anu
women representing every phase OF &C.
tivity In City Island ranging from clam
diggers TO lawyers. Most OF those pres
ent signed a petition voicing their op.
position to the hospital The petition
contained many pages OF legal cay
enumerating various and numerous rea'
sons why the hospital should not be 10
Gated in Pelham Bay Park al the ga"
of City Island.
The petition is addressed 70 Mayo,
Hylan and members OF the Board o.
Estimate, and will be presented TO "
Sinking Fund Commission to-day