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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW PROTESTANT INSTITUTION FOR
ORPHAN AND DESTITUTE GIRLS.
7 York Street, Little Govan.
Mrs. Ferguson. Mrs. Mutisie, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Richardson, Mrs. Macewan, Mrs. R. Smith, Miss
BIyth, Miss Kerr, Miss Wilson, Mrs. Russell, Mrs.
Gow, Miss Anderson, and Miss Ilutchieson, com-
mittee of management ; Mrs. Munsie, 16 Royal
Terrace, secretary; Andrew P. Reid, 29 St. Vincent
Place, treasurer ; Mrs. Wilson, sub-treasurer ; Mrs.
Sliman, matron ; Miss Sliman, teacher ; Hugh
Brown, John Bain, J. D. Bryce, William Kerr, J. A.
Campbell, John Cabbell, Hugh Heugh, George
Younger, Joshua Paterson, M.D., Peter Ferguson,
William Euiug, Micbael Honeyman, David Richard-
son, Andrew P. Reid, Robert Munsie, gentlemen's
committee ; Robert Munsie, 82 West Nile Street,
secretary.
HOUSE OF SHELTER FOR FEMALES.
■4 Hill Street, Garnet Hill.
The " Shelter" ^vas instituted in 1850 ; its object
being to provide a'home for females, on their libera-
tion from prison, who are desirous to reform and to
support themselves by honest industrj-. The average
number of inmates in the "Shelter" is about forty.
They are employed in needle work, the institution
receiving the proceeds of their labour, in return for
which the inmates are lodged, fed, and clothed.
J. D. Bryce, A. A. Fergusson, James Dale, J.
Paterson, M.D., Michael Rowan, James Graham,
directors ; Dr. Robert Scott Orr, Albany Place,
medical attendant; Mrs. Mackay and Miss Stevenson,
secretaries ; Miss Dale, 5 Somerset Place, treasurer.
Mrs. Fergusson, Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Mathieson, Mrs.
Finlaj', Miss M'Intosh, Miss Croom, Miss Murdoch,
Miss Whitelaw, ladies' committee ; Mrs. Rintoul,
Miss Scouller, Miss Dymock, Miss Paterson, visitors ;
Miss Macdonald, matron.
Contributions received b}' Miss Dale, 5 Somerset
Place, treasurer; Miss M'Kay, 90 Buccleucli Street,
or any of the other ladies of committee. Needlework
by Miss Macdonald, matron at the institution.
GLASGOW ANGUS AND MEARNS
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Strathmore, patron ;
William Crockatt, president ; William Fleming,
vice-president; James Martin, insurance agent, 136
Buchanan Street, treasurer ; Stuart Spence, sta-
tioner, 13 Virginia Street, secretary.
GLASGOW INDUSTRIAL & REFORMATORY
SCHOOL SOCIETY.
It has for hs object the providing of food, education,
religious instruction, and industrial training, for
destitute and neglected children of both sexes.
Right Hon. Lord Biantj-re, patron ; Hon. James
Lumsden, Lord Provost, president ; Sir Archibald
Alison, Bart , Sir James Campbell of Stracatbro,
Andrew Galbraith, Peter Clouston, Robert Dalglish,
M.P., William Graham, M.P., Walter Buchanan,
John Henderson of Park, Professor Sir William
Thomson, vice-presidents; E. Simpson Macharg, 138
West George Street, treasurer ; Gavin Ralston, writer,
205 St. Vincent Street, secretary.
THE GLASGOW IRONMONGERS AND
IRON MERCHANTS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Established 1859.
The object of the society is to afford relief to
members who may be rendered incapable of attending
to business by disease, accident, or infirmity, and for
securing a reversionary payment at death. The
meetings are held on the first Tiiursday of each
month, at 8 p.m., in Angus' Temperance Hotel, 127
Argyle Street.
David Rollo, 214 Crown Street, president; Win.
Hood, 31 Turner's Court, treasurer; George Virtue,
129 Trongate, secretary; Donald M'Lean, Donald
Brown, Walter Cowan, David Lawson, John M'Gill,
and John Millar, directors ; Dr. James Hislop,
288 Argyle Street, medical officer ; Peter Prentice,
officer.
OLD MAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Hugh Brown, president ; John Henderson of Park,
A. Galbraith, Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell of Keir, J. G.
Fleming, M.D., vice-presidents ; Wm. G. Mitchell, 14
Windsor Terrace, secretary; William M'Ev/en, 17 St.
Vincent Lane, treasurer; Dr. R. D. Tannahill, 106
Bath Street, surgeon ; the Deacon-Convener of the
Trades' House, the Visitor of the Incorporation of
Maltmen, the Deacon of the Incorporation of Weavers,
honorary members; John M'Ewen, J. J. Wright,
James Gait, James Hannan, James King, John
Morgan, John Smith, William Kerr, Robert Hill,
Thomas Frame, J. B. Kidston, David M'Cowan, J.
N. Cnthbertson, William Euing, James Murray, J.
B. IMurray, David Wilson, Frank Baird, Robert
Chrystal, W. West Watson, George Thomson, and
John Brown, jun., committee; Jas. Fleming, super-
intendent of asylum.
THE SOCIETY OF DEACONS AND FREE
PRESESES.
This society was instituted in 1780. The object
of the society is to afford pecuniary aid to such of its
members or their widows as may be in destitute
circumstances. Any person who has been a deacon
of one of the incorporations of the citj'-, or a preses
of a charitable societj', is qualified for membership.
The entrj'-money is only £1 Is. 6d., and no other
charge is made thereafter. John Scott, preses;
Wm. Forsyth, collector; David Kenned}', late preses;
Wm. Reid, late collector; Duncan M'Alpine, master
in votes; James Bain, Alex. Myers, Henry Bruce,
and M. W. Findlay, preses directors ; John Rattray,
Wm. Steele, Thos. Knos, David Brown, and John
Denholm, society directors ; Henry Taylor and Jas.
Thomson, extraordinary directors ; John M'Farlane,
M.D., physician ; Robert M. Norrie, clerk.
NIGHT ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS,
AND HOUSE OF INDUSTRY FOR INDI-
GENT FEMALES.
North Frederick Street.
William Euing, president ; John Blackie, Peter
Clouston, and John Goodwin, vice-presidents ; John
Brown, jun., treasurer ; John M'Clure, secretary ; Dr.
Thomas Watson, surgeon ; John M'Whirter, superin-
tendent ; John M'Leliand, clerk. 36 directors.
House of Industry — Jliss Kemp, matron.