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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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SAMARITAN SOCIETY— WESTERN
INFIR.MARY.
President, Mrs. Berry, University Gardena ; vice-
presidents, Mrs. Caird, The University, Mrs. Caird,
Balliol College, O.xford, Mrs. Veitch, The Loaning,
Peebles, and Miss Bell, 18 Belmont Crescent; super-
intendents. Miss Berry and the Misses Stuart, 8
Ashton Terrace ; treasurer, Mrs. Duncan, Glenlee,
Bridge of Allan ; assistant treasurer, Miss J. Scott,
25 Ashton Terrace ; secretary, Mrs. Mackay, 6 India
Strep t.
This society, among other objects, provides clothing
and surgical appliances for necessitous patients leaving
tlie infirmary, gives temporary help to their families,
seeks to obtain employment for the cured, and sends
convalescents to Lenzie and the Sea-side Homes.
WIDOWS' FRIEND SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF
OF DESTITUTE CHRISTIAN WIDOWS IN
GLASGOW.
President, the Lord Provost; vice-presidents, John
Davidson, Jame-5 Millar, Robert Westlands, and John
Macpherson ; joint treasurers, John Laing and D. T.
Laing, 20 Bridge Street, s.s. ; secretaries, A. B. Kirk-
patrick, 88 St. Vincent Street, and T. Eaton Robin-
son, C.A., city registrar. Supported by voluntary
contributions; no invested funds. About 900 widows
assisted annually.
GLASGOW CORN TRADE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Instituted 1880.
President, Samuel Hamilton ; vice-president, Wm.
Kerr; treasurer, Thomas M'Lean, Regent Mids; sec-
retary, George Wishart, 4L Hope Stieet.
Object. — To provide allowances for decayed mem-
bers and for relatives of deceased members who were
dependent on them piior to their decease. After
such cases are provided for the directors may grant
relief not exceeding one-fifih of the entire free annual
revenue to persons in necessitous circumstances who,
though not members of the Association, have been
engaged as principals or employees in the corn trade
in Glasgow and neighbourhood. Membership con-
sists of corn merchants and their chief clerks and
salesmen. Payment of £10 as entry money consti-
tutes life membership. Capital in 1894 amounted to
£4495.
FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF INDIGENT
GENTLEWOMEN OF SCOTLAND,
Above fifty years of age, and unmarried.
Fou>iDED 1847.
Patroness — The Queen. Committee of Manage-
ment — Glasgow, Revs. James Stalker, D.D., James
Black, D.D., J. Marshall Lang, D.D., Very Rev.
J. Watson Reid, James Campbell of Tullichewan,
Sir .Tohn N. Cuthbertson, LL.D., Walter G. Blaokie,
Ph.D., LL.D., Geo. Smith; Edinburgh, Revs. Geo.
Philip, D. D., Andrew Thomson, D.D., Alex. Whyte,
D.D., John M'Murtrie, D.D., E. G. Dawson, M.A.,
J. F.W. Grant,M.A., Henry Cook, W.S.. John Kennedy,
W.S., William Robson, S.S.C. ; local treasurer
for Glasgow, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scotland ;
secretary J. T. Maclagan, (j North St. David Street,
Edinburgh ; treasurer, H. A. Hotson, British Linen
Company Bank; auditor, Jas. Alex, Robertson, C.A,
GLASGOW MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Objects of the society — 1. To carry on medical
mission work among the poor in Glasgow. 2. To
encourage a missionary spirit among medical students
in Glasgow. 3. To co-operate with kindred societies
in training and supporting mpdical missionaries.
Office-bearers — Hon. President, the Hight Hon. Lord
Overtoun; president. Dr. J. D. Maclaren ; vice-presi-
dent, Wm. Sloan, Esq. ; secretaries. Dr. Thos. Brown
Henderson, 19 Elmbank Street, R. Hope Robert-
son, Esq., 58 St. Vincent Street ; treasurer, Robert
Gourlay, Esq., Bank of Scotland; superintendents,
Dr. G. Muir Connor, 2 WhitehiU Gardens, Armadale
Street, Dennistoun, and Dr. A. Templet on, 7 Bute
Gardens, Hillbead ; treasurers for Ladies' Auxiliary,
Mrs. John Gunnprecht, 8 Lynedo -h Place, and Miss
Hamilton, 3 Belmar Terrace, Pollokshields. Dis-
pensary, 123 Moncur St:., Calton, is open for the
sick poor every Monday, Taesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day between 12 and 1 o'clock. Dispensary, 6 Oxford
Street, S.S., is open every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, between 11 and 1 o'clock. Every Sabbath
day evangelistic meetings are held in both dispensaries
at half-past two and seven o'clock.
DISCHARGED PRISONERS AID SOCIETY.
Burnside St., 98 Duke Street.
The Hon. the Lord Provost, Sir James Bell, Bart.,
chairman ; Jas. Nicol, City Chamberlain, hon. treas. ;
A. A. Fergusson, hon. secretary; John Lawson, super-
intendent male prisoners; Mrs. Elder, bible woman
for female prisoners.
48,000 discharged prisoners and convicts have been
dealt with by us since March, 188^, at which period
the directors inaugurated a change in the method of
their operations among this unfortunaite class of our
criminal population. Our new building for the
reception of male and female discharged prisoners is
all but finished, and will be occupied by the society
in May. It is situated in a prominent; position in
Cathedral Square, within a few yards from the
exit gate of Duke Street Prison, from whence, with
those from Barlinnie Prison, the priioners are daily
discharged. There they are met every morning
at halt past eight by two of our officials, and are
each presented with a card of invitation to our hall,
where a hearty breakfast of coffee with an ample
supply of bread and butter is provided for them.
After family worship every one of this large number
is conversed with, and the name and the charge
against him, with the sentence, entered in our boobs.
From the outset they are informed that help in shape
of money is to cease, the Society being now prepared
to adopt the plan of securing remunerative employ-
ment fur every man who was disposed honestly to
accept it. To this course we have steadily adhered,
and the result is that during the six and a half years
of its prosecution 5200 men have been placed in
various large industrial works in the city and neigh-
bourhood. In 1895 work was i.miii for 1059 men.
Such a record of rescue work speaks for itself, and
suggests the inquiry — " What would have been the
state of matters among these men had no such helping
hand as ours been held out to them? "
Admission to the Houses of Shelter in Garnethill
and Whitevale Street is procured for those women
who desi:e to break with the old courses.
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