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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
POOR CHILDREN'S DINNER TABLE
SOCIETY.
Instituted in 1869 for the purpose of supplying
deserving and destitute children with one meal daily
daring the winter months. In 1898-99 seventeen tables
were open, viz., Barony Institute, Black St., Town-
liead; Bell St., Calton; Campbellfield st., Mile-end;
Bishop St., Anderston ; Govan street, Hutchesontown ;
Muse lane; Blackfriars Parish Hall, Duke st.; Day
Refuge, James Morrison street ; Day Refuge, Fossil
id. ; Day Refuge, London Road ; Day Refuge, Pitt
street, Anderston; Bethany Hall, Bridgeton; Kelvin
street, Partick; Cornwall street, Plantation; Govan
«ross ; Pollokshaws ; and Coalhill street, Cam-
lachie. Tickets of admission are distributed by
visitors, and a committee of ladies superintends each
dinner at 12.30 daily. Chairman, A. A. Fergusson,
Esq.; secretary and treasurer, Geo. F. Newlands, 135
St, Vincent Street.
INCORPORATION OF COEDINERS IN
GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for the year from September, 1898:
— Deacon, Wm. Miller, 39 Queen Square, Strath-
Tinngo; collector, Robert Gibb, 28 St. Vincent Cres. ;
late deacon, Thomas M'Bride ; late collector, James
Crookston; deacon's goudie, Henry Burt, 143 Gt.
Hamilton Street ; trade's goudie, Matthew B. Baird,
Hillside, Hamilton; masters, Andw. M'Bryde, Samuel
Marks, A. H. Ewing, James S. Crawford, James T.
"Wilson, Duncan Graham, Robert Motherwell, W. H.
Lithgow ; extra-ordinary master, Andw. Mitchell;
R. P. Lamond, 163 W. George St., clerk ; Wm, R.
Enssell, 128 Cardross St., officer.
PERTHSHIRE CHARITABLE.
The principal object of this society, the qualifica-
tion for membership of which consists of a small sum
of entry-money, is to afford relief to persons in indi-
gent circumstances, natives, or widows of natives of
Perthshire, and their children resident in Glasgow
and the neighbourhood, or passing through the city
unexpectedly falling into distress.
The Marquess of Tullibardine, patron ; John
Foster, president ; A. Mallooh Bayne, late president ;
Alex. M'Diarmid, Peter Edington, William Kennedy,
Robt. Sorley, Geo. Strachan, J. Macgregor Malloch,
George MaeLachlan, John Paterson, Col. Meiizies,
John Smeaton, John Macintyre, and Jas. Crichton,
directors; George Gray and George Gray, junr.,
■writers, County Buildings, joint secretaries and treas.
THE CLYDE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SHIP
" EMPRESS."
Stationed at Row, Gakeloch.
President, Eight Hon. Lord Inverclyde, of Castle
Wemyss; executive committee — chairman, A. C. Hen-
derson; deputy-chairman, R. Bennett Browne; Robt.
Chrystal, R. H. Dunn, Geo. Gray, Capt. John Hardie,
John Innes, James Lilburn, David MacBrayne, junr.,
J. Bums MacBrayne, E. S. Macharg, Capt. William
Meiklereid, Wm. Newton, John A. Roxburgh, Glasgow,
and W. 0. Leitch, Greenock; secretary, George Gray,
County Buildings; treasurer, E. S. Macharg, C.A.,
Merald Buildings, Buchanan Street ; shore inspector,
Hngh Slaughter, 2 Canning Place.
INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF
THE DEAF AND DUMB,
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, patron ; the Right
Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, president; Sir
David Richmond, Lord Provost, Sir James King,
Bart., vice-presidents; R. Gow, chairman; Sir John
Muir, Bart., Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson, Rev. Dr.
Corbett, T. Binnie, T. M. Fergusson, Principal
Douglas, R. Gourlay, David M'Cowan, Rev. Dr.
Donald Macleod, Robert King, J. Pirrie, George
Smith, William Ker, Alexander Sinclair, Kennetb
Thomson, Francis W. Allan, William Mitchell, Rev.
Andw. Laidlaw, Rev. M. B. Hutchison, M. A. directors;,
B. B. Mageorge, 24 George Sq., secy. ; J. Tasker, 28
Bath St., treas. and collector ; Professor T, M'Call
Anderson, M.D.,2 Woodside Ter., consulting physician ;
Dr. E. Duncan, Queen's Park House, Langside Road,
surgeon ; Dr. J. K. Love, 4 Matilda place, Strath-
bungo, hon. aurist: James M. M'Cash, 3 Balmoral
Crescent, Queen's Park. hon. dental surgeon; W. H.
Addison, headmaster ; Miss Heyworth, matron.
GLASGOW BORDER COUNTIES
ASSOCIATION.
The objects of the association shall be — (1) The
cultivation of friendly intercourse among the mem-
bers ; (2) the relief of persons belonging to any one
of the counties of Roxburgh, Berwick, Selkirk, and
Peebles, residing in or passing through Glasgow
in indigent or distressed circumstances ; (3) to-
encourage, in so far as the funds are available for
the purpose, the cause of education in the counties
by the presentation of prizes, or otherwise.
John Hogarth, secy., 121 West Regent Street
HAMILTON'S ANNUITY FUND.
Trustees — The Hon. the Lord Provost and the
two Senior Bailies of Glasgow, the Ministers of the
parishes of Govan and Gorbals, and the Chairman of
the Govan Combination Parish Council, all for the
time being; T. Smith, clerk, 32 Main Street, Gorbals.
Under the Act the trustees pay the sum of £2 per
annum, to be given in clothing as a prize to the suc-
cessful competitor at the Annual Ploughing Match in
the parish of Cathcart; and annuities of £4 each to
decayed natives and residenters of forty years and up-
wards in the Barony of Gorbals of Glasgow, such
persons being not under the age of sixty-five years.
Said Annuities may, under certain circumstances, be
increased until the same shall amount to £i.
INCORPORATION OF WEAVERS OF
GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for the year, from September, 1898,
to September, 1899: — Deacon, R. F.Alexander, 105
Clyde Street, Anderston ; collector, John Service,
71 Mitchell Street; late deacon, James A. Duncan;
late collector, John G. Couper; master court, Adam
White, Andrew J. Kirkpatrick, John Knox, James.
Waddel, Robt. Gourlay, Albert Harvey, Peter Steven,
Robert Kedie, R. D. MacEwan, M. Pearce Campbell,
J. M. Easton, and C. S. Alston ; William MacLean,
(of MacLean, Fyfe, & MacLean), writer, 115 St..
Vincent Street, derk ; Thos. O'May, 2 St. Andrew'a
Square, officer.