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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS
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CHAKITABLE AND FRIENDLY I W STIT UTIOU S.
GLASGOW SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Instituted 1822.
The Hon. James Bell, Lord Provost, hon. pres.
the Magistrates, hon. directors; George Smith, 75
Bothwell street, chairman ; John Smith, 54 Gordon
street, deputy chairman ; J. P. Maclay, 123 Hope
street, hon. treasurer and secretary.
Seamen's Institute, 200 Broomielaw; Seamen's
Chapel, 11 Brown street ; Seamen's Bethel, reading
and recreation rooms, 11 Eaglesham st., Govan rd.
For seventy-three years this Society has been seeking
the spiritual and temporal welfare of the sailors who
visit the port of Glasgow. Seven paid agents are
constantly at work, and the following summary, ex-
tracted from the current year's report, gives an idea
of the extent and character of the work : — Summary
— religious services held, 1445; seamen and their
friends attending the indoor gospel meetings, 96,056 ;
tea meetings and lime-light entertainments, 119 ;
visits made by seamen to Institute, 207,990; visits
made by seamen to reading-rooms, south side, 38,083;
letters written by seamen, 4428 ; number who have
signed Total Abstinence Pledge, 681 ; tracts distri-
buted, 196,400; libraries, bags and parcels of read-
ing placed on board ships, 2523 ; visits made by
agents to ships, 5271 ; visits to families, 3245 ; visits
to boarding houses, 1722 ; lodgings given to destitute
seamen, 2755.
There is also in connection with the Society, a
Ladies' Auxiliary Society working for the benefit of
the widows of seamen, and at present there are about
200 widows under its care.
The expenditure of the Society this year will be
about £1400, and a further sum of £600 is required
for the relief of the widows of seamen — in all £2000.
There is no endowment, but it is entirely supported
by voluntary contributions. Help is earnestly solicited.
Donations or legacies to be sent to the hon. treas.,
J. P. Maclay, 123 Hope street.
KILMUN SEASIDE HOME.
A sea-side home at Kilmun for invalid poor,
whose health is likely to be restored by a couple of
weeks or so of fresh air, nourishing diet, and cheerful
surroundings, and who are entirely without the means
of securing such for themselves. It is capable of
accommodating about 100 persons, and is entirely
supported by voluntary contributions. Poverty and
infirmity are the sole qualifications of admission.
Since its institution close on 25,000 poor people
have had the benefit of it free of charge. James Airlie,
secy., 134 Wellington St.
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR,
ST. JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE AGED.
180 Garngad Hill.
This institution was founded at Glasgow in 1862,
and contains now 285 aged poor of both sexes.
The Sisters have no funds whatever; they support
the aged poor by whatever public charity affords, and
therefore most gratefully accept cast-off clothes, furni-
ture, donations in money, or anything that may be
offered. The Sisters beg to solicit their benefactors
and the friends of the poor to remember them in their
charities or legacies.
For admission apply at the institution.
INCORPORATION OF TAILORS OF
GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for the year from September, 1894,
to September, 1895 : — Robert Lamb, 34 Glassford
street, deacon ; Wm. Chrystie, 28 Union St., collector ;
James Borland, late deacon; Charles Crinean, late
collector; Wm. E. Copland, John Johnson, Andrew
M'Craoken, John Glass, Alexander Jenkins, David
Gow, John Wilhamson, John M. Wilkinson, and John
Scott, trade's masters; Donald Macvean and Alex.
Stewart, deacon's masters ; William Guthrie, Hugh
Farquhar, Alex. Waddel, members for life ; J. M.
Taylor, clerk; John Pratt, 133 Cathcart St., Kings-
ton, officer; J. Glass and John Williamson, auditors.
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 £8.
GLASGOW ANGUS AND MEAENS
(FORFARSHIRE AND KINCARDINESHIRE)
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
Its object is to afford relief to natives and widows
of natives and their families who have fallen into
distress, resident in or near Glasgow.
It has two bursaries at Glasgow University,
value £15 each yearly, tenable for four years, for the
arts classes, open to natives and sons of natives.
A contribution of £3 3s, constitutes membership,
pavable either at entry or in three annual instalments
of £1 Is.
Henry Robert Baird, of Durris, patron; David
M'Neil, president; David Paton Low, vice-president;
James D. Ramsay, treasurer ; Stuart Spence, 11 W.
Regent Street, secretary.
M 'ALPINE'S MORTIFICATION.
Founded in 1811 by Mrs. M'Alpine, who conveyed
to trustees her property for the maintenance of poor
men and women of the description given in her will
— the former receiving annually £10, and the latter
£5. The trustees are the Deacon Convener and the
Ministers of eight of the Established Churches.
D. & A. Cuthbertson, Provan, & Strong, C.A.,
110 West George Street, factors.
THE GLASGOW LOCHABER SOCIETY
Secretary, Alexander Kennedy, writer, 19Ch-West
George Street.