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CHAEITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
INCOEPOEATION OF MALTMEN, GLASGOW.
OiSce-bearers — Visitor, James Menzies, 68 Bath
Street; last visitor, George Herriot, 24 Moray Place,
Kegent Park ; collector, Eobt. Eobin, 9 East Howard
Street; last collector, Robert Marr Benzie, 19 Mill-
brae Crescent, Langside; master court, Deacon-con-
vener James M'Lenuan, Charles Macdouald WiUiam-
son, William ]\Iaxwell, Robert Ferguson, Robert J.
Bennett, Thomas W. W. Flint, Hugh Eobert Baird,
and John A. Stewart; clerk. Franc Gibb DougaU,
writer, 167 Canning St. ; officer, .
BARONY OF GOEBALS BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
The office-bearers for 1895 are: — Hon. directors,
James Dunlop, Esq., M.D., J. B. Mirrlees, Esq.,
Sir Wm. Eenny Watson ; preses, John Wilson, Esq.,
M.P. ; directors, E. Westlands, W. Buchanan, E.
Gourlay, D. Bowman, Daniel Munro, James Robb,
Archibald Walker, John Paterson, Hugh Pollock,
A. Cameron Corbett, M.P., Henry C. D. Rankin,
Eobert Harvey ; treasurer, R. Gourlay, Bank of Scot-
land, St. Vincent Place ; medical officer. Dr. J. Dunlop;
secretary, Geo. Young, writer, 97 Wellington Street.
The society was instituted in the year 1806, and
the sphere of its operations includes the parliamentary
boundary of the City of Glasgow situated on the
south side of the river Clyde. The object of the
society is to afford pecuniary or other relief to the
natives and old inhabitants of the Barony of Gorbala
who are of respectable character ; have been in bet-
ter circumstances, but reduced to a decayed and
indigent state ; and who, not being otherwise suffi-
ciently provided for, stand in need of the society's
aid; but no one receives assistance from its funds
who is in receipt of parochial relief. Advanced age,
urgent necessity, and respectability of character are
indispensable. Length of residence, next to nativity
preferred ; but applicants must have one or other of
those qualifications. Non-residence at the time of
making application will not exclude from the benefits
of the society. No one is allowed to participate in
the benefits of the Society who is under fifty years of
age, unless labouring vmder permanent bodily infirmity.
The treasurer supplies forms of application for aid.
GLASGOW DAY-NURSERIES ASSOCIATION.
The nurseries are — 25 M'Intyre St., Anderston;
31 Dalmaruock Road, Bridgeton; 6 Corn Street,
Garseube Road, Cowcaddens ; 64 Douglas Street,
Partick; 136 Vermont Street, Kinning Park; and
26 South Wellington St., Hutchesontown. Childi'en
whose parents require to leave them to go out to work,
as in the case of widows, widowers, deserted mothers,
&c., are cared for in the nurseries. A charge of 3d.
per day is made for each child, but the Association
requires over £500 per annum from the public to carry
on its work. Hon. secretary, Geo. B. Young, Esq.,
45 West George Street.
GLASGOW NORTH QUARTER FUNERAL
SOCIETY.
Established 1832.
The above Society meets in the North Hall of
Greyfriars Church, 40 North Albion Street, on the
first Saturdays of March, June, September, and
December at 6 o'clock p.m., when members may be
enrolled. Samuel Browne, secy., 128 Norfolk St., S.S.
DISCHARGED PRISONERS AID SOCIETY.
Burnside St., 98 Duke Street.
The Hon. the Lord Provost, James Bell, Esq.,
chairman ; Jas. Nicol, City Chamberlain, hon. treas. ;
A. A. Fergusson,hon. secretary; John La wson, super-
intendent male prisoners ; Mrs. Elder, bible woman
for female prisoners.
41,609 discharged prisoners and convicts have been
dealt with by us since March, 1889, at which period
the directors inaugm-ated a change in the method of
their operations among this unfortunate class of our
criminal population. The first step in this direction
was the leasing of premises (which we still occupy)
in Burnside Lane, within 100 yards of the exit i ate
of the Duke Street Prison, whence the men from Bar-
linnie Prison, as also those from Duke Street Prison,
are daily discharged. There they are met every
morning at half past eight by two of our officials, and
are each presented with a card of invitation to our haD,
where a hearty breakfast of coffee with an ample
supply of bread and butter is provided for them.
After family worship every man of this large number
is conversed with, and his name and the charge
against him, with the sentence, entered in our books.;
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 for every man who was disposed honestly t*
accept it. To this course we have steadily adhered,|
and the result is that during the five and a half years;'
of its prosecution 4290 men have been placed ia
various larga industrial works in the cit7 and neigh-,
bourhood. In 1894 work was found for 1015 men^
Sucn a record of rescue work speaks for itself, andl
suggests the inquiry — " What would have been th^
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 Garneth:
and Whitevale Street is procured for those wome)
who desire to break with the old courses.
CHILDEEN'S REFUGE,
Whitevale Street, Glasgow.
This institution was founded by the Ai-chbishop ol
Glasgow, and was opened on the 2nd February, 1887A
It is under the direction of a committee, assisted byi;
Sisters of Charity, and affords a temporary shelter ttfi
children whose destitute circumstances demand ini4
mediate attention. Children received into the hous^
are kept there until a satisfactory arrangement caij
be made for them by the committee in charge. The
institution is wholly dependent on the support of the
public, and since its foundation has received and
pro%'ided for over 1500 children.
Eev. John Toner, Salamanca Street, Parkhead,
secretary. .;,
THE INCOEPORATED GLASGOW OLD MAN'S '
FRIEND SOCIETY AND OLD WOMEN'S
HOME.
President, Matthew Pettigrew, Esq. ; vice-presi"
dents, David M 'Cowan, Esq., Hugh Brown, Esq.)
John Black, Esq. ; secretary, Allan JlacLean, Esq.,
41 West George Street ; treasurers, Thomas Mason,
Esq., and Robert M'Ewen, Esq., 17 St. Vincent Lane ;
superintendent of asylum. Arch. Findlay; matron.
Miss Campbell; medical officer, Dr. Ales. Robertson.