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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND.
96 TO 108 Castle Steeet.
Central Warehouse, 82 and 84 Renfield Street.
For the education and maintenance of Indigent and
Industrious Blind- Nearly 250 blind persons educated,
maintained, and employed. The blind manufacture
extensively baskets, brushes, bedding, mattresses,
wirework, door-mats, floor matting, fire-wood, &c.
The public are respectfully invited to visit the In-
stitution and see the blind at work.
President, the Hon. James Bell, Lord Provost.
Honorary Vice-presidents, the Duke of Argyll,
the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Blantyre, Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., Sir
Charles Cameron, Bart., LL.D., M.P., Sir Charles
Tennant, Bart., James A. Campbell, LL.D., M.P.
Managers — from the University of Glasgow, Pro-
fessor Ramsay.
From the Town Council, es-Bailie Morrin.
From the Merchants' House, William Newlands and
George Younger.
From the Trades' House, Deacon-Convener J.
51'Lennan and Jas. Waddell.
From the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr.
Thomas Reid.
From the Ministers of Glasgow, Rev. George S.
Burns, D.D.
From the Royal Infirmary — John Glen, John
Black, and Samuel Marks.
The following from the Contributors : — Sir James
King, Bart., Alexander A. Fergusson, Robert Orr,
J. E. Nelson, Robt. Jameson, Robt. Gourlay, James
Miller, John Garroway, and J. Carfrae Alston.
Sir James King, chairman of managers; James
Miller, deputy-chairman.
Principal Campbell, Royal Normal College for the
Blind, Norwood, hon. musical director.
Secretary and treasurer, John Tasker, 28 Bath
Street.
Surgeon, Dr. Lapraik; matron, Mrs. Forbes; col-
lector, Geo. Smith ; cashier, Donald Macleod ; auditor,
Jas. Hutton, C.A.; superintendent, Thomas Stoddart.
Meetings of the managers will be held on the second
Friday of each month.
THE GLASGOW WATER OF ENDRICK
FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
John Logan, preses ; Wm. A. Hart, vice-preses ;
E. Robertson Lyall, clerk ; Robert H. Lochhead,
treasurer ; Councillor M'Lay, William Macfarlane,
William B. Allan, James Macfarlane. Peter Brock,
directors; Dr. Angus Macphee, 137 New City Road,
medical ofiicer.
Members (after six months' probation) are entitled
to receive, during sickness, 10s. per week for the first
six months, 6s. per week for the next sis months, and
thereafter 4s. per week. Allowance for Funeral
Money, £6. Registered office — the Religious Insti-
tution Rooms, 200 Buchanan Street.
GLASGOW DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION,
Prospect Bank, Ceosshill.
Seen on Wednesdays, at two o'clock. Mr. B. B.
Macgeorge, 24 George Square, secretary ; Mr. J.
Tasker, 28 Bath Street, treasurer.
SCOTTISH ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Pres., Sir Geo. Reid, P.R.S.A., LL.D.; vice-
presidents. The Hon. the Lord Provost, James
Bell, William M'Taggart, R.S.A., John Wordie, and
J. Irvine Smith ; honorary secretaries, P. W. Adam,
A.R.S.A., and A. K. Brown, A.R.S.A. ; hon. treas.,
Dr. Charles Blatherwick, K.S.W., Dunaivon, near
Helensburgh; council, Hugh Steven, James Paterson,
R.S.W., William Young, R.S.W., William Hamilton,
Andrew Myles, I.A., Thomas Reid, Wm. D. M'Kay,
R.S.A., Robert Noble, A.R.S.A., Robert Alexander,
R.S.A.,PollokS.Nisbet,A.R.S.A.,JohnSmart,R.S.A.;
auditor, George Auldjo Jamieson, C.A. ; secretary
and treasm-er, J. Wright Robb, 49 West George St.,
Glasgow.
Object. — To afford relief to distressed deserving
artists (whether subscribers to the funds of the
association or not), their widows, orphans, or
dependants.
INCORPORATION OF BAKERS OF
GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for the year from September, 1894,
to September, 1895: — Deacon, Robert Izat, 33 Vir-
ginia Street; collector, Archd. Hamilton, 25 Robertson
Street ; late deacon, James Macfarlane ; late collector,
Wm. Morrison, jun. ; master court, Samuel Scott,
James T. Tuliis, John Bilsland, Robt N. Johnston,
William Maclay, Thomas Dunlop, John Stevenson,
Walter Muir, and Wm. Beattie ; clerk, James Ness,
LL.B., 100 W. Regent Street; ofiicer, John Aitken,
214 Cambridge Street.
BLACK'S BEQUEST FOR DOMESTIC
SERVANTS.
Founded by Dr. James Black, sometime surgeon in
Jamaica, afterwards residing in Glasgow, and who
died in 1834. The funds are to be given to faithful
domestic servants settled in Glasgow or neighbour-
hood, who have been ten years or upwards in one
situation. Preference is given to applicants above 60
years of age. Amount, £2 10s. per annum. There are
about 200 pensioners. Factors, Mitchells, Johnston,
& Co., 160 West George Street.
GLASGOW STIRLINGSHIRE AND SONS OF
THE ROCK SOCIETY.
Instituted Hansel Monday, 1809.
Office-bearers for the year: — President, John
Wilson; vice-president, Robert Jameson; dkectors,
John Wordie, David Wilson, jr., C. M. King, Sir
Charles Stirling, Robert Balloch, C. T. Higginbotham,
John Campbell, W. K. Copland, Alexander Dick, jr.,
and Robert Marshall; William Connal, treasurer;
Arthur Forbes, 146 Buchanan St., Glasgow, secretary
and vice-treasurer.
The objects of the Society are— (1) To afford
charitable relief to natives, or widows of natives of
Stirlingshire, or their descendants, and others con-
nected with Stirlingshire, resident in Glasgow and
the neighbourhood, or passing through Glasgow, who
are in need; and (2) the cultivation of_friend!y
intercourse between gentlemen connected with Stir-
lingshire, and the encouragement of education among
the^young of the town of Stirling more especially.