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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
THE HOUSES OF SHELTER.
The House of Shelter, 114 Hill Steeet,
Gaknethill.
" The Shelter" was instituted in 1850. Its object
is to provide a home for females who, on their libera-
tion from prison, are desirous to reform and to support
themselves by honest industry. The number of in-
mates in "the Shelter" is generally 50. They are
employed in needlework, the institution receiving the
proceeds of their labour, in return for which the inmates
are lodged, fed, and clothed. In addition to this, a
suitable outfit is given to those who remain a full year,
and go out with the approval of the committee ; and
an effort is made to find suitable employment for the
women when they leave the Home.
Mission Shelter, 15 Whitevale Street
(Prison Gate Mission).
This Home was begun in 1878, and its object also
is to provide for females who have been in prison, and
desire to lead a better life. The two homes are worked
much on tbe same lines as to the length of stay re-
qaired and the food and outfit given ; also as to the
effort made to find occupation for the women when
they leave, after remaining their full time — i.e., a
year. The special featm-e of the Mission Shelter is
its large washing-house and laundry, in which the
greater number of the 70 women are employed, the
rest being engaged in sewing, with the exception of
a few, who are occupied in knitting or housework.
Both Homes are equally dependent on the public
for employment. Our Bible Woman meets the female
prisoners daily at the Prison Gate on their liberation
from Prison.
A. A. Fergusson, president ; W. R. M. Church,
C.A., 104 West George Street, hon. treasurer.
ROBERTSON BEQUEST.
Founded by Miss Isobel Robsrtson, 5th August,
1844. The funds are to be distributed amongst (1)
ten decayed gentlewomen, who shall have been re-
siding for at least 10 years in Glasgow, who shall
not be less than 45 years of age, and shall never
have been married; (2) ten females each of whom
shall have, for at least seven years consecutively,
been a hired servant in one family in Glasgow, shall
not be under 60 years of age, shall never have been
married, and at the time of selection shall be out of
service. Amount of Pensions at present (1) £15
and (2) £7 10s.
Factor, J. Roxburgh Strong, C.A,, 110 West
George st. ^^^
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR,
ST. JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE AGED.
180 Gakngad Hill.
This institution was founded at Glasgow in 1862,
and contains now 265 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
ciharities or legacies.
For admission apply at the institution.
SAILORS' ORPHAN SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND, .
Receiving Home, 2 Elmbank Street, Glasgow.
Girls Home, 5 Thistle Street, Glasgow, W.
Boys Home, Mount Blow House, Dalmuir.
The object of the society is to feed, clothe, educate, ,
or otherwise provide for the orphans or fatherless
children of seafaring men (including engineers, fire-
men, stewards, &c.) who have been left in destitute
circumstances. About 4000 seamen are annually lost
from, or die on board British ships, and there is great
need for such work as this society is doing. There ■
is no collector, but the society is carried on in depend-
ence upon God, and is supported by the free-wiH 1
offerings of friends who are interested in the work. .
521 orphan children are under the Society's care.
The trustees are George Smith, 75 Bothwell Street,
Richard H. Hunter, 2 Park Circus, Rubt. S. Allan,
163 West George Street, and James Cuthbert, 21
Carlton Place, Glasgow. Donations will be placed
to maintenance or endowment fund as the donors
may wish. All communications should be addressed
to Richard H. Hunter, 2 Park Circus, Glasgow.
THE GLASGOW INSTITUTION FOR ORPHAN
AND DESTITUTE GIRLS.
Hosie: The Orphanage, Whiteinch,
Has been established for seventy years. Its ob-
ject is to rescue orphan and destitute girls of
tender years, and give them an education and up-
bringing fitting them for good domestic servants.
C. Ker, Esq., C.A., 115 St. Vincent Street, Mrs. Gow,
Cairndowan, Dowanhill, and Miss Macgregor, 26
Lynedoch Street, joint secretaries; Dr. J. 0. Mitchell,
69 East Howard St., treasurer.
MISSION TO THE OUT-DOOR BLIND FOR
GLASGOW AND THE WEST OF SCOTLAND
Has under its care 1350 Wind persons, resident
in Glasgow and the counties of Lanark, Renfrew,
Ayr, Dumbarton, Argyll, and Bute. These blind
persons are sought out, visited at their own
houses, taught to read, and provided with books in
raised type free of charge. The great majority being
deprived of sight at, or near, middle life, and being
thereby rendered unfit to follow their ordinary occu-
pations, means are used to find employment for them
suited to their altered circumstances.
President, W. A. Arrol, Esq., 16 Dixon St.; hon.
treasurer, John Colville, Esq., 25 Royal Exchange Sq.;
hon. secretary, J. S. TempletoD, Esq., William St.,
Greenhead ; superintendent, Mr. John Macdonald, 4
Bath Street.
MAXWELL AND HUTCHESON CHARITABLE.
TRUST.
Founded in 1877, under the will of Miss Ann
Maxwell Graham of Williamwood, for the benefit of
necessitous persons, chiefly gentlefolk, of the name
of Maxwell or Hutcheson, and husbands or wives
of, or descendants of, these names. The Trustees j
are: — H. Brown, mercht., J. Graham, LL.D., writer,
R. Hope Robertson, C.A., J. H. N. Graham, merchant,
and Graham Hutchison, of Balmaghie, Castle Douglas ;
treasurer, R. H. Robertson, C.A., 58 St. Vincent
Street, Glasgow; secretary, Jas. Graham, LL.D., 198
West George St., Glasgow. 1