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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW ANGUS AND MEARNS
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
Its object is to afford relief to natives, their widows,
and families resident in or neaj Glasgow who have
fallen into distress.
It has two bursaries at Glasgow University,
value ^16 each yearly, tenable for four years, for the
arts classes, open to natives and sons of natives.
A contribution of £3 3s. constitutes membership,
payable either at entry or in three annual instalments
of£l Is.
Henry Robert Baird, of Durris, patron; Stuart
Spence, president; Charles Hogg, vice-president;
James D. Spence, treasurer; J. D. Ramsay, 87 St.
Vincent Street, secretary.
ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
Bnrnbaiik East, Dennistoun, Glasgow.
Established in 1880 for the instruction of the
deaf in articulation and lip-reading. Mrs. Wallace,
principal.
THE GLASGOW SICK POOR AND PRIVATE
NURSING ASSOCIATION.
Affiliated to the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute
for Nurses.
(Founded by the late Mary 0. Higginbotham, 1875.)
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Princess Louise_
The object of this association is to provide trained
and experienced women of high character as district
nurses, to attend the sick poor in their own homes, free
of charge, and to provide, if it be thought advisable, the
sick poor with food, medicine, surgical appliances,
clothing, bedding, or change of residence, either
gratuitously or otherwise. A staff of medical, surgical,
and fever nurses is also kept for those who are able
to pay for their services.
Consulting-surgeon, Professor George Buchanan ;
consulting-physician. Prof. M'CaU Anderson ; con-
sulting surgeon and physician for the out-door de-
partment, Dr. Lees ; dental surgeon, Dr. J. Cowan
Woodbum ; surgeon. Dr. H. C. Cameron ; physician.
Dr. J. Lindsay Steven; auditors, M'Clelland, Mac-
kinnon & Co., C.A. ; superintendent. Miss Lamont;
district superintendent. Miss Berwick, ; treasurer and
secretary, D. S. Carson, Esq., C.A., 209 West George
Street. Collector for city, Walter Stewart, 65 Bath
St. Institution, 218 Bath St.
THE GLASGOW WATER OF ENDRICK
FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
(Instituted 29th March, 1771.)
Master Court, Councillor Maclay, 7 Eildon Villas,
Mount Florida, preses ; WOliam A. Hart, 37 West
Graham Street, vice-preses ; E. Robertson Lyall, 96
Calder Street, Crossbill, clerk ; James Harvie, 33
Meadowpark Street, treasurer; William Macfarlane,
Joha Logan, James Macfarlane, Peter Brock, and
Robert Dalglish ; Dr. Angus Macphee, 137 New City
Koad, medical officer.
Members (after sis months' probation) are entitled
to receive, during sickness, 10s. per week for the first
six months, 6s. per week for the next six months, and
thereafter 4s. per week. Allowance for Funeral
Money, £6. Registered office — the Religious Insti-
tution Rooms, 200 Buchanan Street.
THE MARSHALL TRUST.
This endowment is constituted under the scheme oi
the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act, 1882
and extended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act,'
1889. The free income is applied in awarding pay-'
ment of books and stationery up to Standard VI., I
evening class scholarships, industrial training, grants
to scholars learning a trade and attending evening
classes, higher education bursaries, and university
bursaries, and in certain circumstances for the material
assistance of children educated under the scheme. The
children selected must reside in the county of the city:
of Glasgow or the counties of Lanark or Stirling,
and are required to attend a public or state-aided
school within said counties, and must be "orphans:
or fatherless, or children whose parents or relations.)
not being in receipt of parochial relief, are unable tc
clothe, educate, and maintain them, and ought not,
in the opinion of the governors, to be required tc
apply to the parochial board for such aid, provided
always that no grants shall be given where the total
income of the parents exceeds £70 per annum.''
Factor, Archd. Foulds, 74 Bath street; clerk, W. J.
Alexander, 194 West George street ; superintendent
Wm. Mitchell, 134 Wellington street.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY 01
SCOTLAND.
Office, 108 West George Street, Glasgow.
Funds, £64,061 ; Benefits paid, £94,039.
Robert Kedie (of Messrs. Stewart & Macdonald)
president; D.Mitchell, 119 Virginia PL, vice-president
Gilbert James, treasurer ; J. F. Bannerman, 108 West
George St., sec. and deputy-treasurer; actuary. Arch
Hewat, F.F.A., F.I.A. ; M'Grigor, Donald, & Co.
law agents; Quintin Chalmers, M.D., 10 Roj'al Cres-
cent, W., surgeon; Alexander Black, M.B., F.K.C.P.E.
13 Howe Street, surgeon for Edinburgh ; Messrs
Archibald Sinclair, J. B. Macarthy, James M'Auslin,
William Connell, Jervis Coats, jr., And w. M'Bryde
James Law, William S. Cameron, John H. Connell
William Gibson, Stephen Hindle, and David Work
directors.
A member of this society who has been 12 month:
enrolled, on being incapacitated by disease, accident
or infirmity, from following his usual avocation, i
entitled to receive £1 per week. On the death of i
member who has been 12 months enrolled, the so
ciety pays £10 as funeral allowance. Annual meet
ing in Glasgow on the fourth Friday of February. Thi
directors meet on the first Tuesday of each month.
THE GLASGOW LOCHABER SOCIETY.
Secretary, Alexander Kennedy, writer, 190 W^^
George Street. ^
THE SCOTTISH WINE AND SPIRIT MER-
CHANTS BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
Secretary, Alexander Kennedy, writer, 190 We?
George street.
THE SOCIETY OF DEACONS AND FREE
PRESESES.
This society was instituted in 1780. Its object i
to afford pecuniary aid to such of its members or thei
widows as may be in destitute circumstances.
John Hurll, writer, 121 West Regent Street, clerk.