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ARTISTIC, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
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BARONY OF GORBALS BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
The oflBce-bearers for 1903-4 are : — Preses, John
Wilson, Esq. ; directors, Sir John Ure Primrose, Bart,
Lord Provost of Glasgow, Wm. Buchanan, Robeit
Gourlay, LL.D., Robert Scott, Daniel Munro, Robert
M'Laren, Archibald Walker, John Paterson, A.
Cameron Corbett, M.P., James Stevenson, Alex.
Lamberton, John Muir; treasurer, R. Gourlay, LL D.,
Bank of Scotland, St. Vincent Place ; medical officer.
Dr. Jas. Hamilton; secretary, George 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 Gorbals
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, aud 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 under permanent bodily infirmity
The treasurer supplies forms of application for aid.
ST. ANDREW'S AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
Head Office, 176 West Regent Street.
The objects of the Association incln^la the in-
struction of persons in rendering first aid in cases
of accidents or sudden illness, and in the transport
of the sick and injured ; the instruction of persons
in the elementary principles and practice of home
nursing and hjgiene; the placing .and maintaining
of ambulance waggons, stretchers, and other appli-
ances necessarv for the relief of the injured, in such
situations as may be considered advisable, to enable
assistance to be given with the least possible delay ;
the manufacture, purchase, and distribution by sale
or presentation of ambulance appliances or material,
and the formation of ambulance depots in or near
railway stations, shipbuilding yards, mines, fac-
tories, and other centres of industry and traffic; the
organisation of ambulance corps, invalid transport
corps, and nursing corps ; and generally, the pro-
motion of instruction in, and carrying out, works
for the relief of suffering of the sick and injured in
peace or war.
A waggon will be sent in charge of a trained
attendant to any accident within the city or the
Burghs of Partick, Govan, or Kinning Park, free of
all cost. The waggons are available by day or night,
and messages should be sent either by telegraph
or telephone, when they will be immediately at-
tended to. The Association also undertakes, on cer-
tain conditions, the removal of invalids, application
being previously made on a prescribed form. Sub-
scribers are entitled to the use of a waggon free,
and in the case of non-subscribers, the charge will
be 2s. per mile. Secretary, Lieut. -Col. H. J.
Barnes, R.A. M. C. (Retired), 176 West Regent
Street.
SCOTTISH ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Pres., J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A.; vice- presidents, Jos
Henderson, R.S.W., Wm. M'Taggart, R.S.A., John
Wordie, and W. D. M'Kay, R.S.A.; hon. secretaries,
P. W. Adam, R.S.A., and A. K. Brown, A.R.S.A.;
hon. treas., Wm. Young, R.S.W. ; council, Andrew
Bain, Thomas Reid, J.P., Hamilton Maxwell, R.S.W.,
Duncan Mackellar, R.S.W. , A. D. Brogan, Archd.
Kay, R S.W., G. Washington Browne, RS.A., Alex.
Roche, R.S.A., John Maclauchlan, Alex. F. Roberts,
St. Clair Cunningham, Capt. H. Arnold Armitage;
auditors, Lindsay, Jamieson, & Haldane, C.A. ; secre-
tary and treasurer, J. Wright Robb, 49 West George
Street.
Object. — To afford relief to distressed deserving
artists (whether subscribers to the funds of the
association or not), tbeir widows, orphans, or
dependants.
ARTISTIC, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
THE GLASGOW LEIGHTON ART CLUB.
Council — hon. president, Patrick S. Dunn, Esq. ;
president, J. Miller Brownlie , vice-president, Charles
Eadie ; treasurer, .John E.Ross; secretary, W. Milne
Black ; committee, Messrs. W. Park Douglas :
George Neil, Robert Eadie, J. F. Passey, Tom Black.
The object of the Association shall be to encourage
the practice of sketching from nature in all its
various brarches. An exhibition of the members'
work to he held annually.
Honorary members, Messrs. John Lavery, R.S.A.,
J. E. Christie, Andrew Black, R.S.W., Archibald
Kay, R.S.W., David Fulton, R.S.W., John Terris,
R.8.W., Tom M'Ewan, R.S.W., Patrick Downie,
Percy Bate, Tom Hunt, R.S.W.
Candidates formeuibership will receive all necessary
information from the acting serretary, W. Milne Black,
Glasgow Leighton Art Club Studio, 128 Hope Street,
Glasgow.
INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)
Glasgow and West of Scotland District.
Officers— Chairman, Neil Munro; vice-chairmen,
C. M. Ramsay ( Evening C'uizen), and R. M. Smith
{Glasgoio Eerald); hon. auditor, A. S. Cbarteris
(Glasgow Herald) ; hon. treasurer, J. W. Berries
(Scotsman) ; hon. sec. , T. W. Ferguson (Scotsman).
GLASGOW BALLAD CLUB.
Instituted 1876.
President, Henry Johnston, Esq. ; vice-president,
Robert Ford, Esq.; secretary, Walter Buchanan,
Dunclutha, Tollcross.
Object— The production and friendly criticism of
original ballads and poems.