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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY.
Office — 212 Bath Street.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, hon. pres.; His Grace
the Duke of Montrose, president; J. Carfrae
Alston, Esq., chairman ; Robert Gow, Esq., Paul
Rottenburg Esq., vice-chairmen ; Robert Gourlay,
Esq., hon. treasurer ; Mr. J. T. Strang, secretary and
treasurer.
The general objects of this Society are (1) the
assis'aiice of the poor in such a manner a-; shall
eifect pprmtinent benefit in their condition ; (2) the
orgiinisation of charitable efforts in the city, and the
prevention of overlapping ; the repression of men-
dicity ; the exposure of imposture ; and the collec-
tion and di-itribution of subscriptions for all hona-
jide charitable and benevolent inttitutions in the
ci'y; C'^) 'he promotion of thrift and of well-advised
methods for improving the condition of the poor.
District Offices have been opened at the under-
noted places : —
Anderston. — 66 Port Street.
Bridgeton. — U.F. Church Hall, John St, Bridgtn.
Gallon. — Y.M.C.A. Rooms, 40 Gt. Hamilton st.
Central. — 212 Bath Street.
Mary hill. — 612 Gairbraid Street.
Mile-End. — St. Clement's Hall, Brook Street.
N'trth- k'attern. — Barony Institute, Black Street.
North- Western. — 34 Steven St.. off New Ciiy Rd.
Partick. — M-CoU Hall, Dnuglas Street, Partick.
South-Eaxtern. — Mission Hall, 17 Bedford Lane.
South- Western. — Lesser Town Hall, West Scot-
land Street.
Springhurn. — Ferguson Memorial Church Hall,
Palermo Street.
A labour yard has been opened for the purpose of
providing temporary relief for able-bodied married
men, and a test of their desire to work.
The Society has also an Industrial Shelter at
78 Kyle s>treet. Port Dundas, where food and
lodging will be provided to homeless able-bodied men
in return for work done.
The Society has initiated a scheme for providing
healthy, necessitous children with boots and clothing
during the winter months, under the safeguard of the
police and the co-operation of the pawnbrokers.
Contributions towards the funds of the Society are
urgently required, and should be sent to the Treasurer
at 212 Bath Street.
The society also serves as a central agency for the
purpose of receiving the contributions of the public
towards bona fide charitable institutions. These
contributions may be sent to the society monthly,
quarterly, half-yearly or yearly, or at whatever time
it may be most convenient. Pririted lists are supplied
at the office.
In connection with this society a ladies' auxiliary
has been established for the purpose of aiding the
society by personal visitation of the poor, and also by
providing temporary employment in the way of sew-
ing for poor women, who have been proved to be
deserving and necessitous. Work-Room, 11 Maitland
Street, Cowcaddens; superintendent, Miss Begg;
agent. Miss M'Robbie, 376 New City Rd. ; training
school and temporary home, 260' Renfrew Street;
out- door blind mission, 6 Bath St.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION
Glasgow Branch,
Local Committee — Wm. Cairney, Esq., chairman ;
W. F. G. Ander.son, Hon. J. C. Burns, R. J.
Dunlop (Clyde Steamship Owners' A«sociatioi.), Fred.
<Tardiner, John Innes (Glasgow Stiipowners Associa-
tion), B-ilie J. P. Maclay, David M'Cowan,
Esq., Bailie Burrell, John A. Galbraith, Esq., James
Lilburn, Esq., G. Munro KeiT, Esq., J. A. Roxburgh,
Esq.; hon. treasurer, Leonard Gow, jun., 46 Renfield
Street; secretary, William Martin, 34 West George
Street.
The Roval National Lifeboat Institution is sup-
P'lrted solely by vohmtary conttibutions, and is the
only National Institotim which has for its object the
saving of lite from shipwreck. f
It has established a great Life-Saving Fleet of
285 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
These lifeboat^?, mani.ed by their brave crews
were successful in saving 390 lives last year, and, in
addition, the Institution granted rewards for the
Saving of 138 lives by shore-boats or other means.
Thus the Institution has the splendid record of
having granted rewards since it wa? established in
1824 for the rescue of 44,889 lives.
Form of Beqiiest of money, stock, or other
personal estate.
I give and bequeath to the Glasgow Branch of
the Royal National Life - Boat Institution for the
Pre.'^ervation of Life from Shipwreck, founded in
1824, London, the sum of £ , for the
use of the said Institution ; and I declare that the
said legacy shall be paid free from Legacy Duty,
and that the receipt of the Treasurer of the said
Institution shall be a sufficient discharge for the
same.
Real or leasehold property may also now be left
by will to the Institution.
Annual subscriptions, donations, or legacies will be
thanlrfully received by the secretary or treasurer.
THE SCOTTISH MUSICAL ARTISTES'
BENEVOLENT FUND.
Ron. Presidents. — Sir John Stirling-Maxwell,
Bart., M P. ; Wm. F. Frame, E.-q.
The objects for which the Association is formed
are for the granting of pecuniary relief to its mem-
bers, their widows, their children, and their de-
pendents, if in npcessiious circumstances, and also
the extension of benevolence to indigent artistes out-
side the association whom the committee may
consider deserving.
Secretary and treasurer, John Bell, FS.A.A.,
Mus. Doc, 58 Bath Street.
BRIDGETON MEDICAL MISSION.
This public charity was begun in 1896 in this
district, which, fr()m its large working-class popula-
tion and distance from the infirmary and other free
medical dispensaries of the city, seemed to require a
special agency for the relief of the deserving sick
poor. Dispensary held in Mission Hall, William St.,
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 2 p.m. President,
Rev. J. Anderson Watt; treasurer, Oha^. C. Edgar,
133 Finlay Drive, Dennistoun ; medical officer. Dr.
A. Muir Smith, M.D.