. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Mu. RoiiEiiT Balderston, Chaiuman of Infirmary. Other institutions in the town, while not specially built bythe thread manufacturers, have been largely supported by them. The Paisley Industrial School has received many gifts fromthe thread manufacturers, notably by a legacy of ^^5,000 leftby the late Mr. John Clark of Gateside, and ^1,000 given byMr. Stewart Clark, who had long taken an active interest inthis institution, as well as in the Infirmary. Benefactions 107 CTbe (Bleni
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Mu. RoiiEiiT Balderston, Chaiuman of Infirmary. Other institutions in the town, while not specially built bythe thread manufacturers, have been largely supported by them. The Paisley Industrial School has received many gifts fromthe thread manufacturers, notably by a legacy of ^^5,000 leftby the late Mr. John Clark of Gateside, and ^1,000 given byMr. Stewart Clark, who had long taken an active interest inthis institution, as well as in the Infirmary. Benefactions 107 CTbe (Bleniffer Ibonie for 3ncurat>lcs, flDeihlerioas. This building owes its existence mainly to the anxious careof Mrs. Archibald Coats of Woodside, a benevolent lady whohas left a fragrant memory. The same estimable lady took anactive interest in the Paisley Branch of fhe Scotch Girls HOJIE FOR InCUHABLES. After her lamented decease, a number of her friends in com-memoration of her labours built ^be fIDiu Ercbibalt) Coats flDeinorial Iboinc, in New Street, and connected it with the Scotch Girls FriendlySociety. This structure must have cost about ^5,000. In the same way many other benevolent institutions andchurches in town have been liberally supported by the thread io8 The Paisley Thread manufacturers, and. indeed, it may be said they have assistedahnost every project for the public good in Paisley and theWest of Scotland which has been proposed for the last twogenerations. As to the private benevolences, of which no estimate canever be made, it is sufficient to say that they have been ona royal scale. The poor, the feeble, the unfortunate, thewidow and the orphan, have ever received a helpful hand ;and, as these o-ifts have been continuous over the lifetime ofseveral generations, and by a great number of generous menand women, it may be possible that
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