The Lord Mayor presided yesterday week at the Mansion House
over a meeting of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (14 Grosvenor Road, S.W.), held partly to raise funds for this very valuable association, and partly to prepare for a new branch of it to be opened in the City and Shoreditch. The Lord Mayor, Lord O'Hagan, the Dean of Llandaff, Mr. Hubbard, and the Chairman of the Association, the Rev. Brooke Lambert, addressed the meeting, appealing to them for the funds without which it is simply impossible to found homes or find them for thousands of servants out of place, and to provide discipline and training in the temporary homes for shiftless and stupid girls. A few subscriptions, amounting to nearly £50, were raised in the meeting, but much more is needed. We wish the Charity Organisation Society would give us a Lloyd's classification, as it were, of the various charities of London, placing in the highest rank those only which do great good, without doing any harm. If they would, the Association at 14 Grosvenor Road would certainly be classed "A 1."
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