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METROPOLITAN 



Jf0xmiam antr Cattle 



ASSOCIATION. 



SUPPORTED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Offices: Victoria House, 111, Victoria Street, Westminster, S,W, 



President His GRACE THB DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, KG. &c. &o. 

 Chairman of Committee and Treasurer JOSEPH FRY, ESQ. 

 General Manager and Secretary JOHN LEE, ESQ., F.K.G.S* 



THIS IS THE ONliY AGKENOY FOB PROVIDING 



FREE SUPPLIES OF WATER FOR MAN AND BEAST 



IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, 



and the relief it affords both to human beings and dumb animals is incalculable 

 The total number of Troughs and Fountains now (March 31st, 1883) 

 erected, and at work in the Metropolis, is as follows : 526 Troughs for animals, 

 and 511 Fountains for human beings, at which multitudes of men, women, 

 and children, horses, oxen, sheep, and dogs, quench their thirst daily, amounting 

 in the aggregate to probably not less than the enormous total of 250,000,000 

 drinkers in a year. 



The Committee are urgently in need of and earnestly solict liberal contributions 

 to enable them to sustain and extend this simple scheme for the amelioration of 

 animal suffering and the promotion of habits of temperance amongst our itinerant 

 and working population. Contributions may be paid to the Bankers, Messrs. 

 KANSOM, BOUVERIE, & Co. ; Messrs. BARCLAY, BEVAN, & Co. ; or to the General 

 Manager and Secretary, at the Office. 



To those benevolent individuals who may be inclined to become Benefactors by Will to the 

 Society, the following form is respectfully suggested : 



" J give and bequeath the sum of to be paid out of such 



parts of my personal estate as can be lawfully applied for that purpose unto the 

 Treasurer for the time being of a Society , called or Jenoton by the name of THE 

 METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND CATTLE TROUGH 



ASSOCIATION, to be at the disposal of the Committee for the time being of the 

 said Society. 1 ' 



NOTE. For the information and guidance of persons erecting Memorial or Gift Fountains 

 either in Ixmdon or the Country, a number of Models and Designs are on view at the Office ; or the 

 General Manager will be happy to give all the advice and information in his power by letter, and 

 to furnish designs and cost of Fountains without charge. 



