31 MAY 1890, Page 2

The Co-operative Congress, held at Glasgow last week, was marked

by an unusually picturesque incident. On Saturday, a lifeboat, " Co-operator No. 3," the third gift of the kind made to the nation by the Co-operative Union, was launched on the Clyde in the presence of some sixty thousand spectators. The boat, which will be stationed in the northernmost port of Scotland, was manned at the launch by the crew to whom she is to be entrusted. Out of these thirteen, nine were Sinclairs and three Bickers, there being only one man, Milligan, outside the two families. What this means to the home of the boat when she goes out into the surf of the North Sea, was apparently fully realised by the crowd, who cheered the men, young and old, who rowed her, with marked enthusiasm.