The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-03-15
San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANc1sco, Feb. Is. 1878.

DEATH DoINes.
1872 During the past few weeks several of our well known
business men, whose names and faces are familiar to the
public have been called away by death. On the sd in
of business. He had been a resident Of this city for
grspherl he Was brought into contact with a large mum
Der of people. He was a single man, very agreeable in
d cistioGs' i 4e was val G q DPPuia, ana q a Knight KnieRR Of Of P { ssS an
odd Fellow and was at It the time of his death vice PreSi-
ON the sth instant Mr.. William A. Macondray, a mem
the prime of life. The firm of Macondray & Co. was one
Of the Oldest in the o CITY Icy de nCpsg IN Ra tba s,I 9ern M esSo
dray, who had previously been engaged IN the China
ii IiI james Otis, also a member Of the 1rn died in
1875. Now William A. follows them, but the hrl still
~ CLIPPER SHIPS RACING.
Darfd cfocket and Three Brouers. The croaen has made
twenty-four round voyages to and from New YORK, the
longest 1856 days. The shortest passage this way was
ct has made 36 miles in "a hours, and the good ship has
never cost the underwriters q dollar no
world, being nearly 5000 tons bnrthen, and drawing
steamship Vanderbilt, and was the flagship OF Admiral
Wilkes when in command OF the West Gull Squadron
three Howes brothers, rebuilt and spared as a sailing
Her first trip from this port was made to Hayre in ITO
dH T6e Three Brothers and Darid Crockett have run several
races to and from this port and Ne% York for the Pun
have lust finished another of these long ocean races
The Three Brothers left this port on October 18th, and the
The Crockett arrived in the lower bay New York, about
three hours ahead of the Three BTbtbeTs, thus btatlng the
i"- expressive MACHINERY.
There has lust been completed in this city the largest
most expensive and heaviest piece OF hosting machinery
ever produced in the world, which is intended to work
the North Consolidated Mine, and which has been snip
ped to Virginia City.
/ The machinery consists Of engines, cylinders, shaft
and cables, and weighs 400 tons. With it a cage can be
raised, at a speed equaling q mile a minute. This piece
of machinery was built from plans drawn by w II. Pat
Nine. and will cost the bonanza firm 100000. 1t will bt
the largest work Of the kind ever put up on the Com
stock. and is next to the most expensive, the yellow
Jacket pumping machinery having cost S260,OO0.
THE sUB-TREAsURT VAULT.
At the various sub-Treasurics in the country the GOV
ernment has made preparations to store the vast guam
titiee of gold ana silver which it now holds. The sub
Treasury in this city is being provided with an iroI
vault in the basement OF its new building on Commercial
street. which will hold $4,000 900 in SILVER. 1t will cos
about $4,000. It is made of heavy wrought iron plates
doubled and riveted, and is 81 feet in height, 13h fee
in width, and is 37& feet in length. The vault will b'
subdivided into compartments for the different denomi
| nations of silver.
A compartment will also be made fox valuable docu
ments. This will be enclosed with water as a steam safe
and is guaranteed fire proof under the most severe test
It will be fitted with four double locks and a time lock.
OUR STATE UNIVERSITY.
1t is now about ten years since the University of Call
fornia was established at Berkeley. Its growth in thes
| ten years has been remarkable 1t has departments O
| Agriculture, Letters, Mechanic Arts, Law and Medicin
in full operation. Three or four hundred students ar
in attendance, and every year the number seeking 90
mission increases.
The Institution is well endowed. These endowment
consist "a OF the proceeds of the sale OF sevcnty-twO sec
tions of land granted to the State for a seminary c
ed to the State for public buildings. 49, The incom
derived from the proceeds of the sales OF public lands, G
of the script thereof granted to the state for the endov
ment, support, and maintenance OF at least one college