Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-30
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

From San Francisco exchanges of April 29th.l
Bank Commissioner Watt is in Scotland,
visiting relatives.
The office of the Grand Recorder of a.
0. U. w. has been removed from Oakland
to this city.
Themerchandisee xports of the week were
valued at Sl55, 32l-a decrease of S27O, 1856
from those of the previous week.
The Tax Collector yesterday paid into
the Treasury $50, 900, being the total pro-
ceeds from the delinquent tax sale.
One of the great wants in some depart
ments of industry in this city is cheap
skilled labor, of which, in many branches
of manufacture, there is not enough to sup
ply the demand.
Yesterday the members of the San Fran
cisco Board raised their commission rates
to 81 for each transaction under $780, and
one-half of one per cent. on all transac-
tions over $300-to 90 into effect on Mon
day next.
The steamship Newbern, which sails for
Mexican ports on Monday next, will carry
quantity of material for the use of the
Sonora Railroad Company, to be used in
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Guaymas.
The Eastern excursionists being about to
disband as body, held a reception in the
parlors of the Palace Hotel last evening,
the only invited guests being friends and
relatives of the excursionists. The gath
ering was particularly enjoyable on account
of the sociability prevailing, there being a
marked and pleasing absence of formallty
or restraint.
The first annual report of the executors
of the estate of William S. 0'Bren was
confirmed by Judge Finn, in the Probate
Division of the Superior Court, yesterday.
He directed the administrator to charge
himself with all the property in the in
ventorv not included in the accounting
The Judge declined to disturb the ruling
of his predecessor, Judge Myrick, giving
Mr.. Burke a standing in the case, and also
statute did not require it.
David Bush, the originator of the idea of
the Golden Gate Park Labor Fund, and the
collector of the fund, announces that all
the amounts subscribed to it have been
paid, and that the total is Sl3, 5l2. Nine
hundred and seventy-fve people applied
for work, for pay for which the fund was
intended, but of that number not more
than six hundred can properly be consid-
cred as the needy and unemployed of San
Francisco alone, and the latter is not a
large number in city of 100000 popula-
ton.
There will shortly be placed in position
in the Office OF the United States Super
vising Inspector of Steam Engines in the
Appraisers building, on Sansome street, a
new boiler plate testing machine, which
has been shipped by rail from the East.
1t is designed for testing the tensile
strength of boiler iron, and has capacity
of IS, 600 pounds. The strain is applied
to the specimen of boiler plate by means
of two screws and worm gears, worked by
large gear wheel and small pinion. By
this arrangement of gears man can apply
a 75,000-pound strain with one hand.
Connected with the testing appliance is a
platform scale, and on the beam is poise
which moves on rollers, and will mark the
fraction of pound the specimen endures
before breaking-or rather being pulled
apart-from one pound to $4,000 pounds.
The testing machine in use here at the
present time has capacity of $4,000
| pounds.