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Show COAST SHIPPING BOOM DEVELOPS BAN FRANCISCO. Feb. ( CUP) One of the greatest booms In the history of the maritime industry on the Pacific eeest waa predicted today as virtually sll major steamship steam-ship companies announced plana to augment present schedules and purchase pur-chase or charter new ahipa to add to their fleets. Activity in Pacific coast porta, which was resumed last week after a strike luting mors than three months, was at a feverish pace today. to-day. The constant rumble of heavily-loaded vans was heard along streets between the piers and the warehouses; steam winches hissed and rattled, and thousands of tons of cargoes were removed from the holds, to be replaced with freight for ports In the South sea islsnds, the orient and Alaska. Lines Merge - - The American-Hawaiian Steamship Steam-ship company, coastwise operators, announced merger with its subsidiary, subsid-iary, the Williams line, sdding five-ships five-ships to its fleet. This company will extend service to South American Amer-ican ports and increase the number num-ber of sailings to other ports. The new service will begin with the sailing of the S. 8. Coloradan from 8eattle on March 9. Other companies reporting expansions expan-sions were the Matson line, which added five ships for the sugar trade m Atlantic! Keene lincj which bought the 8. S. Sonora from the Mexican Mail line for operation between be-tween here and Mexican ports; the newly-formed Coastwise line, which bought six vessels from Swayne and Hoyt for coastwise operation between be-tween weat coast porta. Meanwhile, all companies were continuing operations at full speed to return to normal preatrike schedules in the transpacific service ser-vice without further delay. Liner Sails The first major passenger sailing sail-ing from Honolulu for San Francisco Fran-cisco waa reported when the 8. S. Lurline of the Matson Navigation company left there with S7S passengers passen-gers sboard. Companies serving the territory of Hawaii planned to have every available vessel racing to Honolulu and other island ports within a week with thousands of tons of food snd other necessities to replace re-place stocks which had diminished to the near-vanishing point aa a result of the prolonged tleup of commerce. First scheduled sailing for Hawaii waa the 8. S. Maul of the Matson line, which is to sail enrly Sunday Sun-day with a full cargo. That company's com-pany's newly-purchased S. S. Shel-ton Shel-ton was in Puget aound today loading load-ing 6000 tons of flour for the islands. The S. S. Monterey, also of that line, announced service to Australia Aus-tralia and New Zealand would be resumed with the sailing of the S. 8. Monterey from San Francisco today. " ' |