The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-08-19
RICH HAWAIIAN BRIDES
Opportunities for Good Looking Ameri.
cans 10 Secure Fortunes.
TWO HAVE ALREADY DONE 50
A slight Mixture OF BLOOD, Hut
WtthaI n Pretty Face-Prospects
for Better Times for the Northern
Pacific Frightening Daily.

Any eligible young bachelor who wants
wife with 81 ,000, 900, and does not OBJ
ject to one with mixture of Hawaiian,
Chinese and Portuguese blood in her
veins, would best emigrate at once to
Honolulu. There he can have his choice
of II Of the prettest maidens of the Ha.
waiian metropolis, all sisters, all heir
esses. and all willing to marry nice young
Americans, il precedent may be believed.
They are the daughters of All Fong. q
Chinese merchant, who has become i'm
mensely rich in Honolulu, and two of his
l3 prizes have already been picked of,
says the Chicago Chronicle. The first to
marry, Miss Eta All Fopg, became the
bride of Commander Whiting, Of the
United States navy, four years ago, and
now another is about to wed. She has
been won by William A. Henshell, a
young lawyer of San Francisco. At this
rate the prospective bridegrooms would
best hurry before the remaining II maid
ems are gone. These 10 daughters Of the
shrewd old Chinese merchant are rich
1t is said he can give each of his daugh.
tiers 81 900 900 and still have large for
tune left to bequeath to them after he is
through with it. He came to Honolulu
very many years ago and m ,de money
very rapidly from the start. He had
sugar plantations and great warehouses
filed with all kinds OF merchandise
May be there was little opium slowed
away among them, for there was no bet
ter judge of the opium market in or out.
side of China than All Fong. But that
is a detail. The essential is that All
Fong got rich, got immensely rich, and
was known as the merchant prince OF
Hawaii long before he married rich
wife.
This wife was the mother OF these 10
little maids, who seem destined to be.
come l3 little American wives. She was
of mixed race, Mrs. All Fong. Her
mother was native Kanaka woman,
and her father was Portuguese mer-
chant, who got together a handsome for
tune. which Mrs. All Fong Inherited. So
the All Fong girls, Commander Writings
wife, young Mr.. Henshell's bride, that il
to be, and II still unclaimed Misses All
Fong, are one quarter Kanaka in blood,
one-quarter Portuguese, and one-hali
Chinese. And AZ to the result of this
curious combination, there is but one
verdict. All the All Fong girls are unan
imously declared to be beauties, of such
a peculiarly gentle faced dainty type, that
they are quite unlike any other pretty
women anywhere in the world.
Commander Whiting was 80 years old
and in command of the Alliance when he
fell victim to Ettss charms. He il a
handsome, jovial naval officer, moreover,
and very popular, not only in the navy
but in the many great ports visited dur
ing his many years of sea life. But,
although many beautiful women had
smiled on him and found him very near
their ideal of what manageable naval
officer should be, the wary mmander
had always tripped his anchor aud made
good offing whenever he heard the soft
murmur Of waves about the matrimonial
shoals.
He had not counted on such marvellous
beings as the little An Fongs, however,
and when he Was invited to the old Chi.
nese merchants splendid mansion in
Honolulu he went, 30 TO speak, head on.
with all sail set, straight into the beresk
ers.
The story is that he struck his flag on
sight, and he noted fighter at that
But at all events he got married, and
when few weeks later he and his wife
went to New York, all the town was
talking about them, and extolling the
charming ways and pretty, vivscious
face OF the new Mrs. Whiting. 1t had
been one Of the most brilliant weddings
ever known to Honolulu. Old All Fong
and his son, Mrs. Writings brother, ran.
saNhth Emma abh WI tIt Ii'ii oIlobb iOf
rare aud costly gifts for the newly welded
ones.
When the wedding at last took place
all the Honolulu 400" were there. The
Rev. +. q. Beckwith, Epscopalian. per
formed the ceremony. The church WAS
decorated with all the floral wealth which
a tropical land can produce, with Ameri-
can flags drsped here and there. and
twined with wreaths OF roses and smilax.
But the most dazzling of all was the dis.
play of ful-dress uniforms. All the
officers OF the Philadelphia, Adams and
Champion, together with representatives
from all the foreign wsrships in port
were there.
Miss Helen An Fong, who is now 10 be
married herself, together with her sis.
ters, Carrie, Bessie and Marie, were the
bridesmaids, Captain Barker OF the Phil
adelphia, was best man. When the we'd
ding was over there was great reception
at the All Fong mansion, which, with all
the spacious grounds about il, was mar
velously gay with decorations and music
and merriment. 1t was a great day for
Honolulu society.