Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-27

sister Helen for his future bride. and In a
few weeks old Central Union church, In
Honolulu, will be the scene of as brilliant
a wedding as was that Of Commander
Whiting and Eta All Fong in September,
1893.
And there are eleven more of these All
Eong girls, all OF them pretty, all OF them
rich, and all OF them in favor Of Ameri-
can annexation, provided the subject is
submitted to them in the proper way by
the proper kline of young American bach
elors. One by one they are pretty sure to
be waited away from their island home
in the Pacific and brought under the shad-
ow of the stars and stripes. even If the
flag is never raised over Hawaii, as some
of the senators say ii shall not be If 1t is
in their power to stop it.
And when 1t is said that these thirteen
daughters OF the shrewd old Chinese mer-
chant, All Fong, are rich, 1t should be ex-
planned that they are rich as New Workers
have come to understand the meaning Of
the term. 1t is said that he can Civ each
one of his daughters a million dollars and
still have q large fortune left to bequeath
to them after he is through with 1t. He
came to Honolulu very many years ago and
made none very rapidly from the start.
He had sugar plantations and great ware
houses filed with all kinds of merchan-
disc. Maybe there was a little opium
slowed away among them, for there was
no better Judge of the opium market in or
outside Of China than All Fong. But that
Is a detail. The essential is that All Fong
got rich. immensely rich. and was known
as the merchant prince of hawaii long be-
fore he married n rich wife.
This wife was the mother of these thir-
teen little maids, who seem destined to be-
come thirteen little American wives. She
was of mixed race. Mrs. All Fong. Her
mother was a native Sandwich Islander. a
Kanaka woman. and her father was a Por-
tuguese merchant who got together a
handsome fortune, which Mrs. All Fong In
herited. So the All Fong girls. Commander
Writings wife. young Mr.. Henshell's bride
that is to be. and the eleven still unclaimed
Misses All Fong. are one-quarter Kanaka
in blood, ~one-quarter Portuguese and one
half Chinese. And as to the result of this
curious combination. there is but one YER
dict. All the All Fong girls are unani-
mously 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 50 years old
and in command of the Alliance when he
fell a victim to Etta's charms. He is a
handsome, Jovial naval officer, moreover,
and very popular. not only in the navy,
but In the many great ports visited during
his many years Of sea life. But. although
many beautiful women had smiled on him
and found him very near their ideal Of
what a manageable naval officer should
be, yet the wary commander has always
tripped his anchor and made a good ofing
whenever he heard the soft murmur OF
waves about matrimonial shoals.
He had not counted on cush marvellous
beings as the little All Fongs. however,
and when he was invited to the old Chi
nese merchants splendid mansion in Hon.
olulu he went, so to speak. head on, with
all sail set, straight into the breakers.
The story is that he struck his flag on
sight. and he a noted fighter at that. But
a. all events he got married. and when a
few weeks later he and his wife came here
TO New York all the town was talking
about them and extolling the charming
ways and pretty, vivacious face OF the new
Mrs: Whiting: II had been one Of the
most brilliant weddings ever known in
Honolulu. Old All Fong and his son, Mrs.
Writings brother, ransacked China and