The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18

recognized as one of the wealthy men Of
Honolulu.
Then one morning the isles of Hawaii
awoke, and they learned that M. All
Fong was to be known no more forever
in the land where he had acquired wealth
and position-not to speak Of family. He
had taken his eldest ION and returned to
the land of his fathers; to the for
tune he had sent before him, and-Ha-
waii whispered-to another family, which
was though lost to sight, to memory
dear" after the manner of the Orient.
AMI Mrs. All Fong pursued the even
tenor of her ways; she smiled as placidly,
brought up her daughters as admirably,
kept open house as Hospitality and spent
the An Fong money, settled upon her, as
Judiciously. As the girls grew up they
were brought out IN turn and it was
remarkable fact that never a word was
said against one of them, in spite of their
number and in a place where half whites
or Hawaiians were so often open to sus-
piclon and often the subject of gossip.
The girls would drive to the open-air band
concerts Saturday afternoons, the car
riage filled to overlooking, and looking like
an animated brightly colored bouquet, its
load of occupants gay with their vivid
pink, blue, green and yellow sashes and
ribbons; for the All Fong girls did not
care for pale colors. Their pinks were
all magentas and their reds of scarlet
hue.
And the All Fong name became Along.
Inc naval officer was sure of hearty
reception and an appreciative audience, in
the Along nansion in fact, the family
Kept open house, and the officers wereWel-
come to breakfast, lunch, or dinner-or if
between meals, to cooling drinks, cigars,
and always warm-hearted cordiality
There was sure to be certain coterie of
officers on each ship that were at home
in the Along house, devoted themselves
to the Along girls at dances, and escorted
them to teas, tennis, or wherever 1t might
be.
They were a nice, unaffected, jolly set
of girls, admirably brought up, with we'll
bred manners, always ladylike and not at
all boisterous or hoydenish. Marie enc
of the older daughters, played the ukulele
and sang fetching Hawaiian songs, and
she was always in demand for moonlight
boating parties; the others were various
~ attractive by reason of youth and
warmth of hospitality imbibed from the
islands and alluring to the stranger
The Along girls were not beauties, but
they were petite of figure and piquant of
feature, They had not the brightness and
quickness of the American girl. They
were just plain, amiable, docile, well man
nered and good natured young women.
Sights. Their position was assured, as
far as it went, and they did not seek
to penetrate into the most intimate daily
life of the "old families" or the fashion
able new ones. They went to all the
larger entertainments, and if they We're
not hidden to exclusive lunches, dinners
or other small functions 1t did not seem
to trouble their girlsh hearts.
None the less, it was an eye-opener to
all the easy going Isles of Hawaii to con-
sentative naval circles and to Capt
Writings friends, when Eta, a round
faced, pink-cheeked, almond-eyed bud Of
II, just out of school, met and conquered
the able officer, gray-haired man of the
world and Travelled gentleman, Capt
Whiting.
Several Of the Along girls had married
by this time; one was the wife of j. AL
fred Magoon, an auctioneer, who had set
tied in Honolulu; the eldest married Mr..
McStocker, a dry goods merchant, and
the younger was married to a dentist
named Hutchinson, and left Honolulu with
her husband for a time. This was an
unhappy match, however, and Mrs Hutch
inson procured a divorce and returned TO
her home alone. She has since become
engaged to the doctor on a man-of-war
recently in Honolulu. Marie Along, who
was perhaps the brightest of all the girls,
married a young lawyer named Hum
phres, a newcomer in Honolulu.
All fair matches from a worldly point of
view but upon Etta's young brow rested
the laurel wreath; she was to marry in
the navy-and a commander at that. Spec
ulation was rife as to the ultimate effect
of this match on Capt. Writings position
in the navy, while it was openly wondered
if Mrs. Writings lot would be a happy
one when she found herself transported
to some naval station where her ancestry
was not the accepted old story that 1t had
become in the land of her birth. And
it was remarked that after the marriage
the choice naval stations did not seem to
come into Capt Writings way as they
had heretofore. But they were content
for all that. Capt. Writings devotion to
his young wife was unmistakable, and
she proved a nice, good little helpmate to
him. Their small daughter, not yet 8
years old, is the pride of the captains
heart.
There are plenty of Along girls still left
unmarried to gladden. the hearts and
homes of plenty of youth and chivalry. In
the preparations to welcome our Boys in
Blue" they have each taken a prominent
part, and who knows how many more
Along girls will, in the future, sail
through the Golden Gate to look for the
hospitality here that they have always
| been ready to accord the stranger in their
tropical home