The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
PRETTY All FoNG GIRLS
THIRTEEN NOTED DAUGHTERS OF
HAWAIIAN VANDERBILT.
One Marries Naval Captain and
Others the Chosen Brides of Law
yers and Society Men.



thirteen pretty daughters as an attraction.
But it is 4 decidedly unique family unique
even from the standpoint of a Hawaiian.
For there are many queer families in the
Lotus Land of Hawaii. where the dusky
Kanaka belle marries the blonde scion of
many a proud Saxon house, and where
various brunette beauties can boast of a
mixture of blood of a complex blending.
How the All Fong family grew and became
society leaders and why it is unique is the
story that follows:
Mr.. All Fong, a Chinese gentleman, with
the intelligent face of the higher Chinese
merchant, left China and came to Honolulu
in search of a fortune. Although he found
himself in the tropics, he eschewed ham,
mocks and was shy of the seductive siesta.
1t might even be said that the seemingly
impressive Mr.. All Fong hustled. AT first
he opened small store and was an i'm
porter in a modest way of Chinese goods.
Then he branched out and went heavily into
opium, and he began to be known as a
very wealthy man. Later he invested
money in a sugar plantation. and this in
vestment, too, proved a paying one. Mr..
All Fong was also prudent and provident,
and, although hospitable. he was very diff
ferent from his Hawaiian brothers who
gave no thought to the morrow and sold a
piece of land when he wanted to give
'luau' with attendant hula and other adj
juncts of munificence that comes high.
Mr.. All Fong married a girl in Honolulu
whose parents were of Hawaiian and Por-
tuguese ancestry respectively, with a dash
of English somewhere in the remote past,
and the couple lived happily together.
Gradually the family grew until thirteen
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All Fong knee. Mr.. 4 n Fong built beau
tiful home on Nuu%hu avenue. the most
picturesque portion of Honolulu, with its
palm-lined roads and wealth of tropical
foliage. The house was large, it had rea-
son to be, for although the family was
united in love. 1t was necessarily divided
some, of the Pagcda form of architecture;
there were two stories and each had
veranda running about it with pointed
effects, suggestive of China, and very diff
ferent from the ordinary lanai of its neigh
bors.
The All Fongs had a carriage and a Chi
nese coachman. Mr.. All Fong sat in SPLEEN
dor in the back seat when being driven
to the wharf for a first call on a newly
arrived man-of-war, or other formal func-
ton; or handed his daughters in with the
utmost politeness when they went for a
drive. Mr. All Fongs affairs prospered. He
spected among the merchants of foreign
birth and looked up to by his own country
men. He employed one of the best lawyers.
and he had the caution and calm Judgment
of his race joined with their indomitable
send money to China. He bought summer
place for his family at Waikiki. where the
surf rolled uD to his door, and where could
be found any attraction that might be lack
ing in his city house. And Mr.. All Fong
was recognized as one of the wealthy men
of Honolulu and a leader in affairs.
One day he set sail from the island and
returned for long visit to his native coun-
try. That he did not take his family, with
Fong knew which side his bread was but
tered on. He had no desire to tear his fam
lily from the land where his name was held
highest and transplant it in soil foreign to
his offspring. He left great moneys behind
and great interests that We're constantly
making more money to enrich himself and
Mrs. Ah Fong pursued the even tenor of
her ways. She smiled placidly. brought up
her daughters admirably, kept open house
Hospitality and spent All Fongs money
judicOusly and tellingly, every day adding
to the family social prestige.
AS the girls grew up they were brought
out in turn, and it was a remarkable fact
never a word was said against one of them.
where the half whites or Hawaiians were so
often open to suspicion, and often the sub
iect of gossip. These debutantes were, the
bellies of many successive seasons, and al
ways held high head.
The girls would drive to the open-air band
concerts Saturday AFTERNOONS the carriage
filed to overf1owing, and looking like
animated, brightly-colored bouquet, its load
of occupants gay with their vivid pink.
for the All Fong girls did not care for pale
colors. Their pinks were all magentas, and
their reds of scarlet hue Then the All
FOng name became Along.
The naval officers were sure of hearty
reception and an appreciative audience in
the Along mansion . In fact the family
come to breakfast, lunch or dinner-or, if
between meals. in cooling drinks, cigars
and always warm hearted cordially. There
was sure to be certain coterie of officers
on each ship that was 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 nice unaffected; jolly set Of
girls, admirably brought up, with well-bred
boisterous or hoydenish. Marie, one of the
older daughters, played the ukulele and
always in demand for moonlight boating
parties: the others were variously attractive
by reason Of youth gt ana nd warmth ma Of hos
ing to the stranger.
CAUGHT A NAVAL CAPTAIN
The Along girls were petite of figure and
piquant of feature. They had not the
brightness and quickness of the American
girl. They were just sweet, pliable. ami
able docile well hammered and good ma
tured and lovable young women. They never
took exception at fancied Sights. Their
position was assured. They went to all
the large entertainments and to exclusive
lunches dinners other smaller functions
suited to their girlish hearts. None the less,
it was an eye opener to all the easy-going
Isles of Hawaii, to conservative naval
circles when Eta, a rOund-faced, pink
checked. Acknowledged bud of seventeen, just
out of school, met and conquered the able
officer gray-haired man of the world, and
Travelled gentleman. Captain Whiting.
Several of the Along girls had married by
this time; one was the wife of j. Alfred
Magoon an auctioneer. who had settled in
Honolulu; the eldest married Mr.. McStocker,
a dry goods merchant, and the younger one
was married to a dentist named Hutchin-
son, and left Honolulu with her husband
for time. This was unhappy match.
however, and Mrs. Hutchinson procured
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 bright
est of all the girls, married a young law
yer named HUMPHREYS, newcomer in
Honolulu.
All fair matches, from a worldly point of
view, but upon Etta's young brow rested
tie laurel wreath; she was TO marry in the
navy-and a commander, at that. Specula-
ton was rife as TO the ultimate effect OF
this match on Captain Writings position
in the navy while it was openly wondered
If Mrs. Writings lot would be happy one
when she found herself transported to some
naval station, where her ancestry was not
the accepted old story that it had become
in the land of her birth. And il was re-
marked that after the marriage the choice
naval stations did not seem to come into