The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-03-15

7-''''N''n0''"'''V - dowry of $780,
900?
1t is truly wonderful story and en-
tirely unparalleled even in the world
of fiction. For no cause other than a
Chinaman's ceaseless longing for re-
turn to his native country the father
abandoned his wife and family aud his
millions and lives in seclusion in
Pekin. His Sandwich Island wife
lives in magnificent style in the sump-
tuous home which he built in Homo
lulu, and his numerous daughters are
in the swellest society the islands
afford and are plainly enough deter
mined upon marriage alliances with
the best of the white men who come
their. way,
Recent tidings from Honolulu give
currency to a report that another
daughter Of Wing All Fong is to marry
in that city young American resi-
dent The prospective brides mother
already has the dowry Of $3.50, 900 in
cash, real estate and securities ready
for the marriage day.
This time the bride will be Miss
Jessie Ah Fong, and her choice is
Settled upon Howard G. Morton, a
young newspaper'editor who has lived
in Honolulu for several years. He is
a distant relative of ex-Secretary of
Agriculture Sterling G.. Morton, of
Nebraska, and first cousin OH his
paternal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
He was student at Cornell Univer-
ssity, and later atStanford University,
at Palo Alto, Cal. He inherited q
small fortune when he was twenty FIVE,
aud, abandoning reportorial work in
San Francisco, sailed on a journey
around the world. He never got any
further than Honolulu. There, be-
coming infatuated with the climate
and the easy life under the tropics,
he decided to remain always. He
bought stock in local newspaper, in
vested in sugar company stock. and
fell in love with Miss Jessie All Fong.
The marriage, it is said, will take
place shortly.
Story VI tho All Fung Girls.
The All Fong written Along since
the family became leaders of fashion
in Honolulu) group of thirteen girls
is very interesting from several points
of view. Everybody who has been in
Hawaii, no matter for how brief q
time, in the last decade has heard
much about the All Fong family, and
how it has borne the brunt of hospita-
BILE entertainment of all visiting naval
craft in the harbor of Honolulu.
Early in the sixties young Chinaman
named Wing All Fong settled in Hon
olulu. He was an unusually inteli-
gent and genial Chinaman, and with O
little capital he soon built up pros
porous business in Chinese pottery,
silks and bric-o-brac. He learned the
Kanaka and English tongues readily,
and before anyone knew it he was the
leading merchant in Honolulu. He
spent money freely and was well
liked by whites and blacks in the
quaint old town. He married young
girl of uncertain Portuguese aud Kan
aka ancestry, but with dash of Eng
lish blood somewhere back in her con-
fused pedigree. She was an attrac-
tive, energetic and ambitious person
for that land of languor and siesta, aud
the young couple prospered. All
Fong invested in sugar cane planta-
tions, and in the old times, when
sugar plantation stock paid thirty and
forty per cent. dividends a year he
grew very rich. In ten years All Fong
was worth over $500, 900 and was add
ing $35, 000a year to it annually. Mr..
All Fong was careful, prudent bust
ness man, and while his business as
sociates we're content to browse and
take no heed OF the morrow he was
watching chances to buy plantation
land cheap from the improvident who
abounded in Hawaii.
SWEETEST Home in Honolulu.
In time the All Fong family num-
bered seventeen-the parent, two
boys and thirteen girls. People who
used to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen
years ago say that it was memorable
sight to see bowling along any of the
lava-made roads in Honolulu Papa All
Fong with his white duck suit and
his long cue dangling down his back,
driving the horses that drew his com
plete family circle. The girls always
dressed in elaborate gowns Of maroons,
magentas and scarlet reds, and the
wagon load of childish feminine lowell
ness Of every hue in the rainbow made
a charming spectacle.
Mr.. Ah Fong built the most unique
residence in Hawaii. 1t stands in the
western suburbs of Honolulu on a
slightly knoll. 1t is an enormous
pagoda, with the oldest sort Of piaz-
zas about it. There are sixteen Of the
piazzas, and they are all over twenty
feet wide. Envious parents of other
pretty and manageable daughters in
Honolulu say that the All Foug par
ents had these many separate and dis
tinct piazzas built in this fashion pur-
posely to let each daughter in the
family have a piazza solely to herself
and her particular young men callers
Of an evening. Be the charge true or
false, it is fact that all the All Fong
famous in Honolulu-are
filed $50 evenings in the year with