El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-16
The Rich All FOng
Girls OF Honolulu
Thirteen Daughters Millionaire Chinaman
Woman-Each S15O.OOO Dowry Have
Already Married Americans

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

| From the st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
The announcement that the eight I'm.
married and two of the married Ah
Fong sisters, of Honolulu, are soon
make pleasure tour of the United
States has reused an uncommon degree
of public curiosity on the Pacific coast.
There Is scarcely more interesting
group of sisters anywhere than the
pretty All Fong girls of the tropics are.
For dozen years naval officers have
told of the delig htful hospitality afford
ed them In the All Fong home while
their ships lay at anchor in Honolulu
Bay. Tourists have come back from
Hawaii telling of the gorgeous demi-
oriental mansion of Wing All Fong, a
| full-fedged. Chinese, and Mrs. Concep-
cion All Fong, Ia mixture of Spanish
and Portuguese, on the outskirts OF
Honolulu. Every one who has been in
the Hawaiian islands tells OF the
charming manners, the bright-hued
gowns, the languorous tropical ballads,
| and the fund OF good nature OF the
highly attractive progeny of Wing
Alb Fong the millionaire of the south
seas.
The Americans have few more arden
admirers that the Misses All FOng, OF
Honolulu, are. During the many ref
cent entertainments of American soldi-
ers, on their way to the Philippines at
Honolulu, the girls gave whole days in
boys in blue, and their contributions
of money reached several thousand dol
lars. Five of the girls have married
American husbands, and last month the
matrimonial engagement of a sixth
sister Miss Lucille All Fong) to law
yer in New Orleans was announced.
Thirteen daughters and one son are
in the All Fong family. The eldest is
Mrs. Alfred Morgan, wife OF a prosper
Mrs. Morgan is about SO. The young
est girl Is IA years old. All the daugt-
ers have the tropical love for music,
and several are superb sonRstresses of
populBr ballads. While the girls have
their mothers mirth and desire to
please, eaohiha inherited their Chinese
fathers bump of business sense. Seven
OF the All Fong girls are noticeably
pretty, black-eyed, raven-haired girls. |
One Mrs. Arthur Johnstone) is demi- |
blonde, and the com binstion of her blue |
eyes and dark eye lashes and hair and |
her pink and white complexion makes |
her the most generally accepted beauty |
of the family. Several of their sisters
have their fathers tall stature, but the
rest are of petite figures. Three have
a pronounced suggestion of Chinese
one of them has the mothers olive
and soft, easy mode of
speech. No less an authority than Sir
Ed win Arnold said that the few days
be spent at the All Fong home few
years ago were the ''most tropically
he ever knew in the south
seas.
Along about 1858 q young Chinaman
named Wing All Fong came with q
shipload of Chinese to Honolulu. He
was unusually intelligent and genial.
and with little capital soon built up a
business in Chinese crock
cry, silks and bric-a-brac. He was
soon the leading merchantin Honolulu.
He spent money freely and was we'll
quaint old town. AS he grew in wealth
he made love to the daughter, Concep-
zion, of poor Portuguese sailor who
lad hoated into Hawaii. The China {
mans money and his superiority to his I
made him an accepted
uitor. So All Fong married in 1860. {
His wife was good looking and emerge 1
10 for that land Of languor and siesta. f
Alb Fong invested In sugar cane planta- q
ions, and in the old times, when sugar {
ia n tations paid almost incredibly big f
ro6ts, he grew very rich. In ten 1
ears All Fong was worth over $780, #
90 and was adding s35, 900 to 1t an b
ually. He was careful and prudent, 3
lille his business associates drowsed T
nd took no heed of the morrow. BE 81
as ceaselessly watching chances to F
NY plantation land cheap from the Il
Hawaiian. By 1870 the ii
b FOng sugar plantation on the Is A
md of Hilo had become one of the
lost productive there. While such 81
ZEN IS Claus Spreckles made 800, 600 o.
I'D 100000 annually from sugar ex- ly
orts, Wing All Fong made $50, 900 Fl
I'd 100000 annually in the same way. I'll
Meanwhile the All Fong family cir C,
q widened. There were six child oil
IA boy and five girls-in the home y,
? 1870. Eight more girls were born la
ERE during the next fifteen years. Ir
ing All Fong vas an ideal father. ST
e was delighted to see how each child NJ
sem bled the mother in facial express A
On. He hired servants galore, en- lii
rged his house every few years, and &C
ought nothing too good for his babies. A
used to find uo greater Joy than to RI
Il his wife and all his numerous girls m
great lum bering carriage, like a
,ncord coach, that he had built &C. th
riding to his own ideas, and with ed
mself as driver on the front W,
at to go rolling slowly over the Gu
ads about Honolulu for q few hours 90
time. He was passionately fond of dr
ng. and motiOning cheerfullv to his WI
ack-eyed girls all about he would hs
y, You singee ally velly fine song, bu
u know. [ give you heap money" es
len away the family would 90 down ga
2 road, with the girls singing in an
orus medley of all popular songs of ce