The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-20

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 fuil-fledged Chinese. and Mrs. Con-
cepcion All FOngs a mixture of Spanish
and Portuguese, on the outskirs of Homo
lulu Every one who mas 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 All Fong-the million
aire of the South seas.
The Americans have few more ardent
admirers than the Misses All Fong, of
Honolulu, are During the many recent
entertainments of American soldiers, on
their way to the Philippines at Honolulu,
the girls gave whole days in preparing
for the great feasts for the boys in blue,
and their combined contributions of
money reached several thousand dollars
Five of the girls have married American
husbands, and last month the matri-
mCEial engagement of a sixth sister Miss
Lucille An Fong) to a lawyer in New
Orleans was announced.
Thirteen daughters and one son are in
49,
Alfred Morgan, wife of a prosperous mer-
chant and shipper in Honolulu. Mrs.
Morgan is about thirty-eight The
youngest girl is fourteen years old. All
the daughters have the tropical love for
music, and several are superb song
stresses of popular ballads. While the
girls have their mothers mirth and de-
sire to please, each has inherited her
fat
Seven of the All Fong girls are notice.
ably pretty, black-eyed, raven-haired
girls. One Mrs. Arthur Johnstone) is
, demi-blonde, and the combination of her
II blue eyes and dark eyelashes and hair
4 and her pink and white complexion
q makes her the most generally accented
. beauty of the family. Several of the sis
r tiers have their fathers tall stature but
o the rest are of petite figures. Three have
a pronounced suggestion of Chinese al
G TnCnd-shaped eyes, and nearly every one
OF them has the mothers olive COM
p pleNlon and soft. easy mode of speech
4, No less an authority than Sir Edwin
= Arnold said that the few days he spent
at tRe All Fong home a few years ago
u Were the most tropically charming he
e ever knew in the South seas.
A Along about 1858 a young Cinnamon
II named Wing All Fong came with a ship
n, Icad of Chinese to Honolulu He was nm
II usually intelligent and genial, and with
Ii a little capital soon built up a prosperous
IS business In Chinese crockery, silks and
ic ofic-a -orac. He was soon the leading
p, merchant in Honolulu. He spent money
PC freely and was well liked by whites and
az hlScks IN the quaint old town As he
e, grew in wealth he made love TO the
u daughter, Conception, of a poor Portu-
lie. guese sailor who had fioated into Hawaii.
he Inc Chinaman's money and his svperi-
If prity to his fellow-coolies made him an
ct accepted su1tor. So All Fong married in
90 1850 His wife good looking and
e energetic for that land of languor and
IS sieSla' An tong invested In sugar cane
al plantations, and In the old times whom
g sugar plantations paid almost tRcredIbIv
e Dig profits, he grew very rich In ten
a years An Fong was worth over 500 n00
: and was adding $4,000 to it annually. He
was careful and prudent, while his bust
ness associates drowsed and took no heed
OF the morrow. he was ceaseiessly watch
ing chances TO buy plantation land cheap
from the dmproYident Hawaiians BY
1S!o the An Fong sugar plantation on the
Island OF Hilo had become one of the
Hlost productive there. While such men
rs - NlauS Spreckels made S1eo, 600 and $500 :
VOC annually from sugar exnorts wiz,
an fohs made $4,000 and $60, 00e annually
in the same way '-i' ONiiy
Meanwhile the All Fong family c,ro1a
"1aeIied- Ihere We're six children-a how
and I'VE g1rls-in the home by lS7a Eo,rrh+
more girls were born there during 3ba
next fifteen years. Wing An Fone wa
an ideal father. He was delighted 70 ses
now each child resembled the mother in
1aelal expression He hired servants ga
lore. enlarged his house every few vesrr
2 al thought nothing too good for his
- >pies He used to find no greater iov
"A TO get his wife and all his numerous
Girls In great numbering open carriage
IKE d concord coach, that he had built
according to his own ideas. and with him
sell as driver on the. front seat to go roll
ing slowly over the roads about Honolulu
Tor few hours at time He was mas
Sionately fond OF song, and motionfng
cheerfuily to his blae1-eyed girls all,