The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-15
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Chlnaman's ceaseless longing for re
turn to his native country the fathe
abandoned his wife and family and hi
millions and lives in seclusion il
Pekin. His Sandwich Island wifi
lives in magnificent style in the stump
tuous home which he built in Homo
lulu, and his numerous daughters al
IN the SWEETEST society the islands
afford and are plainly enough deter
mined upon marriage alliances Will
the best of the white men who com
their way.
Recent tidings from Honolulu Civ,
currency to a report that anothe:
daughter of Wing All Fong is to MARI,
IN that city a young American resi-
dent. The prospective BRIDE mother
already has the dowry of $3.50, 900 il
cash, real estate and securities read,
for the marriage day.
This time the bride will be Mis-:
Jessie All Fong, and her choice is
settled upon Howard G. Morton, g
young newspaper editor who has lived
IN Honolulu for several years. He is
a distant relative of ex-Secretarv Of
Agriculture Sterling G.. Morton, OF
Nebraska. and a first cousin on his
p%aternal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
He was a student at Cornell Univer.
slty, and later at Stanford University.
at Palo Alto, Cal. He inherited q
small fortune when he was twenty-five,
and, 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 a 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 Of the All FuDg 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 a
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 a young Chinaman
named Wing All Fong settled in Hon.
oiulu. He vas an unusually intelli-
gent and genial Chinaman, and with a
little capital he soon built up a 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 we'll
liked by whites and blacks in the
quaint old town. He married ayoung
girl of uncertain Portuguese and Kan
aka ancestry, but with a dash of Eng
fish blood somewhere back in her con.
fused pedigree. She was an attrac-
tive, energetic and ambitious person
'or that land Of languor and siesta, and
;he young couple prospered. All
tong invested in sugar cane planta-
ions, and in the old times, when
sugar plantation stock paid thirty and
:orty per cent. dividends a year he
grew very rich. In ten years All Fong
vas worth over $500, 600 and was add.
ng $35, 000a year to it annually. Mr..
Ah Fong was a careful, prudent bust
less man. and while his business as
were content to browse and
axe no heed of the morrow he was
Watching chances to buy plantation
and cheap from the improvident who
bounded in Hawaii.
SWEETEST Homo in Honolulu.
In time the All Fong family num-
'ered seventeen-the parent, two
oys and thirteen girls. People who
sed to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen I
ears ago say that it was a memorable
light to see bowling along any Of the !.
.va-made roads in Honolulu Papa All !
'ong with his white duck suit and
is long cue dangling down his back,
the horses that drew his COM I
lete family circle. The girls always I
ressed in elaborate gowns of maroons, I
lagentas and scarlet reds, and the I
agon load of childish feminine lowell {
ess of every hue in the rainbow made J,
charming spectacle. l
Mr.. All Fong built the most unique '
'sidence in Hawaii. It stands in the
estern suburbs of Honolulu on a l
Chilly knoll. 1t is an enormous :
with the oldest sort of piaz- c
IS about it. There are sixteen of the u
.azzas, and they are all over twenty 4
ct wide. Envious parents of other J
city and manageable daughters in .
onolulu say that the All Fong par !.
its had these many separate and dis II
net piazzas built in this fashion pur- g,
'sely to let each daughter in the u =
mily have a piazza solely to herself :
ID her particular young men callers 81
an evening. Be the charge true or D
lse, it is a fact that all the All Fong II
famous in Honolulu-are
$50 evenings in the year with
mpanies of young men callers, and n
ere are impromptu concerts with man c,
llns, banjos and a dozen reed instru- al
not known outside the tropics tt
the piazzas almost every evening. g
Mr.. All Fong, true to the character in
les of his race, never abandoned his ra
linese mode of life. His wife and pl
, fast increasing family might think &C
d do as they liked, for he was an in d,
lgelt father, but he gave up B,
chop-sticks and his wooden shoes pl
q flowing garments of gaudy silks. OF
'%casionally when this wagon load of th
(ly gowned femininitY drove down be
the Honolulu wharf to give q well til