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

published the gossip about Mr.. All Fong
without contradiction
The hospitality OF the All Fong mansion
has never waned during The years Of alb
sence of Mr.. All Fong. The family bust
ness affairs have been kept in fine shape,
while the real estate and the shipping in
terests have largely increased in value
since the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States. Last year the All Fong
home was enlarged and again refurnished
In lavish style. In 1894 when Capt. Whit
ing, United States navy (recently of the
Monadnock, at Manila) married Miss
Harriet All Fong, the affair was made as
brilliant as money and the naval officers
coIld make it. It was then that Mrs. All
Fong tacitly gave countenance to the ru-
mers that her Celestial spouse was no
more to return to Honolulu.
At the Whiting-Ah Fong wedding the
dowry of each of the sisters was led at
$150,eGO Mrs. Writings dowry was $4,000
In cash and negotiable securities, $40, 900
in real estate and $S5, 800 in stock in the
All Fong sugar industries. There have
since been four weddings In the family,
and each bride has had the same amount
OF property, but in different proportions
OF real estate, securities and cash. Mrs.
Morgan chose all real estate and no cash.
ard her dowry has increased 20 per cent
in value since she married. Mrs. Morton,
who was married last winter, took over
$1G0,0G0, her dOwry in cash, because she
will live in Seattle, and where the money
can be more advantageously invested.
Mr.. Morgan, a son-in-law of Mrs. All
Fong, recently invested nearly $4o0, 0G0 in
a block of Santa Fe railroad stock for
the benefit of the daughters who have not
yet reached manageable age.
One cannot be long in Honolulu with
out seeing the All Fong girls. They ride
a great deal and they are always unit
edly interested in entertaining people of
polite society who come on d visit 10 the
islands. The girls are not literary, and
only two or three are painters. They
speak English correctly, and French,
Kanaka and Portuguese fairly. They are
good singers, and have the love of the
Hawaiians for string music. For years
they have been famous for their graceful
waltzing Many a young naval officer
has sailed away from Honolulu harbor
with fond membranes Of his first ap-
probation of the soulfulness and beauty
of Strauss waltZes after one of the al
most weekly hops in the ball room at the
An Fong home. A few years ago, when
Mrs. Capt. Whiting lived at home. and
there were eleven unmarried sisters there,
an orchestra was hired by contract to
furnish music for four hops a week, all
winter long, at the All Fong home.
The chief charm Of the thirteen sisters
is their dashing style, their graceful con-
versational ability Cultivated by assotka-
ton with the naval officers and the finest
tourists who come to Honolulu for weeks
at time), and their excellent taste in
color and arrangement Of their gowns.
Having large wealth and a natural gen
ius for color effects, the All Fong girls
have been famous in Honolulu for their
wonderfully fetching gowns.
A mOdiste from Paris has been kept at
& good salary for over ten years near the
All Fong home, and she devotes all her
talents solely to the mother and the I'M
married girls of the family. She goes
periodically to New York, and even
thence to Paris, to spend each time some
thousands of the All Fong fortune in
boxes and cases of the latest Partisan
feminine vanities and conceits. Sitting
on one of the many pfaZZas at home on
a warm afternoon in their Variegated
gowns of silks and challies, the All Fong
girls present an idea Of a big, Jolly
bouquet of colcrs. One has afterward a
confused recollection only Of a group of
merry girls in vivid scarlets, pinks, ma
gentas and a half dozen other shades of
red and purple, with paraSels, sashes and
ribbons galore in a score of harmonious
and striking hues.
Mrs. All Fong is a thorough diplomat In
the administration of her big home and
of the individual interests of all her five
married and eight unmarried daughters,
besides her five American sons-in-law
She marriages the family estate we'll. She
could give valuable points to many an
American woman who is daily graphing
with problem as to how to marry most
suitably her only daughter. Every six
months nowadays there IS a wedding at
the All Feng home. The pagoda mansion
is always open to the girls friends.
Every gentleman naval officers espe-
cially, who is asked there was sure of a
warm welcome. Dinner parties have been
given there hundreds of times. All of the
officers aboard ship OF any gertlemanly
tourists In the city who were friends of
any Of the All Fong girls have always
been welcome to come to breakfe st