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 ful-fedged Chinese, and Mrs. Con-
cepcion All Fong, a mixture Of Spanish
and Portuguese, on the outsi1irs of Homo
lulu Every one who mas been in the
Hawaiian islands tells of the charming
manners, the bright-hued gowns, the
Ianguorous tropical ballads and the fund
of good nature of the highly attractive
progeny of Wing All Fong-the million
airs 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-
d mortal engagement of a sixth sister Miss
{. Lucille An Fong) to lawyer in New
NJ Orleans was announced.
Thirteen daughters and one son are in
the All Fong family. The eldest Is Mrs
Alfred Morgan, wife of prosperous mer-
chant and shipper in Honolulu. Mrs
Morgan is about thrty-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
Chinese fathers bump of business sense
Seven of the All Fong girls are notice
ably pretty, black-eyed raven-haired
- girls. One (drs. Arthur Johnstone) is
demi-b!onde, and the combination of her
\ blue eyes and dark eyelashes and hair
q and her pink and white complexion
makes her the most generally accepted
-' beauty of the family. Several of the sis
tiers have their fathers tall stature but
the rest are of petite figures. Three have
pronounced suggestion Of Chinese al
mCnd-shaped eyes, and nearly every one
OF them has the mothers olive COM
pleNlOn and soft, easy mode of speech
No less an authority than Sir Edwin
Arnold said that the few days he spent
at tie All Fong home few years ago
We're the most tropically charming he
ever knew in the South seas
Along about 1858 a young Chinamqn
named Wing All Fong came with ship
lCad of Chinese to Honolulu. He was I'M
usually intelligent and genial, and with
little capital soon built up a prosperous
DuSllltSS III OulH6S6 crOCk6TX, silks and
briC-a-brac. He was soon the leading
merchant in Honolulu. He spent money
freely ana was we'll liked by whites and
blacks in the quaint old town AS he
y grew in wealth he made love to the
- daughter, Conception, Of a poor PortU
guese sailor who had f1oated into Hawaii
- The Chinaman's money and his slIneri
GRITTY to his fellow-cooltes made him an
accepted sutton. So All Fong married in
tS6o. HIS wife was good looking and
energetic for that land Of languor and
stesta. All Fong invested in sugar cane
plantations, and in the old times when
sugar plantations paid almost Incredibly
big profits, he grew very rich. In ten
n years All Fong was worth over $500 OOO
and was adding SIS, 600 to it annually Ha
was careful and prudent, while his bust
ness associates drowsed and took no heed
OF the morrow. He was ceaSelessly watch
ing chances to buy plantation land cheap
8 from the improvident Hawaiians Bv
1SIo the All Fong sugar plantation on the
= Island or t1tlo had become one of the
most productive there While such men
as C!aus Spreckels made $1,000 and $500.
wv annually from sugar exports, Wing
An Fong made $4,000 and $4,000 annually
in the same way
Meanwhile the All T7one family, o,ro,,
widened. There We're six children-a how
ana hVe glrls-in the home by 1870 Eight
more girls were born there during the
s next h1teen years. Wing All Fong was
al AuNaI IdCner. he was delighted to see
how each child resembled the mother In
facial expression. He hired servants pa
lore, enlarged his house every few years
and thought nothing too good for his
babies He used to find no greater ioy
than to get his wife and all his numerous
girls in great numbering open carriage
like a Concord coach, that he had built
according to his own ideas, and with him
self as driver on the front seat to go roll
ing slowly over the roads about Honolulu
Sor few hours at a time. He was pas
sionately-p fond. of song. and motioning
cheerfuIlY To his hlack-eved erirIa q II