The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22
A LUCKY THIRTEEN.
HEY ARE THE All FOXG GIRLS or
HONOLULU.


AccOmpliShed-Furt They
Are Very wealthy, Hence There
Is No DimcuIty in Securing White
Husband.
From the Chicago Times Herald.
Did you ever hear of the pretty All Fong
girls of Honolulu-thirteen charming
daughters Of a tremendously wealthy
Chinaman and a Kanaka woman, each
with a dowry of $4,000?
1t is truly wonderful story and entire
ly unparalleled even in the world of fic-
ton. For no cause other than a China
mans ceaseiess longing for return to his
native country the father abandoned his
wife and family and his millions and lives
in seclusion in Pekin. His Sandwich Isl
and wife lives in magnificent style in the
sumptuous home which he built in Homo
lulu, ard his numerous daughters are In
the SWEETEST society the islands afford and
are plainly enough determined upon mar
rage alliances with the best of the white
men who come their way.
Recent tidings from Honolulu give cur
rency TO a report that another daughter
Of Wing All Fong is to marry in that city
a young American resident. The prospec-
tive brides mother already has the dowry
Of $4,000 in cash, real estate and securi-
ties ready for the marriage day.
This time the bride will be Miss Jessie
All Fong, and her choice is settled upon
Howard G. Morton, young newspaper ed
tor who has lived in Honolulu for several
years. He is distant relative of ex-Sec-
rotary of Agriculture Sterling G. Morton,
of Nebraska, and a first cousin on his ma
ternal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. He
was a student at Cornell University, and
later at Stanford University, at Palo Alto,
Cal. He inherited a small fortune when
he was 25 and abandoning reportorial work
in San Francisco, sailed on a journey
around the world. He never got any far
their than Honolulu. There, becoming in
fatuaLed with the climate and the easy
life under the tropics, he decided to re-
main always. He bought stock In a local
newspaper, invested in sugar company's
stock and fell in dove with Miss Jessie All
Fong. The marriage, it is said, win take
place early in February.
story of the All FOng Girls.
The All Fong written Along since the
family became leaders of fashion in Hon
olu) group of thirteen girls is very in
terestng from several points of view. Ev-
erybody who has been in Hawaii, no mat
ter for how brief time in the last de-
cade has heard much about the All Fong
family and how it has borne the brunt
of hospitable entertainment of all visiting
naval craft in the harbor of Honolulu.
Early IN the sixties a young Chinaman
named Wing All Fong settled in Honolulu.
ILL.,
Chinamau, and with a little capital he
soon built up a prosperous business in
Chinese crockery, silks and bric-a-brac.
He learned the Kanaka and English
tongues readily, and before any one knew
IL he was the leading merchant in Homo
lulu. He spent money freely and was we'll
liked by whites and blacks in the quaint
old town. He married a young girl of I'M
certain Portuguese and Kanaka ancestry,
but with dash of English blood some
where back in her confused pedigree She
was an attractive, energetic and ambitious
person for that land of languor and sies-
ia, and the young couple prospered. All
Fong invested in sugar cane plantations
and in the old times, when sugar planta-
ton stock paid 80 and 40 per cent. dividends
a year, he grew very rich, In ten years
All Fong was worth over 100000 and was
adding $S5 900 a year to 1t annually. Mr..
All Fong was a careful, prudent business
man, and, while his business associates
were content to browse and take no heed
of the morrow, he was watching chances
to buy plantation land cheap from the i'm
provident. who abounded in Hawaii
SWEETEST Home in Honolulu.
In time the All Fong family numbered
seventeen-the parents, two boys and thir-
teen girls. People who used to visit Hon
olulu ten and fifteen years ago say that
it was a memorable sight to see bowling
along any of the lava-made roads in Hon
olulu Papa All Fong, with his white-duck
suit and his long cue dangling down his
back driving the horses that drew his
complete family circle. The girls always
dressed In elaborate gowns of maroon
magentas and scarlet reds, and the wagon
load of childish feminine loveliness of
every hue in the rainbow made charm
ing spectacle.
Mr.. All Fong built the most unique res
idence in Hawaii 1t stands in the west
ern suburbs of Honolulu on a slightly
knoll. 1t is an enormous pagoda, with the
oldest sort of piazzas about it, There are
sixteen of the piazzas, and they are all
over twenty feet wide. Envious parents
OF other pretty and marriagable daughters
in Honolulu say that the All Fong parents
had these many separate and distinct
piazzas built in this fashion purposely to
let each daughter IN Inc family have q
piazza solely to herself and her particular
young men callers of an evening Be the
charge true or false, ii is a fact that all
the All Fong piazzas-so famous in Homo
lulu-are filed $50 evenings in the year
with companies of young men callers and
there are impromptu concerts with man
doins baujos and dozen reed instru-
ments not known outside the tropics on
the piazzas almost every evening
Mr.. All Fong, true TO the characteristics
of his race, never abandoned his Chinese
mode of life. His wife and his fast-in-
creasing family might think and do as
they liked, for he was an ndulgent father
but he never gave up his chop-sticks and
his wooden shoes and flowing garments OF
gaudy silks. Occasionally when this wa
gon load Of gavly gowned feminlnity drove
down to the Honolulu wharf 10 give a vel
coming hand to people from the steamer
or mau-of-war he would please his. daugh-
ters by putting his long black cue under
his hat. He was the soul OF hospitality.
and he loved TO give big spreads at home.
All FOng Sails Away.
In the spring of 1892 Mr. All Fonr Man