El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-16

| the O8y. IL uSeQ TO De memOra oil
sight to see bowling along any of tn,
Fong, with his long que dangling dowl
his back, driving in q carriage contain
ing his complete family circle, all sing
| ing, laughing and having q noisy good
time all by themselves.
True Chinaman that he was, Wing
All Fong never gave up his idea tina,
the Chinese ways of living and doing
things were little superior to any
others. He let his wife run the home
and dress and educate the girls as she
saw fit. The All Fong boy, however,
the All Fong girls dressed and were
brought up according to American
ideas, their brother wore cue, had
his head shaved and wore flowing silk
en- garments, like his father. Once
his oldest daughters got him
to don black dress coat and vest when
a party of naval officers came to the
mansion to dine, but the father after
ward decided he would never again 80
garb than that of Chinese. Occa-
sionally, when he and his wagon load of
gayly-gowned femininity drove down
to the Honolulu wharf to give q well
coming hand to the people from the
steamer or a man-Of-war, he would
please his daughters by putting his
long, ebony cue under his derby hat.
The All Fong of Honolulu Is one of
the sights that tourists are taken first
to see. It stands in the western sub
urbs of the city, amid the most beauti.
full grounds in all the South sea. There
are avenues of palms, winding roads of
scores of beds of flowers, numerous
fish ponds, a wealth of tropical shrub
berry and dozen fountains and half a
dozen artistic grottoes. The house it
self is composites sort of psgoda
and American seashore cottage. It is
an enormous affair, with the oldest
sort of piazzas about it. There are over
a dozen piazzas. Envious parents
S Of ssnsr pretty Hon %nGriasea sas
the All Fong parents had these many
separate and distinct piazzas built in
this fashion purposely to let each
daughter in the family have a piazza
safely to herself and her particular
callers OF an evening. Be the charge
true or false, it is a fact that all the All
Fong piazzas-so famous in Honolulu
are dear to the hearts of many a naval
officer and American young man tour
list in the islands.
In 1890 Wing All Fong was supposed
to be worth over $1,000, 600. He re-
fused some 100000 for his holdings on
The Island of Maui alone. There has
always been a mystery about the reason
that Mr.. All Fong left Honolulu and
sailed for visit to his boyhood home
n China in June, 1892. He spent |
months getting his enormous business |
n shape to leave it, and he sailed away
With his boy. When months passed |
Ind All Fong was still unreturned |
here began to be rumors among the |
Chinese in Honolulu that the million
lire merchant had been detained in |
China. When a year went by and |
lie was yet absent the gossips talked |
more actively than ever. Mrs. All
Fong and her daughters kept closely
It home for long time, and never
Chinese merchants in Honolulu began
o say that Mr.. All Fong had secretly
zone to visit a former wife and two
ons in Pekin, and that by the laws
Il China he had come very near going
o prison for a long term for deserving
lis family in China and going to for
ign land. The gossips had
also that Mr.. All Fong had paid q
ne OF many thousands of dollars,
nd had settled down with q good -siz-
d fortune to live all his days with his
now how much of this is gossip or
let. The All Fong family in Honolulu I
as. however, never seen its father s
noe that July day seven years ago.
veryone in Honolulu believes the Cos ]
py story as to the fate that befell {
apa All Fong in Pekin. Moreover, {
le Honolulu newspapers have several J
mes published the gossip about Mr..
b FOng without decentralization.
The hospitality of the All Fong man 7
on has never waned during the years
absence OF Mr.. All Fong. The fami- G
business affairs have been kept in C
lie shape. while the real estate and q
e shipping interests have largely in f
eased in value since the annexation t
Hawaii to the United States Last T
ar the A n Fong home was again en- 4
rGed and refurnished in lavish style. O
ates navy (recently of the Monad- f
ck at Manila), married Miss Harriet b
b FOng, the affair was made as bril- b
mt as money and the naval officers a
uld make it. It was then that Mrs. a
b Fong tacitly gave countenance to a q
NOR that her celestial spouse was no e
)re to return to Honolulu. I'll
At the Whiting-Ah Fong wedding n
e dowry of each of the sisters was fix f,
at S15O.O00. Mrs. Writings dowry
10 S75, 900 in cash and negotiable Sc
rites: $40, 900 In real estate, and $685.
in stock in the All Fong sugar in r.
stries. There have since been four p
ddings in the family, and each bride r.
3 had the same amount of property,
t in different proportions of real RI
ate, securities aud cash. Mrs. Nor 81
q chose all real estate and no cash, II
her dowry has increased 20 per 81
at in value since she married. Mrs.