The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1899-04-04

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It is truly wonderful story and en-
tirely unparalleled even in the world
81 fiction. For no cause other than a
Chinanan's ceaseless longing for re-
turn to his native country the father
abandoned mis- wife and family and his
millions and lives in sec!usiou in
Pekir. His Sandwich Island wife
lives msmagniiesrt style in the sump-
tuous home which he built in Homo.
lulu, and his numerous daughters are
in the SWEETEST society the Islands
afford and are plainly enough deter
mined upon marriage alliances with
the best of the white n1en who eoms
their way.
Recent tidings from Honolulu give
currency to a report that another
daughter Of Wing All Fong is to marry
in that city young american resi-
dent. The prospective brides mother
already has the dowry Of $3.50, 900 in
cash, real estate and securities ready
for the marriage day.
This time the bride will be Miss
Jessie: All Fong, and her choice is
settled upon Howard G. Morton, a
young newspaper editor who Las lived
in Honolulu for several years. He is
distant relative Of e9-Secretary of
Agriculture Sterling G. Morton. of
Nebraska, and a first cousin on his
patefnal side Of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
he was student ct Cornell Univer-
sity, and later s5Stanford University,
at Palo Alto, Cal. he Inherited Z
small fortune when be wastwenty-67e,
and, abandoning reportorial work in
San Franciscc, 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,
be decided to remain always. He
bought stock in local newspaper. in-
vested in sugar company stock, and
fell II love with Miss Jessie All Fong.
The maria 5Sis-ssid, will take
place shortly. -.... .
e Story OF the All Funs Girls. =
The All Fong written Along since
the family became leaders OF fashion
in HonoIulu) group Of thirteen girls
is very interesting from several points
of view. Everybody who has been in
Hawaii, no matter for how brief &
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 II the harbor Of Honolulu.
Early in the sixties young Chinauan
named Wing All Fong settled in Hon
olulu. He was an unusually intelli-
gent and genial Chinaman, and with
little capital he soon built up pros
pe-ozs business in Chinese pottery,
silks and bric-o-brac. he Learned the
Ksnaka and English tongues readily,
and before anyone knew it ne was the
leading merchant in honolulu. He
spent money freely and was well
liked by whites and blacks in the
quaint old town. He married ayourg
girl Of uncertain Portuguese and Kan
AKA ancestry, but with dash Of Eng
lish blood somewhere back in her con-
fused pedigree. She wss an attrac-
tive, eaergetic and ambitious person
for that land Of languor anasiesta, and
the young couple prospered. Ah
Fong invested in sugar cane planta-
tions, and in the old times, when
sugar plantation stock paid thirty and
forty per cent. dividends a year he
grew very rich. In ten years All FoDg
was worth over sS00,Oo0 and was add
ing SIS, ,Oo0a year to it annually. Mr..
Al Fong was q careful, prudent bus!-
ness man, and while his business as
sociates were content to browse and
take no heed of the morrow he was
watching chances to buy plantation
land cheap from the improTident who
abounded in Hawaii.
3 SWEETEST Home in Eonolulu.
In time the All Fong family num-
bered seventsea-the parent, two
BOYS and thirteen girls. People who
used to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen
years ago say that it was memorable
sight to see bowling along any OF the
lavs-made roads in Honolulu Papa All
Forg with his white duck suit and
his long cue dangling down his back,
driving the horses that drew his COM
plets family circle. The girls always
dressed in elaborate gowns Of maroons,
nagentas and scarlet reds, and the
wagon load OF childish feminine lowell
ness Of every hue in the rainbow made
charming spectacle.
Mr.. All Fong built the most UNIQUE
residence in Hawaii. It stands in the
western suburbs Of Honolulu on e
slightly knoll. It is an enormous
psgoda, with the oldest sort Of piaz-
zas about it. There ere sixteen Of the
piazzas, and they are all over twenty
feet wide. Envious parents Of other
pretty and marriageable daughters IN
Honolulu say that the All Fong par
euts had these many separate and dis
ticct piazzas built in this fashion pur-
posely to let each daughter in the
family have a piazza solely to herself
and her particular young men callers
Of 81 evening. Be the charge true or
false, it is fact that all the All Fong
piazzas-.so famous in Honolulu-are
alled $50 evenings in the year with