The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-07

He was passionately fond of song, and motioning cheerfully to his black
 eyed girls all about he would say
 You singee ale velly fine song, you
 know. I give you heap money Then away the family would go down the road, with the girls singing in
 chorus a medley of all popular songs of | the day It used to be a memorable
 sight to see bowling along any of the ] lava made roads in Honolulu, Papa An Fong, with his long cue dangling down | his back, driving in a carriage contain l ing his complete family circle all sing ing, laughing and having a noisy good time all by themselves,
 | True Chinaman that he was, Wing An Fong never gave up his idea hat | the Chinese ways of living and doing things were a little superior to any others. He let the wife run the home and dress and educate the daughters as she saw fit. The An Fong boy, howev- CT, was the fathers to educate. So, while the An Fong girls dressed and were brought up according to Ameri- can ideas their brother wore cue,
 
 silken garments like his father Once his oldest daughters got him to don a black dress coat and vest, when par ty of naval ojcers came to the mansion to dine, but the father afterward de- clared he would never again so dis credit his race as to appear In other garb than that of Chinese. Occa- sionally, when he and his wagon-load of gayly-gowned femininity dove down to the Honolulu wharf to give 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 Ah Fong home in Honolulu is one of the sights that tourists are taken first to see, It stands in the western suburbs of the city, amid the most beautiful grounds in all the South seas. There are avenues of palms, winding roads of lava, scores of beds of flowers, numerous fish ponds, a wealth of tropical shrubbery and doz- en fountains and half-dozen artistic grottoes, The house itself is a compos- ite-a sort of pagoda and American sea
  with the oldest sort of piazzas. Envi- ous parents of other pretty marriagea- ble daughters in Honolulu say the An Fong parents had these many separate and distinct piazzas built in this fash ion purposely to let each daughter in the family have a piazza safely to her self and her particular callers of an evening" Be the charge true or false, 1t is a fact that all the An Fong piaz- gas so famous in Honolulu-are dear to the hearts of many naval officer the islands.
 In 1890 Wing An Fong was supposed to be worth over three million dollars. He refused some three hundred thou sand dollars for his holdings on the island of Maui alone. There has all ways been a mystery about the reason that MT. An Fong left Honolulu and sailed for visit at his boyhood home in China In June, 1892, He spent months getting his enormous business in shape to leave 1t, and he sailed away with his boy, When months passed and An Fong was still unreturned there began to be rumors among the Chinese in Honolulu that the million l aire merchant had been detained inE China. When year went by and he was yet absent, the gossips talked more actively than ever. Mrs. Fong and her daughters kept closely at home for long time and never spoke on the subject to outsiders. The Chi nese merchants in Honolulu began to say that MT. Ah Fong had secretly gone on a visit to a former wife and her two sons in Pekin, and that by the laws of China he had come very near going to prison for long term for de- serting his family in China and going to foreign land. The gossips had 1t also that MT An Fong had paid a fine of many thousands of dollars, and had | settled down with a good sized fortune | to live all his days with his first fami- y in Pekin. No one, seems to know | now much of this Is gossip or fact. | The An Fong family in Honolulu has, | however, never seen it's father since | hat day in July seven years ago, Ev- ,ry one in Honolulu believes the gos- sipy story as to the fate that befel Papa An Fong In Pekin. Moreover, | he Honolulu newspapers have several imes published the gossip about MT, An Fong without contradiction.
 The hospitality of the An Fong man ion has never wanted during the years | If absence of MT. An Fong. The fami- y business affairs have been kept in inc shape, while the real estate and hlpping interests have largely in- reased in value since the annexation # Hawaii to the United States.-Phil- ldelphia Times.
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