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

in the Philippines when his term of ser
 vice will have expired next year. Four
 of the An Fong sisters have been edu- I'cated at seminaries in San Francisco 1 and Oakland, and Miss Martha An
 fong now wife of Lieut.. Dougherty, in | Mania) took high rank at Mills semi
 nary as pianist and composer.
 The An Fong children comprise 13
 girls and one boy. The eldest (Mrs.
 Morgan of New Orleans) is about 35,
 and the youngest (Miss Anna) is just
 12. Mrs. An Fong is handsome wo-
 man with olive complexion, large black
 eyes and unusually pleasing manners,
 and is of Portuguese birth. All of the daughters have her disposition and love of music, and some of them have the 1 Chinese nose and high cheek bones of
 Papa An Fong. The mothers manners
 and the fathers commercial sense is | observable in every one of the An Fong progeny,
 Miss Nellie An Fong is now in Paris
 studying art She is a strikingly hand
 some brunette, notwithstanding she in-
 herits her fathers slanting eyes more than any of her sisters. Mrs. Arthur Johnstone, who was Miss Helen An Fong until four years ago, Is demi- blonde, and the combination of her blue eyes and dark eyelashes annd hair and
 her pink -and-whte complexion makes her the most generally accepted beauty of the family. Several of the sisters ] have their fathers tall stature, but the
 rest are of petite figures. There have
 of Cbir1eqp all
 mond-shaped eyes. and nearly every
 one of them has the mothers complex
 ion and soft mode of speech No less
 an authority than Sir Edwin Arnold
 said that the few days he spent at the
 An Fong home a few years ago were
 the ''most tropicaIly charming" he
 ever knew in the South Seas.
 Along about 1858 young Chinaman
 named Wing An Fong came with
 shipload of Chinese to Honolulu. He
 was highly intelligent and genial, and
 with a little capital soon built up a
 prosperous business in Chinese crock cry, silks and bric-a- -brac. He was soon the leading merchant In Honolulu. He spent money freely and was well liked by whites and blacks in the quaint piu toNI. <ao iC 6ICW III WCdllH llc made love to the daughter, Conception, of poor Portuguese sailor who had foated into Hawaii The Chinaman's money and his superiority to his fel- low collies made him an accepted suit or So An Fong was married in 1862. His wife was fine looking and energetic for that land of languor and siesta. An Fong invested in sugar cane planta- tions and in the old times, when sugar plantations paid almost incredibly large profits, he grew very rich. In 10 years An Fong was worth over $500, 000 and was adding $S5OOO to it annually. He was careful and prudent, while his business associates drowsed and took no heed of the morrow. He was cease lessly watching chances to buy plan tation lands cheap from the im- provident Hawaiians. By 1870 the An Fong sugar plantation on the island of Hilo had become one of the most productive there While such men as Claus spreckles made seven and eight hundred thousand dollars annually from sugar exports, An Fong made | fifty thousand dollars and sixty thou sand dollars annually in the same way.
 Meanwhile the An Fong family cir cle widened. There were four children, a boy and three girls lin the home by | lST0 Ten more girls were born there | during the next twenty years. Wing | An Fong was an ideal father. He was delighted to see how each child resem- bled the mother in facial expression. He hired servants galore, enlarged his | house every few years, and thought nothing too good for his babies. He lsed to find no greater joy than to get 1fs wife and all his numerous girls in great numbering open carriage like a Concord coach, that he had built &C., 'ording to his own ideas. and with him self as driver on the front seat, to go rolling slowly over the roads about Honolulu for a few hours at time 1