The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-01

widened. There were four children, a
boy and three girls-in the home by
1870. Ten more girls were born during
the next twenty years. Wing All Fong
was an ideal father. He was delighted to
see how each child resembled the mother
N facial expression. He hired servants
galore, enlarged his house every few
years, and thought nothing too good for
his babies. He used to find no greater
joy than to get his wife and all his
numerous girls In a great numbering
open carriage like Concord coach, that
he had built according to his own ideas,
and with himself as driver on the front
seat, TO go rolling slowly over the roads
about Honolulu for a few hours at
time. He was passionately fond of song,
and Inotioning cheerfully to his black
eyed girls all about him, he would say,
You singee ale velly fine song, you
know. l give you heap money" Then
away the family would go down the
road, with the girls singing in chorus
medley of all popular songs of the
day. 1t used to be a memorable sight
to see bowling along any of the lava
made roads In Honolulu, Papa All Fong,
with his cue dangling down his back.
driving in carriage containing his
complete family circle, all singing, laugh
ing and having noisy good time all by
themselves.
True Chinaman that he was, Wing All
Fohg never gave up his idea that the
Chinese ways of living and doing things
were little superior to any others. He
let the wife run the home and dress and
educate the daughters as she saw fit.
The All Fong boy, however, was the fa--
/ theirs to educate. So, while the All Fong
girls dressed and were brought up ac-
cording to American ideas, their brother
wore cue. had his head Sawed and.
wore flowing silken garments, like his
father. Once his oldest daughters got
him to don a plack dress coat and vest
when a party of naval officers came to
the mansion to dine, but the father aft
erward declared he would never again
so discredit his race as to appear in 9TH
er Garb than that of Chinese. Occa-
slonally, when he and his. wagon load
of gayly gowned femininity drove down
to the Honolulu wharf to give a wei
| coming hand to the people from the
steamer or g man-of-war, he would
please his daughters by putting his long
ebony cue under his derby hat
The All Fong home in Honolulu Is one
of the sights that tourists are taken first
to see. 1t stands in the western suburbs
or 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, wealth of tropical shrubbery and
dozen fountains and half dozen ar
tlstic grottoes. The house itself is a
| compoS1te-a sort of pagoda and Amer
| lean sedshore cottage 1t is an enormous
affair, with the oldest sort of piaZzas
ABOUT 1t. There are over lozen riaz-
ZaS. EnV1ouS parents of other prettV
manageable daughters in Honolulu saw
the Ah Fong parents had these MANY
separate and distinct piazzas built in
TINS fashion purposely to let each daugh-
ter IN the family have piazza safely
to herself and her particular callers
or an evening. Be the charge true or
raise, 1t is fact that all the All Fong
plazzaS'-So famous in Honolulu-are dear
TO the hearts Of many a naval officer
ana american young man tourist in the
islands $3.50
IN 1880 Wing All Fong was supposed to
be worth over S3000,0 00. He refused 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 at his boyhood home in China In
June, 1892. He spent months getting his
enormous business in shape to Leave it,
and he sailed away with his boz. When
months passed and All Fong was still
unreturned there began to be rumors
among the Chinese in Honolulu that the
millionaire merchant had been, detained
in China. When a year went by and
he was yet absent, the gossips talked
more actively than ever. Mrs All FonE
and her daughters kept closely at home
for long time, and never spoke on the
subject to outsiders.
The Chinese merchants in Honolulu be-
gan to say that Mr. All Fong had secret
ly gone on visit to former wife and
! her two sons In Pekin, and that by the
laws of China he had come very near
going to prison for a long term for de-
sorting his family in China and going to
a foreign land. The gossips had it also
Mr.. All Fcng had paid a fine. of, many
thousands of dollars, and had settled
down with good-sized fortune to live
all his days with his first family in Pc
kin No one seems to knows how much
of this is gossip or fact. The All Fong
family in Honolulu has, however, never
! seen its father since that, day in. July,
seven years ago. Everyone in Honolulu
believes the gossipy story as to the fate
that befell Papa All Fongsin Pekin More
! over, the Honolulu newspapers have sew
eral times published gossip about Mr..
All Fong without contradiction.
The hospitality of the All Fong man
sion has never waned during the years
of absence of Mr.. All Fong. The family
business affairs have been kept in line
shape, while the real estate and shipping
interests have largely increased in value
since the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States.