The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-01
WINS CHINESE BRIDE
SAMUEL S. HOCRoFT TO MARTY
SUE All FONG, OF HON.
OLULU
CINE OF THIRTEEN SISTERS
Family Has PnIatiaI Home in
Suburbs of Hawaiian Capital
and Entertains
Royalty.

Royalty.
Still another of the famously pretty All
Fong sisters of Honolulu will be led to
the marriage altar by an American, says
the Philadelphia Times. The Honolulu
newspapers say that the approaching
wedding in the great All Fong mansion
in the suburbs of Honolulu will be the
most notable event, in point of ceremony
and style, of any similar affairs that
have taken place there. Miss Sue All
Fong will be welded to Samuel s. Ho-
croft, who had been considered one of
the foremost matrimonial catches in
Oregon for several years. He is a Har-
ward university man, an heir to large
mining wealth, and traveller and polish
ed club man. After ten years of ming
ling in society in Europe and much of
America, he has laid his heart at the
feet of a lovely daughter of the tropical
islands in the South seas, and he snaps
his fingers at all talk about the Chinese
father of his prospective bride.
No home in all the broad Pacific has
been so well known by American and
British naval officers and globe-trott ng
tourists for longer than dozen years
as the All Fong mansion in Honolulu.
Naval officers say that very few homes
have been so Hospitality open to them in
their cruises as has been that of All
Fong-the millionaire Chinese in the
Hawaiian islands.
Ask any naval officer who has been
aboard ship that lay at anchor in the
harbor of Honolulu whether he remem-
bers the All Fong home and note the fit
ting of pleasant memories through his
brain. If he is talkative he may tell
you of the liberal and cha ming hospi-
tally dispensed in the All Fong mansion
among the wonderful grounds filed with
trees and shrubs from all tropical lands,
and of the thirteen All Fong girls rang
ing from toddling tot to winsome young
womanhood. He may tell you also of
the Oriental dinners served in the All
Fong home, where covers were laid for
fifty and more guests; of the lovely balls
In the bamboo room; of the many piazzas
where ladies AMI gentlemen were well
coined day and evening, and entertained
with music and mirth that seemed to
nave no end. If he has bit of sentiment
beneath his blue uniform, he may tell
you of the languorous ballads he heard
sung at the All Fong home, of the black
eyed, jolly All Fong girls and their skill
In dancing
Among foreign people there have been
Few more ardent admirers of Americans
than the big All Fong family. Long he
fore Hawaii became an American pos
session the All Fongs longed for the
union. When the American soldiers were
on their way to the Philippines and stop
ped at Hawaii, the All Fong girls were al
ways among the first in Honolulu to en-
tertaln the boys in blue with feasts and
puoAc entertainment. Six of the sisters
have married American husbands and
eaeh has had happy welded life Miss
Janet AhrFong is now engaged to marry
lieutenant in the United States army
IN the philippines when his term of sery-
Ice VIII have expired next year Four
OF the All Fong sisters have been educaf
ca at semfnaries in San Francisco and
oakland, and Miss Martha All Fong NOW
"He OF Lieut.. Dougherty, in Manila) took
nigh rank at Mills seminary as MIA nis+
and composer.
Inc All Fong children comprise toir-
teen girls and one boy. The eldest (Mrs1
morgan, of New Orleans) is about +bir
ty-1ve and the youngest CMies Annal is
Just twelve. Mrs. All Fong is a hand
some woman with olive complexion
iarge black eyes and unusually pleas.
ing manners and is of Portuguese hirtb
An OF the daughters have her DISPOSE
Ton and love of music, and some OF
tnern nave the Chinese nose and high
cheeK bones of Papa All Fong Tho
lnother manners and the fathers COM
mercia1 sense are observable in every
one or the All Fong progeny.
- -NellIe An fong is now in Paris
studying art. She is a strikfnplv bandU
some brunette. notwithstand;ne che -
ne-IlS her fathers slanting ewes moro
IMAM any of her sisters Mrs Arth11r
tombstone, who was Miss Helena All
Fohg until four years ago, is a, dent-
plohde, and the combination of her blue
eyes and dark eyelashes and hair ara
her pink-and-white complexion noa1[a.
her the most generally accented heantv
OF the family. Several of the sisters
nave their fathers tall stature hut ~
rest are of petite figures. Three have a
pronounced suggestion of Chinese al
IN hd-snaped eyes, and nearly every ono
Vi lnem mas the mothers complexion
ana soft mode of speech. No less an
thority than Sir Edwin Arnold said +ba+
the lew days he spent at the All Fono
nome a few years ago were the s.most
troplcally charming he ever knew in tine
South seas.
Along about 1858 young Chinaman
named wing All Fong came with a ship
ioao Oh Chlnese to Honolulu He was
HSh!y intelligent and genial and win
little capital soon built up a prosnerous
business in Chinese crockery. silks ana
Dflc-a- brac- He was soon the LEADING
merchant in Honolulu. He spent money
freely and was we'll liked by whites and
OIacks IN the quaint old town. Az he
grew In wealth he made love to tn
H.
guese sailor VINO had f1oated into Hawaii
ne Cnlnaman's money and his superior
lty TO his fellow coolies made him an ac-
copied sutton. So All Fong was marriea
IN 1852. His wife was fine looking and
energetic for that land of languor and
slesta. All Fong invested in sugar-cane
plantations, and in the old times. when
sugar plantations paid almost incredibly
large profits, he grew very rich. In ten
years An Fong was worth over 5000 ooo
and was aiding $4,000 to it annually. He
was careful and prudent, while his bust
ness associates drowsed and took no heed
OF the morrow. He was ceaselesslv
watching chances to buy plantation land
cheap from the imptovident Hawaiians
BY 1870 the All Fong sugar plantation
on the island of Hilo had become ono
OF the most productive there. While
such men as Claus Spreckels made 500
OoO and 100000 annually from sugar ex-
ports, All Fong made $4,000 and $50 COO
annually In the same way
Meanwhile the All Fong family circle