The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
THE All TONG FAMILY.
SIX DAUGHTERS HAVE MAR
 REED AMERICAN MEN.
Miss Sue Soon to Be Wed-Father with Single Son Returned to
 China, Leaving 13 Daughters
 -e Behind Him.
Philadelhpia Times.

Philadeihpia Times.
 Still another of the famously pretty Ar Fong sisters of Honolulu will he led to the maria ge altar by an American. The Honolulu newspapers say that the ap- preaching wedding in the great An Fong mansion in the suburbs or Honolulu wili be the most notable event, in point Of ceremony and style, of any similar af- fairs that have taken place there: Miss Sue An Fong will be welded to Samuel s. Hotroft, who had b,en considered one of the fort most ma trim )nial catches In Oregon for several years. He Is Her vaio. 4C nj sersity man, an heir to large mining wealth. an9 traveier ana po.- ished club man. After ten years of ming ling in society in Europe and much or America. he nas laid his heart at the feet of a lovely daughter Of the tropical his fingers at all talk about the Chinese father of his prospective bride.
 No home in all the broad Pacihc has been so well known by American ana British naval officers and globe-trotting tourists for longer than dozen years as the An Fong mansion in Honolulu. Naval officers say that very few homes have been so geep open tbat a1 of An Fong-the millionaire Chinese in the Fla
 Ask any naval officer who. has been aboard a ship that lay at anchor in the hers the An Fong home and note the fiit- ting of pleasant memories through ms brain. If he is talkative. he may tell you ,t, of the liberal and charming hospitality dispensed in the An Fong mansion among the wonderful grounds nlled with trees and shrubs from all tropical lands anu of the thirteen An Fong girls ranging from toddling tot to winsome young wo- manhood. He may tell you also Of the Oriental dinners served In the An tong home. where covers were laid Tor nfty md rVnNx xrrrAo nf lovely the bamboo room: of the many piazzas where ladies and gentlemen were wei comed day and evening and entertained have no end. If he has bit of senti- ment beneath his blue uniform he may tell you of the langurous ballads ne heard sung at the An F9ng home; or ns sne their skill in dancing; .L
 Among foreign people there have been few more ardent admirers or Americans sefore Hawaii became an American pos- session the An Fongs longed for the union. When the American soldiers were on their way to the Philippines ana stop always among the first in Honolulu to entertain the boys in blue with feasts and public entertainment Six of the sisters each has had happy welded life. Miss Janet An Fong is now engaged 10 marry a lieutenant in the United States army in the Philippines when his term or ser vice will have expired next year. Four of the An Fong. sisters have been eou, cated at seminarfes in San Francisco iihd Oakland. and Miss Martha An Tong Uow wife of Lieutenant Dougherty, In Manlla) took high rank at Mills seminary as pianist and composer.
 ''The An Fong ehildren comprise thir- teen girls mad one boy. The eldest; sMrs; and the youngest (MissAnn is just i2 Mrs. An Fong Is handsome woman with onve complexion, large black eyes and unu- sually pleasing manners and is or iortu- guese birth. All of the daughters have her tispotition and love of music, end some of them have the Chinese nose ana high chek bones of Papa An Fong' The mothers manners and the fathers eom- mercial sense are observable in every one
 Miss Nellie An Fong Is now 'n Paris studying art She is a striktngly hanu- some brunette. notwithstanding she in- herits her fathers slanting eyes more than any of her sisters. Mrs; Arthur Johnstone who was Miss Helena Ah Fong until four years ago, IS a deml- blonde and the combination of her blue eyes and dark eyelashes and nair and her pink and white complexion makes her the most generally accepted beauty or the family Several of the. sisters have their fathers tall stature, but the rest are or petite figures. Three have a pronounced suggestion of Chinese almond-shaped eyes and nearly every one of them has the mothers complexion and soft mode or speech. No less authority than Sir Ed win Arnold said that the few days re spent at the An Fong home teW years ago were the most tropically charming
 he ever knew in the South seas
 Along about 1858 a young Chinaman nnmed Wing An FCng came with snip load of Chinese to Honolulu. He was highly intelligent and genial. and With a little capital soon built up a pros
 percus business in Chinese orockery, SILKS o,,I bric lIn the leaQinK merchant in Honolulu. He spent money freely and vas well liked by whites ana blacks in the quaint old town AS ne grew in wealth he made love to the dauehter. Conception, of a poor Portu- gese sailor who had fioated into Hawaii. The Chinaman's money and his superl- ority to his feloW coohes mace 9.,s mn ma,l a,. ried in 1862. His wife was fine looking and energetic for that land or languor and siesta. An Fong invested " sugaT
 cane plantations, and in the old ttnes' when sugar plantations paid almost ln- crediblv large profits. he grew very Tlcn. In ten years An Fong was worth oyer S3O0,Ooo, and wss adding 70 IL I.,a ahiiu'g. hy. He was careful and prudent, while nlS business associates drowsed ana LOOK Ho heed of the morrow. He was ceaselessiS watching chances to buy planfstlon, ,..s iaIu cheap from the improvtdent Hawahans. By 1870 the An Fong sugar plantation on the island of Hilo had become one oI the most productive there. Wnlle sWs1 men as Claus SpreckleS Hlduo olVO,SH Al $sUO, ,O06 annually from sugar exports; Al Al Fong made $50,00O and 'S6O,VOo anh"alE !" the same way. ,,. ,oia
 Meanwhile the An Fong family circle widened, There were four children, p 2oS and three gicls-in the home by lSdO' Ten more girls were born during the next twenty years. Wing An FonS was a aa ideal father. He was dellgnteo Io tSer tSer how each child resembled the mother in facial exnression. He hired servants galore. enlarged his house every Jew years. and thought nothing too good TOT h,s babies He used to find no giealel ioy than to get his wife and all ms no, nu, merous girls in a great lumberlng oPsn carriage like q Concord coach' tia' S n had built according to his oWp st lueas' Sat aiu with himself as driver on the lront 1o,,t S1s1St to go rolling slowly over the roduS tiy,1e Honolulu for a few hours at "anj He was passionately fond or song. ,iHi SiJ motioning cheerfully to ms DlH' .sYon girls about him, he would say,
 singee ale velly fine song. you know; | give you heap money. Then aM;nSS ,be family would go down the roa1 WitIt s 'a aiI girls singing in chorus medley ot M M popular songs of the day. It used S I1 o n memorable sight to see bowlIHS I',I,S aiV,S any of the lava-made roads in hohSlu.9' Papa An Fong. with his long cue i ndiS ing down his back, driving In a ca[I,take containing his complete family oisT all singing. laughing and having No'S' good time all by themselves. 1x,,ns, An
 True Chinaman that he was, MiHne inc Fong never gave up his idea tnat thJctS Chinese ways of living and dolns sil' t3e were little superior to any otne drass and let the wife run the home ana u[eS1 uS ft aJucafa bs 6unphtarS she saw lAI'