Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-14
WHITE
AND YELLOW
MIXED
Bride Descendants Chinaman
and Daughter of a Port
ugeSe Sailor

in the, marriage IN Da'tHP'4'' '
fsw davs ago. Of Miss Anna Elizabeth
Whiting 20 Albert F. Along Of Homo
lulu. While his bride is thcoughiy
American. Along is the son Of a fuil-
aedged Chinese. Still more unusual
b,wev.r. is the fact that he has no
les than thirteen sisters, three OF
,-borr have married into the Ameri-
can navy. as he may have said to have
done and a fourth into the army. One
Of ths-e is the wife Of Rear Admiral
Whiting. 50 that by this latest union
she will become the aunt as well as
the sister Of young Along.
OF the Others, one is the wife OF
Lieutenant Riggs Of the navy; one Of
James W. Brewster, who served on the
cruiser Harvard in the SPanishrAmer-
ican war. and a third Of Lieutenant
And-ew J. Dougherty Of the army.
Albert was the last member of the
family remaining unmarried. His
courtsbip. like that Of his sisters, be-
gan under the cocoanut trees of the
Pacific island. and the family looks to
him for the pepetuation Of name al
ready known in every capital Of the
world. and especially in the best cir
cles of the Pacific coast. For twenty
wears naval officers have told of the
delightful hospitality afforded them
in the Along home while their ships
hy a. anchor in Honolulu bay.
Tourists have come back from Ha-
wau telling Of the Gorgeous semi'Ori-
entail mansion of Wing All Fong-the
name has siuce been Americanized-
and Mrs. Conception All Fong, who
is a mixture Of Spanish and Portu-
guese. Every one who has been in the
islands talks Of the charming manners,
the bright hued gowns, the dangerous
topical ballads and the fund of good
nature Of the highly attractive pro-
geny Of Wing All Fong. millionaire of
the South seas
Along about 1858 young Chinese
bearing this name came with a ship
load Of his fellow countrymdn to Hon
olulu. He was unusually intelligent
aud genial sud, with a little capital,
soon built up a prosperous business in
Chinese crockery, silks and bric a.
p b,ac. In short lime he was the lead
u ing merchant in Honolulu. He spent
money freely and was well liked by
whites and blacks in the quaint old
town. As he grew in wealth he made
love to Conccpcion the daughter of a
' poor Portuguese sailor who had loated
into Hawaii. She was what is known
as a Kanaka, and there was a strain
Of English blood in her, and after their
marriage in 1860. it was this strain
in her which produced the energy and
executive ability by which she helped
him 20 gain money
An Fong invested in sugar cane
plantations and in those times, when
such properties yielded almost inc-edt
lilly large profits, he became very
wealthy, In ten years be was woth
more than 100000 audi was adding
$4,000 to this annually. lie was
careful AMI prudent while hi, business
associates drows,d and took no heed
TO- the morrow, and he was ceasclessly
watching for chances to buy more plan
- ta'ions al cheap prices from the inn
Proyijcnt liawaitanS.
. Meanwhile the An Fong family cir,
c'c widcuc,k There were ,ix children
in the honnr in 1870. a boy and FIVE
. girls Eight more girls were born
thoo during the next fifteen years
Wing An Foug was an idoal father
b, lie was delighted TO Sc, how each child
rcsewh'cd the mother in facial express
siou He hircd servants balore. en-.
, hrgel his house every fow years and
i, Thought nothing TOO good for hi.
babies
d. lie used to6 pudcgaot.yltai.rtlsSi
b, ite usrd 20 huj no greater joythar
% got his wife and an her uumerou,
glfls into great numbering cpen car
riagc lkc Concord coach that h,
had had built accorbug TO his owr
Ideas suR With himself as dg.y,r OF
the fgoar scaL 20 20 rolling slovl,
'' over the roaJs about Honolulu fol
" h'vrs Al a tino 4, uscd to be mem
In or'eie sight % seo bowling along an,
AS OF the lava majc roads in Honolu,,
"a Papa A Fous with his long ousu,
't canglng down his back driving a Ne
q. El'le containing bis entire family ei,
q ci" all s'nging laughing and hayin.
Is good tme by themselves.
'e True Chinese that he is Win, 4,
'e Fons mower gave up his ilca ti.at m,
Co'nos' way of living apl doing tAips,
s WNga 4 httha ,.ln.,ri,r a. -. -.