Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-30
ND or A WE'LL KNOWN CAPI.
TALIST OF HONOLULU
He HAD l3 DAUGHTERS
me Is the Wife OF Rear Admiral
Whiting Romantic History of
Ch.naM2n.

known Chinese capitalist, formerly OF
lawaii dicd in China on Tuesday
September %,
It wa, in 1893 that ship laden
with Chinese immigrants, most OF
Them coolies, sailed into the harbor Of
tionoIuiu and discharged its living
nrgo, Among the immigrants was
young man whose bearing and in
trlligencc of speech AMI countcnancc
! singled him out from among the cont
mon plantation coolies, who were his
'ompauions fthe voyage. Wing All
fong he called himself. He did not
90 to the plantations with the import
ed laborerS, but stayed in Honolulu.
He had brought some capital with
him, and he went into business. There
was considerable and growing
Chinese population in the Hawaiian
Islands, and Chinese merchants did n
good business in supplying their coun-
trymen with articles of luxury and
use of Chinese character.
1t was not long before All Fong was
one of the leading Chinese merchants
at the Hawaiian capital few years
more and he was the foremost CHI
nese merchant there. His wealth in
creased rapidly and his investments
returned Il profit many fold He
bought sugar plantations and extended
his business operations in every direc-
tion. He had been in Honolulu three
years, and was prosperous, but not
Of great wealth as yet, when he fell
in love.
Years before there had appeared in
Hawaii a sailor, half Portuguese and
half English, who had left his ship
and chosen the splendid islands &
the sun as a place in which to make
his fortune
There was mystery Of course, about
the sailor who had taken his chest
ashore, for a full due y and set up
in business in Honolulu On his faith
er'S side he was said to belong to a
wealthy English family, and on his
mothers side it was said he inherited
onble blood. The sailor married Il
Hawaiian woman, and his business
prospered. He was thrifty, like All
Fong, but he had not yet made
great fortune; and he put his only
daughter out to service in one of the
families Of the missionary sci" "
She grew to be a young womn of
great beauty and more than ordinary
intelligence.
Inheriting from her mixed ancestry
all the most charming physical attri-
butes of each race, and developing an
intellect and charm of manner which
added to her attractions of person,
she became companion rather than
q servant in the family where she
was employed, and she was educated
almost as a daughter of the house.
her father, the Anglo-Portugese sailor,
and when All Fong asked him for the
hand of his beautiful daughter he
held long conversation with the
Chinese merchant, at the close of
which he gave his consent to the mar
riage-a marriage to which the young
woman was anything but averse.
Not long after the marriage rela-
tive of the bride 5 father died in Eng !
land and left him a considerable for
tune; so much in fact that he needed |
no longer to struggle in business, but |
ended his life of strange adventures |
and varied fortunes in peace and |
plenty. His daughter, Mrs. All Fong, |
inherited his wealth, and with it her
husband was able to increase largely |
in business and embark o nnew ven
lures Wealth and children increased
and multiplied in the All Fong house
lold until the merchant was the faith
,r Of thirteen girls and one boy and
master of millions of dollars.
1t was in the days of the reign Of
King Kalakaua- the early and palmy
laws of his reign, when the little
;ingdom joined its monarch in wild
lebauch-that All Fong saw his mil
ions roll up most rapidly 1t was in
s74 that Lunalilo, the last Of the di-
ect line of Kamehameha the Great.
oined his ancestors in the realm of
he shades, and King Kalakaua was
ected to I'll the vacant throne. Upon
he ascension of kalakaua began the
evel of the South Seas, the great
hawaiian spree. The importaitno Of
'hinese coolies was a gold mine, the
of opium a mine of sill
er aud rubies. And both Of these
lines were worked to the full by the ,
All Fong.
All Fong built for himself and his
amily a splendid residence on the
uiskirts of Honolulu, which soon be-
ame known for the lavish hospitality
ispensed there. As the girls grew
- they were sent abroad for their ed
cation, and as they became of mar a
iageabe age they married. and mar !
led we'll. one of them becoming the )
ife of Rear Admiral Whiting. {
In 1891 King Kalakaua died. and 3