The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-07-04
FRANK P. JONES
IS MOURNED
A Good Citizen and Fine Neigh
Dor is no More.
SOME TRAITS OF HIS CHARACTER.
Being Essentially Benevolent Man he did
Much Good.
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE UNDERDOG.
His Funeral was Attended by Great Con.
course OF People Who Testified TO
Widespread Sorrow.

course OF People VINO leSUIle0 10
Widespread Sorrow.
By the death of Frank P. Jones the
community lost one of its most estimable
men. When the news reached this city
that he had suddenly expired while out
driving, near Unity, a sense OF deep
bereavement took possession of the
hearts of men, women and children, for
no one VINO had ever looked into the
kindly eye of the man now sleeping in
his final couch but was attracted and
attached to him. Frank Jones had a
big heart, which beat in generous sym
patty for those less fortunate than him
self, and it seemed passion with him
to put some young fellow on the road OF
life where his energy could be used
profitably. 1t is not once shut many
times that he drew aside some boy Of
slender means, who had ambition, and
while engaging HIM in conversation
would find out just the bent of his
hopes and being assured of their genuine
ness he provided the ways and means
for his education Quite a few of his
proteges some vet the subjects of his
benefactions, while others had graduated
into prosperous business and professional
men, stood over his bier on Sunday and
wept. They had lost a friend, indeed
who had stood by them, strong and
helpful, when lowering clouds Of adverse
circumstances menaced their future
and they can now sing with Tennyson:
Dear friend, far off, my lost desire
So far, so near in woe and veal
o loved thee most, when most feel
There is a lover and higher;
Kno,n and unknown human, divine
Sweet human hand and lips and eye:
Dear hea genlv friend that canst not die
Mine mine for ever, ever mine;
Strange friend, past, present and to be
Loved deeplier darkiier understood,
Behold dream dream OF good
And mingle all the world with thee,
Benevolence was the most striking
characteristic in the life of Mr. Jones
Not that charity which vaunteth much
and then panoplys itself in glazing
vesture so all the world may know. His
kindliness was as unobtrusive as it was
beautiful He has been known TO re
peatedly hunt out some waif and taking
him TO clothier dress him in warm
clothes, but the good impulse didn't stop
here: he would search out the gamin's
home, and frequently has he entered the
squalid and rickety habitatiou there TO
minister in substantial manner to the
wants Of the impoverished. And the
beauty of these deeds of kindness was
that his left hand didn't know what his
right was doing. And moreover this
spirit of splendid benevolence sought
activity in other directions. He was
ceaselessly looking out for the pleasure
Of his friends. 1t was not in him to
take the lions share of sport if others
were about; he was happiest if those
near him We're living in the sunshine
and drawing sweetness into the hours as
they came and departed. Ed. Hamilton
tells an apropos story illustrating this
trait: Frank Jones and Mr.. Hamilton
went fishing some three weeks ago
They had had their lines out for several
hours with indifferent luck, but Frank
was CHEEKY and hopeful all the time,
making the moments fly by his jovial
remarks. When least expected big
fish made bite at Frank bait and he
was instantly busy playing him. While
moving his rod toand fro, Mr.. Hamilton
says, Frank would frequently exclaim
ED | wish the fish had bitten at your
bait instead of mine. 1t was this same
spirit Of self abnegation in social life
that made him welcome wherever he
went; he always sacrificed his own that
some one elses pleasure might be in
creased
1t is so often that men like to look
upon the worst side of their fellow men.
They ever probe for the dark strata and
ignore every good attribute; not So how
ever with Frank Jones. He always
saw the best in men. 1t has often been
said TO Mr.. Jones 80 and So is no good,
and then would follow tissue of the
mans bad qualities The kindly man
would listen attentively and when his
time came to reply, he would say, SO
and So is also here telling the fellows
good traits. In his forty five years of
life he was never known to say an evil
word of neighbor, workman, or of
anybody. 1t was always the other way.
Mr.. Hamilton said he could not recall of
single instance in which he had spoken