The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
1 SCION Of JOIN PAUL JONES,
.orn BROOKLYN MAN CLAIMS
gIu FOR A GRANDFATHER
. ~. story Of How the Great Sea Fighter
''''' Mot, Loved and Married Girl IN ia.
v,r,a In I563-He Was John Pau'
rhsn-fAolal Resemblance strong


l., o,d man, nearly bent double wit h
,u.hed n baby carriage up and down
~ front Of butcher shop at 3ls zen
" III ,yen,,e Brooklyn, yesterday, grooming
bes, tortured child.
~ .e-ondpa. grandpa called a little girl
lowered the house bell, here's some
hodv wants to see you
VT That's Grandpa Paul she said with
rride. He's pretty feeble, but ne
csn talk to You. Ill,
Tho old man handed the fretting chiio
4. var and spoke eagerly to his visitor.
- .ss by the papers, he quavered.
,he navy is bringing over from France
. w. hndv Of John Paul Jones. he was
w. aI.., man that John Paul, though my
slnano,her didn't prosper by him. Did
s,r aver see his picture" -,
".yow father, don't get excited, said
~, Charles, who keeps butcher shop
.hsre Its pretty hot, you know.
~ y;si.or showed him several pictures
49,, ara generally familiar as present.
,,s n the conoueror of the Scraps.
n'. .i,s, vow wait" said the old man. Just
,aot Charles run upstairs and get me
vben was a young buck
Die son. came back with faded and time
,elIoved picture taken fifty years ago.
.uev?" said the old man. proudly. What
do vou think Of that, now!"
rho resemblance between the pictures
=. tho long dead sea fighter and Moritz
man O, IS was singularly marked. Fea-
.,rs fnr feature. line for line, the photograph
.na the prints Of John Paul Jones were
.r,i,ar The long straight nose OF John
paul Jones was the long straight nose OF
The old picture. Jones's prominent mouth
9TH he twist at the corners was reproduced
r.rkedIy in the picture Of Moritz Paul
The shape and poise Of the head, the set OF
ina shoulders and even the fashion Of the
Mir we're very like in both pictures.
The old mans eyes sparkled with JOY as
hs visitor traced the similarities.
you see he said, simply, there's
,o.hing really strange about 1t. John
Paul. never mind the Jones. that wasn't
bjs real name, as everybody knows. was
NV grandfather. look more like him
than did my father, Peter Paul; but that
isn't queer, either. Often, you know,
rho grandchildren throw back, while the
father doesn't
we believe that is the truth, said the
on Charles. gravely. '0f course, We
can't prove it, but for . hundred years
uu people have thought OF John Paul as
their ancestor. We don't talk much about
|. and nobody but a few friends would
have known II our doctor hadn't noticed
fathers old picture and considered the
resemblance remarkable. As matter
Of fact, John Paul wasn't much Of hus-
band to my great grandmother and he
va q pretty wild citizeni but naturally
~ arc proud Of the connection since the
country is bringing him back with the
greatest possible honors.'
Tho old man told his story through the
.on. BE spoke in German.
1t was about the year 1763,' he said
shat young man about 10 years old, little
fellow with dashing way and the devil Of a
temper and thirst turned up In the village
Of shoenkirche in Bavaria. Nobody knew
where he came from, nobody inquired what
bis business was. He was free and easy
and seemed to want to settle down. He
said his name was John Paul. He wasn't
German and he looked like an Englishman.
'He hadn't been there long before he met
young girl, she who became my grand
mother don't know what her name was
except the first part. Ursula. He married
her in the village church, and they took q
house and settled
There was Margrave or Baron named
Ludovic that held the most Of the land
about there, and he took to the strange young
man, hunted with him, gained with him,
drank with him and made him an intimate.
II wasn't long before John Paul set the vii
ayers by the ears with his carousing and
swearing and running about. He was devil
OF fellow, my father said" Old Paul
| i grinned.
But he was clever and handy fellow
With all sorts OF things. He wrote letters
for neighbors and tinkered with tools and
knew horse from hook to head. About a
year after he married a son was born, my
father. little while after that there
was child in Shoenkirche that suffered
terribly from diseased eyes. The village
onered to try. He performed an opera
,ion on the child and it died before he got
Trough. The villagers were simpleminded
'ok, ignorant and superstitious, and
Tere terribly angry about that. One
night mob Of them went after John Paul
and he fed to the Baron Ludovic's castle.
he Baron gave him up on condition that
vas put in prison. The Baron got him
out soon and advised him to go to France.
ne disappeared Immediately.
A few months afterward there came
ron far!s letter to my grandmother
written by John Paul. He was going to
america, he wrote, and wanted her to
come to Paris and 60 with him. In those
Gays Journey Of 100 miles was fearful
.nns and she was frightened at the pros
Eeo OF crossing the ocean. Moreover.
me was very angry at her husband for
nesertlng her. She wrote back refusing
Hm, and answered eight or ten letters be-
ore he left of writing.
one heard not long afterward through
ne Baron Ludovic that John Paul had
sse1 TO the sea and was captain Of a trad
Rsnin. That was the last she ever heard
pletely.- VI ''e' ''io N'''
You see, said the son. 4all the other
mN Ts we ever heard OF could account for
neT lorebears but our PEOPLE 20 ba ok only
,e John Paul that came from nowhere
mo went as he came. Taken with fathers
n.ns resemblance to his pictures and the
r sm mat our John Paul certainly became
,bs rn IA of ship, 1t makes VA think
a, Ne was the John Paul who afterward
1 I'm an American national hero"
h. ~ fanls said that the letters written
n. '9nn Paul we're kept until fire destroyed
,so AMY ny home seventy years or more
we are going to ASH o,,r Cons,l ber> N