Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17

spoken, / informed the gentleman who we
were and asked whom | might have the
honor to address, to which he replied:
" al Thonneur d'etre capitaine de frig-
ate de la marine des Estats Union; on
mappelle Paul Jones, votre service, mon
sleur.'
''The result was that John Paul Jones
hastily sent a messenger to cancel an en-
gagement to dine by reason of a sudden
and unexpected pressure of public duty OF
grave Importance and journeyed with MS
TO Philadelphia"
Such the commencement of the ac-
quaintance between Lafayette and Paul
Jones. which lasted until the death of the
latter in Paris, September II, 1892
The query is frequently made by tho'e
who do not recall or who have not read
the life of the remarkable man who was
John Paul Jones' why was Commodore
Jones buried in France?'
Jones' Death in France.
The answer is that the resolution of Con-
gress which adopted the flag, the stars and
stripes, June IA, 177T. appointed also Capt
John Paul Jones to the command of the
vessel of war Ranger. Paul Jones was
ordered to hold the Ranger in readiness at
Portsmouth, N. H., to carry news of the
expected surrender of Burgoyne's army to
Franklin, our commissioner in France. At
the same time Jones was given a rowing
commission, carte Blanche, Ito destroy
and distress the enemy on sea or land"
The American commodore did this so well
to make his name terror to the here
tofore invincible John Bull 1t was under
stood with the government of the United
States that when he was wanted at home
he would be recalled The government
never wanted him. Why?
John Paul Jones, besides the genius of
fighter of ships, besides his extraordinary
courage and audacity, possessed another
element of greatness the prescience OF
knowing and feeling the meanness in men,
something, if the similarity may be in
voked like the Christ when Judas, at the
last supper, replying to the Masters words,
He that dippeth his hand with me in the
dish, the same shall betray me- said,
Master is it II?
John Paul Jones had a Judas, whose
name was Arthur Lee, who but for the
friendship and protection of Franklin would
undoubtedly have ruined John Paul Jones.
AS it was Lee whom Jones denounced as
traitor prevented his recall to America,
and finally was thus the cause of his enter
ing the Russian service, where his bitter
experience with heartless men and the ell
mate FASTENED his death, which happened
in Paris in 1892.
New Resting Place Suggested.
Commodore John Paul Jones remains will
be brought back to America after a period
of 113 years of inexcusable neglect on the
part of the government, which can only
honor him now an acknowledgment of
its past Indifference. Many suggestions will
be made as to the proper place for the in
torment of this great hero. The writer sug-
gests that it is neither in Virginia, which
can claim him only as a temporary resi-
dent, nor in Philadelphia, which he scarce
ly knew, nor in Arlington, which is remote
and belongs to the dead of later day. The
National Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution, by their act in creating the
society in France in conjunction with the
Society of d. A R., now in congress as
sembled, should determine the burial place
and monument of John Paul Jones, which
might be appropria tely placed at or within
the memorial building of the D. A. r., now
in course of construction.
CHARLES CHAILLE-LONG,
Registrar of the Society in France, S. A. K.