The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
.crD BROOKLYN MAN CLAIMS
u,u FOR 4 GRANDFATHER.
.s,or, n, How the Great Sea Fighter
''" Wet, Loved and Married Girl In Ia.
.,r,a In 1903 lie Was John Paul
rnen- Facial Resemblance strong


A., o,d man. nearly bent double wit b
' rushcd a baby carriage up and down
'e',. If butcher shop at 31s Cen
III vi yon,,e Brooklyn, yesterday, grooming
~ a heat tortured child.
.Grandpa, grandpa called little GIRL
mo answered. the house bell, mere 3 sof''e-
hody wants to see you .,
Ut .Tha,'s Grandpa Paul. she said. with
,'o nr,de. He's pretty feeble. but he
ca T,a aid man handed the fretting child
l.. har and .pok" eagerly to ne visitor.
70 o., e' .ss by the papers" he quavered,
49,, ina navy Il bringing over from France
'la' h,ay of John Paul Jones. He was a
a..o, man that John Paul. though my
ss..ndmother didn't prosper by him. Dld
81, aver see his pictureF
,xov father. don't get excited, SAID
~, Charles. who keeps a butcher shop
". .rs nrctty hot. you know
wv" Tba yisi,or showed him several pictures
49,. ,ra generally familiar as present.
,,on,- Of the cunl,eror OF tne scraps.
.tn.t YOU wait said the old man. Just
,ou wait Charles, run upstairs and get me
when vas young hnck'
u,, emf, came back with faded and time
-snoyed picture taken fifty years ago,
.Iovs" saiIthe old man. proudly. What
do YOU think Of that, now!'
.rho resemblance between the pictures
~ tho long dead sea fighter and Moritz
man of 3; was -ngularly marked. fea-
.,ro lar feature lire for line, the photograph
.,4 ,la nrints Of John Paul Jones were
.,,i,ar The long straight nose OF John
poY Jones was the long straight nose OF
the aid picture Jones's prominent mouth
9TH the twist at the corners was reproduced
markedly in the picture Of Moritz Paul.
The shape and poise of the head. the set OF
The shoulders and even the fashion OF the
hair we're very like in both pictures.
The old mans eyes sparkled with joy as
Ms visitor traced the simiarties.
.You see he said, simply, there's
,,,hinc really strange about It, John
Paw, never mind the Jones. that wasn't
Tia real name, as everybody knows, was
my Grandfather. look more like him
than did my father. Peter Paul, but that
snt queer, either. Often, you know,
The grandchildren throw back, while the
father doesn't
we believe that is the truth" said the
pp Charles. gravely. 'Of course, We
can't prove it, but for hundred years
our people have thought OF John Paul as
they ancestor. We don't talk much about
II and nobody but few friends would
have known il our doctor hadn't noticed
fathers old picture and considered the
resemblance remarkable. AS a matter
OF fact. John Paul wasn't much of a hus-
band to my great-grandmother and he
was a pretty wild citizen. but naturally
We are proud Of the connection since the
country s bringing him back with the
greatest possible honors'
The old man told his story through the
son He spoke in German.
1T was about the year l763' he said,
that ayoung man about 10 years old, a 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
his 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
house and settled.
There was Margrave or a 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.
It wasn't long before John Paul set the viii
ayers by the ears with his carousing and
swearing and running about. He was devil
OF fellow, my father said" Old Paul
grinned
But he was clever and a handy fellow
With all sorts of things. He wrote letters
or neghbors and tinkered with tools and
Snew horse from hook to head, About u
year after ne married son was born, my
father, A little while after that there
was child in Sheen kirche that suffered
terribly from diseased eyes. The village
doctor could do nothing for it. John Paul
offered to try, He performed an opera
Won on the child and it died before he got
though. The villagers were simpleminded
ok ignorant and superstitious, and
we're terribly angry about that. One
nRht mob Of them went after John Paul
and an 10 fed to the Baron Ludovic's castle.
me Baron gave him up on condition that
"o 'l!asrTs "Olll not nurt MIN ana ne
Fas put in prison. The Baron got him
2lt soon and advised him to go to France.
NJ disappeared Immediately.
lew months afterward there came
ron Paris letter to my grandmother
written by John Paul, He was going to
america, he wrote, and wanted her to
come TO Paris and 70 with him. In those
.Iys Journey OF loo miles was fearful
.hls and she was frightened at the pros
Mnrpnvar
tne was very angry at her husband for
lLteSertng her. She wrote back refusing
, .ln and answered eight or ten letters be-
ore he left off writing.
:, sne heard not long afterward through
~. T Baron Ludovic that John Paul had
aAen % the sea and was captain of trad
Rshln. That was the last she ever heard,
ue,ey." Va ''ei ING eo'A'
p.I lou see, said the son, "all the other
,t ads Wa ever heard Of could account for
:" III loreoears, but our reople go back only
~, sne John Paul that came from nowhere
s aa1 went as he came. Taken with fathers
fs tAN resemblance to his pictures and the
" ,1s tnat our John Paul certainly became
,t ,,'' nahder OF a ship, it makes us think
49, Ia. We was the John Paul who afterward
nme an American national hero"
h. he fanIs said that the letters written
~ h'9 ,n PAU were kept until fire DESTROYED
sro "a AMY home seventy years or more
7sU IN Shoenkrche.
s,."e are going to ask our Consul here to
ou' tor us II the village record of