The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-18
PAUL JONES' DISCOVERY.

From the New York Commercial.
 Gen. Horace Porter looking hale and hearty, as if the sea voyage had agreed with him immensely, and feeling much pleased at the successful Identification of Paul Jones' body and the ceremonies of it's transfer to the United States authori- ties arrived yesterday by the Deutsch- land. He drove with his son, Clarence Porter, to the latter's residence, No. 573 Fifth avenue to remain for a month He will not open his own house until the middle of September.
 "The various developments in the iden- tifcation of Paul Jones' body" General Porter said, formed a succession of ex- tremsly gratifying surprises. was posi- tive from the location that the body must be Paul Jones'. but I was not prepared for the remarkable accuracy with which our discoveries comported with the his- torical records of his sickness and death.
 Most wonderful of all was the au- topsy performed by Surgeon General Dr. Capitan with the assistance of other ar- thropologists. It disclosed a fbrous tissue where the left lung had been affected, confirming our knowledge that Jones suf- fered from bronchial pneumonia. The viscera were in perfect preservation and there were shown all the symptoms of dropsy, a disease that we know he had, and most strikingly of all, the symptoms of nephritis, the disease from which he died That these symptoms should be so marked, or indeed. marked at all in a body from which life had passed 113 years before, was nothing short of amazing.
 T was also amazed when on opening the casket and removing the linen wind- ing sheet, which. by the way, was in excellent preservation, to opserve how closely the countenance comported with the bust by Houdin which the anthropoi- ogists had to guide them. The face was a bit shrunken over the cheek pones but in no spot did the measurements or the body differ from those of the mask py over two millimeters. me resemblance was perfect, even to the dishgured iope of the left ear. The teeth were as we know them to have been in the admirafs latter days, and the hair was brown, tinged with gray. .s4.
 "A remembrance of Paul Jones' career as a dandy was given in the fancy shirt with it's ruffles and pleats. It bore the mark .J.' There was tin foil around his hands and face and round the body hay. evidently placed there to prevent the body from being disturbed in It's casket on the voyage to this country. whic embalmers probably expected 1t would take.
 There we're five caskets, all of them of lead, in the place we found the body. Four of them had name plates. This one had none. It was a mummy shaped cas- ket, round over the place for the head. and displayed fine ornamental lead work
 General Porter said he had worked for six years in the endeavor to locate and identify the body. but refused to say to how great an expense he had been put. Concerning the ceremony of the transfer of the body he said
 "The parade was one of the most im- pressive seen in Paris for years. l ab never forget the impression made upon me as the French infantry and cavalry saluted the dead. and I think l was never so proud as at the spectacle oi
 American marines and blue jackets with their easy manner and confident swing as they marched along with precision that seemed to them perfectly natural"
 General Porter will have nothing further to do with whatever ceremonies attend the reception of the body In this country. On its arrival at Annapolis, he sad thers will be simple ceremonies, and the body will then lie in state until the midship- men return in October. He also said that his affairs in connection with the regu- lar as well as the special embassy to France were wound up. There was no business unfinished at the time of Am- bassador McCormick's appointment which he had not gone over with that official.