The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
(c1oy Of JoIlfPA0E JONES.
IN BhvJKLYN MAN CLAIMS
nv FOR A GRANDFATHER

Met, LOyed anu 's -,
..u. in I5B3-IIe Was john Paul
-, -r.clal Resemblance strong.
ia man nearly bent double Wit h
nnsbed baby carriage up and down
~, n butcher shop at sls Cen
venue Brooklyn, yesterday, Grooming
. heat tortured child. ,,
oandna grandpa called little GIRL
answered the house bell, here g sofhe-
N wants to see you ia.
T,a,'s Grandpa Paul, she said, with
nide. Hes pretty feeble, but ne
talk to YOU ahua
~ n,d man handed the fretting chila
and spoke eagerly to his visitor.
see by the papers' ne quaseieu'
Tho navy is bringing over from france
hodv OF John Paul Jones' lie was
,n that John Paul. though my
AImo,bsr didn't prosper by him. Did
aver ace his PICTURE
No father, don't get excited. said
CON Charles, who keeps a butcher shop
IT'S pretty hot, you know
hs visitor showed him several pictures
ar. generally familiar as present.
=. of the conqueror OF the Scraps.
pnst VOL, wait, said the old man. Just
";; charles, run upstairs and get me
L. was young buck
ID son came back with faded ana 'it'e
oved nicture taken fifty years ago.
uevs. said the old man, proudly. What
rou think OF that nowf
!. resemblance between the pictures
Iho long dead sea fighter and Moritz
man Of rs was singularly marked. Fea-
for feature, line for line, the photograph
,hs prints Of John Paul Jones were
lar The long straight nose OF John
Jones was the long straight nose OF
Md picture. Jones's prominent mouth
the twist at the corners was reproduced
hadlv in the picture Of Moritz Paul.
,bspe and poise of the head, the set OF
,boulders and even the fashion OF the
we're very like in both pictures.
old mans eyes sparkled with Joy "a
tsitor traced the similarities.
ou GEE he said. simply, there's
Ing really strange about it. John
nal name. as everybody knows; was
Grandfather. look more like him
did my father, Peter Paul; but that
queer, either, Often, You know
grandchildren throw back, while the
or Doesn't
10 believe that Is the TRUTH said the
Charles, gravely. 1Of course, we
\ prove 1t, but for hundred years
people have thought OF John Paul as
ancestor. We don't talk much about
md nobody but few friends would
hovn. II our doctor hadn't noticed
Ia's old picture and considered the
bmblance remarkable. As q matter
d John Paul wasn't much OF hus-
to my great-grandmother and he
pretty wild citizen, but naturally
ss proud OF the connection since the
pRy Is bringing him back with the
test possible honors.
old man told his story through the
BE spoke in German.
vas about the year l7o3,' he said;
lyums man about 10 years oldI q little
With dashing way and the devil Of q
NJ and thirst. turned up In the village
hoenkirche In Bavaria. Nobody knew
10 he came froCn, nobody inquired what
business was. He was free and easy
seemed to want to settle down. He
bis nams was John Paul. He wasn't
nan and ne looked like an Englishman.
. hadn't been there long before he met
bung girl she who became my grand
per. don't know what her name was
pt the first part, Ursula. He married
In the village church; and they took
se and settled.
here was Margrave or Baron named
ovic that held the most Of the land
tthere, and he took to the strange young
hunted with him, gained with him,
K with him and made him an intimate.
Mt long before John Paul set the vii
by the ears with his carousing and
Mg and running about. He was devil
fellow, my father said" Old Paul
hed
ut he was clever and handy fellow
all sorts Of things. He wrote letters
peshbors and tinkered with tools and
horse from hook to head. About a
alter he married son was born, my
r' little while after that there
child in Shoenkirche that suffered
p! from diseased eyes. The village
Pr could do nothing for it. John Paul
TO try. He performed an opera
On the child and it died before he got
Rh' The villagers were supplemented
ignorant and superstitious. and
terribly angry about that. One
MOP OF them went after John Paul
s ned to the Baron Ludovic's castle.
Baron gave him up on condition that
7llagers would not hurt him and he
pun IN prison. The Baron got him
con and advised him to go to France.
sappeared Immediately.
lew months afterward there came
Paris letter to my grandmother
by John Paul. He was going to
na. he wrote, and wanted her. TO
no Paris and go with him. In those
Journey Of 100 miles was a fearful
Id she was frightened at the pros
M crossing the ocean. Moreover,
Vas very angry at her husband for
.mg her. She wrote back refusing
ana answered eight or ten letters be-
ne left of writing.
neard not long afterward throu oh
sloh Ludovic that John Paul had
N. 'ne sea and was captain Of trad
Ky nat was the last she ever heard,
Ionh Paul went out Of her life com
see, said the son. "all the other
ever heard of could account for
oIIeears' but our PEOPLE 60 back only
John Paul that came from nowhere
a. az ne came. Taken with fathers
resemblance to his pictures and the
ns our John Paul certainly became
Saaer OF ship, it makes us think
was the John Paul who afterward
p an American national hero"
nlS said that the letters written
aa paul were kept until fire dest royed